Yep. Selective enforcement. Crackdown on crack, leniency for cocaine powder. Those are the positives for them, not actual impact on the problem.

Related, but less pointed, NH doesn’t have an income tax on personal income, only investment income (arguably rightfully so). It also has no sales tax. It instead has fairly high(?) property taxes to pay for things.

Normalization of the bad by showing everyone the terrible... repeat and recycle until the deplorable is bad, and the abominable is only terrible, and what was terrible is now “just fine, thanks”.

Plausible deniability if they had a pre-existing relationship - corruption statutes don’t yet cover routes of entry via lurking in the background. There’s a fig leaf here somewhere...

One that was given by the war powers authorization act(s) after 9/11... this would be a correction, not a curtailing of fundamental power.

The State vs. the state... wherein it was understood to mean the government as a whole, it was argued that it meant the specific government of the individual one of the 50 states.

Same... was it during the filming for Gifted?

I feel like that needs a purchasing link...

So... the white version of this?

Now I, too, am a fan of your #brand...

On the other side of the world, corruption gets you bad things...

Go Timberwolves!

Cheney, more or less despicable than Bannon + Miller + Gorka + Sessions + ...

It’s not just for them anymore... quite a few elementary schools in the area do this, but generally in addition to the regular night, i.e. it gets held on a preceding weekend late afternoon, to check off having a school community event.

They cost money, that’s pretty much it.

Maybe with some Chevy Chase thrown in?

This feels similar to why other content produced in somewhat longer timescales can sometimes also be convergent...

“I don’t know, let’s find out!” are the words of some of the best teachers... I hope to continue to have and find more of those.

Thanks for this. NPR’s coverage of it yesterday filtered it down to his explanation of how the words may have gotten mangled along the way, and the attempt to provide a “here’s what he really meant” story. They left out the segment of where he called the Congresswoman’s selfish, and stated outrage at her actions. I’ll…

Mostly because of the phrasing - it didn’t look like I was the only one that got that impression, though it does look like I was the only one that got a reply thread. Calling out left-wing/right-wing is irrelevant, it’s the fact that they’re conspiracy theory believers that’s important.