Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Democrats are back in array!

Ah, the different things are different argument.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Fight them, without becoming them!

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    I will add this, though.  I have been talking about how much I love Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, and I love this short scene – from a dream sequence.

    Maybe you have to love the show and the characters (who are police officers in 1983) to think it’s laugh out loud funny?  I guess we’ll find out.

  2. 2.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    Powerful conversation between Rick Perlstein and Jeff Sharlet. One of the more insightful pieces I’ve read in a while on a root cause of broken political coverage in the big outlets.

  4. 4.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @WaterGirl: yes, the piece is a deeper dive into Jay Rosen’s “view from nowhere” critique.

    Which, now that I think of it, seems to parallel the paradox of tolerance. If you cling to the notion of being objective, you enable fascism, just the same as if you misapply the principle of tolerance.

  6. 6.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @JPL: Yes, as Rosen says they’re obsessed with the odds not the stakes.

    It is freakin exhausting, isn’t it?

  7. 7.

    Scout211

    Federal appeals court lets Trump gag order stand in federal January 6 case

    The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, declined to rehear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prohibited from talking about witnesses and court staff while he awaits trial in the special counsel’s January 6 criminal case.

    Trump has unsuccessfully tried to challenge the gag order placed on him by Judge Tanya Chutkan late last year through appeals.

    The 11 judges from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined to touch the case after a three-judge panel previously upheld the gag order against Trump. There were no statements or dissents made by any of the judges.

    Trump can appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, and his attorneys have previously indicated that they would appeal the matter to the nation’s highest court if necessary.

  9. 9.

    Paul in KY

    Here’s a question for BJ lawyers: Are there any laws that prohibit you from having a operational, full-scale mangonel or trebuchet or catapult or that thing that shoots the giant arrows?

    Asking for a friend…

  14. 14.

    Ken

    @Baud: You joke, but there are many such inconsistencies in the weapons laws, such that it’s perfectly fine to carry around a semi-automatic rifle but not a pair of brass knuckles or a flick-knife.

  16. 16.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @Yarrow: Awesome link, thanks for spreading the word.

    Should we maybe add that as a link under Political Action 2024? Idk the byzantine policy procedures and regulations of BJ but seems like a good thing to have handy and mentioned often.

  18. 18.

    Delk

    @WaterGirl: you might be interested in The Steeltown murders. In 1973, three teenage girls were killed in Wales, their murders unsolved but never forgotten. Nearly 30 years later, new DNA developments lead the police to reopen the case. This true-crime drama follows Paul Bethell (Philip Glenister, Life on Mars) through both timelines, from frustrated junior officer to determined DCI, as his team turns to revolutionary techniques to find a serial killer.

    It’s on Acorn.

  19. 19.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: Philip Glenister is also in the first season of Belgravia, although he has a very different (and I would say more miscast) role in it. His particular brand of charisma is not used well by Julian Fellowes.

  22. 22.

    cain

    My wife has been watching Emily in Paris – it’s an old one at the time she didn’t like it but has gone back to it since she’s taking a trip to Paris with her daughter.

  25. 25.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    @Paul in KY:

    check out the “Punkin’ Chunkin'” contest. Catapults, compressed-air cannons, trebuchets, etc.

     

    They’ve been doing it for YEARS. You might want to get involved.

  26. 26.

    Matt McIrvin

    I did a democracy today! I voted in a local election to build a new building for the public vo-tech school.

    I usually vote Yes on these things but it was kind of cemented by the most cogent argument I could find for the No side, which was basically a vivid description of all the arguments for Yes followed by “but I’m still not convinced.” And then the guy’s fans complained that the accompanying illustration didn’t have enough white people in it.

  27. 27.

    FelonyGovt

    I just read the Politico piece someone posted downstairs about the CA Senate debate last night (which I completely forgot was on) and I just loved what Katie Porter said when Steve Garvey (R, former ballplayer) refused to answer whether he would vote for Trump:

    “What they say is true: Once a Dodger, always a Dodger,” she said as the audience howled. “This is not the minor leagues. Who will you vote for?

     

    ETA h/t Scout 211 posted it.

  28. 28.

    Jeffro

    I’m more than a little tired of the snooze media’s framing of the NH primary as “the anti-trump forces’ last stand”

    No it’s not.  Stop trying to make fetch trump’s supposed invulnerability a thing, snooze media!

  29. 29.

    Anoniminous

    @Paul in KY: ​

    Depends on the state and the laws are quirky. In California it is perfectly legal to own a switchblade but illegal to “carry, possess in public, sell or give away a switchblade.”

    ETA: but I would LOVE to see someone get a concealed carry permit for a trebuchet.

  31. 31.

    UncleEbeneezer

    America speaks:

    “Greta has done just about everything that a director could do to deserve it,” Ferrera explains. “Creating this world, and taking something that didn’t have inherent value to most people and making it a global phenomenon. It feels disappointing to not see her on that list.”

    As for Robbie — who earned a best picture nomination for producing “Barbie,” but was snubbed for what would’ve been her third acting nod — Ferrera has nothing but praise for her complex performance.

    “What Margot achieved as an actress is truly unbelievable,” Ferrera says. “One of the things about Margot as an actress is how easy she makes everything look. And perhaps people got fooled into thinking that the work seems easy, but Margot is a magician as an actress in front of the screen, and it was one of the honors of my career to get to witness her pull off the amazing performance she did. She brings so much heart and humor and depth and joy and fun to the character. In my book, she’s a master.”

  32. 32.

    JML

    @Paul in KY: You’re probably thinking of a ballista?

    It’s probably fine to construct one, so long as you do it on your own property (for the catapult/trebuchet/mangonal you might have to follow some building permit rules?). If you actually load and fire it, then you’re going to almost certainly be liable for any damage or injury it causes. If you just leave it assembled in your yard, it’s possible you could be in jeopardy for attractive nuisance laws? And you absolutely, 100% cannot set something like that up to fire upon trespass.

    (I’m only sort of a lawyer, so I’m probably missing some stuff)

    It’s unlikely that any states have laws on the books explicitly banning ancient siege weapons, but you can still popped for the same sorts of things that nail people for not maintaining their property…

  40. 40.

    Paul in KY

    @Snarki, child of Loki: I just think it’s wild if they are legal. These were middle ages artillery. One of these could throw a 50 pound rock 300 feet. If that hit you, it would be a closed casket funeral.

  41. 41.

    cain

    @zhena gogolia: There was definitely some questionable shit that I would think an American would know living in Paris like what the number is for emergency eg 911. :D

    It’s still fairly delightful even if Emily gets no my nerves from time to time with her need to ‘fix things’.

  42. 42.

    lowtechcyclist

    @FelonyGovt:

    I just loved what Katie Porter said when Steve Garvey (R, former ballplayer) refused to answer whether he would vote for Trump:

    “What they say is true: Once a Dodger, always a Dodger,” she said as the audience howled. “This is not the minor leagues. Who will you vote for?”

    Garvey better go to Urgent Care for treatment of that burn.

  43. 43.

    Paul in KY

    @JML: Thank you for your take on it. Sorta weird (to me) that they would not be cataloged as deadly weapons. I think (in many places) you cannot walk around with a sharpened halbard or something like that.

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    @JPL:

    Has anyone seen “Anatomy of a Fall”?

    John said Joelle watched it and loved it. Maybe ask her to post about it in his next thread. I am really loving that John is posting more regularly. I’ve missed his posts.

  46. 46.

    Betty Cracker

    @FelonyGovt: Excellent zinger! I haven’t followed the CA US Senate race closely since I live on the opposite coast and the fascist pricks who are dragging my state to the bottom like shit-gators consume most of my political attention.

    But from what I’ve read, it sounds like Porter is a long shot for the seat. If she doesn’t win, I hope she finds her way back into politics in another role. I know her white board shtick rubs some folks the wrong way, but IMO, she’s a real talent.

  48. 48.

    lowtechcyclist

    @JML:

    It’s probably fine to construct one, so long as you do it on your own property (for the catapult/trebuchet/mangonal you might have to follow some building permit rules?).

    And if he has an HOA, he can just forget the whole idea.  Hell, even our very relaxed HOA would veto that sucker.

  49. 49.

    JoyceH

    Watergirl, what pet insurance do you have and would you recommend it? I’m thinking insurance for Whimsy (I’ve never had pet insurance before) while she’s still young with no pre-existing conditions.

  52. 52.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @JPL: Yes.  It’s very compelling and the actress is superb, but I was a little disappointed with it.  Honestly, if you want something similar, the HBO mini-series The Staircase (about the Michael Peterson case) is much better.

  53. 53.

    catclub

    @FelonyGovt: “This is not the minor leagues. Who will you vote for?”

     

    I am not afraid to say I’ll vote for Biden, are you afraid to say that too?

  54. 54.

    Almost Retired

    @FelonyGovt:   I wish we could export some of our great California democrats to other states.  Barbara Lee to Texas and Katie Porter to Florida.  Not that I wish that on Barbara or Katie.

  62. 62.

    cain

    Naomi Klein has some advice for Joe Biden if he wants to stop Trump – Step down.

    https://truthout.org/articles/naomi-klein-if-biden-wants-to-stop-trump-he-should-step-down/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    Why? Because the young is angry about Gaza. MF – you’re not going to be thinking about Gaza when this shit is coming down the pipe:

    https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/111805679841259957

    Party of personal freedom strikes again!

    Oklahoma bill SB1976 would make sending or viewing any “obscene materials” outside marriage a felony

    It gets better. The bill is from repeal-no-fault divorce advocate, Dusty Deevers (R)

    Christian fascists want laws that they will regularly break themselves. But mostly to weaponize against everyone else.

  65. 65.

    J.

    Y’all see that No Labels is being sued for breach of contract? I don’t usually root for real estate developers, but I hope the Dursts destroy No Labels.

  66. 66.

    Quinerly

    @HumboldtBlue:

    He really hasn’t campaigned but a few days. At this rate, I don’t seevhow he gets thru the Spring….especially with feeling the pressure of the court cases. Take a peek at that HuffPost link I posted above. It’s recent. He is challenging Haley to a cognitive test….equating it with an intelligence/IQ test. It appears that at a point he thinks Ronny Jackson is still the WH doctor.

  68. 68.

    Captain C

    @lowtechcyclist: “Ya know, HOA President Bob, your house is in range of my trebuchet.  It would be a shame if it went off when I was dismantling it and something were to happen, totally accidentally, to your house, something that wouldn’t have happened if you’d just kept your nose out of my business…”

  70. 70.

    Geminid

    @Almost Retired: There’s another member of Porter’s class of 2018 that is running for Senate in Florida, Democrat Deborah(?) Mucarsel-Powell. She looks like a good candidate.

  71. 71.

    Geminid

    @Almost Retired: Rep. Mucarsel Powell emigrated to the U.S. from Peru when she was 11 years old. She beat Carlos Curbelo to flip a Dade County seat in 2018, and then was one of several Democratic Representatives to lose their first reelection race in 2020.

  72. 72.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @JPL: Don’t get me wrong, Anatomy Of A Fall is totally worth watching.  I was just expecting some sort of Sixth Sense plot twist at the end, but it’s not that kind of movie.  To be fair The Staircase doesn’t either, but the overall suspense and too-crazy-to-believe story of The Staircase was more enjoyable, imo.  It also featured Collin Firth, Toni Collette and Sophie Turner all doing some incredible acting.

  75. 75.

    West of the Rockies

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Did he pull “17 seconds” out of his ass, or did he just reveal secret information other countries could exploit?

     

    I wish he would expire.

  77. 77.

    zhena gogolia

    @J.:
    I understand the Dursts are pretty civic-minded for developers. This is good:

    “Despite this promise to work within the two-party system to effect change, No Labels pulled a ‘bait and switch,’ launching its ‘Insurance Policy 2024’ initiative last year, ‘preparing for the possibility’ of nominating a third-party Presidential candidate,” the lawsuit says. “Had No Labels ever given any indication that it might pursue such a gambit, the Dursts never would have funded the organization. That is because, in a Presidential election, anyone who votes for a third-party candidate votes on neither side.”

    The Dursts began donating to No Labels when the organization was highlighting its efforts to pursue “bipartisan policy solutions through Congressional action,” Randy Mastro, the lawyer representing the Dursts in the case, said in the complaint. But since then, “No Labels has shifted seismically from its original mission, and its donors, like the Dursts, who believed in the mission and financially supported it, should not have to stand idly by while their dollars are used to threaten democracy,” the lawsuit says.

  80. 80.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @zhena gogolia: He’s a jerk at times, but then at times you feel for him.  It does a good job of shifting how we felt about him, multiple times.  In no small part due to his great acting.

  81. 81.

    Ken

    @Urza: Could build a vehicle around it as a disguise. Roll up, unfold it into proper length.

    🎵 Transformers, more than meets the eyes….

    And I second @Captain C, the HOA won’t be a problem after the first “example.”

  82. 82.

    Yarrow

    @JPL:  Thanks! I didn’t know about that.

    @Quinerly:  If he can convince Haley to drop out he’ll be the nominee. Then he won’t have to campaign. He can just do the occasional rally until maybe summer.

  86. 86.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Best Director nominations for Greta Gerwig for “Barbie”:

    Golden Globes
    Directors Guild of America
    Alliance of Women Film Journalists
    Astra Film & Creative Awards
    Austin Film Critics Association
    Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
    Critics Association of Central Florida
    Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
    Denver Film Critics Society
    Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards
    Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
    Houston Film Critics Society
    Indiana Film Journalists Association
    Las Vegas Film Critics Society
    London Film Critics’ Circle
    North Carolina Film Critics Association
    North Texas Film Critics Association
    Online Film Critics Society
    Phoenix Critics Circle
    San Diego Film Critics Society
    San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
    Satellite Awards
    Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
    St. Louis Film Critics Association
    Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards

    No nomination
    Academy Awards

    Someone online noted: how the F does Greta Gerwig get a nomination from the DIRECTORS GUILD (her literal, Director peer group and the people who know most about Directing), but not the Academy?  Make that make sense!

  89. 89.

    Brachiator

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Good post of the Robert Reich video.

    I really like the short videos he does. They are well written, include easily understood graphics, and quickly get to the point.

    The Democrats should officially do a lot of stuff like this. It uses social media well.

  90. 90.

    Ken

    @SiubhanDuinne: What in the everloving blue-eyed fuck is he going on about?

    At this point you’d have better luck understanding the mind of Azathoth, the blind idiot god at the center of the Lovecraftian cosmos. You might even come out of it with more of your sanity intact.

  91. 91.

    trollhattan

    @Anoniminous: In our shiny blue CA city we once had an annual pumpkin chunkin’ contest in a long-skinny boulevard-style city park. Good fun, but they no longer hold it and I don’t know the reason, other than it’s a lot of work.

  92. 92.

    catclub

    @Yarrow: If he can convince Haley to drop out he’ll be the nominee.

     

    Makes me really wish she would hang around.  Even getting 25%

    would be an insult to him.

  93. 93.

    Ohio Mom

    @cain: What is Naomi Klein thinking? Even if it was a good idea for Biden to step aside (news flash: it’s not), who is supposed to step up and conjure a campaign organization out of thin air in mere moments?

    We may not see much evidence right now of the Biden campaign structure but it is definitely there and active. These things are huge undertakings. If nothing else, hers is a completely naive proposal from a merely practical standpoint.

  94. 94.

    Brachiator

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Someone online noted: how the F does Greta Gerwig get a nomination from the DIRECTORS GUILD (her literal, Director peer group and the people who know most about Directing), but not the Academy?

    The Academy includes a lot more people than the Directors Guild. Probably more old farts, male variety who didn’t like Barbie.

    The Hollywood Reporter regularly prints the ballot choices and comments of anonymous Academy members. The reason behind the omission here might be interesting.

    I saw Barbie and thoroughly enjoyed it, and thought some of the directing choices were very witty. But I didn’t see many of the top considered films this year.

  95. 95.

    trollhattan

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Greta’s revenge (Sacramento, represent!) if you will is having made the highest grossing film of 2023, she’s now the MASTER OF WHAEVER THE FUCK SHE WANTS TO DO, FOREVER.

    Revisited “Lady Bird” over the holidays followed by finally watching “Francis Ha” and 1. they dovetail perfectly, given the newer film is a prequal to the first and 2. Greta is a triple-threat writer-director-actor. I had never seen her on screen before. What a talent.

  96. 96.

    JML

    @Paul in KY: I mean, it’s certainly possible that they would be considered deadly weapons, but there’s nothing illegal about making a longbow or forging a sword and those suckers are very deadly. They’re just not likely to be called out specifically and dangerous use is going to be covered under something else. A charge like “assault with a deadly weapon” won’t have a statutory definition of everything that could be a deadly weapon.

    In the halberd example, they could be treated similarly to the person walking around with a giant knife in their hand.

    It’s amazing what can be classified under negligence…

  97. 97.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ohio Mom:

    What is Naomi Klein thinking? Even if it was a good idea for Biden to step aside (news flash: it’s not), who is supposed to step up and conjure a campaign organization out of thin air in mere moments?

    And she’s supposed to be the ‘smart’ Naomi, right?

    Maybe there isn’t one.

  98. 98.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Brachiator: I just mean, if I’m trying to figure out which specialist in part of my field was the best, why wouldn’t I follow the lead of the consensus of that group of specialists?  Of course the answer is that Academy voters think they know more about directing than the actual Directors do, which doesn’t surprise me.  It’s just dumb.  Yes, there have also been articles that pointed out that many Academy voters don’t even bother to watch some of the nominated films (usually the films that are more Black and LGBTQ-centered ones).

  103. 103.

    Brachiator

    @AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team:

    Thanks for the excellent read.

    “We look for bad apples. The way Maggie Haberman has become the receptacle for All Bad Things.

    The NY Times, it’s publisher and editors are much at fault, but I also hate how Haberman’s largely lackluster reporting has nonetheless made her a staple of pundit roundtables, where she regularly peddles political trivia about Trump. But her fellow journalists fawn all over her and love the fact that she had, and still has, close access to Trump

    “Marjorie Taylor Greene is not trying to join the cosmos that Lesley Stahl and much of American journalism is set up to cover.” She inhabited an entirely separate one: a fascist one, which the likes of Stahl have no idea how to comprehend. “Fascism is a dream politics. It’s a mythology. You can’t fact-check myth. You can’t arch an eyebrow and make it go away.”

    Nails it. The Beltway press is oblivious to the degree to which the Trump GOP and his MAGA base hate them. They can’t see the coming fascism because of their blind sense of self-importance.

    “And people are welcome to label things however they want, but there’s frankly nobody else doing the reporting that we do.”

    The essence of NY Times stupid elitism. Ugh.

  105. 105.

    trollhattan

    @UncleEbeneezer: IMHO very worth the time.

    Currently available on NetPrime. One of those but I canna recall which. Remember when “cutting the cord” was the One Weird Trick to put viewership power back into our hands?

    Ugh.

  106. 106.

    Ken

    @UncleEbeneezer: On bluesky, George Takei re-posted a comment from Greg Castanias:

    No Oscar nomination for Greta Gerwig.

    No Oscar nomination for Margot Robbie.

    Ryan Gosling gets an Oscar nomination.

    This is actually the whole plot of “Barbie”.

  109. 109.

    pieceofpeace

    @Anoniminous:

    In partially explaining them, consider there are many people in this country who like him because they are his chosen target audience and he makes them feel…. important.  For them, that’s valuable and useful for their lives.

    Others might get the same through wealth and extravagance or academics, talents, etc.  There are pecking orders all over the place, but over the years, the MAGA folks fell short of them, mostly.  In that vein, I think they consider him a ‘savior’ (many have found themselves on the losing side generally, sooo yay. finally!),’ of sorts.

    It also provides validation for their anger and attendant blaming.

  110. 110.

    Brachiator

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Of course the answer is that Academy voters think they know more about directing than the actual Directors do, which doesn’t surprise me.  It’s just dumb.

    I have mixed feelings about this. Many Academy members do know a lot about directing, and even when they don’t, their own expertise can still be illuminating. But then again, many voters use their ballots to express jealousy or to settle scores. And there is also the sexism where women directors are concerned.

    Also, in years past, few outside the industry ever knew or paid attention to the awards handed out by SAG or the Producers Guild, so there was little basis for comparison.

    Yes, there have also been articles that pointed out that many Academy voters don’t even bother to watch some of the nominated films (usually the films that are more Black and LGBTQ-centered ones).

    Oh yes, this can be a problem. From a 2019 Vanity Fair piece.

    The idea that some Oscar voters don’t actually see the movies in contention is not necessarily new. In 2014, two anonymous Oscar voters told the Los Angeles Times that they didn’t watch best-picture winner 12 Years a Slave prior to the ceremony because of its subject matter—but that they also voted for the film anyway. Back in 2015, after Birdman won best picture at the Academy Awards, The Hollywood Reporter published a study that claimed nearly 6% of Academy members didn’t watch that year’s best-picture nominees. Of note in the trade publication’s collection of data: 10% of members polled said they neglected to watch Selma, director Ava DuVernay’s breakout film about Martin Luther King Jr., the highest percentage among the nominees. (Winner Birdman, by contrast, was allegedly avoided by only 2 percent of members.)

    And this is even more egregious…

    In 2018, Vulture polled Academy members about the state of the race and found that Get Out received pushback from older voters. “I had multiple conversations with longtime Academy members who were like, ‘That was not an Oscar film,’” an anonymous voter who recently joined the Academy said to Vulture. “And I’m like, ‘That’s bullshit. Watch it.’ Honestly, a few of them had not even seen it and they were saying it, so dispelling that kind of thing has been super important.”

  112. 112.

    scav

    @UncleEbeneezer: The Oscars want the news cycle?  Plus, a hint of the smug little feeling they get when they demonstrate their superior knowledge and finesse by bypassing movies favored by mere viewers.

  113. 113.

    catclub

    @Brachiator: Complaining about the Academy awards is like complaining about  choices by the membership committee at Augusta National Golf club.  You are worrying about the choices of people you would not like or respect.  Why?

  115. 115.

    Brachiator

    @catclub:

    Complaining about the Academy awards is like complaining about  choices by the membership committee at Augusta National Golf club.  You are worrying about the choices of people you would not like or respect.  Why?

    I live in Southern California. I know some people in the film industry, including a few Academy members. A lot of them are just people working at their craft.

    I sometimes watch the Oscars award show and then immediately forget who won.

  119. 119.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @Ken: Indeed, the Constitution is only for the whites in the Republicans’ minds.

  122. 122.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @Manyakitty: Thank you, I’ll check that out. I’ve loved his books and the Netflix show on based on The Family.

    The white Christian Nationalists have been biding their time playing a very long game, and I wish the world would listen to what Sharlet has seen and heard and writes about.

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