Fits and starts. 2000 was a definitive milestone, and then they knew by the time they started pulling the shutdown threats when they'd already gotten everything they'd asked for after 2010 midterms, that they could keep pushing and nobody would stop them.

I don't think people inside the Beltway realized that we weren't numbed enough to let it slide out of fear for ourselves.

Earlier. Clinton Impeachment and the Gingrich Shutdowns.

It's wild how no one ever wants to answer the questions.

I am so sorry for jumping at you, then. You might have an inkling of what I'm used to dealing with in replies in various places. So sorry.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have been called so much worse by people better at it than you will ever be. My heart bleeds the power of purple piss for you, sweetie.

Yes, insistence of funding, arming, and refusing to uphold international law in a genocide. You are a lackey, and seeing as I'm no longer being underpaid to convince rich people to hand me thousands of dollars at a clip for the committees or candidates (I quit) I'm not a lackey, just ethical.

I raised millions of dollars for them -personally- over the course of my career in fundraising and wrote scripts and mail pieces to raise more.
I absofckinglutely will bitch about the swerve right, insistence on genocide because they need the fear to fundraise on. WTF is wrong with you?

The City We Became could be interesting. Now.

You know what they call people who cloak fascism in palatable language? Propagandists. Collaborators.

Both.

Re-read Calliope. Better yet, rewatch that episode on Netflix. Now think about what we know now and try not to puke. I talked about thet episode in trauma therapy for a reason.

Basically, this