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  1. Anchovies play the role of soy or fish sauce, an additional savory kick. Brisket and Massholes are good. For chicken and sausage, I like to buy a grocery rotisserie bird and use the carcass to make stock and the meat for the gumbo. Gumbo is one of those things you fiddle with and see what you like and what you want that day. Okra in or out? How much spice in the gumbo and how much to add with hot sauce? Smoked chicken or pan-seared. Can of beer or just stock? The roux, trinity, and good stock are the base you launch from.
  2. Tom Nichols is one of the only reasons to be on Twitter.
  3. I have a child on the very mild end of the spectrum but that doesn’t mean that she and all of us don’t grapple with enormous challenges, slights, and hassles every day to do our best to get her to thrive in a place that’s not designed for her flourishing. We are low on the list of living beings that this country now wants to harm for their own amusement and consolidation of power, but I can’t tell you how rage-making it is to see our family’s very real little battle turned into one more little hole on the skee-ball board this administration uses to rack up political points. I actually do think that the federal government has a role in understanding this and finding ways to make it better, and to improve the lives of people who are different. Instead, autism research and treatment is one more thing that will be turned to refuse because of the feces they are spraying into it. Another reason that I really do detest anyone who lends their support to this; I really do hope for bad things for them.
  4. Elections in swing states aren’t like coin flips, though. Depending on the definition, they’re just states that have a history in recent years of going either red or blue, and/or where pre-election polling is very tight. Tight polling is just that, tight polling. It’s not the same as odds of winning. Because of the way it’s done and difficulties of capturing certain voters and the reality of “vibe shift” it’s probably more likely that on Election Day states will disproportionally shift to one candidate rather than having a coin flip distribution.
  5. They’re just calling anyone who isn’t white “woke” or “DEI.”
  6. Oh hell yes this is the good stuff, the real pure juche. Inject it straight to my veins.
  7. Really enjoying the discourse around checking Fort Knox for the gold; I bet this hits so hard if you’re fucking stupid.
  8. We need to become spacefaring because in one billion years the sun will boil the oceans. Modern humans are 200,000 years old.
  9. Zelenskyy is everything Trump, Putin and his toadies can never be— courageous, principled, statesmanlike, a leader. And the miscalculation Trump is making is that Zelenskyy has already faced down and shown his worth against monsters far more frightening that a New York real estate developer. He showed the world that you can say no Putin and maybe he’ll show us that you can say no to Trump.
  10. I cannot fathom doubling down on this and making trans the lynchpin of your intellectual construct; just say you only care about lower taxes and move on.
  11. You know, I’m glad to see some people coming around on this and honestly Mark Levin is someone I have a visceral negative reaction to. And I really think that if we’re gonna beat this it is going to take some odd bedfellows like how in Czechoslovakia the hippie freaks and playwrights and Catholic priests finally said “enough” to the Soviet-installed communist regime. There is true power in that. But to be welcome into the role, you gotta connect the final dots. If you are capable of saying “this is an unamerican and revolting foreign policy” then it needs to be followed with “and I can no longer support a fundamentally unamerican leader and neither should you, even if you agree with him on many other things.” Otherwise you’re just salving your conscience. Also, I’m kind of tired of hearing about the integrity of women’s sports from a crowd that hated title IX and attacked the WNBA just for existing.
  12. In India during the monsoon season, streets get super flooded and you have to wade in them, but also a lot of manhole covers are missing and so each year a non-zero number of people get sucked into them and drown underground in Calcutta street runoff.
  13. The Senate GOP bravely pushes back. “Look, the president has the mind of a fifth grade boy whose parents haven’t yet accepted that something’s off. But a lot of you have undiagnosed oppositional defiance disorder and so you seem to vibe with that.”
  14. This is great and on-point FAFO because the fact is that veterans do get preference during a standard, organized reduction in force done legally. But that takes too long and makes it look like DJT is not just firing people so instead they are just firing everyone in their probationary period for non-documented “poor performance.” There’s no veterans points to overcome being bad at your job. Almost like giving people the illegal power to hurt others will inevitably be used against you.
  15. In addition to the underlying animating force here (the “intellectual” leaders of MAGA view liberalism as the main threat to their regime), DJTs personal pettiness is under-appreciated here. He is a man motivated by beefs and feuds and he thinks of Zelenskyy as the guy who should have helped him sink Joe Biden in 2020 but failed to. I have posted on another thread but repeating here— America no longer has “national interests” it has “regime interests.” All domestic and foreign policy decisions must first be filtered through a lens of “does this advance regime survival?”
  16. Also, are we still considering “what if we started a DEMOCRATIC right-wing extremist populist podcast” as a solution? Or have we moved on from that dream.
  17. Most faiths and their practice everywhere are shallow, self-serving, and subservient to political power and the extraordinarily debate, dialogue, philosophy, and “wrestling with God” outburst that took place in the West for a few centuries was the anomaly. We might not see it again for a while.
  18. Remember how important these drones were and how we needed answers? And now they just aren’t there anymore and we forgot about it. Totally weird. Someone should look into this.
  19. Nooo, it’s apparently unhelpful to point out that our autorcrat-curious president is looking to profiteer off of a full-blown autocrat’s violent and aggressive move to carve up a sovereign Eastern European country.
  20. I think we all need to understand that the correct historical analogy at this point isn’t Chamberlain in 1938, it’s Stalin in 1939.
  21. “Almost went ‘to hospital.’”
  22. @Laxtonto’s post is good but where it errs is in ascribing entirely too much thought and agency to people like Kellog and understates the extent to which PR drives current actions of Trump, more than Biden. That’s not a critique, it’s just that intelligent people nearly always understate how truly stupid this is. Anything you see stated by Kellog or Rubio or Waltz is just retconned justification of whatever Trump has announced. There is zero active planning or strategy. It’s all aimed at two goals of DJT: a summit with Putin and being told he “ended the war.” Right now the Russians have suggested that both things can happen and a general outline has emerged: 1. negotiations begin 2. elections in Ukraine 3. peace deal We seek to be amendable to this and it will result in a total Russian victory because in step two we will acquiesce— or maybe assist— to Russia installing a pro-Kremlin puppet. On the margins we may agree to further concessions in Europe. But the point is that no one aside from Trump and Musk are acting with any agency here and they are in complete react mode. And that is bad enough but what is worse is that there ARE some people acting with agency on other fronts. A despite the mantra of a “realist” foreign policy they are in fact behaving like wild eyed revolutionaries bent on exporting ideology. And their animating purpose is attacking liberal democracy, wherever it exists, as the primary threat to the United States’ current regime. And in a sense they are correct, because Russia and China are happy to let Trump destroy us while liberal democratic Europe, Canada, and the Anglosphere are more likely inspire us to course correct and help us do it. In this we have internalized Putinism. The threat Ukraine posed was always ideological and not military; a free and prosperous democratic Ukraine would show Russians that it was possible.
  23. I’ve been on Signal for six years and for a long time it was just me and my most paranoid friends but now everyone is there. I only had like three active convos and now I actually have to be conscious about what chat I’m responding to.
  24. There is no bottom. These rapists and human traffickers support Trump and are popular among his repulsive voters. So we support them.
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