Litmus Tests are good, actually, and "Do you support court reform" is an example of a particularly good one.
"Keep voting Blue and eventually we will get the courts back, best case scenario, could be as soon as 30-40 years from now" is not a plan. The people who said it was lied to you. ...
The photos of the "crowds" at the tank parade remind me of when Bill Hicks would come on stage in an almost-empty club, scan the room slowly, and announce "I've had more people in bed than this" ...
When the president sends a cabinet member on TV to announce "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
This is from 2022 but it was absolutely right. The practiced buffoonery of Trump 1, all the "just kiddings" and "seriously but not literallys" absolutely succeeded in desensitizing people who are hardly paying any attention to the harder stuff they always intended to do next. ...
Middle Seaman says:
Fan I am. Sometime consider leaving. Don't understand half the jokes. I am on Medicare, is it too old?
Bruce Partington says:
Ugh.
jon says:
It's funny that a bunch of semi-elites thought they could buy their way to elite status and now see their present continued semi-elite status as a betrayal of the highest order. Did none of those people see the movie where some semi-elite kid at an elite university tried to work out a way to get to be among the elite? I think it was based on a true story, and it revealed that the sociopathic drive to be elite is sociopathic.
Tom says:
Smile