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[Motor City Sonics]

23 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

It was less than 24 hours ago that the party line was that the NJ GOP candidate was a tossup for Governor...

Just massive massive amounts of cope

That's because the polls were right and thousands of votes were burned and shredded.  

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

So far so good to me. Lina Khan was the single best appointment Joe Biden ever made. Now, a smart, savvy, strategic women is joining Zohran's transition team for Mayor. She would do him well to stay on as a top advisor or as a Deputy Mayor as she understands the inner-workings of government.

[Motor City Sonics]

How is Trump going to punish Virginia and New Jersey?    Because you know he'll try, at the very least. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

Remember kids that the Republican Party is the party of family values. The moral majority, guiding us through evil. Thankfully he's not trans though, because cheating on your wife is so much better.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[oblong]

57 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

 

Remember kids that the Republican Party is the party of family values. The moral majority, guiding us through evil. Thankfully he's not trans though, because cheating on your wife is so much better.

Is he by chance related to **** Posthumous?

[chasfh]

6 hours ago, mtutiger said:

OK.

I'm sure that will be uncontroversial and free of consequences from an angry public.

Well, it's definitely not going to be the first thing they do.

[mtutiger]

3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Which is exactly what they want.  That way they can justify their actions from the crazy and unruly mob.   And understand,  40% of this country will be just fine with it.   At least they will be with THIS administration.  

Again, to paraphrase Grant, I'm tired of banging on what he's gonna do over and over again. It doesn't solve anything.

When people, even his opponents, build him up into this force of nature for which the laws of politics do not apply, it serves his interests.

Edited Wednesday at 09:14 PM by mtutiger

[CMRivdogs]

You need to read the whole thread. MAGA in a nutshell, assault by sandwich which "exploded" never opened. Then the idiot ICE Agent kept the gag gifts given him by his colleagues.  
 

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

18 minutes ago, oblong said:

Is he by chance related to **** Posthumous?

He is former Lieutenant Governor ****'s son I believe.

[romad1]

Jim Leyland was right when he said momentum was only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.   Don't be complacent.  Keep protesting this crackpot administration.  Keep up the pressure on friends and family to not normalize this evil, vile regime.  Mock and rebuke the crazies.   Maintain a running mental diary of your redlines. 

[LaceyLou]

14 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

You need to read the whole thread. MAGA in a nutshell, assault by sandwich which "exploded" never opened. Then the idiot ICE Agent kept the gag gifts given him by his colleagues.  
 

 

This is beginning to sound like a Bloom County strip from the 80s. Only IIRC the weapon of choice was an olive loaf.

[CMRivdogs]

2 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

This is beginning to sound like a Bloom County strip from the 80s. Only IIRC the weapon of choice was an olive loaf.

Berkley Breathed is running a strip on Facebook, it might be other places as well. Opus was taken by ICE and sent to a dung farm. Steve Dallas is trying to rescue him. They use Bill the Cat as a weapon. Turns out that in the late 80s Donald Trump was in an accident and doctors swapped Bill's brain with Trump's 

It kind of makes sense...

[pfife]

6 hours ago, Archie said:

I am not unhappy with the results last night.  

 

[ewsieg]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Jim Leyland was right when he said momentum was only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.   Don't be complacent.  Keep protesting this crackpot administration.  Keep up the pressure on friends and family to not normalize this evil, vile regime.  Mock and rebuke the crazies.   Maintain a running mental diary of your redlines. 

I agree with most, but mocking people doesn't generally turn people around, in fact it tends to harden some.

[romad1]

41 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

I agree with most, but mocking people doesn't generally turn people around, in fact it tends to harden some.

I mock Nazis.  

[Motor City Sonics]

32 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I mock Nazis.  

Elwood Blues knew how to handle Nazis. 

[romad1]

10 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Elwood Blues knew how to handle Nazis. 

Seems kinda mockable

https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, romad1 said:

Seems kinda mockable

https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/

OK, so, first this part …

"If we see someone leaking, you’re fired," Eric Korsvall, the organization’s chief operating officer, said during the question and answer portion of the meeting.

While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel "our friends," he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a "limiting principle.”

"You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone … while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear."

So the attendees are warned to not leak the meeting under threat of termination, and then Roberts pussyfoots around the apology clutching his pearls saying he would never cancel anyone.

I don’t understand the point of apologizing internally while allowing the impression externally that Roberts is 100% behind Carlson and, by extension Fuentes. 

Separately, I found this interesting, from the end of the article:

Roberts took questions from the audience, including from Robert Rector, a welfare scholar, who described himself as a 47-year veteran of the Heritage Foundation—"longer than most of you have been alive," he said.

He harkened back to William F. Buckley Jr., the National Review founder. "I hope you know who he is," Rector said. "The boundaries that he set forth, William Buckley, in the early 1960s, were twofold. You have to expunge all anti-Semitism, all of it. But that’s just part of it … the other is you have to expel the lunatics. Ok? The lunatics who think that Eisenhower is a communist. And we have them back now. Ok? They are both here, back, just the way they were in 1959. And we have to go back and set the general parameters. You say, ‘Oh, we don’t cancel.’ We do cancel. Did we cancel David Duke? Yes. Did we cancel the John Birch Society? Yes, ok. Because they were harmful. Because if they’re in your movement you look like clowns. The issue here is Tucker Carlson … Tucker’s show is like stepping into a lunatic asylum."

It took a guy with half a century in the organization to remind everyone of how the Foundation finally ended up canceling the crazies after all, in a way they refuse to today. He remembers.

This is in part why fascism is making such a strong comeback in America today: te fascist world we fought to destroy in no longer in living memory. It’s just a tall tale to people today.

[gehringer_2]

52 minutes ago, chasfh said:

This is in part why fascism is making such a strong comeback in America today: te fascist world we fought to destroy in no longer in living memory. It’s just a tall tale to people today.

I think it's part of a larger social dynamic. I guess the metaphor might be that it's easy to never have to restrain a dog when all you have is golden retriever puppies, when you have room full of dobermans it becomes a different story. A lot of our idealized thinking about liberty, freedom, and sanctions at the institutional political and legal level was developed in a society where social and religious constraints on behavior were very powerful. IOW, it's easy to over idealize how committed you are to things like free speech and action legally in a society where no-one will ever say the most destructive things anyway because of other levels of deep social constraint. 

As we find ourselves in a society where behavior has fewer and fewer sources of control outside formal institutional rule/legal structures, we are finding out that those don't work so well all by themselves.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[CMRivdogs]

The same goes for MAGAs trying to put all Democrats in the same basket. 
 

 

[chasfh]

30 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

The same goes for MAGAs trying to put all Democrats in the same basket. 
 

 

True: the Jim Crow-era Democratic Party had both the effete eastern liberal camp and the murdering southern fascism camp. Big tents are big.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

Seems like Americans at least say they support some progressive/left/social democratic policy ideas.

[Mr.TaterSalad]