Part of what fuels the no-batting-an-eye stuff is that our education system has eroded so severely that no one thinks critically anymore, they think with an eye for information that just concretizes their view. They don’t recognize rhetorically absurd arguments, just the end-point they want to be true. They don’t…

The Bonnie’s mom character was a god damn joke. I am with you there.

It’s funny, you’re obviously 100% correct, but all that information is fodder for the stress dreams. “He should be dead! He does x, y, and z! How is he still alive!” That kinda thing.

Excuse me there are doctor words in there. The dictionary is clearly a doctor. It says it right there—“science.”

Yes, I know. “There is connective tissue there.” You are correcting something that didn’t need correction you absolute dink.

Or at minimum some basic attachment to reality. Allowing the guy you like to give you the release valve of saying something didn’t happen when it is on fucking video, for instance, and not just holding him minimally accountable even if you like him...

Oh I’m on the same rant regularly. It is one of the cornerstones of how all this is working. Not just the absurdity of the argument construction but the complete lack of awareness of civics and how our government works and has worked in the past, which is why for so many people this does not seem like such a violent…

I have these stress dreams centered around the concept that he’ll never die.

Every single one. It is the Trump Skeleton Key in many ways.

It isn’t that the objections the “squad” and others raised aren’t valid and should be silenced. Its that the threat being faced is like alien-invasion level existential and even though it will occasionally sting, presenting a unified front leading up to the election is absolutely a smart idea.

Pet theory: Paul owed McConnell a favor and killed it. McConnell likes that the funding being up in the air to use as negotiation for other shit but didn’t want the blowback after the Stewart shaming.

I know technically there is connective tissue there but I am DYING AT THE THE TS ELIOT NAME-DROP OMG

a) It was not an “attack,” it was the Speaker of the House trying to corral her party, which is something that is a reality of our government and always has been

this is not a matter of opinion; it is objective fact that Trump and Pelosi teamed up to try to cow those damned uppity brown ladies

Lol that is not “the most generous interpretation.” See, this is the clear problem with that entire argument. That would be, and was, a person tasked with keeping their eye on electoral practicalities saying “this is an existential threat, lets try to keep a unified front even when it isn’t exactly what we want to do.”

They’re trying to Orwell things into some reality where racism can’t ever happen. They’re on a roll now and are slowly nudging the line. Its ontological—if the comments about the four congresswomen, the Omar chant, owning fucking slaves isn’t racist, then racism doesn’t exist. It can’t.

I agree. That and showing him footage of McCain at that rally shooting down someone woman coming at Obama for being Muslim or whatever it was. “This is how what you’re claiming you did would actually look for contrast, Mr President.” Maybe his head would explode?

Me too! Holy shit.

Bonnie could have been the emotional anchor of season two.

I’m 38, originally from the Massachusetts area, and was with a friend on Cape Cod when it happened. We were close enough to drive over near Hyannis Port at some point after it happened out of curiosity.