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2/2 …just as they are doing with the Rust Belt, blaming that on Bill Clinton and NAFTA. Somehow Reagan remains a hero and a touchstone even though Trump is pretty much the anti-Reagan. The funnier phenomenon (not haha funny) is that right and left seem to wear the same blinders.
1/2 Affirmation by humiliation and othering isn’t new and isn’t uniquely American. Re the 21st century, I’d be surprised if any of these reactionaries even consider Afghanistan and Iraq to be failures that dent national pride. It’s easier to blame neolibs/neocons/globalists/bureaucrats…
Except that the family’s reign doesn’t end with the death of the mad and incompetent king. And madness and incompetence are inheritable traits. I’m not holding out hope for a benevolent Donald II or Barron I. Or that Melania will turn out to be an entertaining and drunk Queen Mother/Step-Mother.
good for you
I wonder how he pronounces the word “bagel”
Especially Lolita. Depiction is not the same as advocacy.
DuckDuckGo
I think you misunderstand what the term “hair plugs” means
Sugar, Mr. Poon?
It wasn’t just the seating. It was the seating plus the olympic-level skill needed to chisel some pre-war hard candy without breaking that crystal candy dish used to baptize generations of your family in The Old Country.
Watch this be the clue that helps the FBI crack a decades-long serial killer case
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? Uh-oh. McGruff the Crime Dog. Does it mean I’ve been the victim of stranger danger, I’m the stranger danger, or I’m budding vigilante seeking psychological training for taking a bite out of crime?
Very nice. Is the next step learning how to paint a miniature portrait of Betty White and/or various Muppets on each nail?
Those differences don’t undermine the validity of the approach, but rather introduce other factors that have to be accounted for.
Sure there are differences in trust and individualism, but those aren’t “the only reason” this kind of program works. And those differences aren’t always as stark as portrayed on Bluesky.
Jakevig Smirnoff
What organizational expertise does a medical degree come with? The lack of a credential isn’t the key shortcoming of Trump appointees. After all, his previous CDC director and his current FDA director are MDs.
Didn’t you absorb their powers when you absorbed them? You should be able to engage in twice the hijinkery of a normal person.
I lived across the street from it in ‘94 and again in ‘97, and it was a sad lifeless place. I wouldn’t know if it has continuously been so since then, but there was definite lull way back then.
I was referring to the picture @kendeuel.bsky.social posted in the comments
Is that mall just getting torn down now? It was pretty much dead 30 years ago.
Is that the old Key Bridge Marriott?
Your flirting skills are out of this world
How cute, your political views are so unimpeachable that you have to resort to insulting appearance and age. Usually doubling down means digging deeper. But somehow you’ve managed to dig shallower.
Whether something’s an insult against me (or whatever my ilk might be) doesn’t matter. I’m more concerned about the impulses and ideas underlying the supposed insult. And that’s where you have waaaay more in common with RFK Jr, MAGA or Nazis than I ever could.
Your answer is bathed in such a mindlessly authoritarian aura, yet somehow I’m the one virtue signaling and high horsing? Nice try with the generic insults. Yup, definitely going to need safeguards against over-correction.
You ever worked somewhere dominated by overt petty personal rivalries and without *any* pretense of decorum and collegiality? Doing your job, much less keeping a broader goal in view, is pretty much impossible amidst the fart-flavored fog of incivilty.
He needed to post this. “Republicans are Nazis” is a pithy rallying cry, but it’s not a governing philosophy and doesn’t tell us what institutions will (or should) be like in a post-Trump world. With human tendencies toward over-correction, we’ll need safeguards against becoming what we hate.
And there’s no way he’s even taken a car ride between SF and LA. He seems like the last person who would enjoy a road trip of any kind, especially through an area featuring a lot of his voters and immigrant labor.
We are in Pol Pot Pie’s Year Zero
You’re right. It’s not just a procedure, it’s a lifestyle that tells you all you need to know about someone.
Ooh, a kink-friendly werewolf therapist!
Overton Window hasn’t moved much in the 25 years since this song:
It would be great to have a therapist who offers midnight appointments!
“EATING ASS *IS* HEAVEN”
Except that it will always be individuals’ money. Whether the scam victims are individuals or the banks socialize the fraud losses by exploiting us even more. Same as how when shoplifters stick it to the man, the man sticks it to everyone to make up for it.
Hard to believe people think it’s so easy to draft and pass an amendment to the constitution. What’s the broadly agreed-upon bright line for what violates “slightly began to implement authoritarian practices”? And the easily implementable but difficult-to-abuse mechanism for removal?
If you feel so superior surely you can do better than cutting & pasting a generic comment that you’ve likely deployed before. The moral quandary bit didn’t even engage with what he said. Show us where the bad professors have touched you, or get over the manufactured indignation about elites.
What would scorn accomplish?
Hmm, so you’re the benign autocrat we need in order to have functioning democracy? Those guys are symptoms of a problem, and the problem isn’t that they’re “allowed” to run.
Should’ve just started by looking up dragon penis recipes. You’d either dine on something new or you would trick your ADHD into leading you to chicken recipes.
And I don’t recall anyone running against him making an issue of it either, so it’s not like he had to walk a tightrope.
While he’s not wrong, it’s funny that he only mentioned western empires. He avoids offending Chinese, Indian, Iranian and Russian people (among others) about their own histories, and nourishes the trendy narrative of imperialism being only a western, white and modern phenomenon.
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue…
It’s why there’s always legal hair-splitting about something not being a “war” or being “pre-emptive” or “defensive.”
In general
The War Powers Resolution has been worthless from the start. When boots are on the ground & the public rallies around the flag, Congress never has the balls to cut funding. And that’s just the normal dynamic between branches. Our current knuckleheads will surely find new levels of fuckery.
He didn’t just speak the truth. Stephen Miller most likely revels in being described that way.
And since trump has been voted in and has created/is creating that vacuum, cynicism isn’t even needed anymore. Shouldn’t we already be hearing more about people recognizing the moment and taking advantage of that potential for real change?
Not to mention they’ve seen that giving up nuclear capabilities wasn’t great for the survival of the regimes in Libya and apartheid South Africa. Or Ukraine.
I imagine there’s even a decent chunk of service members in the additional bind of having relatives and friends who are vulnerable to the casual cruelty of the regime.
It’s astounding how many keyboard conscientious objectors on Bluesky seem to think that these choices are crystal clear and easy. So many prattle on about how empathic they are but somehow can’t even begin to put themselves in the boots of people facing these choices.
It’s not? Seems rather easy to not like both.
Weird to claim that opposition to Mamdani is the same as love of Big Balls. I don’t like either of them and it didn’t take any mental gymnastics to decide that.
And that’s even before they resort to calling the normies racist!
Although I’m hugely skeptical of Netanyahu’s rationale for attacking Iran, I wouldn’t be sad about any degradation of Iran’s ability to help Russia in Ukraine.
I think you’re underestimating the sincerity and fervor of the people attending these revival meetings in Africa. Oddly enough, I’ve been to a handful. They rivaled anything I saw growing up in the Bible Belt.
Nice job doubling down. Yeah, I didn’t cry bullying. I pointed out that your answer sounded like you just wanted to bully someone.
Who the fuck is that mythical “y’all” I’m supposedly part of? And, generally, what the fuck kind of answer is that? It seemed to have nothing to do with the question I asked and everything to do with your desire to bully someone.
Why would the lesson from Iraq be “there’s never a nuclear weapons program” instead of a simple “be skeptical and wary of all claims about nuclear weapons programs”?
Donated- thanks for posting this! That reporter did an amazing job with the story and with the questions from the anchors.
So what if she did? She’s suffering consequences and gave no hint of defiant doubling down on any MAGA cruelty (if she even did in the first place). Does sneering at a person in need based on their politics improve the world in any way?
No kidding! It’s even weirder that he bothers to have an official account that posts things normal people might say or might expect their representatives would say.
Thanks, I didn’t realize this had already been addressed and I didn’t make it through all the comments. I’ve deleted.
Thanks, I didn’t know that and there were too many comments. Deleting!
Ah, thanks! I tried looking for this before I posted, but there were too many comments.
Replace one word in a famous quote with "potato". “You see the potato is reminding a fuck machine what is once like to be a virgin. Hence, ‘Like a Virgin.’”
What did they say?
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
At a Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan show in the mid-2000s at the Pantages (I think) in LA, I went to the men’s room between their sets. While at the trough, I broke etiquette and looked around. Peeing next to me was Elvis Costello.
At a Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan show in the mid-2000s at the Pantages (I think) in LA, I went to the men’s room between their sets. While at the trough, I broke etiquette and looked around. Peeing next to me was Elvis Costello.
I’ll bet conservatives have often demanded that fed names and other info be public. Officials involved in things like Waco, Elian Gonzalez, etc, as well as more benign officials.
The rare show from that era that didn’t cast Jonathan Silverman
Yeah? Which provision?
No matter how much you and I want the orders to be definitively illegal and think they are, a stay by a higher court does mean that it’s not yet a completely closed question.
Just because it’s easy for you to claim something is illegal doesn’t mean it actually is illegal or is clearly illegal.
Oh no, a Dr. Phil cosplayer on the internet who has no actual insight into what any of these people are doing or thinking is displeased with their failure to meet his clearly universal standard of honor.
Hell yeah! Asking those guys “Which one of you is the wife?” was the only correct answer to the agent who asked “Which one of you is the girlfriend?”
I loved how they asked “Which one of you is the girlfriend?” and one of the women answered by asking the men “Which one of you is the wife?”
I’m also surprised that criminals haven’t started dressing up as ICE teams as cover for home invasion robberies.
What does the 3rd amendment have to do with this?
Before the series ends, I hope they explore why there’s so much amazing technology in that era yet Pike ends up in a mobile iron lung that features one solitary light for all his communication needs. Does ableism still rage in the Federation? Did he piss off the medical establishment?
Funny comment considering that a big criticism in the original post is that the NYT panel concluded that the best candidate is someone without a chance of winning.
I couldn’t put my finger on who Stephen Miller resembles. Not Dr. Evil, young Vladimir Putin, or a Talosian from the original Star Trek. Finally realized it’s the henchman from Beverly Hills Cop. Played by Jonathan Banks (better known as Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul).
Any background you can cite for this?
Really? So you thought he should’ve done it sooner. Is that the same thing as too late? If it were really too late, why even bother commenting?
That’s the silly thing about ABC firing Moran. Miller probably took Moran’s tweet as a compliment.
He is?
This article really stuck with me back in 2013. The visualization itself is now at chenalexander.com/Beach-Bells
Call it Fort Alvin Bragg and claim that the administration re-re-named it after him!
I already posted one, but then I remembered this unbelievably detailed and loving parody of Brian Wilson. From the criminally underrated movie Walk Hard… #MusicChallenge #LookAndSee (Day 129) RIP Brian Wilson
God only knows why Mike Love outlived Brian Wilson.
#MusicChallenge #LookAndSee (Day 129) 🎶 RIP Brian Wilson
…and kill the perpetual political football that only benefits the hard left and hard right (your astute comment about “democrats’ slaves” is the perfect proof). But multiple agencies instead drop other priorities to help meet quotas that are only about feelings and aren’t making you or me safer.
Is ICE doing that? No, it’s doubled-down on round-ups & assumes mistakes don’t hurt anyone. Face it. If the “gangs” and “invasion” weren’t over-hyped and if Trump’s ICE were competent, we could all cheer a parade of actual violent criminals. Then we’d have time & resources to fix the system…
Most of those warrants are issued by ICE itself rather than being judicial warrants based on a robust process. Careless errors pre-date all the collateral arrests. It should be easy to quickly handle errors. After all, how do real men handle their errors? By promptly admitting and fixing…
The scene at Fort Bragg yesterday had to be full of paid actors: 1. “Paid actors” is such a frequent MAGA talking point about Democrats that it must be a confession; 2. Real warriors have self-discipline; and, 3. Copying Dear Leader’s “jerk off two guys at once” dance must violate anti-DEI orders.
That hits hard as a slogan- keep using it!
That clip will be on a loop in Melania’s spank bank for a while.
They’re not going to answer you; they just wanted to sow some doubt. Phrasing it “the Democrat party” is a tell. That’s been awkward but deliberate and consistent GOP language since Gingrich.