RomaVicta

Yes, goddamn it. They've already pretty much made it open season on anyone who looks like a candidate for the deportation concentration camps. Joyful cruelty becomes our brand.

Is there a brief synopsis of this. Maybe add a note about why I should care. ETA: Compliments to @Incredulity. His/her takes on specific topics are not boilerplate talking points.

It comes the closest.

The new conservatives are as bad at humor as the old conservatives. Thanks @Incredulity for posting stuff from the right. I like seeing it even if it is just about never funny.

It's weird that they think our easier than expected calendar means we're not good. They cling to that incomplete reasoning like a snot-nosed kid clings to a security blanket. We've destroyed a number of teams where the game was over at half-time. It will be fun to gut them in their own stadium.

It really is this simple. Except for the rifle she has, he describes a firing squad. Who describes battle as nine rifles pointed at your face? He didn't start heading for the firing squad description but it's all but unquestionable that this is the imagery he arrived at.

Because she is not a cult leader, those shirts would have been on sale after the election no matter the outcome. The cult wears their colors and campaign stuff year round. They love the identity with Trump and never recognize his losses. Trump relies on this for income.

Your username makes me wonder if it seemed to be Olé Miss at first. Thanks for letting me know the story. I kind of wish I didn't know it now. I always liked the nickname. Fuckin' South.

There as a very interesting article in Atlantic a few months ago about Black people and the draw of the South. Some persons and families have long history there. Their family stories, both good and bad, are in those states. Many feel it's a return to their family roots. I thought it was interesting because I'd never considered that perspective. I don't know how that plays with Black athletes, but it could be a factor of them staying or choosing to move to a southern state school.

The disinformation may indeed be lapped up. When it's discovered to be false, it's generally vomitted back out. The President-elect of the MAGAs keeps vomitting up lies- the same lies!- and his cult keeps eating it up and asking for more. They embrace lies. The poor pets of Springfield, for example. The notion that the attackers of the US Capitol are patriots deserving of no punishment. The notion that windmills are carcinogens and that global warming is nothing to worry about. The MAGAs embrace the lies that keep them in their delusional world where Donald Trump is chosen by God to keep the queer teachers from grooming their students for sex just prior to be dragged out of class for forced sex altering surgeries. You know all this. You perversely embrace the embrace of lies. You give no more of a shit about this country than Trump does. Spike that ball, fuckwad! You're a vicarious winner in the Dickhead Olympiad!

Quite good. Quite.

The above doesn't matter even if voters for Trump claim they do. I spent a lot of time in the car yesterday. Got to listen to more analysis now focused on what's wrong with the Dems. There was lots of Dems perceived as..., the economy perceived as..., and the Biden administration perceived as... Thank goodness a news organization needn't bother itself with analysing how things can be so errantly perceived. They'd point out that the perception was incorrect and stop there. No mention of how the MAGA electorate came to such wrong conclusions. The discussions advance on how the Dems have soul searching to do to correct these perceptions. They're perceived as elites by the party of the oligarchs! No discussion about repeated lying mistatements and false claims by the felon and his coterie or how such attacks on truth and reality should be addressed. There was just discussion based on the assumption that some political tactic by the Harris campaign could have been employed to improve her chances in the horse race. Not a single mention of Christian Nationalism's possible impact on women voting against Harris' stance on abortion. Nothing about how Christian Nationalist leaders provide the megaphone for Trump's fear/hate lying cloaked in the position that God has a position on the election and Dems. The reality-denying MAGAs aren't going to use a fact sheet like the above to call Trump out on failure. The failure won't be his. It will be the never-Trumpers hiding in the shadows sabotaging our great country for their own gain. The accusation/confession train rolls along. It was difficult living in a world where reason and fact have so little sway. I become resigned to it. It's all about spiking the ball and talking shit and really getting those whiny libs.

NPR didn't know what to do with this story. They mentioned the Israeli fans' chants and actions as a mere footnote to the horror of them being attacked by outraged Dutch. Fuck Israel. Don't fuck the Jews in general. It's not hard.

It's a ridiculous statement that the price of attending a public university is obscenely high?

The problem there is the obscenely high cost of public university education. It's criminal robbery of college students no matter what they study.

Universities are not trade schools. A review of courses and minors offered is not a bad thing per se. Having the review done by the board alone while ignoring faculty (scholarly) input while focusing on hot political topics is pretty much a bad thing per se. But there's this: And then there is this: The "Black journalist" was an esteemed journalist and educator who was also an Aggie graduate. I wonder which adjective won out.

One side actively seeks "misinformation" to justify their hate and fear. Or maybe they seek lies and liars; I'm not really sure of the difference between intentionally generated "misinformation/false statements" and lies. The Mexicans are poisoning the wells!

I'm probably way behind, but this exchange interests me as a policy matter. How would the logistics of arresting them, transporting them to camps, setting up those camps, and maintaining those camps even at the cruel level Trump would prefer work? To where would Trump deport millions of undocumented immigrants? Sounds like it will be far more difficult than building a wall, and we all saw how that went. So, Donald will classify millions of people as not belonging here at all. They are a threat to us and our pets. What do you do while you're waiting for the Trump Troopers to come remove them? You must protect yourself and your family!

Definitely would love to see Iran evolve from theocracy. I just recall stories of our destruction of their democracy and installation of the Shah. You never say that we should do it ourselves. I just can't help twitching at the phraseology. Thanks for responding.

I don't know your posting history. Your list of predictions above seems rational. The sentence above makes me twitch. That's usually the first naive thought leading to a murderous attempt at regime change where we totally miscalculate what it means for us. Nothing is ever clean. Ever. It's like the absurd notion of "surgical strike" bombing. They're bombs not scalpels.

I was being wry. It's correct that many of us use those epithets. They're fair characterizations. I was hoping the second part would be what came through. There is no hyperbole in describing the wickedness that was just chosen by a majority of the American people. That choice is the most demoralizing of my life, and I was dumbfounded when W (supposedly) got re-elected. I complain about reporting, but what these people are is very clear.

Hyperbole, I guess, but: A criminal is in charge of the government and he intends to dismantle the republic. Oh, and likely rob the republic, too. Truce feels too much like surrender. I'm not happy about that, but there it is.

Fair point.

You slunk into the stadium after the game was over, hiding your voice and reason from light and examination. The world has so much love and respect for snowflakes who show up to gloat after avoiding the fight. Bravo, sir!

This was the issue. This was the newsstory. This should have energized a vast majority to reject Trump's clearly stated intentions for the future backed by the evidence from what he has done in the past. This is the real paradigm of conflict. The old paradigms of policy are so secondary as to be basically irrelevant. I had to spend time in the car yesterday to get a knee looked at in Austin. I grit my teeth and turned on public radio to hear show after show tease their upcoming analysis of the election from their experts. I'd turned off the coverage at 930pm Tuesday and only come here to confirm what was evidently happening. So, I'll listen to some radio. Show after show talked about exit polls and why the electorate rejected Harris: inflation. the economy. Biden. Sometimes there would be a mildly stated footnote that actually these things were doing pretty good. The perception was wrong. Hmmmm, why? They were not interested in pursuing that. In the discussion of important issues, what softlynow describes above was left out. As for the public's misperception of reality, nobody wanted to explore that. They said evidently Proposition 2025 didn't matter as much because Trump had distanced himself. The complete corruption of good faith discourse was not discussed. That's a too fancy way to say the Trump campaign's stream of outrageous lies was not discussed as a strategy and the danger it poses to productive political discourse. The degree to which the electorate knew what Prop 2025 was was not discussed. Certainly the reason for the ignorance was not addressed by those responsible for reporting. Digging into why so few Trump voters cared about the stated intentions to wreck the republic wasn't on the shows' agendas. Their own failures were evidently not even recognized. They can't even report the disaster this poses for the country considering who will fill key rolls and why it's bad. It was the usual tired template repeated over and over. The giant story of the election of a felon who stole state secrets and sent a mob to invade the Capitol and what this means about this country's processes and character was not discussed. Lastly, in discussing the female vote not one person mentioned Christian Nationalism as a possible element swaying female voters about reproductive rights or even privacy rights once (correctly) taken for granted. In fact, Christian Nationalism was never mentioned whatsoever while I was listening. Of course, nobody talked about the larger problem of the white man. Nobody ever does.