Remember when it came out Bush had received a report warning terrorists intended to fly airplanes into buildings but ignored it?
Bad, right?
GOP response to white supremacist terror is analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report and gave each terrorist an airplane
More, it's analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report, gave each terrorist an airplane, and then ordered all activities ceased on federal task forces already deployed to monitor and combat the threat.
More, it's analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report, gave each terrorist an airplane, ordered all counter-activities ceased, and looked the other way for decades after a report came out clearly demonstrating that terror cells were infiltrating law enforcement.
More, it's analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report, gave each terrorist an airplane, ordered all counter-activities ceased, ignored LEO infiltration, and then after 911 addressed the nation to insist there were "many fine people" among the terrorists.
More, it's analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report, gave each terrorist an airplane, ordered all counter-activities ceased, ignored LEO infiltration, praised the attackers, and then started announcing types of buildings that needed demolition.
More, it's analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report, gave each terrorist an airplane, ordered all counter-activities ceased, ignored infiltration, praised the attackers, attacked types of buildings, while Ted Cruz proposed legislation making anti-terror a crime.
More, it's analogous to a scenario in which Bush received the report, gave each terrorist an airplane, ordered all counter-activities ceased, ignored LEO infiltration, praised the attackers, made anti-terror a crime, and GOP voters all cheered and cheered.
They are what they are
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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.