Yeah. We should be soft on him until some magical moment. Then it will be time to strike with more strongly worded letters. Thanks for reminding us.

GUYS! Don’t be mean to Trump. We need to be nice to him, for now.

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They gave the keys to the castle directly to the Clinton campaign. But maybe they’ll have integrity one day. We’ll probably have all turned to dust by then.

You could say also they’d rather select that than a qualified “person”. Should no opposition ever run again? Or is it clear that she was not chosen because of her gender? Maybe so, but that feels to me like it completely overlooks that there could be anything about her personality or positions responsible.

I’m not comfortable saying AOC or any other woman is a non-starter because other women have failed. A lot of people have failed before and at some point perhaps one will be selected. I think she would be a good choice, and more appealing to many than Kamala, I suspect.

I feel it might be precisely the opposite of that. The left constantly capitulates and tries to play nice. Always forgiving and taking the high road. Fuck that. Sometimes people are dumb, dangerous, wrong, and evil, and nobody should have a problem saying “You fucked up”. It’s on you to earn respect back, not me to give it to you and a shoulder to cry on.

Well, yes they could tackle them. And in fact they could ask a sheriff to do anything. Sheriffs actually do have an obscene amount of power in many jurisdictions. But have this work out in their favor? Nah. Supremacy Clause and law of more firepower isn’t going to go well in that, I suspect.

Yes sort of. The UCMJ requires only that one obey “lawful” orders. However, what constitutes unlawful is like everything else in law, difficult to say rigorously. It is a risk for troops to disobey. A risk, nevertheless, worth taking in some cases.

But the platform promotes garbage, too.

Not me. I’d prefer to go to the cinema for theatre, knowing while I’m there my government and their partners are being productive sane.

Just another day ending in Y.

Didn’t you hear. Habeas Corpus means the president has the power to deport whoever he wants.

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There isn’t one state that has all the nukes.

Programmer in 40’s. Applied for one job. Immigrated. A lot of people just assume it is too hard and use that to excuse not trying. Perhaps you are, but those who aren’t, go for it.

Are visas for childbearing a thing? I immigrated as a skilled worker, but I don’t remember any checkboxes for women willing to be broodmares.

What an ignorant thing to say. I don’t agree with their position on the supernatural, but my generalization ends at their truth claims.

There are many good Christians, good Muslims, good pagans, good satanists, etc. And many bad among them too. Because good and evil is a different axis than theism and atheism. Nice though it would be if everything were so neatly orthogonal.

Also you?

Yes. Suggesting quiet civility in the face of complete disregard for your fellow countrymen is deference. A riot was not suggested. Standing up was.

Neither that nor am I showing deference to the wealthy traitors running roughshod over our government turning it into an authoritarian kleptocracy.

There is a middle ground here in the real world.

This is very not what civil politics look like unless of course one loves the taste of boot. Mmm boots.

The irl equivalent of “flaired users only”.

It was time to retire 20 years past. It’s time to give back all the money she stole from her communities with all the insider trading bullshit.