Ask John Bolton how that worked out.

Destroying National Landmarks for Fun and Profit

I have a graduate degree in psychology

You would know better than me, but just from personal life experience, I tell people “Don’t try to ascribe rational motivations to irrational actors, because the effort will just make you crazy in turn.”

There’s only one way to find out if you’re right or wrong. Let’s release those files!

The white supremacists are losing the numbers game, so “something must be done before it’s too late.”

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

Libs HATE it when strong MAGA men cut their own dicks off!

For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.

–Oscar R. Benavides

This scenario would also make the various economic crises of the last twenty-ish years look like a calm Sunday picnic. America can sustain stupid non-productive forever wars overseas because we have a very-nearly functional society and economy here at home. If the American government starts trying to violently subjugate its own citizens, we will see in real time just how complicated, interconnected, and fragile our internal infrastructure really is.

as well as the belief that opposing trans rights “itself constitutes a form of violence towards people who identify as [trans or gender nonconforming]… or poses an imminent threat to such persons’ emotional, psychological, or physical safety

Just imagine for a moment that one were to replace “trans” with literally any other grouping of humanity and think how insane it would sound.

“I’m not a bigot, I’m just opposed to black rights!”

“I’m not an anti-semite, I’m just opposed to Jewish rights!”

“I’m not committing a genocide, I’m just opposed to human rights!”

Christ, the veneer of legitimacy is molecule-thin at this point.

Meanwhile, Greg Gutfeld still has a job after this.

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

Troomps

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?