Hold on… I’m having trouble unpacking this. Can you explain the math here? Did I read that this is all the result of internal GOP drama because someone had a baby?

Now accepting bets on when Trump dissolves Congress.

Nazis don’t give a shit about being hypocrites.

They’re open and proud about it, they fundamentally believe that they’re right because they believe they’re right, and you’re wrong because you don’t. Shouting buttery males or pointing out leopard face eating is like throwing a cucumber at the terminator and expecting a reaction. They don’t give a shit. They absolutely will not stop ever until The Right People^tm have all the power to the exclusion of everyone else.

What matters is consequences. What are we going to do about it? We’ve had nearly two decades of high roading and it’s gotten us to a demonstrably worse place. Neither leftists nor the people the republicans intend to harm can afford for us to take the high road off a cliff. Stop expecting anything but hypocrisy or trying to show them how wrong they are. Stop letting them lead you around by the nose with reactions. Start focusing on what we’re going to do, start focusing on leading us somewhere new.

Yes, always has been. That’s partly why the FBI got MLK 360 no-scoped while the KKK are special little boys who get no consequences ever.

Understandable

I can’t tell what’s happening here, are you being sassy because people aren’t pro genocide?

This. I’ve worked in rural areas with people who only went to a larger city once every three months or so. The only news they consumed was fox news and whatever shit on FB. They were absolutely 100% convinced that the cities were lawless hellscapes and any decent person would be immediately flagged and destroyed 0.3 seconds after entering the city limits. I mean, Modesto sucks, but come on. Deadass, some of them would talk about a time someone walked too close to them like they were retelling the events of Black Hawk Down. In fairness, I think it’s more to do with the fact that they’ve been so filled with propaganda that the only part of their brain that hasn’t been scooped out to make room for more propaganda is the limbic system.

Ahhh, okay

Add the western scrub jay to the left libertarian section. Now for the real question: where do crows belong here?

What? I’ve got a lot of Ana’s Hummingbirds in my area, which I’ve heard called Ruby Throated before. I don’t understand what you meant by this.

See you next time, space cowboy

The guy who owns Thomas

Harlan Crow

Pretty sure it was Ezra Klein on the weekly show podcast with Jon Stewart. He went into detail about how even just distributing the funds for the broadband bill was just this Kafka-esque insane seven year process of infinite subcommittees and public review processes, and that was what Democrats wrote for themselves; it wasn’t made that way by Republicans to make it shitty, Dems happily blew their own feet off by making the bill’s workings as tortured and slow as possible.

Recent actions taken by mainstream Dems:

• Among the thirty fundraising texts a week I get, I got a text with the wrong name telling me that Medicaid was fried because we “begged democrats to save it” but just didn’t donate enough money :( I can just imagine Pelosi turning to face the other democrats, their faces turned up to her like a bunch of whipped orphans, and sadly telling them that Christmas is cancelled because the donors simply didn’t put enough quarters in her back.

• Chuck Schumer had a perfect opportunity to take a stand and decided that being difficult with the fucking Nazis was just one line we can’t afford to cross just now. I guess Saturn’s in Pisces ATM, and, wouldn’t you know, the perfect conditions for taking a meaningful stand against the republicans have somehow failed to manifest for twenty years and counting. But don’t worry, we might have pushed the quit button for ourselves AGAIN, but if you donate a little bit more money, we’ll definitely get them next time.

• At Trump’s shitty speech, they all sat and waved their stupid signs while the only one of them with a fucking spine got walked out by security. Later, Democrats wearing #RESIST shirts politely walked themselves out of the building during the speech. Then they censured the guy with the spine.

I expect Nazi bullshit from the fucking Nazis. I expect the democrats to fucking show up and DO SOMETHING GOD DAMNIT.

I hate that we’re still thinking about things in these terms. It’s not Americans versus Russians, it’s Americans, Russians, and pretty much everyone the fuck else versus our leadership. Putin fuckin sucks, so does our leadership, and it’s the people of the US, the people of Russia, and all the people we impact that pay the price for it. If the average Russian gets ahead in life over me, it doesn’t impact me. In fact, good job, bud, I’m happy for you. If our fucking asshole leaders get yet another leg up, though, it impacts basically everyone.

I’m not sure that pointing out the hypocrisy is even useful. I’m nearing 40 and “but it’s okay when we do it” has always been a core tenant of conservatism. They don’t give a shit that they’re hypocrites, they don’t care, I’ve boxed them in on it before and it always just boils down to “it’s okay for us because I said so”. I think it’s maybe more useful to move past the identification of hypocrisy and start engaging in conversations about accountability. That is, conversations about hypocrisy without conversations about what kind of accountability you’d like to see are moot. So, let’s move past “can you believe this shit? But her emails? Do you feel like the hypocrites you are yet?” to “your boy did something fucking stupid. I don’t care about your excuses, fire him.”

“Noooo haha, you don’t need regulations, you can just sue to be made whole through the courts (lol)”

Democrats when elected: okay but we only had all three branches of government for two years and Joe Lieberman was kinda mean :(

Yo, straight up, the Colorado river never sees the ocean. It is probably the most completely managed water source in the world. Any other country would take cutting off their water supply as an act of war, or at least a legendary diplomatic breach, because you’re effectively sentencing people and crops to death. If there’s anything that could actually start anew world war or civil war, water rights is among them. Probably the only thing stopping Mexico from declaring a hot war is, that the capacity of the American government to wage war is absolutely outrageous. Over the last 100 years, the government has basically remade itself to serve that end first, last, and middle to the detriment of all other concerns.