Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
This is like when my parents used to ask toddler me to "share" a chip with them, so I would hand them the soggy, spit-covered Dorito out of my mouth and then reach into the bag for a fresh one.
Eliminating the Department of Education, banning trans athletes and gender affirming care, everything Musk has done, purging government agencies, banning DEI - all of that is an exercise in pure power. None of it is legal. Complying isn't legally required with any of it - it's a choice.
we elevated the nerd, but we never examined whether, despite the social awkwardness and bullying, they were actually good people, or simply anti-social losers who should have stayed powerless, jacking off in their parents' basements
Nah, I really wanna see a fistfight. My taxes can pay for bloodshed abroad but not on the Treasury steps? Nah. Square up.
They have Cadillac level health insurance. They can afford a couple of fisticuff related injuries. If they took an oath to protect AND DEFEND the Constitution, they need to act like they mean it.
Problem is that the few credulous newsrooms were also the most well-resourced ones. Well... one of the problems, anyway.
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
They're not going to take a real stand against what Elon is doing because in their wildest dreams they would do the same and need a way to justify it.
People like that can easier visualize a scenario where they would "have to" use lethal force against protesters than a scenario in which they are the protester facing lethal force.
People like Chuck Schumer spent almost a year and a half demonizing college students for challenging Zionism and said next to nothing when they and their professors got arrested, harassed, fired, retaliated against. Do you really think someone like that is going to put themselves out there? BFFR.
The reason the Dems aren't putting their bodies on the line to try to stop Elon and those little DOGE turds is because they find more common cause with billionaires than with the people who elected them. It's as simple as that.
Laws are only worth the paper they're printed on if there's actual people with the power and will to enforce them.
In the history of whiteness a minority group has never been able to “work” themselves into a protected status
It will always chose its own bigotries and fears
No matter how “good” you are
Fellow child of a veteran here. It's absolute hell and I live in constant fear of my mom's benefits not getting paid out. Navigating the VA system was already a shitshow before this. Now? It's been the main thing keeping me up at night for the last 3 weeks.
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And the framing of diversity initiatives as acts of generosity perpetuated false narratives about Black inferiority that are being leveraged today.
Congrats dude! I hope they give you a cake or some kind of treat to celebrate your first day. (Has going to work on a Monday ever been made worse by the presence of cake? I think not.)
At a certain point the “leftists” who hate liberals more than they hate the fascists are going to have to admit that they’ve been playing for the fascist team.
“Are now” kinda tells a story in and of itself.
Once again: DON'T GET RID OF YOUR DVDs.
I have to be careful now because I discovered on New Year's that I am "wine gives me heartburn" years old now and that was a very rude awakening.
Time to revive the Tour de Franzia.
Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.
You replying to his posts is literally addressing words to him. Otherwise you would've made a post on your own profile.
Americans care about convenience above everything else, as long as fascism doesn't interfere with that then they won't care.
It's not fascism if it's something you want!
21st century James Buchanan
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