Flake tweeted in support of DeVos an hour or so ago.

Uh, everyone? Like constantly?

It looks like something Arthur Conan Doyle would take as ironclad proof of the existence of fairies.

I can’t really be mad at the three no vote people, given that Mattis is a person one might expect any randomly selected conservative to reasonably nominate for secretary of defense.

Edited mine to remove name, just in case.

[NAME OF UNIVERISTY WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE ACCURATE]

Yeah, what I’ve been doing is sitting down for about two hours each weekend to write five short letters, each with a clear action I’d like the representative to take attached to a brief summary of why I think it’s important. Like 2/3rds of a page max.

I swear someone should do a line of anti-Putin WWII style propaganda posters with a slogan along the lines of “don’t believe everything you read online.”

These things happen!

Equating primitive to non-European is some colonialist bullshit, and it’s pretty implicit in your post’s wording (albeit probably unintentionally so)

So I’ve recently taken up the practice of mailing one physical letter to some representive lobbying on some issue or other each day on my lunch break. Do physical letters help? Everyone seems to be super invested in phone calls so I worry letters are low impact. They’re typed, but they’re also personally written…

Dammit James.

Yeah but the winters get cold enough in the Central Valley that they don’t grow year round.

If Californians can’t get cheap avocados year round there will be riots.

It’s got that twilight zone quality where it’s on the razor edge between scifi and horror in a way that really sticks with you

For me it’s the removal from council space and everything involved in that. It’s 20,000 people off on a ship in another galaxy with ME guns and ME powers and none of the politics or energy or anything else that spoke to me about the Mass Effect setting.

Honestly if healing crystals actually did anything cardiologists would long since have figured out how to harness them to within a tolerance of one ten-thousandth of a good vibe.

I feel like you accidentally flipped your response here? Why would you be contemptuous of a no vote on Carson?

Yeah, I agree. I’m normally firmly on the side of slow, deliberate political strategy but it feels like there’s LITERALLY nothing to be lost from a no vote here. If it’s part of some carefully arranged agreement to torpedo Tillerson and DeVos I’m on board but this feels pointless right now.

I mean yeah, the whole point of Tywin is to underline the basic theme that nice people aren’t necessarily effective administrators. He’s pretty clearly set up as the most competent governing figure in the series, especially from the perspective of the average peasant. I’d rather be governed by Tywin than by MOST…