Deciding who this guy is, because of some tattoos, ignoring everything else, while also not being an expert on tattoos?

That's how Kilmar got sent to El Salvador prison for a crime he didn't commit.

I am surprised that's how you want to play this one, Dbt2.

"And you clowns are pissing your pants because Trump saw some specialists."

Trump seeing 22 specialists doesn't give rise to new fears.
It simply confirms what we've known all along:
The man is taking an IV medication for Dementia.

"Would you have suspicions about a 40-year-old nominally Democratic politician who willfully attended a Klan meeting with his pals in his youth?"

No, because history tells us Democrats were the Segregationist party at that time.
You didn't know that?

Tattoos in general are extremely widespread compared to when I was a kid. Moreso for the DR contingent getting Jell-O on their meal tray.

A common complaint from people who remember when tattoos "meant something" is that tattoos have been democratized to the point they don't convey a clear meaning like before.

Tattoos don't always mean what they used to. Go into your local trashy bar and you'll probably find woman with sea sparrows, even though she's never been to sea. She just like the design, saw it on other people, and the tattoo artist isn't here to be a gatekeeper.

This guy's tattoo probably doesn't mean much more than "Me and the boys got inked up with some fierce looking tattoos, as soldiers do when completing our male bonding rituals."

"Did you see his posts?"

No, but I suspect AIPAC will make sure I see them soon enough! Or are they not really so Nazi after all...

The rich having all the power and money while the working class suffers is a good thing.
#46 | Posted by visitor_

It's the way of the world, my working class brother.

It's probably the most humane way to execute someone.
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Sure. Maybe you'd like to tell us the humane ways to rape people too, while we're on the subject.

"Sounds like an excuse for every red voting demographic in America."

If that's what you want to hear.

The guy I described is not a red voter.

But he's a white male, like me. That's a red voting demographic right?

"Are we the baddies?"

You're sticking up for a very interesting cohort today. I didn't realize previously you were so fond of the people who can control your life, along with the courts, and ruin it when they want to, and oh, that was just a boyish gesture.
#154 | Posted by Dbt2

That's every politician, isn't it?

Do you not stick up for any politician, then?

Give me your take on Robert Byrd. Unrepentant racist in his long Senate tenure, his racism cast in stone because of his youth?

Why not public hanging?

It's what Republicans want.

Brings back fond white nativist racial memories of lynching.

"easily explained tattoo"
is that what it is? Doesn't seem like that at the moment.
#127 | Posted by eberly

Explaining that water is wet to today's Republicans?

Is both a Herculean effort, to try to get them to understand.

And a Sisyphean task, because they'll forget all about it the next time Trump says shine a flashlight up your butt.

nasty attitudes
#142 | Posted by eberly

Eberly is doing the "Trump talking to female reporters" thing.

Maine is like 1-1.5% Jewish.

It's probably the sorry truth that someone from Maine doesn't benefit from the critical mass of Jews needed to bring about a broad cultural awareness of Jews.

You know, like I got living outside NYC where the schools were closed for Jewish holidays. And some of the stores downtown were closed on Fridays. And some of my friends didn't go to CCD, they went to Hebrew School.

I work with a guy who didn't see a black person in person until he was eighteen years old. Can you believe that? So he occasionally says some racist sounding ----, but it's really just ignorance.

Our elections already do not meet international standards for free and fair elections.
Now, we're worse at meeting those standards.

Congratulations, Republicans!
We Are Not A Democracy.

-So running a corporate DNC candidate to beat him isn't an attempt to take him down?
No, it's not an attempt to take him down.
#121 | Posted by eberly

How does that work?

Dude: I'm entering the race as a Democrat:
DNC: Okay, we're backing someone else with our money.

Dude: Oh, so you're trying to take me down?
DNC: No, not at all, we just don't want you to win!

"Yeah, I'm rankled by Nazi insignia and people who get it literally drilled into them. "

Law enforcement is awash in fascist and racist tattoos, uniform patches, and so on.

If you're only looking at it from "which ones are bad for Jews" that's your choice, but understand you're wearing some pretty dark blinders.