I think a lot of people who do evil things don’t see themselves as evil.

I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I’ll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don’t think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.

I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.

These guys aren’t ICE. They didn’t volunteer for this bullshit. Guard members are mostly people wanting some extra cash to pay for college and shit that signed up to go to training a couple weeks a year and to help out following a flood or wildfire.

They did not sign up to occupy other states. But now they potentially face the death penalty for refusing to go.

Yeah, they can refuse illegal orders, but with so many Courts having been taken over by the fascists, they can’t depend on that to save them from the firing squad. So they suit up and go stand around for a few weeks. I’d honestly rather have them than ICE, since they aren’t guaranteed to be racist piles of shit.

Trump is essential for the fascists right now because he’s worshiped by idiots. But he doesn’t have an heir who is similarly loved by his fans, and his ego won’t allow him to pass the torch.

Right now the fascism is being propped up by a personality cult. Without that figurehead the movement may collapse.

Mental Healcare professionals have an entirely reasonable and necessary ethical requirement not to diagnose people who they haven’t examined.

It must be super frustrating right now seeing the President’s clear dementia, narcisissm, and sociopathy and having to stay silent.

Hegseth and Trump were treating it like a political event where people worship them.

But these weren’t their superfans attending a rally. They were professionals ordered to be there and to listen. And even if they were fans, you don’t fucking clap and cheer at a military briefing.

The Onion won the bid to buy it all, and then a judge stepped in and overturned the auction results.

Sovereign Immunity is often misapplied and used to keep you from suing them too.

I think it’s entirely possible to simultaneously be horrified by his murder, feel deep sympathy for his family, and be glad he’s no longer in the world.

It’s also a really slippery slope when the justice department can blanket declare entire swaths of people mentally ill. Soon, anyone who doesn’t vote would be banned from owning firearms due to their “Trump Derangement Syndrome” being classified as mental illness.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Liberals need to consider arming themselves while they still can. Guns have caused a lot of harm, but right now 90% of the guns are owned by the fascists. I’m hoping I never need guns, but I know I don’t want to find out I need them after I can’t get them.

Mueller said in his report that he wasn’t allowed to prosecute Trump, but specifically said Trump wasn’t innocent of obstruction, and laid out multiple cases where he had committed the crime and directly said it was the duty of the legislature to impeach people who do what Trump did.

When he was asked in Congressional testimony if he’d have brought charges if Trump weren’t the sitting President, he said “Yes.”

Just because Barr lied about what the report said before it was released doesn’t mean Mueller didn’t do his job.

Fun fact about Texas special sessions.

The governor exclusively gets to determine the agenda, so they can only do shit he wants them to do.

And since the legislature only meets every 2 years for a regular session, he has sole.power over what can be legislated more than 3/4 of the time.

Th I s is horrif, but it isn’t impacted by the mail-in ballot bullshit.

Texas already restricts mail-in voting. During Covid, I had to go vote in-person at a crowded polling station.

Yeah. It was in the CNN article about it.

“The deportations will continue until morale improves,” Gov. Ron DeSantis’ spokesperson, Alex Lanfranconi, told CNN.

Jesus Christ, these motherfuckers need to be brought to justice.

As awful as he and Trump are, Diplomatic Immunity is legitimately important. Negotiations are impossible with the threat of imprisonment attached to attending.

You can’t just pick up an instrument and sound good. That’s not how they work.

If you want to just be able to make music in a pub without having to work at it, use a phone. Otherwise, you’ll need to put in a great deal of time and effort.

That being out of the way: guitar. It’s an instrument with loads of resources on how to play, doesn’t need to be accompanied by other instruments, and is very controllable when it comes to volume.

And you don’t have to be amazing to play something fun.

Texas did this bigtime in 2003. The GOP, for the first time Texas history, had control over the house, Senate, and governor’s mansion. They gerrymandered the fuck out of Texas.

In 2002, the majority of US House Representatives from Texas were Democrats. After the redistricting in 2003, the 2004 elections gave the GOP its first congressional majority out of Texas, with 2/3rds of the seats.

Texas isn’t that red. Its shift to the right is fairly recent, and it was driven by having a Texan run for President and GOP fuckery with the elections.

But that’s the thing with the GOP. You give them absolute power one time, and they’ll never, ever give it up.

It’s a great play.

Every single Democrat running against these assholes next November will be able to say the Republican candidate voted against the release of the Epstein files. That’s their headshot in the debates. “Representative X voted against the release of the Epstein Files” is an easy campaign strategy.

If art is good, I’ll appreciate it even when the people funding it aren’t doing it for the love of art.

I mean… the movie kinda points that out, too. The exec straight-up changes his tune on the idea of a realistic Barbie when he’s told it will sell.

It does a pretty good job of pointing out all aspects of Barbie, good and bad. From female empowerment to consumerism to the objectification of women and the issues surrounding body shaming.

It even calls out the film itself for casting an unrealistically beautiful, successful woman to play Barbie.