Supporting the status quo is literally taking a conservative position.

We have this weird thing (it’s most pronounced in America, but true the world over) in which supporting the status quo isn’t really viewed as taking any sort of political position whatsoever.

So...Fertitta got a “huge backlash” against the idea that democracy is good, freedom of assembly is good, freedom of speech is good, and shooting protesters is bad? Hmm.

Remember that one time this fuck had a top 3 contender and he mandated to his "best general manager in the league" to get under the luxury tax because he wanted to be cheap, and his team immediately felt the ramifications of that cheapness? Fuck this guy.

Not that this idea is new or anything, but one more time for the people in the back: stating that you are not / don’t want to be political is very much taking a political position.

I dont see what the issue is. Republicans love freedom, especially the freedom to bootlick the Russians, Chinese, and Saudis. We’re #1!

Fertitta did not say whether he speaks for the Houston Rockets when he calls the Bushes the most “extraordinary political family” in American history, says Donald Trump is doing “a great job,” harps about having to give his employees healthcare, harps again about the minimum wage, says socialism “scares the hell” out…

1. Ben Franklin, for reasons previously stated.

Alexander Hamilton is the wrong founder to ask. There were a lot of people of the era who feared exactly what is happening — Hamilton wasn’t one of them. That dude’s image has been burnished beyond recognition by the musical. He was as staunch a believer in the possibility of a future American tyrant as anyone of his…

That or just once, where he’d simply nod and say “yup, knew that shit was gonna happen”.

George Carlin. Three times, because the realization Donald Trump is president would kill him again the first two.

Implies, hell.  Confirms and/or proves.

It’s THE lesson I hope all Democratic politicians have learned going forward: you cannot base your actions on how you think the Republicans are going to respond; you cannot modulate what you do out of fear they might attack or misinterpret if you do the “wrong” thing; you cannot try to predict their response in…

Call the cops on your Fox News-brainwashed relatives and try to get their guns taken away next time they start ranting about shooting immigrants on sight. 

Turns out the woman yelling was a Trump supporter

De-escalate violent rhetoric. Emphasize shared values with people who disagree with you.  

Been saying this for a while. I really don’t see any scenario now where his administration ends without political violence.
Impeached and removed? Coup.
Loses the election? Fraud, basically a coup.
Refuses to leave office in 2024, has to be removed? Coup.
Big Mac and Diet Coke-induced heart attack? Man that healthy, dying…

>So, just for the scorekeepers, when she does X, that’s bad according to conservatives. And when she does the exact opposite of X, that’s also bad according to conservatives.

I originally read that as “Russian propagandists”, and am still not entirely convinced.

“... something which definitely would have escalated the situation had the troll been an actual constituent struggling with mental illness.”