"If Biden and the American people are ready the virus can be defeated Nationwide in 2 weeks."

Bernie Sanders made the same argument back in March.

Who was the idiot here last week that was complaining that AOC was making the insurrection all about her?

" Biden's first round of executive orders show a deliberate intent on provoking conservatives."

Simply ridiculous. I don't have enough alts to flag this post funny to come close to giving it its due.

"Solid dude who knows how the sausage is made, as he was a multi-star general making the sausage not long ago."

"Only four or five Syrian individuals trained by the United States military to confront the Islamic State remain in the fight, the head of the United States Central Command told a Senate panel on Wednesday, a bleak acknowledgment that the Defense Department's $500 million program to raise an army of Syrian fighters has gone nowhere."

" We didn't "win" a goddam thing."

Sure we did. We won responsibility for a million dead Iraqi children. A bill that years later both Democrats and Republicans would argue was totally worth it. American exceptionalism at its finest.

" The man's race should not be, in any way, a consideration about his appointment."

Get off your high horse. This is the United States. Race is always in play, for better or for worse. Most recently when Biden said he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. Or any time someone touts Biden's administration as the most diverse in US history.

"He wasn't aware of "Yellowstone.""

So the lack of awareness is hereditary. Raw deal.

J/K

I've mentioned before that I bartended at Yellowstone Lake in the Summer and Old Faithful in the winter for six years in the the 90s. Most of my friends that stuck around moved to Gardner, Livingston, Cooke City, Bozeman, and the places around there. Most working as tour guides, photographers, hospitality industry. A few made it to Missoula teaching at the university or working for the government. A few others migrated south to Jackson If I hadn't gotten together with my wife I'd still be out there. Of all those places Bozeman is the one that's changed the most, experiencing rapid growth. I was last there in 2016. If you say it had a weird vibe I'd say it's because Bozeman hasn't been able to settle in to a groove in decades. The town is a little schizo, with the constant rapid growth and a large transient population. Severity of the winters appeals to the weird folks too. If my wife divorces me and my daughter cuts ties that's where you'll find me, trying to turn Montana blue.

"Dodged a bullet on that one, HC!"

Don't I know it. She was a lot of fun back in the day before the crazy kicked in. Her husband is a good guy. Was at least. I wonder if it's a family affliction with them or she's the only one. Feel bad for the kids though.

"The yoga instructor part makes me guess she's in Bozeman."

Bingo.

"But I'd really like someone who takes pride in increased gun sales to tell me why it's such good news."

Why? You can't read between the lines? Or just read Boaz. He's never been circumspect about his fetish for the opportunity to murder his fellow countrymen.

"Q-anon insanity also swept through the new age/yoga community this year."

That makes sense. An ex-girlfriend is a anti-vaxxer, home-schooling, yoga instructor in Montana. She's a big Q person. Had to block her on social media because she kept sending me private messages about satanic child molesters in government.

"... I'm also curious why so many women were there."

Mom groups and anti-vax groups on Facebook mostly.

"after approving a waiver for Mattis it's hard for me to see rejecting one for Austin."

Two wrongs make a right?

Fauci deserves a second Medal of Freedom.

"Republicans think it's supposed to be that way, to protect the interest of the Little Guy."

The difference in representation alone is more than 10 times the population of the United States in 1787. I wonder, if we could ask them, would they still agree that the logic underpinning that principle then should continue to hold now.

Or would they be shocked that we've never had another constitutional convention in 234 years?

"... white people deserve to have a good future same as everybody else."

Do they though?

" hypocritical Republicans"

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"Our knowledge of any past event is incomplete. Most history is guessing and the rest is prejudice."

Sounds like what I got out of the classes in historiography I took in college.

"A commission stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US issued its inflammatory report on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day."

I think history will show that the skill with which Trump was able to demonstrate his despicable nature was largely due to Stephen Miller's knowledge of history. The timing and location of so many of his actions require a talent that Trump never really demonstrated on his own.

"It's sad that we still live in a world where Conservative lies have the same weight as Liberal truths."

Corporate news doesn't want to alienate half their potential audience by calling them out as liars.

"Legislation has been introduced in Congress to give Goodman the Congressional Gold Medal for his actions."

Wholly deserved.

" I suppose that this rule can be re-invoked in a few hours?"

Sure it could. I wouldn't bet the farm on it though.

My brother's two best friends from high school are crazy Trump supporters. One of them is a black guy. The only black guy growing up in a white neighborhood. If my brother is a Trump supporter he hasn't let on, though there are a couple correlations. He takes the enlightened centrist position, which I try to explain to him is not very enlightened under the present circumstances. Or centrist for that matter.

" Physically separate the government from K street, whiteshoe law firms and corporate headquarters."

You do understand that the cart follows the horse, right?

"... allegedly..."

If Bannon accepts the pardon there is no "allegedly" about it, as chief Arpaio found out a few years ago.