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Also legally, enslavers raping the women they enslaved did nothing wrong.

I have seen no evidence that "BLM riots" were caused by "pro-BLM folks", unless you're suggesting as much since the people the media were showing to be acting out that summer were black, so therefore. I would also like to see any evidence that "destroying ... an area within a few blocks of where they live ... also happened in some circumstances". Outside of looting a Target here or there, I don't see whether they destroyed entire areas, which was certainly the implication in that coverage. I didn't see where anyone set fire to their own homes, or to their neighbors' homes, or to anyone's homes for that matter, which is what destroying an area would certainly entail, since people do live in areas. But in the end, who knows, maybe my refusing to take leaps on information I regard as insufficient is a testament to my delusions ...

You know as well as I do that not only do right wingers conflate protests and riots, they believe those kinds of protests are riots. They can't be separated. In fact, you are conflating BLM protests and riots right now. In fact, you're calling them "BLM riots"! Ever see a BLM protest? I saw several, right here in Big Shoulders. Not one that I saw devolved into a riot, even when people were carrying Defund the Police signs right in front of the police. They were marching in a very peaceful and straightforward manner, in broad daylight and along the route the city prepared for them.The looting we saw here after sundown did not arise out of those protests. These were opportunists who saw an opening, and some were proven to be false flag actions. And they weren't "burning down their neighborhoods". All those violent reactions happening on the street were happening downtown, where people of modest means can't afford to live. But right wing media said they were destroying their own neighborhoods because it is in their interests to connect the political movement that is BLM with the lawlessness of individual actors coming together in a place who are purportedly willing to sacrifice the very places they live in order to, I guess, demonstrate what irrational, nhuman scum they are. And that's how right wing media get people hopped up to become responsive to Jason Aldean's message. But please, tell me more about what I personally am content with. I need to learn more about myself.

Some will disagree but I think this is actually a good sign: It's a good sign because they are tacitly acknowledging that he is guilty as hell and the only thing they have left is the threat of civil war to allow the felon Trump to roam free so he can lead his flying monkeys to the next adventure. The really good part is that there is no way this government ever caves to that. Only a Republican would set him free, not because they actually fear civil war so it's for the good of the country, but because they will say they fear civil war so it's for the good of the country.

Here’s what I mean: MLB took over the Padres broadcast earlier this season. Give me this look all day every day.

I wish they would do this with the Detroit broadcasts: Not because they would replace the announcers—they definitely wouldn't—but it would change the look of the broadcast from the Bally look, with its constant crawl talking about all those other sports that aren't baseball, to the sparser look that MLB Network has, with the scorebox at the top left and blissfully nothing streaming along the bottom.

lol the very first line in the Aldean song: Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk

I coulda sworn it was his AR-15-style rifle what left a few people dead.

No, not seriously. CMT did not ban the song because of the "politics". They banned it because the explicit threat of violence against people merely for protesting cops and the flag, the putting of protesters in the same category as carjackers and robbers, and the encouraging of people to use violence against all of them, creates a clear line of liability for them. CMT is not some Kremlin-funded bomb-throwing MAGA racket like Overthrow America Network. CMT ispart of MTV Entertainment Group, a division of Paramount, which means they have to do business with the rest of America, including its judicial system, and they don't want to be held liable for their part in whatever might happen arising from disseminating the ideas in this song. Funny how you leapt right to BLM. Even Jason Aldean didn't go all the way there, but looks like you heard that in his message loud and clear. Looks like the song works as intended, doesn't it?

The Federal Reserve launches FedNow today. Get ready for a whole torrent of alt-right red hat conspiracy theories surrounding that. Personally, I can hardly wait to dump PayPal and Venmo. Like I'm going to trust them with my money more than the Federal reserve? As if. Hopefully a Kremlin-contr ... er, Republican-controlled government won't outlaw it when they (inevitably?) come into power.

Seemed spliced, which would make me a little sad, actually. I don't want to think the Biden people would stoop to something so crass. That's more the other side's brand. I know, I know, they all suck. I'm just rooting for the people I prefer in office to suck a lot less.

Nihilist bomb-throwing MAGAs are beside themselves with glee this morning. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1681616378392989696?s=20

Is any of it truly "accidentally"?

Nothing good happens at a party store at one in the morning. An entire class of people are conditioned to "defend their honor". Besides, she had a legal right to carry a concealed weapon, so, what, is she not supposed to use it at the moment of truth?

Robert Kraft can relate.

Did they splice together different parts of a speech to arrive at that video?

Yeah, America basically threw the guy under the bus. They have to try to bring him back, but their efforts may fall somewhat short of 110%.

Man, this game is nuts

Tigers are kicking up their heels!

That was not me talking.

Is it? Because wasn't he more or less a functional Republican already? Not MAGA, of course—not yet, anyway—and not on every issue. But pretty close.

The idea of "living in the moment" is precisely the kind of thing that people who say they live for Jesus despise. Good thing Rep Nickel's district doesn't reside in Jesusland. He'd be thrown out on his finely-tuned ear next year.

With someone this high profile who is a known agitator to the level of public danger, they should make an exception here.

Well, my vote in Illinois is. Yours in Virginia or those in Michigan, not so much.

I will never understand why they let Trump be the one to announce these things where he can be the first the establish the public narrative. They certainly must know it's going to happen so they must be allowing it for some reason I, again, just don't understand.