You’re not a Republican law maker in Nevada, Idaho, eastern Washington and eastern Oregon. They used those events in campaign materials as a POSITIVE. Guys like Matt Shea in Washington used former militia organizers as campaign volunteers. And the fact that none of those dirt bags went to prison when just a decade ago…

Sooooo... until there’s genocide we’ve nothing to worry about? Jesus Christ. You realize the killing starts after all the other dominoes fall, right? Are you really this god damned stupid?

There was no social media or sophisticated use of the internet when OK City happened. And for fuck sake a group of militias who pointed guns at federal agents and seized federal property basically became mainstream political movements with mainstream media acceptance in 2014 and were wholly accepted into the…

What? Trump got elected on a platform of creating a nationalist ethnostate! Jesus. Where the fuck have you been? The parallels between Trump and Milosevic are uncanny. Steve Bannon openly and proudly admits to being a nationalist. In fact Steve Bannon in 2014 outlined exactly what he admired about Milosevic and the…

Hi. I’ve lived and served in two countries that fell into violent chaos where, in the days and months before, people smugly and confidently said exactly that sort of “people have too much to lose” stuff.

Oh. And I note you still have yet to produce a credible cite for your sudden claim of American casualties, IE “thousands of Americans killed” by Iran. Which would be at least say 2,000 if words and numbers have any meaning to you. Which is hardly a given.

Oh. For fuck sake you disingenuous cretin:

It doesn’t. It informs why Iran is so hostile and reactive to US foreign policy and military presence the region.

I think killing thousands of Iranian civilians abroad during peacetime counts as “attacks”. If you don’t then we will never agree.

He paints the Iranian regime as simply an outgrowth of US policy with no agency of their own.

Nobody here has “defended” Iran. Giving honest historical context is not “defending” anyone.

Oh. for fuck sake. WE have attacked and provoked them “many times” through proxies. And directly. We have killed thousands of Iranian civilians. Thousands.

“You failed spectacularly.”

Nobody I served with wore this bullshit. Nobody wears chargeable watches in the field. If you could afford a $2000 watch you wore a good auto/mechanical watch with a luminous faces (covered). Or just a cheap Casio you could break.

Oh. For fuck sake. Really? This is what we’re doing? Jesus Christ. We’re moralizing how superior our TV tastes again? Is this fifth grade?

Exactly right. Morons are not born. They are created.

But we HAD a sexy scandal — literally — and it did nothing to move the “average voter.” The reality is the average American voter is a god damn feckless moron with no moral center.

It’s different because there was a critical mass of power broker republicans in 1972 who had some sort of principles. And those republicans all got their news from he same gatekeepers the democrat did.

How the fuck is this inscrutable, complicated, or obtuse,

Jesus Christ. This is like deja vu all over again. This is the kind of shit my mother said. “I’ve smoked for thirty years and I’ve never been sick a day in my life.”