They’ll still say this even though he clarified that he wasn’t joking.

The sanitation of his tyrannical insanity is infuriating.

Thought you were gonna say fascist there at the end.

Glad to see I was right!

This exactly.

They don’t see imposing a state of fundamentalist Christian supremacy as tyranny, because their ideology is one of Christian Nationalism (which in the US is inherently white nationalism).

They see the erosion of their relevance as the tyranny they’re supposed to stand up to despite it mostly being driven by cultural changes instead of government mandates. This means that the militias are meant to commit violence against civilians; they know the cops will side with them in a scrum. They’re more afraid of a lesbian with blue hair than a rogue sherrif depriving them of rights.

I wish ignorant blowhards could feel shame.

I’m colorblind and it looks like he’s covered in buffalo sauce.

That’s it, they’re making Games for Linux Live now.

“MAGA influencer” is just another name for “professional antisocial gremlin.”

And that goes all the way up to President Musk at the very top; it’s pathetic how people look up to the lowest form of life on planet Earth.

Well, there’s no way anyone could have known that Trump would abuse that power.

Other than the past decade of him abusing every little bit of power he could, of course.

Yup, they get off on knowing that they are above the rules that they prescribe for others.

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

-Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum address

Lie with dogs and you’ll wake up with fleas.

He’s the guy who picks his nose and then goes for a handshake to wipe off the boogers.

Fix- Informal. to arrange or influence the outcome or action of, especially privately or dishonestly: to fix a jury; to fix a game

When J Edgar Hoover is too much of a “liberal commie” for your tastes…

Careful using Spanish words like “uno,” you might get deported.

From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933-45:

Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti-intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar-school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.

Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own—that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous—not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.

In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.

Oh, agreed.

I’m just saying that white nationalists try to claim Jesus, too.

Normally I’d agree with you.

But so many Americans are pretty goddamned stupid.

“You know, I’ve given her her due. Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change,” Kelly said. “Jesus was a white man, too. It’s like we have, he’s a historical figure that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?”

Yes, not to mention that our society has been specifically and intentionally set up to benefit white guys for 500 years.

Yes, another student brought that up and he wanted to move on pretty quickly.

Worst teacher I ever had: an ideological parrot who clearly wanted to use the public school system as his personal soapbox.