It’s also possibly relevant that Exxon recently pulled out of a joint venture agreement with Rosneft because of US sanctions.

Oh, Bush did one thing that was decent and right? Well then, never mind all the other fucking terrible shit he did that cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

“If we play nice with the Republicans, who were literally trying to have us jailed and worse for the last several years merely for opposing them, maybe they’ll be nicer to us going forward!” — Democratic leadership, if/when this latest fascist uprising ends

... and then push slightly tweaked and renamed versions of the exact same policies they’re pushing now.

This is the thing that gets me about the Never-Trumpers. They desperately want to claim that Trump, who enjoys the approval of a very strong majority of Republicans, isn’t a REAL Republican. But they’re the ones that aren’t Republicans any more.

I think the point is more that Republicans will act like Navarro after the Trump era is finally over, i.e. they’ll claim that he wasn’t a TRUE Republican and wasn’t representative of the party or American conservatism in general.

“In 2001, when the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, no one anticipated how big a hit the cinematic adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s books would be.”

He’s a troll. Ignore him.

Oklahoma is so shitty that we gave it to the Indians because everywhere else in the US was seen as preferable.

I think he can be a high-level talent with more talent around him and better coaching. I’ve watched him quite a bit this season and he really is a gifted distributor when he’s not trying to make highlights or do too much. That said, his ceiling is still significantly lower than Curry, IMO.

There have always been wannabe Steph Currys on the playgrounds and college gymnasiums of America, well before Steph Curry was Steph Curry, and they have almost always led your pickup team to defeat because they don’t understand that they’re not actually the best player on the court just because they can dribble for 15…

Pretty sure Fernando is the latest incarnation of this site’s prolific concern troll.

I think you’re giving conservatives too much credit, and I’m not sure what conservatives you’ve conversed with that allegedly “let their guard down” and spoke honestly.

No, I’m correct. Reagan and Republicans aren’t being clever when they rail against Big Government. Republicans openly run on dismantling the government.

Higher taxes on the rich would help because it reduces income inequality and increases the efficacy of government services that overwhelmingly benefit the poor.

Huh? Your first paragraph is spot on, but your second paragraph seems completely backwards. Reagan and the Republican Party have been running on an explicit anti-government platform for decades, and the boomers eat it up.

Thank you for the graphs, they will be saved and reused.

Debating fascists is pointless, because they never engage in good faith. A debate with the modern right consists almost entirely of logical and debate fallacies explicitly designed to prevent productive dialogue.

“None of these people are advocating for the use of violence against people over political opinions.”

This. It’s the “Make Me” doctrine, like a bratty child refusing to give back his playmate’s toy. And like that bratty child, if anyone does actually try to “make them” play nice, they’ll scream bloody murder about being unfairly persecuted.