He looks like a villainous John Connally

It tends to be elided, but the first state on Earth to recognize Israel was the Soviet Union

Can't believe they'd do this. I'm so sorry king.

I've always held that if you want to take someone down politically, stop calling them evil, and start calling them stupid.

Why does he look AI generated in this?

Really gives you an idea of what milieu the average NYT columnist exists in.

I'm gonna rob a bank

Kind of a Kim Wexler/Saul Goodman type situation.

I think you've got the right of it here. Though he walked it back in a book released years later, during one of the debates Romney played into the Birtherism myth and implied Obama wasn't really an American citizen.

Seemed to say "Neoliberalism is workable so long as you obfuscate and all but lie to the public." Destroying that myth could have forced the Democrats to become economic populists, a far more winning message nowadays (not to mention healthier for the nation).

I sort of agree here, but more because Romney's victory would have dispelled the myth overtaking the Democrats that you don't need to offer anything as long as your candidate is sufficiently charismatic (the Electability Delusion). Obama's victory after getting little done

Now think about how groups such as Moms For Liberty or the Moral Majority would use such a law. Do you think they'd use it to "protect women," or would they use it to obliterate any depiction of queer identity?

Whilst we're on the subject, I want to refer you to this passage

Just like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Israel bombs every other nation in the region, eyeing hegemonic domination while committing unspeakable, annihilatory atrocities against the occupied populations. But if you attack them, they label you as worse than Satan himself.

I had a similar idea about Hell essentially being founded in the remnants of Helheim and Hades.