Yes, I've argued this point with a friend of mine. W was still an appalling president who sanctioned torture and mismanaged our last major (and unnecessary) war.
And got fawning press coverage too.
“ Could Muslims live here? Yes. Could they hold political office? No. Could you have a mosque? Yes. ... Catholic church bells would be okay. But a parade in honor of the Virgin Mary, carrying an image of the Virgin Mary down the street, no. Right? A Eucharistic procession? Probably not."
Yep, Suzanne Venker, her aunt Schlafly, Caitlin Flanagan, Camille Paglia ..
American exceptionalism doesn't mean they think there needs be anything great about us. We're automatically great, no matter how much thing suck.
It's about an illusory feeling of smug superiority more than anything.
They love the America in their minds that looks like a 1950s sitcom. The reality, not so much.
As he can't assimilate into America, perhaps we should ship him to Somalia. There's clearly a precedent.
Thank you.
EVERYONE is supposed to be better than this.
"Reckless" is sanewashing. It suggests making consumers more vulnerable is a foolish mistake instead of intentional.
My author table from Ret-Con last weekend, with all my books on display
I know I'm only a minor author but dang, looking at my Ret-Con author table ... I've written a lot of books.
Sold $300 of them too.
At this point, an argument from 60 Minutes is like the argument from anti-authority.
Based on what I've read elsewhere, you and Serwer are certainly right. Your points about the failure to use the mystery weapon are sound too.
"There's not the slightest evidence we're less effective in war, though Sen. Ted Cruz whines that having a woman raised by two gay parents in the Army reduces the military to "pansies" — how can soldiers like that compete with the savage brutes of Putin's utterly masculine Russian military?"
I think it's part of the same toxic-masculine outlook as Hegseth objecting to rules of war. Diplomacy is sissy stuff compared to crushing your enemies and making goblets out of your skulls. Showing mercy is girly. And Hegseth is terrified of his own small dick energy.
Not until he sees his name stripped from the Kennedy Center and the true White House restored
"Asked who he would like to take over Iran, Mr. Trump gave a strikingly blunt answer. “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” he said. “Now we have another group, they may be dead also, based on reports. “So you have a third wave coming. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.” "
"It’s important not to forget that Gallileo was an outlier. There have been lots of people with theories challenging established science; for every Galileo there’s a dozen people who were just wrong. "
Which would be great if he has to watch his name removed from the Kennedy Center, the original East Wing restored, etc. After he sees his legacy erased, then let him pop off.
Yes, it's hard to give him much credit after a decade of worshipping at the Felon's feet.
The remarkable thing is that any of the Democratic redistricting efforts have passed muster, given SCOTUS' obvious bias.
Ali Ansari's Confronting Iran is very good on how America as a whole underestimated that resentment. Conversely, Iran never imagined we'd remain as outraged over the embassy seizure as we were.
I think Friedman self-owned himself in that regard years ago.
"When the right says it cares about families, it means families who conform to a 1950s sitcom image. Not single parents, not divorced parents, presumably not rape victims who choose to keep the baby (or have no choice due to forced-birth laws)."
A story's end should follow from the beginning. which is to say, rom-coms rarely work if they turn into orgies of violence.
That and the embedded post express something I know but couldn't quite phrase clearly. Thanks.
I've frequently thought of how many articles I read as a tween worrying Mao would go ahead and nuke the world before he died. it's that kind of fear.
"Replacing an original work permit, which employers use to verify the legal authorization of prospective employees, can take months and cost hundreds of dollars."
Another reminder that they hate non-white immigrants, not criminals.
I don't mind friends to lovers. HATE the trope where one of them's been in love all along but never dared to say it aloud.
Yoo spent the Obama years complaining Obama was overreaching and violating the Constitution. He's not a thoughtful legal scholar, he's a mob mouthpiece.
To paraphrase that recent NYT article about Epstein, once you're in with the right social network, trivial stuff like ethics doesn't matter.
