Do you know just how fucked up things have to be to make Bill Kristol right?

To be fair alley cats don't like anyone.

The elites did not like the fact that peasants now had choices, hence the restrictive labor laws they attempted to enforce, but the standard of living of the average person skyrocketed.
Tell us why a population decrease is a bad thing.

When we talk about abrupt population decreases, one can look at the most extreme case in recorded history, the Black Death, and following the epidemic burning itself out, the increase in the welfare and health of the population was arguably the most extreme ever.

He has no other Jews to argue with?
Inconceivable!

My boy, you don't understand.

Republicans and MAGAts are the opposition.

People like you (and me) are the enemy,

This is meaningless unless you break out the AL and the NL separately.
So says @olbermann.bsky.social so say we all.

It's goatse. Take that for what you will.
(If you do not know what goatse is, DO NOT GOOGLE IT!!!!!)

ICE is not the SA, nor is it the Gestapo.

It is part of US culture deriving from the US slave patrols in the antebellum days.

D'oh!!! John ROGERS, not John Roberts.

One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

To quote John Roberts:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

So, he has decided that he must have no empathy to do this, and he has to appeal to those who denigrate empathy to achieve this.
Or he could just be another Randroid Objectivist psychopath.

So the question is not what motivates him, because motivations are complex and frequently contradictory things.

As for Vance, I think that his motivation is revenge, revenge against his drug addicted mom, who he sees as unworthy, revenge against Yale, for enrolling him and giving him a degree, etc.

The question is not what is motivating him, but rather what model predicts future behavior.

For example, when I simplified Krysten Sinema to,. "She's a narcissist who wants to be the center of attention, I found that I could reliably predict her actions. (See 40yrs.blogspot.com/2024/03/bye-...)

That is why we love them, because they are authentic.

They do what they do because they want to.

(Also, they are cute and fluffy)

I'm a glass half empty guy.
Harris underperformed by 30%.

Yes, you do need their plan. Insurance companies do not cover Turo as a rental, they consider it a ride share, which is NOT covered. (Progressive Insurance at least)
Ask me how I know this.