the moral in all this is that Sally Jenkins loudly riding to your defense is the kiss of death: as soon as she does that, you're weeks away from becoming a pariah

'Woke at the point of a gun' is what I have in mind, personally

Man.

in conclusion

does this man understand that he is the Vice President of the United States right now, at this minute

I don’t like Regan but it’s funny that he’s the reason why the postwar golden age ended in the minds of many liberal and leftist Americans, given that the slowed pace of quality of life improvements pretty unambiguously can be traced precisely to October of 1973

If I hadn't already known that Americans can't read, the quotes and replies to this would have clued me in.

People whose ethos is generally non-violent are amenable to correction by non-violent means. People whose ethos depends on violence understand only violence in return. Pretty simple stuff.

Denmark is a Stepford-ass country, I'm sorry. It's got all the trappings of an America Bad leftist's socdem utopia, but the policy programs are completely fucked if you look half an inch below the surface.

what are they hiding

it's so bizarre and I have no good explanation for it

it just clicked in my brain that this, coupled with growing up in the city known in those days as the evangelical Vatican, is probably why I lowkey despise Christmas

The more I read about this, the more convinced I become that there is no way out of this short of a complete renegotiation of the entire Compact. It just doesn't work anymore.

It is December 19th.

I recognize and understand the English words used in this thread but I am fairly certain I am not of the same species as the people they describe. This is space alien shit.

The thing about Sanders is, a bird landed next to him one time. Now what's this about pediatric cancer?

[takes massive hopium rip] Blyoming incoming

these people run the most powerful country in the world and they all hate each other and they are all miserable it's only a tiny fraction of what they deserve, but it's a start

If Karl Marx had had access to Microsoft Excel we'd have full gay space communism right now.

TBH this is one of the few derangements of those 20 specific knuckleheads from the City Journal piece that I *don't* think is widely shared. They're from fucking Nashville.

all of these people are sociopaths, but Andrew specifically needs to be set adrift on an ice floe within swimming distance of a hungry polar bear

Bill Kristol might have to be President

listening to a podcast about why Americans can't read and the host, immediately after saying that tests show that 82% of Black fourth-graders aren't proficient readers, felt it necessary to pause and say "that's more than eight in ten!" which, yes, but the fact that you had to say so . . .

Whatever it is, too many people are nuts.

The idealistic people withdrawing in disgust from America (as with withdrawing from any other Establishment since the 1960s) has not made America kinder, nor more ethical, nor more just. It has only made America vulnerable to those who wanted to take over America for their own unethical ends.

ML is right but I also wanted to add one pedantic but meaningful point: neither the East Wing nor the West Wing of the White House was built by slaves! They weren't added until the 20th century.

OP while hitting Post on this one:

if you had asked me to name one pundit/writer/[whatever we call what Dreher does for a living] who would do this, Dreher might not have been my first guess but he's probably in the top three

Liberalism fights to improve; it does not tear down recklessly, it does not Wipe The Slate Clean, it also doesn't Glorify The Past; it remembers mistakes and works to correct them. Liberalism seeks justice, equity, fairness, opportunity, the belief that people have the right to self-determination.

The thing you gotta understand about most online leftists is that their beef with fascism is mainly that it isnt them doing it

you see this a lot whenever the tired old discourse about the U.S. flag comes up and the "American exceptionalism (derogatory)" types opine that the path to victory is conspicuously rejecting/damaging/destroying the flag

Idk, we've done a lot of bad things, as a country. But that kind of doesn't matter? The thing is always to do good things, henceforth

presented without comment

Can we get to the second level of discourse here, which is that the "watt-hour" and its brethren are strong contenders for the worst derived SI units?

wow, a left-NIMBY horseshoeing themself into carrying water for fascists, will wonders never cease

Trans kids are so goddamn brave and strong and we are letting them down as a society and we should be ashamed

the other thing about "radical action" on climate is that if you combined the cumulative impact on the climate of all "radical acts" ever, it's probably like 0.1% of the impact of, say, the province of Alberta's carbon pricing scheme

Frank Grimes was right about everything, man

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

I have a friend who is a water lawyer for the State of Colorado. As far as I can tell, most of his job is suing, or threatening to sue, the State of California. He has the highest job satisfaction of any lawyer I know.

well that's extraordinarily stupid

great, terrific, excellent, gonna walk into traffic now

“and my Dodge Charger, which did NOT get repossessed”