Picture of Manchin standing next to his Maserati with the headline (read in a British accent) "Profiles in Garage."
Sorry, this is really terrible, but I had to exorcise it from my grading-addled brain in order to continue working.
If I was a Senator from one of the poorest states in the nation, I just wouldn't buy a Maserati. But I'm weird like that I guess.
To be more specific, I'd feel less strange about owning a Maserati if I also was willing to vote for a bill that would make the lives of my constituents, the vast majority of whom make less in a year than that Maserati cost, a bit easier.

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19 Dec
Palin: "There are more of us [who don't want to get vaccinated] than there are of them [who do]." As of today, 85% of voting age Americans have gotten at least one shot.
The fact that right wing populists have such a delusional understanding of how representative they are doesn't make them less dangerous.
It actually makes them more dangerous because it makes anti-democratic violence (a la January 6, for example) seem like the only viable option for implementing what they see as "the will of the people" that's been unfairly thwarted by "evil forces" in politics and the media.
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19 Dec
Funny how these tough guy strutting Trumpers are absolutely TERRIFIED of saying anything that might upset the snowflakes in their own base.
"I'm a straight shooter, not a normal politician who just says things voters want to hear, and also I won't answer a simple question about whether I did what every medical professional advises which is to get a basic booster shot."
Many have argued that Trump was a monster of the GOP/Dr. Frankenstein's own making, but it just now occurs to me that people like DeSantis and Trump are vulnerable to being consumed by that monster too. Remember when Trump got booed for talking positively about vaccines?
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19 Dec
Gingerbrad, Gingerbrenda, Gingerbrett. There, are we good now?
What kind of monster bakes a gingerbread cookie without its genitalia clearly visible!?!?!? This guy is making a really important point here!
I'm worried that this gingerbread man, having been emasculated by the signage, will be forced to engage in domestic terrorism. Who will speak up for this poor oppressed soul?
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19 Dec
One bad side effect of the culture of American Exceptionalism into which many of us were socialized is that it makes it hard to envision and take to heart a near future as dystopian as it very well could become.
So think back to March 2020, and how bad you thought Covid might be. Now do that for US politics.
Apologies for piling on with the horribleness on this day of all days.
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18 Dec
Here are some screenshots from a story about a right wing publication that was read by a few hundred thousand Americans weekly. The themes might sound familiar to watchers of today's right.
The article is from 1979, and it's about "The Spotlight" published by the Liberty Lobby.
The full text. I've gotten more interested in The Spotlight (which had a significantly larger readership than the National Review at the time) because it was the particular favorite of Walter Huss, the Reaganite chair of the Oregon GOP in 1978. washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…
The other interesting thing about The Spotlight is that it was VERY into alternative medicine, and was VERY suspicious of established medical professionals and authority. Very similar to the anti-mask and anti-vaxx right today.
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16 Dec
I thought Kentucky was still in the United States. I didn’t realize they had split off into a country named after a New York City real estate developer. washingtonpost.com/politics/in-tr…
Not trying to be the language police here, but the language we use both reflects and shapes reality. Note how weird it would sound to refer to Massachusetts as “Biden Country,” though he won there by a margin similar to Trump’s in KY.
The term “Trump County” is deeply authoritarian. Trump’s iteration of the GOP does pose an authoritarian threat to American democracy, but journalists don’t have to give them an assist by legitimizing and normalizing their messed up terminology.
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