this is also very stupid because the totenkopf, specifically, is maybe the *single* skull and crossbones design that you could pick which is *unambiguously* nazi shit, out of the infinite number of skull and crossbones designs you could get tattooed, that's the *only* one that has *no* other meaning
Costco is now demanding that Trump pay them back for his tariffs so they can refund all of their customers.
If that initial appearance was him trying to get ahead of the story then wow, he's even dumber than I thought
Was it? B/c this was the first I'd ever heard of him to begin with and he and the podbros framed it as some unprompted pithy harmless anecdote. I even remember part of the outrage being "he admits it like it was no big deal?!" and he defenders claimed it was a totally unrelated skull-and-crossbones
I again must point out: every bit of active oppo against him, especially the stuff that looks and sounds the worst, are stuff he's freely said and admitted in interviews and on podcasts that he thought made himself look good. The rest is internet history found by simply internet search
The refrain to tame Markwayne's reign is plainly lain upon the main frame of the shame of sovereignty's bane, and the pain the orange stain has lain upon our Great Plains.
Yep. Even if he's not a Nazi himself, he's way too comfortable with Nazis and/or the trappings of it to be considered very trustworthy. If we're expecting someone who can help us fight off fascism, being more lenient on folks with Nazi-adjacency just ain't fuckin' it.
Again, the problem we have here is that even the most charitable benefit of the doubt extended to him paints him as a credulous doofus who is so clueless that he can't understand the problem with the tattoo or the company he keeps. And that's disqualifying in and of itself.
"...well played. You're grounded, but well played."
this is my problem, like he started talking this way what? a year ago? he's literally never done anything to push these ideas forward, but trust him this is all real and he's not lying for votes or won't change his beliefs (again)
I actually find it pretty damning that plenty of people are willing to overlook a guy having the actual no-joke SS logo permanently etched on his skin because he says a handful of the right lefty buzzwords, despite his actual job history demonstrating absolutely no adherence to those principles.
Not quite the point I was making. The point was that he didn't equivocate about it, pretend he had joined the Klan by accident, or otherwise gaslight about his past. He actually and quite publicly repented and recompensed over it.
Keep in mind too, Byrd actually admitted, owned up, and repented for his Klan past for decades.
You know what makes me mad? Not angry but mad. Since last year, a few of us like @icookfood2023.bsky.social have told people several times a week that the Christian Nationalists spend more money and have twice the power of AIPAC and instead of people listening and at least looking it up, they deny.
I think Zoro being an outwardly "too cool for school" type is a bit more of a departure than "the only sane one" energy Nami has always had in varying degrees, and neither are necessarily bad. I just remember Zoro had comparatively more "himbo meathead" moments in the anime 'round this time
What in the actual oyster-shelled hell is that price?
So I read through the thread, and had a quick question: was the service in question related to the litigious false claims over the word "Edge" years back? Because it sounds like the same brand of legal abuse
Yes. This is infuriating! These discussions basically never address the fact that framing so overwhelmingly skews and directs poll responses that policy polling can basically only at best be used as a grounding for arguing that something isn’t outside the Overton Window, not that it’s legit popular
“The U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel.”
This feels like something that someone warned Bibi about, you know, about not heeding the lessons that the US learned painfully during the WoT, like how assuming official state agents being obliterated equals safety, only to be bogged down vs non-state forced.
Then again, that person was *old*...
It kinda feels like polling just really isn't that trustworthy anymore these days, and that becomes more and more of an issue the more local the election. Maybe this is why treating polls as prophecy is a problem.
So they're willing to give their other correspondents an out when he's set to appear on TV, but...they're not willing to pull him off TV because of his toxic reputation. I...this is well and on brand for CNN, and that's not at all a complement.
Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.
50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
UK: Sending plane for citizens
Germany: Sending plane for citizens
China: Organising evac buses and sending plane for citizens
India: Sending plane for citizens
USA to citizens: Here's a MAGA hat, now go fuck yourself
And never quite register that they're dealing in the same kind of 'identity politics' they accuse others of, just pretending that their identity is superior enough to simply count as 'normal', nor accept that their 'identity' doesn't necessary subsume all others.
SHEEHY: Democrats are defending the Ayatollah
COLLINS: Who is?
S: Elizabeth Warren's former campaign manager
C: I don't know who that is. But Warren is not defending the Ayatollah
S: The NYT published an obituary describing him as 'avuncular'
C: That was the Post. But that's not a Dem
My *god* we very quickly reached "you simply *have* to let the antisemites in, there are too many of them, they're already here, and why wouldn't you want them to vote for your side?"
I sure did fuckin' call it. This is how normalization happens, and we speedran it.
Great job, everyone. /s
Every election builds from the past. If Al Gore had been elected, the entire future of this nation would be completely different from where we are now. If we'd elected H. Clinton? Same thing. VP Harris? Same thing. Every election is the most important ever, because each one shapes the future.
This reminds me of how folks cited Biden being diplomatically nice to Bibi in public as proof positive that he was Bibi's biggest fan. Somehow, this doesn't seem to trigger the same outrage despite being transparently giddy about the Bibi-Trump alliance undermining the US-Israel alliance's stability
Top Flight needs something new to bite down on to take the next step they've been needing for a couple years. The team up with Scorpio and CD just ain't it. It just reinforced the holding pattern rather than help them break out of it
