"I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." -- Ray Bradbury
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Once they were let into our Big Tent, unrepentant and ambitious to "reform" our party to their liking... And once their friends in the media helped them colonize what little was left of the "Liberal" media and banish actual Liberals who had been right all along to the realm of the Neverborn... ...it was as inevitable as night following day that they would use their growing influence to…
On the next episode of the Professional Left Podcast, we will be taking a deep dive into the long history of Republicans wildly overreacting. (Spoiler: It didn't start with Natalie Harp.) And I thought one of the examples we pulled from the archives might be of special interest today. It's from a November 2005 column in The New York Times by the most ubiquitous Conservative writer in America, who…
No, it's not always this linear. Often it's recursive. But I wanted to make it so simple that a child could understand it. For example, early on, Trump won over the mob by speaking to them in their political mother tongue -- the language and lies of Hate Radio and Fox News. Later, Trump's lies and slanders got message-tested on MAGA bigots and imbeciles at his rallies. When they cheered, that line…
This was a lead story in The New York Times today. The short answer, which is actually rather long, is "No". This is roughly the 12,258th "think piece" on progressive outsiders winning a few Democratic primaries. It's nearing the "But Her Emails" saturation point. And these articles tend to come either in one of two flavors. First, Dire!Warnings! cursing Democrats for risking dooming us all by not…
I've done some very minor tailoring to this column to turn it into a fun puzzle for the whole family! So... Who said it? When? About what? Go. ___ and the Polls There's a reason George Washington didn't take a poll at Valley Forge. There are times in the course of war when the outcome is simply unknowable. Victory is clearly not imminent, yet people haven't really thought through the consequences…
As you probably already know, Donald Trump has turned the USS Abraham Lincoln into a floating gulag for any sailor unlucky enough to be stationed there: Trump says record USS Lincoln deployment 'not nearly long enough' President Donald Trump reacted to reports of poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln on Friday, claiming that families of service members are "not" concerned and saying that the…
“A ll is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" -- said sarcastically by Voltaire. driftglass
“ You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.” ― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People driftglass
You can take the boy out of [checks notes] The Wall Street Journal, The Neocon Weekly Standard, The New York Fucking Times, Meet The Press, PBS and NPR... ...but you can't take The Wall Street Journal, The Neocon Weekly Standard, The New York Fucking Times, Meet The Press, PBS and NPR out of the boy. From The PBS NewsHour yesterday: David Brooks: Voters in almost every presidential race, I think,…
As most of you know, on this blog, on our podcast, and on stage and screen, I have long maintained a particular theory about how the Republican Party got itself into this mess. They kept two sets of books. The first set of books was for the rubes, the bigots and the chucklefucks, who make up the Republican base. And those books were full of absolute nonsense. Liberals are baby killing,…
