I think the key is Miller does all Trump’s actual work and has been loyal.

Yeah but people like Miller need Trump’s stupid personality cult o continue for their own power. I also don’t think they want to militarize a red state or even a blue city in a red state because of potential blow back to a Republican governor. These people are vile morons not super villains.

My money is on she knows the difference but knows that the vast majority of people following her don’t and so she can easily use their hatred of the world liberal to bias them

Other than Trump saying the tariffs will bring on a “golden age” not one person in his orbit ever talk about making life better in America, just punishing others. It’s so insane! Even the 20th century fascists had to offer carrots to their supporters!

The one time I remember it being an issue is when my mom came home from a meeting and my dad was watching deliverance with me and they had a big fight. Of course, the scene had already happened and hadn’t registered at all with me beyond “bullying” because I didn’t know that could even happen

PG just means parental guidance. I might watch it first and then show the kid. Anecdotally, my parents had almost no restrictions on what I watched as a kid, and the adult content flew way over my head anyway

Two immediate differences:

1. Nixon cared about looking like a good person. Getting caught in the cover up was his undoing.

2. There used to be people who could hold an abstract thought in both parties. Now it’s just team sports on one side of the aisle

It’s such an insane thing to type out. Like the rest of the post is vile apologia, but that’s beyond parody

Yeah, they are having a hard time in Minneapolis, a city of less than half a million people. I have a hard time believing that they are going to be able to shut down elections next fall. They will try to steal them and might succeed. Also Putin was in his forties when he seized power. Trump is not

It’s not, but Miller wanted this to happen in LA, NYC, Chicago, or DC; and it just didn’t materialize. He’s finally got it in Minneapolis, and Trump doesn’t want to look weak, and so they are stuck there. If this were a small mostly black and brown city the coverage would be much worse

It’s amazing how many zoomer boys have turned themselves into Nazis because they are afraid of talking to women

Even with white dudes, even with materially successful white dudes, even among materially successful white dudes with families, I’ve never met a single one that was both all in on Trump and a reasonably happy well adjusted person

Civil War kick crocs 2008 that the tragedy of Foote is that he’s a gifted writer who dedicated his whole life to a subject but ultimately couldn’t understand it because he couldn’t get beyond his own whiteness

Foote writes characters really well and weaves a great narrative. As a big civil war nerd, it’s worth reading. As long as you read other books, because Foote is not at all interested in any of the politics or social issues around the war. I think it was Ta-Nehisi Coates who wrote during his own

Jesus: “Suffer the children to come unto me.”

MAGA: “Make the children suffer.”

Wouldn’t it technically be “auntie”?

It’s been off the air for six years

I think if we had a parliamentary system, this could have worked over the last ten years. As it is, most of those suburban moderates are either voting overwhelmingly Democrat or have been radicalized to the right.

It does help me, unfortunately