Hell-bent or just Hell bound? I am betting on the latter.
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I donāt love using this personās quote as iconic of anything. The person being quoted in that article isnāt a PR person or a professional communicator, they are just some person who got asked a person-on-the-street question. To me this looks like confirmation bias - we already know that some of Trumpās followers actually do get off on thinking of people being hurt. The article picks a statement as emblematic of that when I donāt think we should take much meaning from it other than āIām unhappy with whatās going on.ā
Now this, on the other hand. Like, Shapiro asked him if he worked for Russia as a softball, and he doesnāt even understand he should put the word ānoā in his answer somewhere?
This is āI am not addicted to crack cocaineā from Rob Ford when asked if he had smoked crack.
So you did it, right?
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Just a little sample of what Family Guy did
I feel like the fact that it isnāt coming from a PR professional gives it extra weight. Itās not polished to within an inch of its life to say nothing at all; itās someoneās off-the-cuff heartfelt response. Treating āheās not hurting the right peopleā as yet another āeconomic anxietyā quote is to willfully ignore the intent behind it. This absolutely fits into the āwhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first timeā puzzle right alongside all of the ātheyāre not American babiesā clap-backs when Trump supporters were implored to give a single shit about the people seeking asylum on the southern border.
The cruelty is the point.
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I read ātheyāre not American babiesā really differently. That one the intent is unavoidable. With this one I really could see that just being a garbled (garbled to me anyway) āheās hurting good peopleā. Even in that very kind reading of it, it still implies that there are good people and bad people and bad people deserve whatās coming to them; but I find that to be an extremely common moral sentiment that goes way further than Trump voters.
Anyway, Iām just waxing philosophic, I guess. I might cut the specific individual so slack in how they expressed themselves, but in the best case scenario I still think that: 1) the person in question is probably willing to discount peopleās humanity based on whether Trump says they are enemies or not; and 2) there are many people who follow Trump whose beliefs fit the least uncharitable reading of those words.
And finally, the article doesnāt even go on at length about the specific individual.
So basically, what I guess I was saying was, āHold your horses, there. There is a moderate chance that a specific, named individual is someone youād disagree with over a slightly different issue than the one implied by that article.ā
Totally worth saying!
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It would be nice if they would censure Trump for a few things too, but Iāll take what I can get.
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#nottheonion
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Seriously, junk food for professional (or soon to be at least) athletes? Makes sense 
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Dershowitz predictably suggests that nothing Mueller has found is illegal, and that the FBI probe news that dropped on Friday was actually illegal.
Dershowitz is tied to Jeff Epstein, more definitively than either Trump or Clinton.
If we see a bunch of people go to jail from the Mueller investigation, either directly or new investigations spawned from it, I think Dershowitz is going down with the rest of them.
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āWeāre going to allow the GOP Senate to choose which agencies are funded and which are left to starve, presenting them with an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the Federal government to their whimsā.
Pelosiās āexpertiseā at work.
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Might not be so bad if the Pentagon sees some cuts.
But I think we all know it will be anything but that.
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Speaking of āThe Wonderful Companyā, see here:
Corruption, imperialism, war, exploitation, environmental destruction. Thereās a bit of everything in this one.
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I remember seeing a list of what Michael Phelps ate on a typical day. It turns out that when you need 12,000 calories a day for your training regimen, you can eat quite a bit of garbage and empty calories.
I think that does show her expertise, itās just that her expertise is political, not policy related. That strategy has nothing to do with serving the people or the country and everything to do with shaping public opinion. They are just creating more and more ammunition for the āthis is their shutdownā argument.
Yes, paying out of pocket is not āsocialized medicineā but heading to Canada is proof* that Rand Paul believes āsocialized medicineā produces the best outcomes at the best price. Thatās actually the argument I want to win. Once we all agree that publicly funded medicine produces the best outcomes at the best price, then itās up to democratic countries to decide for themselves if thatās what they want.
* Libertarian standard of proof
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Without OHIP or another equivalent provincial plan, heād be billed at any Ontario hospital.
Thatās a load of bafflegab from his Chief Strategist to cover the embarrassment.
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Yeah, I think the real point is that he is choosing to get something done in Ontario that he could get done in the US. If private care produces better results, why not use it? Heās admitting that single-payer produces high quality results that people outside of single-payer systems would be willing to pay for.
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