Scraping Through France

Agent Orangeface

The Governor was referring to call up of the National Guard (which is military) to support the actions of ICE (which is not).
In these days, it is really, really important yo keep distinctions clear.

Im sorry, but I can't for the life of me get what point you are making.

So, whaddyagonnado, big guy?

If you think that 70 million deaths in WWII was a democratic, juridical means to reach the Nuremberg Trials, I really can't help you.

Yeah, WWII was a profound exercise in the exercise of democratic impulses. A vote in every bullet.

People like you need to fight for the things that make your country special. You have so much more power than millions of others in countries not blessed with the gifts given to Americans. Don't succumb. That only validates the bastards.

Barb, I feel you are a good person, & your husband & family are part of the strength of American life. I admire your resilience and readiness to sacrifice for a better future. But catastrophising things where you paint yourself as a potential refugee doesn't help you, your community, or your nation.

And yet so many millions of US citizens are bankrupted by the health system, but here you are.

In order to state confidently that something we know now may change, it is first necessary to know what we "know" now. I suggest you take some time to read up on what natural selection is, then come back armed with your new-found knowledge

I'm not professionally qualified to offer it, even if you came screaming.
Now run along.

Tom can defend himself. You, on the other hand...

Keep wading. Keep waving.

There's nothing more amusingly pretend than the various Bourbon cadet houses.

Foxy Boi, he's already declared that, several times.
Why do you, when you find yourself in deep dark water, insist on walking further into that soup?

The historiography of Francoist Spain is not for the faint-hearted

"I would become a refugee, if only it didn't threaten my 401(k)"

Yes, we saw you do that.

Might be a good thing to avoid, then?
Like, idk, get out and vote, stand with elected representatives, support the rule of law, stuff like that which Americans have been gifted for 250 years?

Well, they decided they rather liked a constitutional monarchy, anyway. As you do, when you're a late 20th century hereditary king.

Falangists were not the only fascists, I'm led to believe.
I mean, were the Bourbons of France "fascists"?
Were the generals and businessmen who plotted to assassinate Hitler the original antifa?
So many questions...

It's funny how death will do that to a dictator

Describe, for the benefit of our medical lecture here in the morgue, how Spain transitioned from the rule of Franco.

The rather darker implication of declaring that we already under fascism is that we must adopt non-democratic, non-juridical methods to escape it.

Oh very good. He's the go-to for thoughts, prayers *and* apologies.
Your people really have zero self-insight.

Would that be the same deputy leader who described the Hamas October 7 attack, on the very day it happened, as "the end of white supremacist European settler colonialism”?

I have no problem with protest against the actions of Israel *at any time*. What offends me is linking the heinous murder of innocent Jews in Manchester, killed merely because of their ethnicity and religion, to the right to protest.
I wish politicians could just avoid easy temptation.

"Always good to be respectful". Fucking respect? Is that the left's version of thoughts and prayers?
Utterly failing to understand that it doesn't always hurt the cause sometimes to just shut your stupid gob.

The entire premise of "Make America Great Again" is not "make America better", but rather "make everyone else worse".
The whole history of American exceptionalism has been boiled down to a national neurosis of insecurity and self-doubt.

You've managed in a generation to turn an extraordinary capacity for innovation and an energy for creativity and business into ashes and resentment.
Your greatest national talent now is to blame others for your failures.
*That* is the source of your disdain.