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I imagine these people in ICE have their dream jobs, they’re just not getting as much done as they want Those nuclear weapons inspectors who were fired, on the other hand, yeah

I think that has crossed the minds of a lot of people in the last several months, mine included

Yep, that’s p much what they’re doing with’m They’re not nearly as delicious tho

Serious about wanting to start WWIII by annexing a sovereign nation, he means.

Perhaps Trump will try to calm people by calling it, say, a “connection”?

De facto, not de jure. Not that any such jure matters anymore, but you get my drift.

Reminder: Usha Vance clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts. While she doesn’t deserve to be the target of racial abuse, she does not likely take issue with such language being used more broadly.

On the other hand, she didn’t vote Republican until doing so for her husband in the 2022 primary in Ohio, so she is a land of contrasts, likely being on whatever side gives her power or access to it. She is, at best, undergoing some cognitive dissonance (though we haven’t seen any such evidence thus far), but she is no victim.

Only the second and fourth words bother maga

Ideally people would have seriously punished Ford for letting that Nixon prick get off scot free and fought against the personality cult that was built up for Reagan, but if we’re talking about this century, the democrats should have come up with something as soon as the tea party lunatics got in position to kneecap public sector unions during the first Obama administration.

It didn’t help that the occupy protesters were made to look like their message was a motley hodgepodge of pet causes with no real cohesiveness.

Meh, doubtful anything will come of it even if/when it happens

I quit paying any attention to all of that clickbait Meidas Touch/Krassenstein/[insert Hashtag Resist grifter talking head] bullshit during the 45th administration, why the hell should I do any different now.

I hope his premium skyrockets over increased risk

I’m neither queer nor am I otherwise in any immediate danger, and I decided on the day after the election that I’m buying a couple of guns. It’d crossed my mind during the 45th administration and now I realize that I should have committed myself to it sooner.

We should all be preparing ourselves whether we’re in danger or not, if only to be there for those who are endangered.

One-Eyed Monster, Penis for short (likely literally for him given his posturing)

Exactly, these ghouls want to ban treatment because it prevents suicide, it isn’t remotely about protecting children

I think that what is… idk, encouraging? about it is that we finally saw them flinch. After years of seeing justice go unserved and the villains thumb their nose at the law with full confidence that they’ll walk away unscathed, we got to see a slight chill, like they just learned that they may be mortal after all. Unfortunately, it’s also shown that the institutions can’t be trusted to do the right thing, and as long as they continue to be as feckless as they are, we’re going to see more of this. So, ultimately, inadvertently, the institutions are encouraging this vigilantism.*

I fully expect this to fade away soon as our “society” has the collective attention span of a dust mite, but we have to celebrate small victories wherever they come.

*or they could be encouraging it intentionally as a means to further break down our foundations

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I saw a comment somewhere saying Trump will immediately pardon our hooded modern folk hero… we need to form a team for Olympic-level mental gymnastics with the galaxy brain takes some of these jamokes have

Isn’t much of the power of the Maiar in diplomacy and setting events in motion? Gandalf was as much of an interloper and manipulator as he was anything else, and his hiring Bilbo as a thief was the penultimate piece of his mission, as inadvertent as I’m not entirely sure it was. Right? No, really, I’m kinda asking, I don’t know for sure.

Beginning-earth and End-earth

Guess where we are

Normally I’d say that I don’t want this to happen to a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, but drinking raw milk is preventable and not contagious, and therefore entirely self-contained, right? So yeah, sow those seeds, guys, I’m totally owned.

[preface and disclaimer: I’m remembering off the top of my head something I read over 30 years ago, details may not be exactly correct]

Not sure whether you remember the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, in which there was a student who nobody liked, who was a real asshole and wore a stinky raincoat. The kids kept trying to take off his raincoat, but underneath was another, stinkier raincoat, just layers and layers of progressively stinky raincoats, and with every raincoat removed, the kid just became a bigger asshole and his laugh louder and more high-pitched.

At the very end, he turned out to be a dead rat in a pile of stinky raincoats.

That’s what the whole administration is shaping up to be. Except we knew this was coming and allowed it to happen, so I guess that, ultimately, we are the dead rat.