Mr. Bunny Slippers

Jeb needed to differentiate, and even if he didn’t it follows my rule. Beto follows my rule.

Ike and Mayor Pete were chosen by campaigns because their surnames are hard to spell right and a little long for iconic signs.

But colloquially people say “eisenhower and Buttigeig”

She could've explained what people were misunderstanding.

This wasn't the first time that story has been questioned. She blocks people who are alarmed by it, never explains a more benign meaning.

There's also the quote below.

Why assume it means something else if she won't say what that is?

I bet most of those have already rethought it.

Bill Clinton got called Clinton. "Hillary" was used because it was needed to differentiate from Bill.

There's no malice in any of this.

Celebrities names get shortened to whichever part of their name is the least common. Politicians usually embrace that.

When both names are common, both get used. When neither is common the easiest one to say gets used.

Buttigeig is a rare exception because he cultivated "mayor Pete" himself.

America’s military leadership has more important things to do than listen to lectures on character from an unqualified drunk who assaults women.

Any soldier who was as careless as Hegseth was with war plans would be fired if not prosecuted.

And everyone in that room knows it.

It's really just Bernie and Boris.

It usually happens when the last name is common and the first name isn't.

Obama had two uncommon names.

Hillary needed differentiation from bill.

Harris is a much more common name than Kamala.

Maybe women are a little less likely to have generic first names?

It's worse.

Both attacks were bait.

Both countries knew it was bait and took it anyway.

Wait three years and three months and make some phone calls.

It’s a clear violation of their civil rights. It’s also propaganda.

The point I‘m making about the guard troops specifically is that there are so few of them and they’re not trained to do arrests so their most likely purpose is to get photographed.

Yup. And the feds are much, much worse than the troops in terms of threat to vulnerable people, as you said.

Not all gun owners are far right.

Ask yourself, based on gun rights and political leanings, which states
you would estimate have the most gun owners who are not right wingers.

It’s not good, but it’s also mostly propaganda.

In DC Trump sent a number of troops and feds roughly equal to the size of the DC Metro Police.

To have the same effect in Chicago he’d need to send like thousands of goons. In Chicagoland, tens of thousands. DC is little.

I don’t support violent resistance.

But I do understand that a military that remembers Iraq knows that there are lines it can cross that make violent resistance inevitable.

This is not a matter of politics. It’s basic sociology.

When you see large groups of ICE goons standing around in big cities, it’s because they don’t fear retaliation from citizens who deem lethal force worth the risk.

A military that remembers Iraq knows that if they fire on civilians, they instantly change that risk analysis. They don’t want that.

the military knows that if they intentionally fire on protesters in a country with a second amendment, incompetent incels will not be the only people picking up sniper rifles.

Large groups of ICE goons are willing to stand around in big cities *because* they don’t currently fear deadly resistance.

And then Ezra continued a bad strategy.

Usually those ways take longer than one presidential term to get fully, um, executed.

Only until a GOP president has control of the DOJ and the BOP, and only if we take back the Senate.

But there's a lot of room for creative executive action and the IRS can absolutely wreck some think tanks and probably Clarence Thomas.

This is a thing that the next Democrat president could actually do, easily.

We need to think more about things that meet that criterion.

Because of the pardon power, most options for justice within the law will be off the table.

“And now let me introduce our fat commander in chief…”

Damn that was prophetic screen writing

The purge needed accomplish that would mean many well trained ex-military people in the general population who really really don't like him. And he can't end the second amendment.

What comes after a purged military fires on citizens?
It's ugly. Catastrophic.

Hegseth did all this yammering about higher standards, and then the President is tardy. If this was a college class we could all leave now.

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This is very true.

Unfortunately the further into suburban density neighborhoods you get, the dumber parents who drive get. There will be schools where they fight this tooth and nail, which is exactly why Doug is right: redo the streetscape, with concrete, so it's harder to undo the school street.

Kathy Hochul could've taxed the parasites instead of giving them a license to print money.

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