oh, just when I see him doing it again. fun little convergence: the trick to breaking a bad habit is having people who will tell you when you’re backsliding, and the trick to dealing with someone who’s got a history of bad behavior is to make sure people know about that history when it comes up.

and every time you decide some uppity little shit needs a smackdown for telling you “maybe you could try to make the world a better place,” it’s gonna come back.

the neat part is what comes after the next few decades of wild fluctuation. a couple of the models have it that in large parts of the country, seasons stop being as much of a thing, which is a bit of an issue for things that can’t move to more welcoming climes, such as Literally All Plants. evolution has solutions for…

fun to see people who figure that concentration camps are bad, but not, you know, donate-to-literally-any-of-the-organizations-trying-to-help-immigrants-level-bad, opining on the morality of fundraising emails

what can I say. the stuff that sets you off tends to follow a pattern. people (bonus points if it’s a woman) telling you there’s a chance of improving the world as opposed to resigning yourself to being wry in the ashes is a reliable opportunity to see that delightful davis wit deployed.

yeah it came out a while back- remember when he was doing that whole weird PR tour across the country? evidently he was eyeing a presidential bid- that he’s got a whole Thing about Julius Ceasar, and someone told him that was Caesar’s preferred hairdo.

you’ve never donated to a campaign before in your life, have you

what, no comments about how dare an uppity little girl say you should try to fix things?

please, give us some credit. Schumer’s the one whose personal Hunter Biden is a faildaughter working for Facebook, and will suffer no harm to come to Mark Zuckerberg as a result.

it’s a pretty well-travelled trick; you may be more familiar with it from 2004, when a draft-dodging Texas National Guard pilot accused a Purple Heart vietnam vet of being a coward. the point is to get rid of one of your own weaknesses in a matchup.

it’s a depressingly common story. it’s how pretty much all these cults end up falling apart, too.

yeah, it’s amazing watching the trump team fumble this one

the fun part is that there’s no good geographical lines to draw anymore. once upon a time, you could split the country in half and spend a few years murdering one another over whether or not some people were property. even a couple of decades ago, you could have assumed a nice straight breakdown in a schisming…

listing the number of things you have missed over the years is going to take us a while

once, long ago, you objected to the following:

absent the stretched-so-far-you-can-see-daylight-through-it phrase “nothing discernable,” yes. and there is no way for you to spin that chain of events that is not grotesquely dismissive of the corruption at play.

i assume at some point someone bernie adjacent called him a corncob on twitter, and he has yet to recover.

why would i waste both your time and mine by pretending anyone in this discussion was operating in a formless void of pure logic. motivations exist. they tend to be relevant in a discussion of actions, at least until you get worried they make someone you care about look bad.

consider a world where Pelosi was insisting on not impeaching trump, right now.

you can tell, because of that time she said anyone who opposed concentration camps needed to sit down and shut up, for fear they might offend the broad pro-concentration camp swathe of her base.