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Yuk

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  1. I'm sure his EO sounded like a good idea politically when he issued it. But he's really backed himself in the corner. Without it, he could blame others for the decisions that need to be made. With it, he owns this thing. So now he's "damned if you do, damned if you don't" fucked. And what sucks for all of us is that this--like so many other important things in our lives--has been politicized into tribalism. And we can't seem to work together or agree upon facts related to science, all of our livelihoods, or our health. It's a "you bad, me good" thing. And it fucking sucks. We're weak as fuck as a country right now, and boy does it show.
  2. "Brethren. Please open your Bibles to Mein Kampf, chapter 6, verse 6."
  3. The real nexus goes back to 1950's US propaganda and identity and nationalism built on things that weren't at all what made us great and unique as a country. Essentially, the Republican ideal America was rubber-stamped when we had whites-only water fountains. The call themselves Patriots, but they're not willing to give one thing up to lift the country up as a whole. Their beliefs are all mottos and dog signals that they don't even believe in. They say they believe in states rights (which is their white-washed excuse for the civil war), but they don't really believe in states rights. They say they believe in small government, but the military is part of the government. They call themselves fiscal conservatives, but have never met a tax cut they didn't like. They are for themselves. They are not Patriots. And their national identity relates to demonizing those of us would have the audacity to seek progress.
  4. Where are the Senator's wives, children, parents, aunts, uncles, friends, etc supposed to work during those four years if not for "campaign"?
  5. The president of Poland is from the Law and Justice Party (read neo-fascists) who among other things have came to power on conspiracy theories.
  6. This. And they can't find a scary label for him. And they can't seem to run their standard playbook of fear. All their old hits are just hollow as fuck. And people are just worn out and ready for an adult in the driver's seat. Saying that, I expect the totally-not-coordinated, every-two-years. Qanon-type conspiracy stuff to start amping up any day now.
  7. First they came for the pancake syrup, and I said nothing for I’m not pancake syrup.
  8. Looks like aggy football game demographic, where you can play "Where's Waldo" trying to find one minority.
  9. "Christians"
  10. Confederate Soldiers were not Armed Forces of the United States.
  11. Scientologist not mormon.
  12. Good start to the half.
  13. Should have been carrying a narwhal horn. Oh well.
  14. Three points does nothing for you in this game.
  15. It looked like he was lined up offsides before he even jumped.
  16. Nice.
  17. Precedent is just a slight inconvenience when the law is this partisan. Attorneys can take the same facts with some slight variation and they'll issue a whole new opinion for us all and explain in detail how this time it's different.
  18. It's his insecurity. He has a sliver of doubt (knowing how all the R's probably hate him) that things may change in a hurry. It does give me comfort to know that at least he's stressing over it.
  19. The electoral college is going to be very unpopular when Texas, California, and New York get to select every president.
  20. This is why R's have to stand completely together, because Roberts can (theoretically) compel witnesses. No idea how that would work in Senate Trial. Would that involve federal marshals?
  21. It's really the weakness of their propaganda system. David Frum has a piece in the Atlantic about it. It insulates them from cognitive dissonance, but doesn't allow them to seem coherent or even sane to those outside the walls. That and they're morons.
  22. Probably answers to: "Did you ever hear the President say 'Please pursue a bribe and extortion plot under my instructions.'?"
  23. So... no?
  24. Yeah, this team has no killer instinct because the head man has no killer instinct.
  25. Fuck yes.
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