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National CDCl3 shortage.

He might not have had to ask the Archbishop. A *lot* of priests in that area know the Pope. There’s good reason to do that in Chicago & not elsewhere.

(Source: Friend-of-a-friend was training to be a priest & lived a few doors down from the Pope. I think he still has the Pope’s number.)

those core values aren’t just magically going to implant themselves in Americans’ heads, we have to argue for them. but a lot of people have found there’s more social cachet in sneering at them instead. it’s disgusting

I would like to see protestors shouting phrases such as “WE are what is great about America!!!” Or
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.

I’m in total agreement with you. Israel wasn’t going to make a truce under any Dem, bc that wouldn’t benefit Netenyahu.

Knowing about Iran isn’t the same as knowing about internal American politics. In fact, it’s even *more* likely they’ll have a distorted view of the situation.

Okay, you don’t understand accelerationism. Good to know. Now we can ignore your opinions. Muted.

Lol, good point.

Ugh!
I wonder if he has to walk on them, like we did in the ‘90s. That was so gross.

Oscar should be consulting a tailor. *I* can hem pants. It’s a really basic skill.

Trump on Nobel Prize shortlist….

Because a historian is trained differently from someone who does intersectional theory and because degrees matter.

the good news is a lot of these guys will meet very ugly ends in that scenario, the bad news is so will a lot of us

I got an iTouch in the late ‘00s & I remember even the static bus schedule app being mind blowing. When I got an iPhone & could look at bus schedule in real time, it was a massive upgrade.

And here we go again. Yep, Bush definitely unleashed the military on protesters and sent it to random parts of the country. Bush would have started a riot rather than conceding. You’re right, this country was doomed from the day the Constitution was in the sinful hands of the founders.

You’re right - it’s the same dynamic. As though benefiting from the votes of someone pollutes you.

Neither Reagan nor Bush refused to leave office. That’s a hard line for both of them.

No, but they’ve had an oversized impact in Presidential elections. Deliberately, even - a former friend turned Stein supporter would have campaigned not in his homestate (solidly Blue, presumably a ton of would-be Greens), but the nearby swing state.

Yeah, totally agree. The right seems to be better at lovebombing new converts, while the left treats them like they’re still enemies. It’s great for angry ppl who want punching bags but shit for the ppl who have had a change of heart.

Well, but people paying attention now means they didn’t care about marginalized voices! And besides, how else can they be snide to would-be allies?

The only comparable move - and this is something that they have had repeated opportunities to do & haven’t, even when it’s dire - would be if Greens were to endorse the Dems. Which they don’t, even when they know that will result in a Dem loss.

The problem is that while the scandals are reported, the TONE of the reporting and the reactions does not comport with the thing being reported. There were exactly two times in the Trump era where the tone matched the offense: Charlottesville and Jan. 6. And both were huge disasters for Trump.

If the anti-establishment left admits that Trump is the worst, logically, they'll have to admit that the past admins weren't as evil as they could've been, and that electoral politics did place constraints on politicians. And that wouldn't fit the narrative.

Yes, some people. But I was heavily involved in politics at that time & no one had real concerns that W would refuse to step down from office.

Yes, but I think both Reagan & Bush would have *stopped* somewhere early along that path. And that’s a huge difference.
Erosion is gradual until it leads to a total collapse, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a real difference between the bridge that’s standing & the rubble left behind.

Lol, I just made the same point (except way less concise) upthread! They spend so much time glamorizing 1950s Mayberry’s economy yet act like the peaceful transition of power wasn’t taken for granted by the majority of Americans.

There’s a weird dichotomy where the same people who insist that the 1950s manufacturing economy- which worked for mostly white men in parts of the country - was a universal experience insist that historical violence and oppression against minorities means that political system was always terrible.

And even when it was that way, the ideal was that it wasn’t that way. “America will *be*” is a far more potent rallying cry than whatever nonsense the left spouts about how terrible America has always been.

What they didn’t do (though Nixon tried) was attempt to crush the opposition party through paramilitary violence or through exploitation of the legal system. That’s a wild & very dangerous difference.

“Trump is just Super Reagan” - what you’re really arguing is that things haven’t changed all that much, this is politics as usual, we’re not in a crisis but fighting the same battle we’ve been fighting our whole lives.

The problem is, you’re wrong, Trump isn’t like that at all, we’re in a crisis