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"This man is a grifter and a thug," a resident arriving with his dog at the Kennedy Center shouted. "Where is Congress? Are you as upset as I am? This is a desecration of this building!"
"nostalgia for a time when America bothered to hide its corruption"
The politics of resentment that drive our authoritarian present are Nixon’s revenge on the nattering nabobs of negativism. Three recent movies court nostalgia for a time when America bothered to hide its corruption and incompetence.
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Just for the record, Hegseth's boat strikes are likely human rights crimes with or without the second strikes. The people in the boats are not combattants by any established definition of the term.
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"It's actually pretty radical for lawmakers to tell military personnel 'we've got your back' if they disobey orders from the president, knowing full well they'll probably be court-martialled if they do."
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It's true that officers (not personnel) take an oath that requires them to disobey illegal orders. But that's not assumed to be orders from the president, which are considered legal until deemed otherwise by a court.
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It's quite disturbing that the mainstream media is going with the line that Trump wasn't actually directing the crowd to go to the Capitol and fight like hell. He did. It's on record.
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You have to understand that Democrats believe fighting *itself* is valuable because it shows voters what you believe in and gets you re-elected. Winning is an occasional outcome of "the good fight."
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Is the White House going to take this down now that Trump has hosted the former head of Syrian al-Qaida? (Photo of Obama is from 2006 in Kenya. They apparently just wanted a pic of him in a turban.)
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Why is my "for you" feed all xenophobic anti-Mamdani posts while my "following" is mostly excitement?
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It is actually very important that the "Hitler was bad" people in the MAGA movement win. It's an extremely low bar, but it's an extremely important bar.
JUST IN: Ted Cruz BLASTS Kevin Roberts’s Tucker Carlson defense:
“Now is a time for choosing. If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very cool and that their mission is to defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit in that evil.”
@RJC
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It's funny that the Ezra Klein-Coates debate has "gone viral" yet it's one of Klein's least-viewed shows. Does that mean people didn't... watch the whole debate??
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