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Unfortunately, sure, but “uncharacteristically” would also work.
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When they say “Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense, a disgraced ex-general”, do they mean Michael Flynn?
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Magic 8ball says Yes
Don’t forget Hair Twittler wants to have ret. General Mark Milley killed as well.
If I were Gen Milley, I’d stay the hell away from 5th Avenue!
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That’s how I took it. One of the many horrific but utterly plausible outcomes of Il Douche winning in November.
I just hope well-crafted ads like this convince a critical mass of other neoCon Republicans to stay home in November.
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I can’t think of who else they would mean…
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The lies in the disavowals are so ridiculously obvious that I wonder if part of it is deliberate, similar to the poorly composed Nigerian Prince e-mails meant to filter out the real suckers.
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I’ve never tried figuring out how those creatures “think.” Just considering doing so makes my stomach do somersaults. It’s not a task for amateurs, only highly skilled medical professionals should attempt it.
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I like that guy, I especially like his description of Stephen Miller,
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Hey, now! Don’t toss that shit my way! That’s more of an “angels on the head of a pin” philosophical thing. But i suspect the answer is along the lines of “under a Tr*mp admin, thought will be a criminal act and stomped out wherever it appears.” Or words to that effect.
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I think that’s Jamelle Bouie, one of the better NYT columnists. I don’t know how he can stomach being on the same page with Bobo and Cardinal Douthat.
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While I have no doubt you’re highly skilled, I think what once was known as an alienist or thirty is called for.
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I appreciate the joke, but it’s important to remind everyone that, as crazy of many of the MAGAts come off, the majority of them are power-hungry, greedy and hateful arseholes of the sort that make up any fascist movement.
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Agreed. “I never believed any of that shit, I just went along for the money and influence” is not at all exculpatory. In fact, it might be worse. “You knew it was evil, but went along to get the benefits?” “Of course it was evil, but money is money, right?” Yeah, and evil is evil.
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I am not joking when I say I think only a great mind specialist should try delving into those bastards.
They and their hatred and evil, meanness and cruelty, and that anyone would agree with them! all make me feel physically ill. They are dangerous and scary as hell.
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It isn’t psychoanalysis, but Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf eloquently captures how strange and alien the fascist mindset is to most of us who just want to live in a peaceful and prosperous society and why it still has appeal to a quarter of the population.
The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.
Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’tonly want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.
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I hereby solemnly swear to publicly eat an entire bicycle and swear my eternal allegiance to boingboing if 1/4 of these things happen.
I’ll bring the steak sauce.
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