It's true that tariffs were once more popular on the left than the right, but
1) Bernie Sanders never proposed anything approaching this nonsense and
2) why does the right think that abandoning long-held principles is a point in their favor?
1) Bernie Sanders never proposed anything approaching this nonsense and
2) why does the right think that abandoning long-held principles is a point in their favor?
April 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It's true that tariffs were once more popular on the left than the right, but
1) Bernie Sanders never proposed anything approaching this nonsense and
2) why does the right think that abandoning long-held principles is a point in their favor?
1) Bernie Sanders never proposed anything approaching this nonsense and
2) why does the right think that abandoning long-held principles is a point in their favor?
How innocent was he, really?
I mean, JD Vance tells me that he had multiple - MULTIPLE!!!1! - traffic violations!
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I mean, JD Vance tells me that he had multiple - MULTIPLE!!!1! - traffic violations!
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April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How innocent was he, really?
I mean, JD Vance tells me that he had multiple - MULTIPLE!!!1! - traffic violations!
/s
I mean, JD Vance tells me that he had multiple - MULTIPLE!!!1! - traffic violations!
/s
It's indisputable that we have murdered innocent people in pursuit of bloody justice. Probably many.
Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned."
We are being shamed by literal Puritan witch hunters.
Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned."
We are being shamed by literal Puritan witch hunters.
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's indisputable that we have murdered innocent people in pursuit of bloody justice. Probably many.
Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned."
We are being shamed by literal Puritan witch hunters.
Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned."
We are being shamed by literal Puritan witch hunters.
Same. My in-laws live in Kansas City. They tell my wife they're worried to visit us because of Aurora's Latino gang problem.
Kansas City has a murder rate more than 6 times that of Aurora!
It's fine. They're not welcome at out home anyway.
Kansas City has a murder rate more than 6 times that of Aurora!
It's fine. They're not welcome at out home anyway.
March 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Same. My in-laws live in Kansas City. They tell my wife they're worried to visit us because of Aurora's Latino gang problem.
Kansas City has a murder rate more than 6 times that of Aurora!
It's fine. They're not welcome at out home anyway.
Kansas City has a murder rate more than 6 times that of Aurora!
It's fine. They're not welcome at out home anyway.
And winning a debate is censorship.
March 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
And winning a debate is censorship.
I would say that there actually is a good chance that Trump will be known as the "fertilizer president."
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March 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I would say that there actually is a good chance that Trump will be known as the "fertilizer president."
I didn't even know that Papa John's delivered booze.
March 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I didn't even know that Papa John's delivered booze.
It's not even much of a coincidence as every major city in China has a lab studying coronaviruses.
March 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It's not even much of a coincidence as every major city in China has a lab studying coronaviruses.
That line of reasoning isn't really gonna move President Musk.
March 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
That line of reasoning isn't really gonna move President Musk.
I think that's fair for those who said, "Harris is just as bad as Trump" and especially for those who said, "vote for Trump to screw Democrats."
They are in a different category from those who said, "Harris sucks and I'll protest for Gaza, but still vote for her."
They are in a different category from those who said, "Harris sucks and I'll protest for Gaza, but still vote for her."
March 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think that's fair for those who said, "Harris is just as bad as Trump" and especially for those who said, "vote for Trump to screw Democrats."
They are in a different category from those who said, "Harris sucks and I'll protest for Gaza, but still vote for her."
They are in a different category from those who said, "Harris sucks and I'll protest for Gaza, but still vote for her."
2) Main criticism or not, it was certainly on the list.
3) No one ever lost money betting that cowardice would drive our actions. Vocabulary is not irrelevant, however. Indeed vocabulary allows us to frame cowardice as caution and hatred as protection.
3) No one ever lost money betting that cowardice would drive our actions. Vocabulary is not irrelevant, however. Indeed vocabulary allows us to frame cowardice as caution and hatred as protection.
March 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
2) Main criticism or not, it was certainly on the list.
3) No one ever lost money betting that cowardice would drive our actions. Vocabulary is not irrelevant, however. Indeed vocabulary allows us to frame cowardice as caution and hatred as protection.
3) No one ever lost money betting that cowardice would drive our actions. Vocabulary is not irrelevant, however. Indeed vocabulary allows us to frame cowardice as caution and hatred as protection.
1) "Let me defend Biden" is not something I ever though I'd say.
But...who and what to prosecute are decisions for the DOJ and Biden properly didn't interfere. You can argue that he shouldn't have appointed Garland, but that's something we know only in retrospect. Biden handled himself admirably.
But...who and what to prosecute are decisions for the DOJ and Biden properly didn't interfere. You can argue that he shouldn't have appointed Garland, but that's something we know only in retrospect. Biden handled himself admirably.
March 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
1) "Let me defend Biden" is not something I ever though I'd say.
But...who and what to prosecute are decisions for the DOJ and Biden properly didn't interfere. You can argue that he shouldn't have appointed Garland, but that's something we know only in retrospect. Biden handled himself admirably.
But...who and what to prosecute are decisions for the DOJ and Biden properly didn't interfere. You can argue that he shouldn't have appointed Garland, but that's something we know only in retrospect. Biden handled himself admirably.
None of this is to blame people who engage in heated rhetoric for Trump. He and his followers alone are responsible for what he's done and is doing to our country.
I do wish, however, that we maintained an agreed upon and consistent vocabulary to describe what that is.
I do wish, however, that we maintained an agreed upon and consistent vocabulary to describe what that is.
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
None of this is to blame people who engage in heated rhetoric for Trump. He and his followers alone are responsible for what he's done and is doing to our country.
I do wish, however, that we maintained an agreed upon and consistent vocabulary to describe what that is.
I do wish, however, that we maintained an agreed upon and consistent vocabulary to describe what that is.
If Mitt Romney was called a fascist, then when Trump gets called a fascist, people say, "oh, you mean like Mitt was a fascist?"
If Bill Clinton was called a communist, then would we recognize an actual communist if they got elected?
If Bill Clinton was called a communist, then would we recognize an actual communist if they got elected?
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If Mitt Romney was called a fascist, then when Trump gets called a fascist, people say, "oh, you mean like Mitt was a fascist?"
If Bill Clinton was called a communist, then would we recognize an actual communist if they got elected?
If Bill Clinton was called a communist, then would we recognize an actual communist if they got elected?
I sincerely believe that they all loved our country and did what they though was in its best interests. Sometimes they were right. Frequently they were wrong.
Partisan demonization-framing incompetence as evil-has robbed us of rhetorical tools to fight actual evil.
Partisan demonization-framing incompetence as evil-has robbed us of rhetorical tools to fight actual evil.
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I sincerely believe that they all loved our country and did what they though was in its best interests. Sometimes they were right. Frequently they were wrong.
Partisan demonization-framing incompetence as evil-has robbed us of rhetorical tools to fight actual evil.
Partisan demonization-framing incompetence as evil-has robbed us of rhetorical tools to fight actual evil.
"all previous presidents (including Biden!) share blame for where we are now"
Only in the sense that everything that has happened has led us to where we are now. But true as that is, it is also meaningless.
I blame neither lefty student protesters nor Obama nor Reagan nor Biden nor Bush for this.
Only in the sense that everything that has happened has led us to where we are now. But true as that is, it is also meaningless.
I blame neither lefty student protesters nor Obama nor Reagan nor Biden nor Bush for this.
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"all previous presidents (including Biden!) share blame for where we are now"
Only in the sense that everything that has happened has led us to where we are now. But true as that is, it is also meaningless.
I blame neither lefty student protesters nor Obama nor Reagan nor Biden nor Bush for this.
Only in the sense that everything that has happened has led us to where we are now. But true as that is, it is also meaningless.
I blame neither lefty student protesters nor Obama nor Reagan nor Biden nor Bush for this.
When Reagan and the Bushes were in office, after all, Trump and RFK and Gabbard were all Democrats.
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
When Reagan and the Bushes were in office, after all, Trump and RFK and Gabbard were all Democrats.
In all seriousness, though, while people like Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore were praising communist dictators, Nichols, who has never been a partisan Republican, was defending democracy.
Today's fascism is Republican flavored.
That doesn't mean that there are no other flavors on the menu.
Today's fascism is Republican flavored.
That doesn't mean that there are no other flavors on the menu.
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In all seriousness, though, while people like Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore were praising communist dictators, Nichols, who has never been a partisan Republican, was defending democracy.
Today's fascism is Republican flavored.
That doesn't mean that there are no other flavors on the menu.
Today's fascism is Republican flavored.
That doesn't mean that there are no other flavors on the menu.
Pffft.
Long time readers know that the dumbest thing Tom has ever said has something to do with his taste in music.
Or Indian food.
;-)
Long time readers know that the dumbest thing Tom has ever said has something to do with his taste in music.
Or Indian food.
;-)
March 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pffft.
Long time readers know that the dumbest thing Tom has ever said has something to do with his taste in music.
Or Indian food.
;-)
Long time readers know that the dumbest thing Tom has ever said has something to do with his taste in music.
Or Indian food.
;-)
Not to mention that a lot of the cast of characters in today's fascism were Democrats not too many years ago.
RFK Jr.
Peter Navarro
Tulsi Gabbard
and, of course, Donald Trump
Some of those who were crying wolves were pretty lupine themselves.
RFK Jr.
Peter Navarro
Tulsi Gabbard
and, of course, Donald Trump
Some of those who were crying wolves were pretty lupine themselves.
March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not to mention that a lot of the cast of characters in today's fascism were Democrats not too many years ago.
RFK Jr.
Peter Navarro
Tulsi Gabbard
and, of course, Donald Trump
Some of those who were crying wolves were pretty lupine themselves.
RFK Jr.
Peter Navarro
Tulsi Gabbard
and, of course, Donald Trump
Some of those who were crying wolves were pretty lupine themselves.
This guy was played by Andrew Cuomo.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This guy was played by Andrew Cuomo.
Canola farmers should be aware that Trump's HHS wants to ban seed oils.
So...
There's also that.
So...
There's also that.
March 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Canola farmers should be aware that Trump's HHS wants to ban seed oils.
So...
There's also that.
So...
There's also that.
He must have a very interesting understanding of "Western civilization" to review the history of near continuous war and slavery and think, "you know what our problem is? We're just too nice."
March 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
He must have a very interesting understanding of "Western civilization" to review the history of near continuous war and slavery and think, "you know what our problem is? We're just too nice."
People are literally more likely to die in an car wreck on the way to get their vaccination than they are to die from the vaccination itself.
March 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
People are literally more likely to die in an car wreck on the way to get their vaccination than they are to die from the vaccination itself.