Hmm.  As a Connecticut Yankee, I have to say, I would’ve picked Waterbury as more of a brunette.  Everything else checks out, though.

Yeah, it’s definitely not wrong to consider illiberal impulses of the left. They do exist. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be a pernicious history of communist/socialist projects that turned totalitarian. But I wouldn’t fret about it too much. We’ve still got a lot of system and coalition building before we’re even in…

Sorry for the length, but I’m trying to be as even-keeled as possible, because these kinds of conversations always suck.

Hmm. Some interesting things to think about there. I suppose we’ll find out if there are any death-bed UFO news dumps sooner or later.

Ha! That rules!

Yeah, instantly thought of this line from a now-old splinter article:

Much like Cotton’s “no quarter” threat and this mythologizing of history, the GOP, as a whole, seems to be talking itself into officially dropping any pretense of being anything other than a fascist project. Fox host, Maria Bartiromo, said this to Chad Wolf (illegal DHS secretary) last night and I’m stunned it hasn’t…

Oddly enough, a Lithuanian restaurateur already did that one. They both seem to be wearing tracksuits, which is a little on the nose.

Yeah...

Speaking of Portland, apparently Fox News is making calls for overt fascism. Maria Bartiromo asked Chad Wolf (illegal DHS secretary):

You know you’ve done fucked up when you’ve got Raffi coming for you.

Fuck. I hadn’t even thought of that. Still, it’s a small price to pay for him being in the cold ground where he can’t continue to ratfuck our democracy.

And an extra big “fuck you” to this man. Sure Mitch, let’s all have a big laugh as we slide naked down a giant greased razor blade into Great Depression 2: This Time with Climate Change, a Pandemic, and Aliens Maybe?

Yeah, kinda reminds of this piece on how comparing Trump to George Wallace is an insult to George Wallace. Short of him somehow getting reverse Phineas Gage’d, Trump will carry on being a racist illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect until the merciful day they put him in the ground.

I’m sure the NRA will use the full power of its platform to make sure that this young man exercising his 2nd Amendment rights gets justice; just like they did for Philandro Castile and Kenneth Walker.

I’m not thrilled about his “exsanguinate the young” policy, but at least he tells it like it is and won’t take my guns and cheeseburgers, unlike that shrill AOC.

Who would want to be associated with a senile, racist, misogynistic, crass, corrupt, criminal TV president, who threatens public health and democracy? Also, Donald Trump is pretty bad, too.

Maybe cops should assume they’re risking arrest any time they lay hands on a suspect who isn’t a danger to themselves or others. Last I checked, flogging single cigarettes and passing a bad 20 do not a danger to the community make.

You know what they say, “brevity is the soul of wit.” ;)

I read a profile of McNinny not too long ago that suggests she does have a moral compass, it just doesn’t point to the philosophical equivalent of North. It points to a Christian dominionist dystopia. To her, the lying seems to be a form of martyrdom for the cause of Christian hegemony. Chilling shit.