I can give him ten terrible ideas I'm willing to let go for a million apiece.

To quote one of the greats:

i ain't reading all that
i'm happy for u tho
or sorry that happened

They should take some of the MASSIVE amount of money that ICE/CBP got. The regime doesn't care about appropriations when they want to spend money or impound it. Relative to their standard behavior this is unusual (and malicious) compliance with the law.

No fair remembering things. No fair fighting back.

Especially no fair remembering that unions, the VRA, and other basic rules of fairness for governance are the SOFT OPTION.

Jeebus. I doubt any but the most hardcore Nazis even know who Enoch Powell is.

Also, that's GOT to be a pseudonym. Hugo Gurdon? Really?

It's an indictment of the species that anyone takes these hateclowns seriously.

In which it continues to be a good idea to impose a maximum age at which anyone can run for federal office. Not a term limit, an age limit.

Of course, the gerontocracy will never do that to themselves, so instead of comfortable retirements being full of indispensable men, it's just the graveyards.

Some of the disapproval from the talking heads is "he's not doing domestic fascism hard enough, because he's distracted by the foreign wars that the (((rootless cosmopolitans))) talked him into."

Aaargh. That subreddit is So. Painful.

And sadly, not all that useful for actual advice on specific questions. Just post after post of how can I cover this up, and is this infected or is it a reaction to Second Skin?

Am I drunk, or is the elephant drunk? Or both?

Stuart Stevens and Bill Kristol seem fairly sincere. Most of the rest of the Lincoln Project/Bulwark people not so much.

The one thing they do have, which the Dems generally lack, is a willingness to actually fight. Because they're Republicans.

But NOBODY on the left should let them set policy.

That would violate the newly-discovered judicial doctrine of equal dignitude of the states.

MAGA complaints (aside from "There are not enough white people. I am not a crank."):

1. No fair remembering things.
2. No fair quoting us.
3. No fair fighting back.

Scrupfair, they've been steamrolling the US ruling class who aren't already MAGA for decades, so this must be surprising.

What's also important about this is that the Republican regime treats budget appropriations as immaterial when they want to fund or defund something, and binding when they want to make a political point.

It's fascist Calvinball.

This is how it worked for me. My nose is still long enough that I don't need bifocals.

"We have ended the woke practice of digging latrines far away from our water sources. Real men need water views."

There is actually an English verb "sex" but it means "identify the sex of" and usually applies to animals. E.g., "The veterinarian sexed the chicks to separate the males from the females."

Jesus Christ. Why is Jane Harman on my teevee arguing for bipartisanship and giving Trump credit for wanting to extend Section 702 and continue spying on Americans?

Can we STOP getting these "elder statespersons" on to prove that they are decades out of their understanding?

The Minnesotans felt a duty to protect their neighbors. The cops… don't, and it's officially not their job to do so.

Anyone who's been up close to the kinds of people who want to be a legislator – especially in the ruling class factories we call the Ivy League –very quickly realizes that they're often cunning, but rarely wise, and there usually isn't much to them except naked ambition for their personal benefit.

The US press courtiers internalized "it's not the crime, it's the coverup" to mean that they should only report on coverups.

The Republicans have responded by criming out in the open, which is treated as entirely legitimate, because if it were crime, surely there'd be a coverup.

4. The Dems, esp. the permanent DC Dem ruling class, are culturally upper middle-class strivers who believe in "institutions", and who are funded mostly by pro-status-quo rich people.

5. You would need pre-canned legislation and a slate of new judges ready to go out of the box. Doesn't exist.

2/2

TL;DR: The Dem ruling class doesn't have enough fight in 'em.

Longer:

1. You need D majorities in both houses + the presidency.

2. And you need enough D's in those majorities to have a majority for judicial reform.

3. And the Senate would need to either have 60 or kill the filibuster.

1/2

You might almost call it the "Triumph of the Will".

What I liked about Elementary is that it centered care, kindness, and *earned* personal loyalty.

The butcher's bill for this regime will be in the low tens of millions by the time the consequences of everything they're doing finish rolling through the world. And that's if we're lucky.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

"Jesus wept"

Trump looks up from the page with those two words on it and says "Why, did he lose all his money? What a pussy."

Closest I've come is using a boombox to pipe news radio into the raccoon nest under our deck so they'd leave.

Absolutely, and far more eloquently than I and to a much larger audience.

Would never claim to have been anything more than one of a few early guests to the party, and never an important one.