Trump's approval ratings being better than his approval on the economy puts the lie to the idea all these people voted for him because "he's a good businessman" despite being a racist misogynistic fascist. They liked the fascism. "Good on the economy" was an excuse.

If Hegseth is impeached for "signal gate" and/or "no-quatergate" it will become a proxy for the impeachment of Trump. I think he'll resign first. BTW "noquatergate" - could it catch on?

If you are a corrupt criminal mafia boss running a multi-billion dollar shakedown the mere idea of people turning round and refusing to do illegal things is terrifying. That's why Trump responded to Kelly et al the way he did. He is nothing, especially in his own eyes, if he can't order crimes.

Why do I keep hearing suddenly that Trump has "chronic penis insufficiency"? Haven't we known this for years?

South Park is hilarious but I just worry that this and Obama's joke at the rally is driving the small d1(k vote towards Trump.

Once I learnt about and accepted my limitations I felt so much freer. A tough process but essential and ultimately liberating.

Did Trump get caught out by employing the principle of "attack others for your own crimes in order to deflect" then fail to push back in private when his supporters ran with it too hard? Once it caught fire back in the day he could never tell his influencers that actually this was a blowback danger.

R & A say almost innocently about Eisenhower "you can't have 1 rule for allies and 1 for enemies." But Trump is about money fame and leveraging inside advantage. He hates level playing fields. He will destroy them like grazers destroy trees to not shade out their pastures.

Absolutely. Like it's not humiliating to get all slushy gushy over fancy presents from your daddy. What an embrassment.

Here's another way:
"Someone's getting stabbed in the street. What are you going to do? Open a free bandage distribution point OR TRY TO STOP THEM BEING STABBED".

YouTube video by Michael Airplane! _ It's Classified

youtu.be/6O1KTMOOFcA?...

The Pete Hegseth biopic comes out not a moment to soon!

Yes. You have such strong arguments and it will get clicks. Your mission is to move politics and this is an opportunity. I don't see how having a good oppositional discussion with a Labour pol will tie you to them, I don't think it works like that.

@Gary
If you were a billionaire wanting to hold on to your wealth you'd prefer to have Gary Stevenson working in a soup kitchen than on TV trying to help reduce inequality this way.
That's how I'd answer the charity question.

Isn't the problem when someone comes in with irrefutable facts about something important that interfere with a collective pact of delusion? No one's going to storm in to your kitten picture circle demanding to destroy the evil predators.

No one's going to break up a kitten picture club

I think the idea will be to put in a vaguely competent no. 2 to run day to day and negotiate but have Hesgeth there to give the order when Trump wants the armed forces to do something illegal.

Especially if it's SA, but even better is being rich and willing to bribe people.

How is the Catholic church (amongst others) still being allowed to operate?

On the other hand, the spikey ability profile seems real to me, I've got stuff that seems super compared to the average but other stuff that's very inconvenient even debilitatingly compared to the average. It's nice when that's understood, you can make use of the former, get support for the latter.

Errrr...you're criticizing them. Please try to be more specific.

After more than a thousand years of jews being persecuted the pendulum is swinging way too far the other way.

Should Gerry Connolly do Rogan? (Dems, oh Dems...)

I believe a big cause of vax denial is that taking your tiny perfect baby to the doctor and puncturing it with a needle takes some courage, some acceptance of reality and some willingness to accept a tiny risk resulting from your action. So much easier to be a coward and just deny and double down.

Maybe, but that's cool. I think it's finding its people, everything's so fluxed up these days, some quiet growth and no sensations is finè.

It's like we tamed one of those things from alien and taught it just to dial it back a bit.

Funny how no one understands autistic people better than autistic people.

Yeah, but what a strong strong message they sent by marking their votes as "leftwing protest votes" so that it didn't look like a Christian nationalist far right oligarcic takeover. Phewww.

I think a lot of people actually go from Nazi to "just asking questions." It's part of the post hoc process of getting ready to come out as the racist they always were but used to hide. A lot of emboldened trash out there taking it one step at a time but they already know where they're heading.

There's 5s left in overtime and the Dem stops to see if the Repub who's been fouling him all night is ok after taking a whack while the Repubs storm down the other end to score the winning basket. That Dems.

If Trump and Patel hadn't explicitly promised to use the DoJ to go after political targets then the pardon would be harder to justify. You can imagine in a year's time when Hunter is wracking up ludicrous indictments the biased media saying "if it's such a problem why didn't Biden pardon him?"

Put Zelensky on your show if you are not a coward. Klitchko too; you SO do not have the guts to hear stuff you don't want to hear from people you KNOW are better than you.