Thank you sir; this is brilliantly stated.

It probably wouldn’t be quite this idyllic, but sometimes it’s still possible to imagine this Bedford Falls timeline rather than the Pottersville timeline we’re stuck in right now.

Walk the Dinosaur, Was Not Was…scary that I know that.

Short and to the point. Devastatingly so.

A lady friend invited me to join her at Sunday service in a small Orthodox Church in San Antonio a few times, and I was quite impressed…and none of the quoted segregation was there. Also we stood up during the liturgy, and sat on the floor during the sermon.

The rate of the deterioration of norms needs to produce deliberate, precise descriptions of where we are and what we can and must do at this point. 100% agree. Yet political rhetoric gets people looking ahead…then it becomes speculative fiction, still useful, though can mislead.

Has any reporter followed up on that “after the briefing” deferral of providing evidence, and reported on the integrity of those “facts” they received? Or will it be a “fact” that the reporter won’t be picked anymore unless they stop asking for a verification of facts?

Really satisfying reading. Thank you.

What trips up many, including me, is that some of Trump’s agencies commit fascistic actions (ICE, notably), is appended by paramilitary organizations (like Patriot Front, Proud Boys, etc), and what Stephen Miller and Hegseth broadcast sounds an awful lot like fascism. Plus personality cult.

Love those things.

Could it be a Strange New Worlds time travel episode? That’s a great photo, btw.

Yeah…the city is burned to a crisp.

I mean, this is the world we live in:

Our problem now is the far right has utterly destroyed any real meaning in political language, for those that faithfully follow. The far left is lost. They’re insulated; so crnter left shouts out of fear of a future that’s not wrong, with landmarks many grasp, trying anything that might stick.

Ok, this point makes sense. The problem is lefties see media platform Trump to repeat his scare word salads like “radical leftist Marxist communist fascists” while the left gets schooled about the finer distinctions of autocracies, chaining us to the ground though we’re half right,vs 0% MAGA

To cover up incompetence, to boost their own populist messages, but also to make sure those loyalty oaths and unlawful orders don’t leak, perhaps. Certainly nothing good.

“Rare,” or unprecedented?