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Old enough to remember posters on the old MTS forcefully arguing that today's Democratic Party was the same as the slavery-Jim Crow Democratic Party.

More like "separate but 'equal'".

As horrific as that idea rightly is, I think that was already baked into people's expectations going in. I think the bottom of the whole thing is even worse, and if anyone can't imagine that there can be anything worse than raping (or "r*ping", if you prefer) children, then they need to stretch their imagination a little more.

lol weeks

True as this is, that angle also makes it even more unseemly and serves to increase public support for his ouster.

Seven Mercator Mistakes That Fool Your Brain

Related to this, there is a site I saw where you click a button for you to "be born" and it gives you the country you end up in, selected randomly and weighted by mathematical distribution of births worldwide, based on current birth rates.

How The Population of North America Fits Into Europe

This is how close we were to losing all of Europe.

Wow, did not know this: In a way, this could be advanced to support an argument that the Horoshima and Nagasaki bombings had an unusual upside for Japan in the aftermath of the war.

What the world would have looked like If the Vikings’ assumptions about world geography were accurate

It might be a MAGA-famous TV anchor the rest of us have heard of only in passing.

Fair enough.

They're happy only when they think we're unhappy. Happiness is zero sum to them.

Imprisoning people with mental illness. Yeah, that tracks.

Polls also show overwhelming support for gun control and opposition to immigrant kidnappings, but polls don’t matter for those, do they?

I acknowledge that the key to winning any argument is to first train yourself to believe your position, even if you didn’t going in, but man, so can’t have convinced herself of this one, can she? Can she really be that empty a vessel? She’s young enough to survive to experience the truth-and-reconciliation phase, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her defense would be she was cast under some spell so didn’t know what she was doing or saying. There’s a whole swath of people to conditioned to believe that’s an actual thing.

Oh **** that’s a genius move if they get away with it so much for democracy

Humphrey was charging toward the lead at the end and probably would have won were it not for the Chennault affair.

Nahh, can't be high schoolers ...

Fun fact: many Americans in the late 30s and early 40s had HDS.

They have to sell the idea to the red hats of Dems being wackjob disciples of Clinton, so they don't think of themselves as being such wackjobs for being disciples of Trump, which, the MAGA elite don't have to sell that one so hard to the red hats, anyway.

By ignoring these lies entirely and whatabouting something something Biden Clinton Obama Soros Feinstein.

Regarding the three friends abandoning Trump (I assume you mean), are these people you are shocked they abandoned him because they were so all in on him? Or are they people you were like, yeah, I can see them leaving Trump, they weren't such nutjobs about him?

While I respect your position on GB Jr., there's only so much alarmism we can allocate at any given time, and we can't afford to divert any of the 100% of the alarmism budget we should by necessity devote to Trump today to muster up outrage over the guy who's been gone from the scene almost 20 years now. There will be time for Junior later in the historical truth and reconciliation stage, but for now, first things first. It's not like we don't care at all about what you're saying him and the objectively awful things he did, but priorities matter here.