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Called it.

Not that I was going out on a limb or anything. The cult leader demands loyalty.

 

I like this simile. It's going into the rotation.

 

how much have the Feds spent proving Hillary is innocent?

 

Conservatives are literally cheering child abuse. They have no legitimacy as humans

 

If Kansas can be reeled in from the edge of Gilead, so can about a dozen other states.

 

David Brooks has a good column in the New York Times.

Opinion | Trump Has Made Us All Stupid

Here’s a bit:

But in the anti-Trump echo chamber, that’s not how most people were thinking. Led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, they avoided the hard, complex problem of how to set boundaries around militias. Instead, they pontificated on the easy question not actually on the table: Should we have a massive invasion of Iran?

A great cry went up from the echo chamber. We’re on the brink of war! Trump is leading us to more endless wars in the Middle East! We’re on the precipice of total chaos! This was not the calibrated language of risk and reward. It was fear-stoking apocalyptic language. By being so overwrought and exaggerated, the echo chamber drowned out any practical conversation about how to stabilize the Middle East so we could have another righteous chorus of “Donald Trump is a monster!”

This is Trump’s ultimate victory. Every argument on every topic is now all about him. Hating Trump together has become the ultimate bonding, attention-grabbing and profit-maximization mechanism for those of us in anti-Trump world. So you get a series of exaggerated fervors — the Mueller report! Impeachment! The Steele dossier! — that lead ultimately nowhere.

 

Iran pulled its punch and let Trump off the hook.

History will tell whether that was good or bad for the world.

 

Remember when “basket of deplorables” was a horrible thing to say about fellow Americans?

 

The gutless pig is jacked up on something more than the usual benzos tonight.

 

That is an amazing fact.

 

I understand party loyalty. But this is insane. Everybody who dares to criticize him for even a second is immediately called on the carpet and compelled to recant. Does he have something on all of them? Are today's members of Congress somehow more scared of losing elections than their predecessors?
Anybody who dares cross the lord and savior has two choices: immediately repent or retire.