When will Jim Jones’ supporters wake up? Cults do extensive mental rewiring to people’s brains. Their minds literally cannot conceive of their leader doing anything evil anymore.
No, the question isn’t when his supporters will wake up, it’s when will the people who still think he’s “bad, but the lesser of two evils” wake up?
They never think their gonzo opinions through to their logical conclusions.
Also, technically the Flag Code isn’t the law. Not that that occurred to them when people were using it for progressive protests.
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And binds but does not protect anyone else.
The past 40 years of complete inaction on the part of businesses determined that was a lie.
I get deported back to my own country constantly. Every day, against my will, I find myself here.
Maybe not exactly the same thing, but I have had pretty heavy Minecraft building binges that leave me looking at IRL buildings thinking, “huh, I wonder how I’d build that in Minecraft. Obviously I could put a full block there, but that detail would be sub-block, so maybe I could imply that with a chiseled variant…and that’s brick, but it’s a dark and weathered red brick, so I guess I’d have to use…maybe terracotta? And dang, that curved archway would be murder to recreate accurately, this building might need to be at 1:1.5 scale to even do it justice…”
Ugh. I hate it when geriatric populist fascists accidentally stumble into a halfway decent joke.
“I notice it keeps tilting to the left,” Trump joked, “Like too many other things!”
I guess he is an “entertainer,” so it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that his jokes are better than his platform. Double entendre definitely intended.
Of course, to everyone watching—at least, to everyone watching who isn’t behind Trump—it’s pretty clear that everything is actually tilting to the right, and becoming a whole lot more unstable.
Did his son get an email about it?
Johnson is “we’re electing a president not a pastor” incarnate, with all the short-sightedness and tomfoolery that comes with it.
“If there’s no massive cheating” is such a meaningless phrase that they could use it to mean anything afterward. “Oh no, I heard someone say that their cousin was a cashier at a store where their coworker overheard a customer talking on the phone about a letter that their post office received from Russia on election day, so obviously there’s massive cheating and Trump should just be in office.”
That said, I don’t know that this rises to the level of “outrageous” in modern political discourse, sadly. A “foolish” position, definitely. “Corrupt,” perhaps. “Morally bankrupt.” “Anti-democratic.” But the position is much more reasonable than most Republicans are willing to grant these days, and that’s what’s truly outrageous.
It’s valid English and grammar, but it’s a potentially reasonable position that anything which requires a specific domain knowledge to interpret may be valid but isn’t perfect. You kind of have to know how journalists shorten sentences to make headlines in order to read it correctly; most native English-speaking adults do have that domain knowledge, but clearly not everyone since OP didn’t have it.
That said, I don’t know why this specific headline tripped OP up. It doesn’t seem particularly ambiguous or difficult to me.
“(A) Tennessee woman (who was) denied (an) abortion after (finding out her) fetus’ ‘brain (was) not attached’ slams (Tennessee’s abortion) ban”
Hope that helps.
Republican kills dog, is asked questions about it: “This interview is ridiculous”
Republican commits many crimes, is charged & prosecuted about it: “This trial is ridiculous”
Republican agrees to terms allowing himself to be recalled if five people agree: “This congress’ inability to accomplish anything is ridiculous”
Republican kills a border bill that gives them everything they have been asking for for twenty years: “The situation at the border is ridiculous”
Republican passes huge tax cuts but increases DOD appropriations: “The budget deficit is ridiculous”
Every single problem, the GOP makes worse. But sure, the problem is pointing that out.
Presidential Immunity is Democracy
Prohibition is freedom
History is woke
No, it never made sense because it never accomplished its stated purpose. It only ever suppressed the will of the majority.
But less bad than Fentanyl and other C-IIs, it sounds like.
I don’t tend to mind the “hush money” framing, since that makes him sound like the mobster that he definitely is.
Whew. Good point. And sobering.