The president has been implicated of federal crimes by a close accomplice giving testimony under oath, a result of the still-ongoing investigation of which he is the subject.
Oh and he’s using the same language as neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
“lock her up,” a reference to Hillary Clinton’s practice of using a private server for government business, which could have but didn’t expose sensitive information.
Donald Trump regularly uses his personal phone to conduct government business, and others are able to listen in.
The New York Times has recently exposed that the president and his family are involved in decades of tax fraud.
He regularly uses his position to enrich himself.
He’s covering up the living dismemberment and murder of a journalist in Saudi Arabia to preserve weapons deals.
There was just an assassination attempt on a dozen leaders in the Democratic Party, and the media narrative seems to be mainly about what Democrats could’ve done w/their attitude to be less deserving of it.
The president continues to complain about the way the media treats him.
The former speaker of the house talks openly about having installed supreme court nominee, accused of sexual assault, specifically to protect the president from any accountability for all of this.
A Republican senator says he finds the accusation credible. But he voted yes.
The crowd cheers and cheers.
What do they care about? Not corruption. Not data security or foreign influence. Not a sustainable economy/environment. Not rule of law. Not civility. Not accountability.
It’s insane to me these people still expect to be taken seriously by anyone.
Honestly, what do they care about? What is there for them other than menace and every kind of bigotry? What joy do they take other than the domination they can deliver to others?
And then they whine when someone isn’t polite?
What is wrong with them?
Where is their shame?
And those of you trying to cover them, treating all of this is normal and thinking it will parse as even-handed: Stop.
Please, stop.
There is no balance here.
The teeter totter is all the way down.
Don’t tilt the camera to make it seem plumb.
We can see the skewed horizon.
Stop asking us to pretend along with that this is just a regular point of view instead of a howling void.
Stop clicking your tongues when we won’t.
Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
Remember him? The famous gross idiot who pretends to be rich?
I really think everyone needs to understand the extent to which most of us will never trust anyone who supports this, ever again.
There is no normal to return to. Normal has been set on fire and sunk in the sea.
Stop asking the arsonists what their opinion is. We really don’t care.
We’re just trying not to drown. We’re swimming in a direction in hoping it leads to land.
Don’t ask us to trust the arsonists again, while they’re actively trying to drill a hole in our raft, while they’re actively trying to cut the life preservers into pieces, and laughing at the distress this causes us.
Don’t ask is not to be angry. Anger is a healthy response.
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To those who scold that we mustn’t assume evil intentions into the actions of people who consistently pursue absolute evil with steadfast dedication and unshakable resolve: yes, we should.
I guess the ultimate answer to "you don't know what their true motivations are" is "who gives a shit what their motivations are?"
I care *that* you want to burn down my house. I only care *why* you want to burn down my house to the extent it helps me stop you.
Father: *strangles my brother*
Me: help help my father is murdering my brother
Centrist Cousin: it’s that sort of us vs them thinking that’s tearing this family apart
Me: no look literally he’s murdering my brother right in front of us
Centrist Cousin: he’s never going to want to stop if you keep vilifying him with overheated black and white language; I’ve engaged many stranglers and learned a lot about the complexities
Brother: gkkk gkk gk
Me: Look he’s about to die, for real; I really think we just need to stop my dad from killing him right now
Centrist Cousin: that’s exactly the sort of judgemental escalating bad thinking on our side that we need to criticize, I refuse to let myself become just as bad as he is
To be clear, that's any Republicans at any level for any position at any time, and honestly we may want to expand that to include Democrats willing to work with Republicans.
Shut the whole party down, out, and over.
If you want to live in a modern enlightened society and you vote for Republicans, no you don't.
As a Wordle pro on the tour, I feel I should share the best starting word, which all the pros know.
(My own personal favorite starting word is COCCYX, but if I show amateurs how to guess 6-letter words I will be banned from the Wordle Pro Tour and forced to sit next to Bret Stephens in the NYT cafeteria.)
Wordle is a game of constantly shifting strategy; I recommend you get the latest version of my strategy compendium, v14.
Specifically with this order. The one that exists. This reality. The way our systems and laws are set up, the way they’re codified and the way they’re operationalized. What they claim to intend to do, and what they actually do.
“The way things are,” in other words.
Let’s think of conservatism as being, in its essence, an orientation that desires to keep the existing order just as it is, or to make slow and deliberate calculated minor adjustments, to the existing order.
In BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, Mickey Rooney played I. Y. Yunioshi, dressed up in buck teeth and a cartoon squint, a grotesque caricature of a Japanese person.
So I suppose in that sense “you wouldn’t be able” to make BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S today.
Which seems somehow preferable.
Now: what interests me is what it means to say *you can’t* make BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S these days.
It doesn’t mean you CAN’T. Unlike teaching, say,The Bluest Eye to Texas schoolchildren, there exist no laws to prevent Will Ferrell from putting in the teeth and playing Yunioshi.
So actually you *can* make BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S today, I.Y. Yunioshi and all, and throw in Long Duc Dong if you want.
You can if you want wear blackface and dance around in white gloves, like Fred Astaire in SWING TIME, if you want to.