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Now I'm fairly sure it won't matter who Collins's opponent is. Put some jam in her pockets.

Susan Collins just gave Donald Trump the green light to take further unilateral military action that could push the United States into another endless war without oversight.

She doesn't have the courage to stand up to the President, even when American lives are on the line.

That shit got quiet real fast.

Can we invent an ethnicity or someone that only applies to Matt Yglesias and then all be bigoted against him?

Remember how in Trump 1 we all said "sure, Trump is very bad but he's still not Bush 2 level bad"?

Well, about that. He looked at the Iraq fiasco and decided he could outdo it. He probably will.

For myself, I believe we've now crossed over to the point where this regime is doing multi-generational levels of damage to the world and to the US.

Kidding aside, the correct answer is obviously "Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune".

(I realize it's not a contest, but it could be)

Paul Verhoeven's "Little Women"

"Democrats would have voted for the war if" in 3, 2, 1...

Yeah, they're called Republicans, dumbass.

Love to see the radical centrists jerk each other off in public.

It doesn't come up on the first ten pages of google search results. I'm sure he's trying to will it into being by having people search for "Ben Appel vs transgender people".

He learned it from Dan Savage.

Well, I hope as a "cis white gay" Ben Appel enjoys himself when these same people get around to attacking the "homosexual agenda", because they're sure as fuck going to bring back that greatest hit.

I fucking HATE ladder pullers like Ben.

Boy, was this hard to figure out! I had to *remember* things! /s

They even call it the "trans agenda"!!! I practically grew up on those same weirdos prattling on and on about the "homosexual agenda"!

How do I know these things?

I'm *OLD*.

to actually come out as who they are is the *EXACT* same "evidence" they used to prove that the "queers were stealing your children".

"We didn't used to have all these weird gay/trans people when I was growing up" yeah you did, they just stayed silent so you didn't beat the shit out of them.

No shit to Evan here at all, this is a good point, BUT...

The anti-trans panic is *EXACTLY* the gay panic of the 90s and before. The anti-trans panic uses EXACTLY the same rhetoric from EXACTLY the same people with only the nouns swapped out.

And the fact that more people feel safe enough 1/

Geography probably makes that a little harder? But if that were the goal what would they do differently?

It just occurred to me.

I think the entire Iran fiasco is an attempt by the global far right to restart the refugee crisis. They got Brexit out of that one. Who knows what they can get out of another one.

We fucking wish.

I can't make this shit add up. "Independents"? Generally that means people who aren't voting in a primary, don't pay attention, or are crypto-Republicans. I guess it must mean something different in Maine?

I hate this timeline.

Must be, but even if you flip both those numbers it doesn't add up. Maine's CD-1 and CD-2 have almost exactly the same population size.

Sounds too normie. Can we have more online nonsense instead? /s

Weaponized oppositional defiance disorder.

Wait, what? I can't make sense of these crosstabs. How does that add up to Platner +7?

You don't think Trump can make this all work out? 🤣

Jail for 1000 years and that's no fucking joke.

"Your objecting to me wanting to see you sent to reeducation camps is divisive" fuuuuuuuck off.