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  • A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn’t fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn’t even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.

    And that’s why it’s up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.

    It’s also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.















  • They can tell the difference. But you’d be amazed at the mental gymnastics someone with extremely strong motivations can engage in.

    You gotta remember that these are mostly people who went back to the Trump trough three times in a row, even as he’s been steadily destabilizing and destroying their lives. If they admit they fucked up now, they have to admit they’ve been fucking up for over a decade, non-stop. Many of them would literally rather die than do that.





  • What I really want conservatives to contend with is the fact that cutting the size of the federal workforce this way has done LITERALLY NONE of the things they always insist shrinking the government will accomplish.

    • It has not reduced prices. In fact, those are way up.
    • It has not reduced taxes on the middle and lower classes. In fact, those are up too (while taxes on the ultra-wealthy continue to drop).
    • It has not made government services more efficient. In fact, those are now substantially shittier.
    • It has not made health care less expensive.
    • It has not made unemployment go down (obviously).
    • It has not made the private sector step in where government services falter.

    Everything is more expensive and less efficient now. Small government does not equal good government.

    Conservatives, this is what happens when you elect people who will actually follow through on the batshit insane garbage you’ve always wanted. You own this mess.