Meanwhile, Greg Gutfeld still has a job after this.

Remember when right wingers were losing their goddamn minds over Jade Helm?

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The opposition party is the media, and the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.

All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.

–Steve Bannon

Take one of the most violently-contested parts of the Earth, a center of blood feuds that have been raging for, depending on how you count it, between eighty and six thousand years, a place that has become synonymous for “a location of endless conflict,” take that piece of real estate, enhance the violence, and then tell yourself you’re going to build a bunch of high-end condos and invite rich assholes to move in.

What could possibly go wrong?

The best time for RFK Jr.'s career to end was twenty years ago. The next best time is today.

Like-minded coalitions of states should band together and start doing for themselves what the feds no longer will. Form the New England Center for Disease Control. The California and Pacific Northwest Vaccine Advisory Commission. The Mid-Atlantic Department of Education.

Don’t call it secession per se. Just groups of concerned state governments doing what needs to be done to protect their citizens’ best interests.

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Curious: What happens when the white ethnonationalist wing of the Republican party fucks the country up so bad that it starts to interfere with the business interests of the unregulated oligarch wing of the Republican party?

Don’t you think he looks tired?

These districts were designed by M. C. Escher.

Leviticus 19:33-34

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God

Exodus 22:21

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:2

Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Holy shit, I’d always heard that Blues Brothers 2000 was terrible, but that was an impressive amount of mayhem.

I’m all for changing the way elections work in this country. First past the post is an objectively terrible way to do democracy, and there are more than a few better systems available.

But how do you get to those systems, and what do you do in the meantime? Sure, third party candidates can sometimes squeak by in smaller local races, and they should! That’s a great way to build up power and credibility and try to make larger changes! But that process is not going to happen overnight, and something has to be done in the meantime. That’s where harm reduction and choosing your opposition tells us we must vote for Democrats if a viable alternative is not available. You can plan to break Democrats’ duopoly of power with Republicans, but until that day comes you’ve got to acknowledge the political realities and that you would rather oppose a Democrat in power than a Republican in power.

Unless you’re an accelerationist who wants things to get worse, faster, so that a collapse or civil war will happen sooner, in which case I’m not sure we’ve got much of anything we’ll agree on.

“I’m going home now.”

“Not without this police escort you’re not.”

Okay, well, the last time I made this joke it came true, so I’m going to throw some salt over my shoulder after I say it, but how about instead of that, we just give Russia about 20,000 square miles of Alaska. We can start with the entirety of the Aleutian Island chain (about 6,800 sq. miles), and then work out some chunk of the mainland for the rest. That seems reasonable.

And if that does come true, then by God I’m going to go out and buy a lottery ticket.

/nominativedeterminism