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It already basically IS the next Versailles. Versailles was built as a huge, ostentatious show of wealth and power over the aristocracy, so Louis XIV could show that he held all the power. By making all these fancy nobles drag their asses out to the middle of nowhere (at the time - the city effectively grew up to support the palace) and stay there for weeks or months at a time, often without proper accommodations (quite literally you would set up camp in the gardens or wherever you thought you could get away with it - if you stayed in the palace proper, you were quite high in status), you flexed serious power over them, especially when they felt they NEEDED to attend all these balls and galas and symposiums and concerts that were constantly happening there so you could stay in the King's favor.

Any of this sounding familiar?

They don't need to invent law and Roberts et al know it. See, the thing about being on the Supreme Court is that aside from Congress impeaching you, there is no other recourse. Your entire decision could be written as "lol no" and unless Congress decides to impeach you, there's nothing anyone can do about the decision.

Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards mentioned that he believes one of the worst things we did after WWII was not killing everyone in the SS and the Nazi government as a warning. I'm starting to see the wisdom in that statement.

Because Trump is a narcissist. The one thing an N like him does not do is forget a slight, ever. They're petty, and their egos are incredibly paper-thin. She made fun of him on TV, publicly, and that's enough for him to hate her for the rest of his life.

He already tried to run for President before in 96. I truly believe even his run in 2016 was meant to be a loss - he was gonna get primaried out by someone more competent, or failing that, lose the general, and then he'd build a media network (since he registered a bunch of groundwork and trademarks for that) so he could be Glenn Beck 2.0 and scream about how The Liberals Made Me Lose. You can see it in his acceptance speech and how shitty everything was getting done in his first year - nobody expected him to win, he didn't even expect to win, so he did zero work beforehand that would've been required if he won.

Then he got a taste of the power and prestige and cult following he had, and decided the one thing he couldn't live without was a mass of people cheering his name no matter what he did.

No no, you forget the depths of this man's racism.

He nearly went mad with grief when he found out his father's... Grandfather, I think, was Welsh.

Shortest was actually James Madison. 5'4".

This is strategic. You'll remember there were a lot of white supremacist orgs helping after the hurricane in NC/WV/SC, mostly to scare black and brown people away from actually finding help.

Mechahitler*

No no, it's cooler than that. We tried out aviation on Mars to make sure we figured out how to do aviation on Titan.

This is Trump's admin calling you a "useless eater". I recommend you get familiar with the term.

Crossroads of America because you have to drive through there to get somewhere decent.

Yeah, this sounds an awful lot like "oh please won't someone take the law into their own hands."

Oh no, he's still trying to do that. It was one of the first things he ordered the Bureau of Prisons to do. He posted about it a few days ago, this time talking about somehow surrounding it with sharks (because of course).

Behind the Bastards did a good piece on the arguable complicity of the Times in the Holocaust over journalistic "neutrality".

This is also pretty much incorrect. They might not have known specifics or scale necessarily, but if you read interviews RIGHT AFTER the war, pretty much everybody in German territory at least knew someone who had been dragged off to a camp, at gunpoint usually, and their house and possessions put up for auction literally within a week. After two or three of these, you get the message.

They knew, by and large, that these people were not coming back. These concentration camps were outside Germany, but many, if not most, Germans figured it out for themselves. Many were simply willing to put it aside because Depression Weimar was like Revolutionary France, and people were willing to take the first strongman that came across and said "hey I KNOW how we need to fix this, and it starts with THOSE GUYS whose fault it all is".

The film evidence was for the core of the core of the empire - Berlin, Munich, etc, where your average citizen might've been afforded protection from the watching the nice Goldschmidt family marched out of their house, and for posterity so people couldn't do what people in the US were already trying to do with the Native American genocide and chattel slavery.

Depends on who you talk to. A lot of Republican talking heads seem to think the plan is elimination.

Kristi Noem literally suggested a gameshow where the winner got citizenship.

I'll also throw in November Kelly's No Gods No Mayors, and occasional guests Failure To Launch (space disasters) and Beyond The Breakers (shipwrecks).

But you know who does employ children, Sophie?