What sticks out to me, in particular, is this is pretty common across the country. This is what we teach in school.

In 20 years when those dumb memes pop up about how could Fascism come to prominence in America, remember it was because we attacked those that opposed it.

Right? Like the argument very literally relies on acknowledging that anyone that would oppose those signs aggressively enough to create a violent confrontation wouldn’t be a huge racist asshole and somehow the protester should consider that, first.

This argument gets employed far too often;

I was going to say...all the stuff Samer listed makes him seem extensively over qualified for office, especially in Arizona.

No, it’s not hard to imagine. But like all conspiracies, it ignores practicality in all areas except where you want it to explain what happened.

I mean, I suppose Occam’s applies too, I was just referring to all the conspiracy theories. So Hanlon’s is “never attribute to malice which is adequently explained by stupidity” which applies to those conspiracies.

Hanlon’s Razor, really. If there was anything at all here, it was probably Epstein himself offering to pay someone to stop monitoring him for a few hours or to delay the cellmate replacement.

There are a number of frustrating things about this whole situation we find ourselves in, but towards the top of that list is how effectively we’ve allowed a group like the NRA to define the terms of this discussion.

Again the inability to call this what it is (domestic terrorism as well detailed and explained by Malcolm Nance on Twitter today, and obvious with any thought towards it) seems to reflect the issue people have with being branded racist or supporting terrorism than the action of actually doing so.

Sure but GoT had a place and prestige to fall from. John Delaney for the most part did not exist to most Democratic Primary voters until last night.

I think this is the correct take, but it also in my mind amplified Sanders and Warren because they have answers to those attacks!

Very much, yes.

But wait...if no one can keep all of their ultra wealth, where will I find the motivation for life?

I was in Fairbanks last year and we drove past the road that headed out that way, and the local I was with noted how ironic it was that so many dumb people misread the story and end up being another sad chapter in its history. 

Then the right thing to do is impeach. The reasons are pretty straight forward.

Wasn’t Alan Moore in his mid-30's in the mid 80's? What the hell is Lindelof smoking?

I think you bring up an interesting discussion. As I see it, the last group you highlight (my group #2 in my OP) were the group that voted Trump because throughout 2015 and 2016 he was basically a boilerplate Republican, as you noted. In fact during the primary, he wasn’t even the most conservative candidate, trailing…

The thing Freidman and other Never Trumpers seems to miss, at least to my mind, is what constituents or coalition has President Trump *added* to his base? They continue to push this idea that people that dislike Trump and are looking for a candidate to support will fall back to Trump if Democrats nominate someone too…

Coincidence is an excuse used by fools and liars...so I’d say that they do probably believe it to be a coincidence.