Exactly, good example.

#48
That old Overton Window (and the many OWs), like those dogies on the TV Western Rawhide, keeps "rollin', rollin', rollin.'" And it often does seem to move, as you've suggested, back-and-forth. Along-the way, its slide/glide may encounter resistance of a most formidable and determined sort. Having done the Sixties and at the end stood in its metaphorical ashes, let me suggest a cautionary and enduring Chinese observation: "Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos." Or, as the carnies advise customers climbing aboard the Slingshot: "Buckle up!"

This MAGAt mug just might have a future at a rank equivalent to a SS-Rottenfuhrer in the old Waffen-SS if he hooks up with Trump's mob at ICE.

#45
We've met? Lol.

AOC is tapping into - alomg with whatever else she encounters - strong currents of progressivism. The socio-political climate seems to be getting prepped for transformative times.

Should Xi ever want to push for Taiwan, sometime while the Republicans are destroying the US constitutional balance of power - overextending and bankrupting the nation while polishing their performative memberships in the schizo MAGAJeebus cult - just might be ideal. Or he could just wait until he sees smoke rising on the distant horizon.

Looking back across the years and through it all, love and gratitude.

Alam was convicted in federal court of eight felonies " including assaulting law enforcement " and three misdemeanors for his role in the attack.

Witnesses said he broke the glass of a door through which insurrectionist Ashli Babbit climbed before she was shot dead by an officer defending the US House chambers.

The Trump administration later reached a $5m settlement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his slain supporter's family.

At Alam's US Capitol attack trial, prosecutors outlined how he was among the first of a mob that entered the building from its west lawn and hurled items at police from a balcony.

He also used a helmet to shatter three glass panes in the door through which Babbitt was fatally shot before leaving while urging others to come back later with guns.

"The US says that its policy favouring the status quo on Taiwan has not changed. But Trump is famously flaky on Taiwan," notes Tisdall.

He frequently makes contradictory, sometimes alarming statements. Discussing Xi's intentions, he said recently that any move to invade was "up to him" " a choice of words that suggests he does not care much either way, even if he did add that he would be "very unhappy" were China to invade.

Summit bottom line: will a weakened, outmanoeuvred Trump cut back US support for Taipei in return for Xi's help with Iran and favourable deals on, say, rare-earth minerals and agricultural imports? Serious questions similarly surround the depth of Trump's commitment to South Korea and Japan " Beijing-Tokyo tensions are running hot at present, partly because of Taiwan; and his ability to persuade China to rein in North Korea, a hostile, bullish rogue state that, unlike Iran, really does possess nuclear weapons.

"Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy - it's a feature of religion or totalitarianism."
Secretary of Health & Human Services Kennedy, Jr., 2025

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful ligh. And I think you said that hasn't been checked, but we're going to test it? And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute - one minute - and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."
President of the United States Trump, 2020

Now that's what I call "sticking it to the libs!"

#17

Couple of points:

Could you clarify the "white girls" remark? It sounds a lot more ignorant than you may have intended.

Also, you're aware that hypocrisy is not exactly a rare characteristic in human behavior, right?

My "wow" is because it's to be expected such an occurrence could amount to something a good deal more profound than "sad" - however measured/expressed - for a family. I suspect we are actually not in disagreement, just using different focal points.

Patricide Jeff idolizes Tim McVeigh.
#26 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

Many rightists do. One problem getting the OKC bombing properly memorialized where it occurred involved the presence of an existing manure dump of opinion more than a little reflective of views expressed by McVeigh. (The dynamics associated with memorializing that historical event are extremely well covered by Edward T. Linenthal in The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.)

"This is sad for a few families ... "

Wow.

Oops, Jeff, only one word per 8-hour shift can be hijacked by a shill for ... well, shilling. You got mulliganed that crazy "some" earlier, so "polling" will have to wait. Sorry, Jeff, losers don't get prizes.

Unlike our own Grand Cham ...

"Then, my friends, go to the polls this weekend, stand with Viktor Orbn, because he stands for you, and he stands for all these things [sovereignty, God, country]."
Vance

"I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but you [Orban] are fantastic. I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but I'm the only one that matters."
Trump

"I'm a big fan of Victor Orban and the United States is with him all the way."
Trump

That word "some" sure does a lot of heavy lifting whenever you hijack it, Jeffy. Like your buddy Old Yeller's shtick, the act is moth-eaten. It's why they had a hook in vaudeville.

Two points to toss into the hopper:

(1). Trump, former "reality" show compere, is a short attention span, mentally ill, six-times bankrupt who repeatedly demonstrates he is incapable of managing even a gambling den.

(2). Iran's foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, scion of a family of prosperous Isfahan rug merchants, has a book out - The Power of Negotiation: Principles and Rules of Political and Diplomatic Negotiations. I have not read Araghchi's treatise and it's entirely possible nobody in the White House has, either. But, reaching across the aisle here, perhaps someone should.

#21
Using masked, uniformed thugs to murder people in the streets is now a "both sides" line of partisan boolsheet for MAGAts? WOW, MAGAJesus got a hold on you.

... and yet its beyond you why Gestapo wouldnt need to wear a mask.
#27 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

See line #4 of post #26 wherein a very good reason is advanced for a confident regime's power display of unmasked enforcers. Claro?

... why do people overwhelmingly want to move the US?
#34 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

To???

#28
You should be aware by now, statements issued on behalf of the regime by the regime do not arrive decorated with the garlands of credibility.