Literally the only person that sticks out as “not like the others” is the dude with the eye patch, but he’s an asshole, Major Asshole in his own right, so he fits right in with the rest of them in spirit, if not in optics.

if not in optics.

The Israelis are their first-line cannon-fodder for the Repubs final showdown with Islam.

Their preacher tells them that Jews have to take back Palestine before Jeepers will come back and start smiting people. They only “like Israel” in a transactional sense, sort of the way they think they treated blacks nicely by giving them homes and jobs in the Confederacy.

He was also too much of a (genuine) outsider for them. The author below, Ira Shapiro, talked about this a lot in his book--Carter never liked Washington schmoozing. He also changed his goals too quickly for Congress to keep up, but they definitely didn't get a warm, welcoming vibe from him.

Damn.

None of them have the balls for that.

But, for all it’s worth, Black Panther didn’t bring anything new from a story perspective.

Fundamentally, it was a mix between Iron Man and Thor. It combines the technological aspects of Iron Man (along with the antagonism for a foreign entity), with the prodigal son/family drama of Thor (with Killmonger functioning as…

“Stochastic terrorism” is the term you were looking for.

I think the words you’re looking for are “stochastic terrorism”. (I could be wrong, though)

It’s kind of like King Henry VIII asking “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” 

Stochastic terrorism?

But! You’ve left off the best part!!!

Well said, the “they” that trump was talking about was the people who are meant to hold these men to account, not the women. I’m not giving trump credit for saying something smart though because it wasn’t deliberate.

They’ve been constantly told for the last 25 years or so that said someone is everything wrong with liberalism, politics, the Democratic party, and America in general. Many of them believed it.

What’s the price of conducting actual journalism in the USA? What’s the price of going against what those in power want us to believe? You get fired if you point out the State of Israel is operating an open air prison as Marc Lemont Hill did. If you report on a dossier that exposes that our president is compromised,…

I agree with your assessment, but let’s not call this a ‘purity test’. That phrase has fast lost any meaning, and now seems to apply to any standard that any Democratic politician is held to.

Bingo. They use guns, gay marriage, abortion, etc. as the carrot to put in front of the horse. The cart behind, meanwhile (which the horse refuses to see), is utterly overflowing with money.

How ANYONE could look at the bumbling fuckwit that is Gary Johnson and think “That guy deserves my vote” is mindblowing.

The oft-assumed connection between the financial crisis and the far-right hasn’t held up well to scrutiny, particularly given the far-right has been drawing heavily from educated and relatively well-off classes. The idea that their base is primarily working class doesn’t mesh with the reality. Even in Europe, you look…

Well the problem is there’s superficial change and there’s structural change. The definition of “liberal” vs “illiberal” democracy in modern political science aren’t always naturally intuitive to people who grew up on American-style civics lessons (where terms are muddy and misused constantly) because there are a lot…