TheTinMan

My guess it's because the hardship and unrest and instability in Iran is largely America's doing. A common strategy really, foment and create the conditions for a grass roots revolt as justification for military intervention. Maybe it'll happen in Alberta next.

Yeah. Fuck umami!

Actual east coast expression: "Well roll me over and fan me with a brick!"

I may have missed the subtlety of that plot development because my ears were still ringing from the shootout

Trump: "I will be a dictator on day one."
Voters: "We're in."

Right? Not only didn't his gun save him but it's what got him killed. So carry a gun you dumb liberals!

And a humbling lesson that so many European agencies were skeptical about U.S.'s alarm and intelligence because of Iraq, and their general wariness of being pawns in U.S.'s foreign policy machinations.

What's really weird is that his argument for carrying a gun in the face of authoritarianism is somehow precipitated and bolstered by a man being killed by authoritarians because he was carrying one. The gun that Harper carries will never save him just as Pretti's didn't. Such fantasies never happen.

I hope my phone still works after being contaminated with so much stupid.

Whether you believe what Trump says, or you believe that he actually believes it, then his lying has been successful.

I always assumed that most of them never abandoned Twitter simply because of the following they'd amassed but yes, maybe there's also the sense that they'd be more vulnerable on the quality of their takes in an environment that isn't so reductively just Nazi vs non-Nazi.

Once again, since it's apparently a hard concept to grasp, if all of those non-voters had been forced to vote there is no basis to assume that the outcome would have been any different. Regardless, only those who actually do vote can claim to comprise "the country" in the electoral sense.

"Or else I will start killing them."

People keep throwing out the 32% number, but since we can only assume that those who vote are generally representative of the population at large, basically half of Americans chose the guy three times in a row.

Mental disorders, especially megalomania, narcissism, and sociopathy are probably best left unmocked.

Sounds a lot like he's ordering from overseas. I notice English speaking isn't on the list.

Yes it's possible that his tariff plan will somehow be stimied but let us not discount the (ongoing) extraordinary circumstance of the American President standing there and saying what he said. People continue to mistake atrocity for absurdity. There is a deep deep psychic wound in the country.

Yes it's possible that his tariff plan will somehow be stimied but let us not discount the (ongoing) extraordinary circumstance of the American President standing there and saying what he said. People continue to mistake atrocity for absurdity. There is a deep deep psychic wound in the country.

If you think about it in terms of abuse it takes on a different flavor, what he does is psychic rape basically.

... a particularly big gash through which the life's blood of American freedom is gushing without staunch, to extend the metaphor.

America's been done for for a while now. That's the problem with living through history, you can't contextualize it until it's passed. But a casual yet astute observer would have recognized that the American people simply choosing a man like Trump as a resounding moral and rational death knell.

Well, it's death by a thousand cuts and we've just witnessed a particularly big gash.

Well, it's death by a thousand cuts and we've just witnessed a particularly big gash.

They're thinking they want to be on the right side of Emperor Trump.

I guess you didn't see the press conference. Trump's nationalism is not in crisis but the state of democracy in America most definitely is.

And now the constitutional crisis actually begins...

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Even his national addresses, the way he relishes standing in front of people who have no choice but to submit and swallow his jabber, are acts of abuse.

Even his national addresses, the way he relishes standing in front of people who have no choice but to submit and swallow his jabber, are acts of abuse.