As a treat.

Set to drain...

Got good!

If he was genuine, he would be delusional.

The trouble is that the people who can do the current job have basically zero overlap with the people who want to be career politicians. Just a totally different set of skills and motivations.

Armed forces leadership could only be aware of it in real-time, they couldn't go back in time and be aware of it before they were aware of it, not like the amazing Trumpskin.

He's just trying to earn the title of God Emperor that the incels gave him back in the day. They told him about it during his last term and it's finally dawned on him what it means.

The trouble is that a non-trivial number of people do genuinely corrosive things in order to signal their virtue. A lot of the internet arguments I've seen have been due to one party mischaracterizing another in order to shame the other, and make themself look virtuous.

I do think that it is of use to a society to identify people who are doing things merely to signal virtue that they do not possess. But the way that the right's discourse about this topic has wandered is disgusting and has absolutely led to a breakdown in their ability to value virtue at all.

100% accurate.

Pandemic period piece: Johnny Pneumonic

New band name: Cherry Winding Sticks

I can't help but mourn the passing of an era.

On August 3rd, 8pmCST, I was precisely whelmed; neither over nor under.

Hello Grok what is the best musical note please

What, you think my comment wins the Nobel Prize? Man, you really have bad taste.

See? That time it was better to not read what I was replying to. Sometimes.

Sorry, you're blaming it on *checks notes* "most people". I'm blaming it on a specific group of people who have a responsibility. I think by any objective measure, you took the easy way.

Either that, or the Dems have abandoned all progressive politics that might make them attractive to the working class and they only serve their neo-lib policies for wealthy donors. Trump is worse by a long shot, but he wins because he speaks like a human being and promises to break the system.

Sometimes, and not all the time mind you, but *sometimes*, it is better to actually read the thing you comment on. Please only take this advice if it suits you.

Good cop/bad cop

Who else is up late experiencing The Joy Of Being A Cause?

That should be *your* line; in addition to what you're already saying of course, not as a replacement.

For what? Decorum does not equal morals, values, a reason *why* a group ought to be voted for. Get rid of all that and you're just another flavour of crap. The Dems are already there of course, and yes, all they have is decorum, such as it is. America can do better than either.

Wait til you see where "They go low, we go lower" gets us. I have to imagine you are capable of projecting this into the future. Please be capable.

Mama take the butter out of my plain rice it is too spicy

If your only response to the decline of discourse is to accelerate the decline of discourse, maybe you need to get out of the business of speaking to other people.

That does not keep it from being an edgy piece of shit way to talk.

Honestly I think you're being way too kind to rich people with this one.

...much like America uses Israel, yes,we get it.

I think they've known this the whole time and they chose serving their interests, for the most part. Not to be rude to you, but they've got a lot more experience with being offered huge amounts of money in exchange for political favors; they already know this stuff.