Agreed, now is not the time to be fatalistic...

Bob Corker implies that it’ll take another year or so to come to fruition...

He’s the Republican candidate, he’s not voted into the office yet... don’t get ahead of the actual election.

Aren’t there a couple of challenges to that excuse still pending? Given some actual weight, since the administration still seems to claim that messages from that account are to be considered policy statements, when convenient.

It was infuriating to hear locals in RDU (NC) going to the relatively newly opened mall repeating that crap on the local news.. Or even coming up with it on their own... “terrists ain’t goin’ stop me doing by day, no sir!”

It’s fascinating that that’s what gets heard, instead of “some of the money I’m paying out now goes back to me, AND I get the same magic insurance that those people get? WHEN CAN I SIGN UP?!”

He’s too busy trying to get that last one out with tweezers.

Or for the younguns out there...

So... tax-dodging Libertarians, Republicans and wealthy trickle-down investments, like Kansas under Brownback? Or structural / legal quirks that give significantly more leverage to debt-holders than in the States? Or actual civic projects?

Yep, part of the whole “I’m rich, so I’m smart... I’m smart, so I’m deserving...” mindset that some fall into.

In another episode shortly thereafter, one Rick tries to free the happiest version of themself, and/or uses that version of himself to trip a trap set by another version of themself, killing that version of himself. They are terrible to themself and others. It’s not a single message, it’s repeated in other episodes.

Yeah, the right-sizing for being responsive ends up at head nodding from those who are primed to believe the speaker, or at “dissolve any government above the community level” for being pointless.

No, being able to later reasonably point out that it’s the individual state governor’s faults, and that they at the federal level expected them to do better for their own people, is what they’re counting on.

Must you send onion cutting ninjas to my desk?

yep

It’s... ridiculous that my first thought was, at least he wasn’t jailed for three years first, like at least this other guy.

Knowing rote answers and not really believing them to be literally true is... kind of what some schools of religious teaching are all about, so it’s not much of a stretch to think that there are those that will do the same for other schools and classes.

Ayup

Except for Twintelle, for some reason...

... I guess it’s more violent games and/or TV-MA stuff now?