That’s true, they’d say welfare Queen or something

It’s just the kind of shit a con would say just to fuck with people

I don’t think these types of challenges are, in any way helpful or in our collective benefit.

They already do that tho, payroll tax is paid by the employer without the employee every seeing it.

I think this is what’s referred to as “mindfulness”.

Or hang on to it for when that doesn’t matter at all.

Hey look over here everyone!!! I found one!

No, you’re missing an entire level here. Racists suck, bigots suck but Nazis? Nazis round up people and gas them to death and then stack the bodies in the dirt like cord wood. It’s a different level.

It’s a sickness, they can’t stop themselves.

This sounds depressing as hell, good work.

From a VA employee:

This is destroying the Agency. People come to work terrified every day. I don’t know a single competent and qualified person who isn’t actively looking for work elsewhere and the only people who will be left to serve our Veterans are those with no other choices. The amount of sheer experience, knowledge, and brainpower being lost is irreplaceable, and the trust is already broken. We’ll never get it back. I am heartbroken that so many Republicans deeply, deeply hate us for doing our best every single day to serve Veterans. I will never forgive them for this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/progressreport/p/revenge-of-the-whiny-pampered-baby?r=2lkdbh

I don’t know what you think despotism looks like, but this sure as hell isn’t democracy nor is it a republic. This has nothing to do with losing an election, this has to do with some people’s fantasy that Trump will ever give up power. I guess we need to wait until evidence surfaces, and then only iron clad evidence that the worst is happening will possibly motivate them, maybe.

I disagree with your overall assessment that we are experiencing “light” or “transient” causes for general revolt.

[Describes working very hard to ignore problem]

How did it happen?

It can’t be ignored forever.

That’s what we just tried (over the past century), when we gave an inch they took the whole god damn country. I don’t think the compromise approach will ever work.

It’s not irony, it’s authoritarians!

As a soda drinker, I’m always surprised by that.

unless the fourteenth amendment overrides both treaty and statute

It absolutely does! That’s the point!

Let’s just water down that word until it means nothing…

Was just before Christmas

I just bought a year of it :(

But not everyone is known for it…