Racial slurs are like the opposite of comedy — they don’t really work unless they’re punching down. White people have not been oppressed in this country (at least not for simply being white), therefore a racial slur against white people doesn’t carry any weight.

I’m morbidly and legitimately interested in where these people got the idea that whatever they “think” should be respected and adored and listened to in good faith.

I love how every screencap of Tucker’s show has him with exact same stupid fucking face. Eyes too close together, furrowed brow, simultaneously upset and confused.

I think they want us to watch the video. Because the “pivot to video” is unavoidable now.

The “plausible deniability” aka “Prove It!” game that the neo-fascists play is definitely one of the most infuriating and frustrating things about the whole movement. We know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they know there’s not really anything we can do about it and they can rely on “he said, she…

Shorter version: “None of this is my fault, I knew nothing about anything, and shame on you mean heathens for implying otherwise.”

These guys don’t rise to the top of the grifting pyramid by going small or employing half-measures.

I’d be willing to bet they’re not selling all that many guns to people under 21 in the first place, at least as a percentage of their overall sales. The expected positive PR from this move will probably subsidize these losses and then some. And on the flip side, this helps head off any flack headed their way from…

“If a measure doesn’t completely stop something, it’s useless.”

Steve Scalise is also a virulent racist and a white supremacist.

I think they can. I vaguely remember some bars that advertised they were for people 25 and older only, to intentionally keep the college drunk crowd away.

Am I the only person that was fairly horrified to recently learn that the minimum age to buy a gun was NOT at least 21? What the ever-living fuck? Alcohol is too dangerous for an 18-year-old, but a goddam literal killing machine is not?

Coordinate a surge in black people buying guns. That will get Republicans’ attention.

Do you think Republicans understand how poorly history is going to portray their roles in this? Outside of a true 1984-type fascist takeover — of the entire world, mind you — there’s no way that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell’s roles in all this aren’t taught to future generations in the most negative of lights.

It really is incredible how Kushner is a Catch 22 of ineptitude. Even if he was squeaky clean, he shouldn’t hold his position in the White House because he literally has no qualifications for the job. And even if he was the most skilled and qualified diplomat in the country, he couldn’t hold the job because he’s so…

So I don’t think we’re in much disagreement, other than the likelihood of a civil war — which I think we’re already effectively in, due to the recalcitrance and self-investment of Republicans that you reference — going “hot.”

An average doesn’t really help us though, since the top end is so skewed. 100 people and Bill Gates are, on average, worth $1 billion. That doesn’t mean that everybody in that cohort is extremely wealthy.

There are nowhere close to 60 million people that will march for him or the Republicans. They’ll vote for them, sure. And they’ll willingly consume and spread their propaganda. But actually risk injury or worse? Nah, the number actually willing to do that is much, much smaller.

Yes. He is reproducing arguments and data points that were proven false or misleading years ago in support of nakedly transparent delaying action for fossil fuel interests and industry.

What? They need to be chased out of the public square because they have condemnably and offensively wrong opinions. You answered your own question.