It's at the core of a lot recent rw fumbles. They think barely winning an election where they were benefits by racism, mysogyny, & the opposition switching candidates 100 days out means their ideas are actually popular.

Brilliant!

So in this analogy you're a character in the movie and you're in the audience too? Sorry, I'll try not to interrupt you next time.

I really was just asking a question, because this seemed like an interesting discussion. It would have taken you less energy to ignore me than it did to be a dickhead.

Why wouldn't we sanction that same spoech-involved conduct when it's directed at trans people?

I'm late to this, but am inferring that this is about misgendering as/as not protected speech? If so: speech & conduct are leaky categories in practice. We appropriately sanction harassment, libel, intimidation, incitement, as conduct even when it involves speech.

Well, regardless of who is fucking this up, the end of the Jesse Welles song above suggests that that we should thank them because their incompetence is probably the only reason we're not at war. Yet. (4)

I wonder which warlord in the failed state of the Trump admin is actively in charge of this mess? (Including being in charge of exerting the Regime's corrupt priorities.) Am I wrong to think they wouldn't leave Bondi in charge of it behind the scenes? (3)

Josh Marshall gets into this a little, how the form of the release reflects the Trump administration's dishonesty, but also it's incompetence & lack of enough resources to manage this well, even for their own corrupt purposes. (3)

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-min...

The list implies either some preexisting list Epstein kept (unlikely) or some neat but comprehensive work-product. If the latter, It implies the kind of overarching analytical law enforcement work that we aren't seeing in the deluge of released files. (2)