I mean, in light of the catholic church’s extensive real estate holdings and long history of sexual assault, it’s a much better fit than his current job.
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May 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I mean, in light of the catholic church’s extensive real estate holdings and long history of sexual assault, it’s a much better fit than his current job.
It was - I think he mentioned 3 month intervals? It sounds EXHAUSTING, and soon it will just be par for the course.
February 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It was - I think he mentioned 3 month intervals? It sounds EXHAUSTING, and soon it will just be par for the course.
Oh man, he was the BEST. And by that, I mean we built an entire Iraqi democratization policy around the guidance of a guy that OUR OWN SPIES code named “curveball”, which was apparently too subtle of a hint that he might not, you know, be a straight shooter.
February 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oh man, he was the BEST. And by that, I mean we built an entire Iraqi democratization policy around the guidance of a guy that OUR OWN SPIES code named “curveball”, which was apparently too subtle of a hint that he might not, you know, be a straight shooter.
In all fairness, it seems to be working pretty well for some.
February 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
In all fairness, it seems to be working pretty well for some.
It wasn’t just through op-ed pieces - their half baked intel was laundered through anonymously sourced Judith Miller authored pieces that appeared on the front page. Which they would then cite.
February 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It wasn’t just through op-ed pieces - their half baked intel was laundered through anonymously sourced Judith Miller authored pieces that appeared on the front page. Which they would then cite.
You huff your farts as hard as you do epistemic closure?
February 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
You huff your farts as hard as you do epistemic closure?
Maybe you’re lucky and you’ve never experienced that moment when you realize that something awful and irreversible has happened. You would give anything to undo it, but you can’t. Tepid and ineffective, perhaps, but I won’t be a partner in the destruction just so I can claim i did something.
February 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Maybe you’re lucky and you’ve never experienced that moment when you realize that something awful and irreversible has happened. You would give anything to undo it, but you can’t. Tepid and ineffective, perhaps, but I won’t be a partner in the destruction just so I can claim i did something.
Violence doesn’t defeat fascism, that’s their lifeblood. Neither does rejecting the constitution - that just gives them a partner in destroying it.
I wish there were better options, ones that didn’t involve massive damage - potentially fatal - to our country and its constitution.
I wish there were better options, ones that didn’t involve massive damage - potentially fatal - to our country and its constitution.
February 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Violence doesn’t defeat fascism, that’s their lifeblood. Neither does rejecting the constitution - that just gives them a partner in destroying it.
I wish there were better options, ones that didn’t involve massive damage - potentially fatal - to our country and its constitution.
I wish there were better options, ones that didn’t involve massive damage - potentially fatal - to our country and its constitution.
There’s going to be a moment that demands large scale protests, and Trump will try to use violence to put them down. That will be the last test. I dunno how we’re gonna do. Feels silly to be hopeful.
Or he could just die, that fat old false idol hatebag.
Or he could just die, that fat old false idol hatebag.
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
There’s going to be a moment that demands large scale protests, and Trump will try to use violence to put them down. That will be the last test. I dunno how we’re gonna do. Feels silly to be hopeful.
Or he could just die, that fat old false idol hatebag.
Or he could just die, that fat old false idol hatebag.
Democrats just have limited options right now. They can elevate the political price for this maleficent nincompoopery, maybe block a particularly awful cabinet nominee (53+1 is pretty tough). Otherwise all any of us can do is push back as best we can against the vandals.
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Democrats just have limited options right now. They can elevate the political price for this maleficent nincompoopery, maybe block a particularly awful cabinet nominee (53+1 is pretty tough). Otherwise all any of us can do is push back as best we can against the vandals.
As for what to do - I remind myself that the only popular votes that the GOP has won in my adult lifetime (I’m 44) were right after 9/11, when everyone went batshit bonkers, and the harshest incumbent climate in the postwar history of democracies. They aren’t popular. This isn’t popular.
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
As for what to do - I remind myself that the only popular votes that the GOP has won in my adult lifetime (I’m 44) were right after 9/11, when everyone went batshit bonkers, and the harshest incumbent climate in the postwar history of democracies. They aren’t popular. This isn’t popular.
I feel you on that. But if we give up the constitution, the whole thing is lost. The GOP sure as shit ain’t willing or able to save it.
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I feel you on that. But if we give up the constitution, the whole thing is lost. The GOP sure as shit ain’t willing or able to save it.
In the meantime, magical, impotent, aconstitutional rage only makes these fascist clowns seem more powerful than they actually are. Hard pass.
To be clear, do I wish Americans remembered this bigotry and incompetence from the last time around? I do.
Fickle fucking thing, democracy.
To be clear, do I wish Americans remembered this bigotry and incompetence from the last time around? I do.
Fickle fucking thing, democracy.
February 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
In the meantime, magical, impotent, aconstitutional rage only makes these fascist clowns seem more powerful than they actually are. Hard pass.
To be clear, do I wish Americans remembered this bigotry and incompetence from the last time around? I do.
Fickle fucking thing, democracy.
To be clear, do I wish Americans remembered this bigotry and incompetence from the last time around? I do.
Fickle fucking thing, democracy.
And how’d that work out for them? (I’ll give you a hint: Obamacare became the law of the land about 3 months later and Obama was decisively reelected in 2012.)
If the GOP starts trying to pass bills - unclear if they will - then seasoned senate leadership is exactly what we’ll want to stop them.
If the GOP starts trying to pass bills - unclear if they will - then seasoned senate leadership is exactly what we’ll want to stop them.
February 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
And how’d that work out for them? (I’ll give you a hint: Obamacare became the law of the land about 3 months later and Obama was decisively reelected in 2012.)
If the GOP starts trying to pass bills - unclear if they will - then seasoned senate leadership is exactly what we’ll want to stop them.
If the GOP starts trying to pass bills - unclear if they will - then seasoned senate leadership is exactly what we’ll want to stop them.
(Ftr, during Trump 1, I made a mid-life career pivot to go back to school and get a PhD in political communication; I study how morality and politics shape communities, and how they curdle. I live and research and teach the source code of fascism every day. Please don’t tell me to do something.)
February 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
(Ftr, during Trump 1, I made a mid-life career pivot to go back to school and get a PhD in political communication; I study how morality and politics shape communities, and how they curdle. I live and research and teach the source code of fascism every day. Please don’t tell me to do something.)
I don’t care how many followers you have; I don’t think I have many more.
But I’d go back to the original question: what, exactly, would you have them do?
But I’d go back to the original question: what, exactly, would you have them do?
February 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I don’t care how many followers you have; I don’t think I have many more.
But I’d go back to the original question: what, exactly, would you have them do?
But I’d go back to the original question: what, exactly, would you have them do?
My argument that abandoning the constitution is “specious”, but you’re calling for Chuck Schumer to climb over the walls of buildings he hasn’t been locked out of. Or to…physically assault the president?
February 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My argument that abandoning the constitution is “specious”, but you’re calling for Chuck Schumer to climb over the walls of buildings he hasn’t been locked out of. Or to…physically assault the president?
I’m sorry that you don’t like your apparent strategic alignment with Trump and his ilk, but those who champion the US constitution understand that that isn’t a selective exercise.
February 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I’m sorry that you don’t like your apparent strategic alignment with Trump and his ilk, but those who champion the US constitution understand that that isn’t a selective exercise.
Well, so long as you’re clear about that, you can start working for the Trump administration asap.
February 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Well, so long as you’re clear about that, you can start working for the Trump administration asap.
Great. The South Korean opposition pushed back CONSTITUTIONALLY, first by rejecting the imposition of martial law and then by impeaching him. Through the constitution. So what, exactly, would you have Chuck Schumer do…constitutionally?
February 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great. The South Korean opposition pushed back CONSTITUTIONALLY, first by rejecting the imposition of martial law and then by impeaching him. Through the constitution. So what, exactly, would you have Chuck Schumer do…constitutionally?