Un-fucking-believa Totally believable.
Working their way up to being “super-duper spreaders”?
The statue is also inaccurate. The horse is rearing, yet Jackson did not die in battle.
Was that a convention of statuary, that the rider depicted threw a shoe and lost a kingdom after being fallen upon by a giant herbivorous vehicle?
Doubling down on the cluelessness.
“Excuse me, Mr. Vice President but you’re confusing a women’s right to choose with the murder of people of color by racists like yourself.”
If Pence gets the nod to replace Rump at the convention, he’s playing to type.
I am reminded of Andrew Sullivan’s recent column in which he might have previewed a Trump campaign strategy.
One of the things you know if you were brought up as a Catholic in a Protestant country, as I was, is how the attempted extirpation of England’s historic Catholic faith was enforced not just by executions, imprisonments, and public burnings but also by the destruction of monuments, statues, artifacts, paintings, buildings, and sacred sculptures. The shift in consciousness that the religious revolution required could not be sustained by words or terror alone. The new regime — an early pre-totalitarian revolution imposed from the top down — had to remove all signs of what had come before. The items were not merely forms of idolatry in the minds of the newly austere Protestant vision; they also served to perpetuate the rule of the pope. They could be occasions for treason, heresy, and sin.
(Not necessarily worth clearing cookies for).
so, I can sense an explicitly catholic (and very cynical) appeal to save the statues of e.g Junípero Serra. Injecting abortion into this Kulturkampf may be part of this.
Given that the united states believes that some people are more equal than others:
“All lives matter” really means “get in line”.
“All lives matter born and unborn” means “go to the back of the line.”
The number of assholes who want to keep a hundred-fifty-year-old war going is small enough that the current conflict isn’t the closing out of that, it’s just some assholes that are allowing themselves to wild out.
In order to ensure the CFPB’s independence, the law creating the agency called for it to be headed by a single director, confirmed by the Senate, who would serve a five-year term, and who could only be fired for malfeasance, inefficiency, or neglect of duty.
That independent structure was challenged by the Trump administration, and a firm that was being investigated by the CFPB for misleading financial practices. Both claimed that the limits on the president’s power to fire the agency head were unconstitutional, and today the Supreme Court agreed.
do you think that RBG was trading votes with John Roberts?
The scary thing is that Roberts keeps coaching Trump. If you’d have done it this way, you’d get a different result. Worried about a less overtly racist empty suit in 2024.
Yeah less racist, or just better at the dog whistle version.
Definitely a mixed bag of results today.
Could be, or could just be different kinds of questions.