"That's why I get so much pleasure out of mocking your stupid asses"

Your washing machine must run 24/7/365.

#56 Hatred, yes but also Frustration. Especially frustration, born of fear-- the fear that their archaic worldview is being somehow systemically destroyed-- and that frustration leads to hatred. Those two characteristics mark the average MAGAt.

Eric Hoffer explained MAGAts far better than I ever can.
Yoda too.

"Stick to the fondue, buddy

Deine berge sind zu leicht zu besteigen!

As a Swiss citizen I will say this: all a Frenchman really needs to do to piss off other people is to be a Frenchman.
But at least a Frenchman tries to redeem himself by not being German.

How may foreign coups did American Presidents sponsor before one decided to sponsor a coup back home?

She can go down south to my pole any time.

OK, that was low.

Although I'd still enjoy playing a few games of hide-and-sikh with her.

"I'm not scared of PETA"

You don't have to be. You're the one they'll be trying to protect.

"so throw in conjugal visits with your mom and I'm in"

That's out-- my Mom makes it a rule not to develop relationships with those who are prone to self-mutilation. Besides, she would have no desire to make a cuckold of your father.

I stay away from 95 because of the trucks. South of DC, 301 is my preferred "leisure route" if I'm doing something down near Richmond. But I've been up and down 295 between Baltimore and DC many times during bad weather and seen motorists stranded by the side-- most without all-weather tires and driving compact cars.

MAGAts are too stupid to be traitors. Instead of jailing them, I'd create a national zoo for them and put them in cages so real Americans can come in and view them. Charge admission even.

The longtime poster known as Visitor would be in the area of the zoo reserved for MAGAt trolls. He would be in a 10' by 10' cage and given a small desk, a faux-leather fatman's lounge chair, as much junk food and beer as he can gorge himself with, and a computer with really fast internet. His online behavior would be broadcast on a large screen overhead, including his posts here. At night, a vinyl blow-up doll would be dropped from an open hatch overhead so he could have regular conjugal visits- so as not to upset PETA or any other animal rights group.

"US Founders saw democracy as bad. They called it Tyranny of the Majority."

White, land-owning slave holders sought to perpetuate their dominance. Jefferson and Madison were of that class.

Aww, how cute, the poster above adores a team from the WNBA so much that they have incorporated it into the name of their sock puppet account.

"I guess you're saying the best way to increase the odds of a nuclear war is to build nukes"

Rational players, like rational football coaches, make decisions based on odds. The question for countries like Pakistan and India and Israel and North Korea and perhaps Iran is:

By acquiring nukes (or at least creating a state of nuclear ambiguity) and, as a result, increasing the odds of a nuclear exchange, will the odds of conventional weapon based destruction (like what happened to Iraq and Libya and Syria and Afghanistan and Yemen, etc. etc.) consequently be reduced or eliminated for the country who seeks that status?

"The real problem w nukes is proliferation"

Proliferation of nukes (or at least the proliferation of the IDEA that they may have the capability to produce one) is the only deterrent that rational smaller states have against larger, stronger ones.

Until WWII, militaries had always been designed with one goal in mind-- to win wars. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, militaries began to be thought of in another light-- as constructs to KEEP wars from happening in the first place. Thus the acquisitionand proliferation of nukes as a deterrent and the concept of MAD was born.

Although the west latched onto the concept of MAD, it was the smaller countries that embraced it. Now those same countries that promoted the idea of MAD are trying to reject it.

Why? Simple. It deters them from further encroachment on the lands or sphere of influence of smaller countries.

Ask those in the Ukraine if destroying their nukes 35 years ago was worth it.

Iran needs nukes as a deterrent. Too bad they have released fatwa after fatwa forbidding making them. Still, they need to achieve nuclear ambiguity to hold proven belligerents like America and Israel in check.

Republicans fashion
their unique, artificially-flavored nuggets
of nutrition-challenged offal
from mechanically-separated MAGAt meat
and a liberal peppering of histrionic outrage
peddling it to their thick-headed
dumpster diving
consumerist-driven constituency.

MTG is nothing more than a bin warmer
that one of those pimply-faced, braindead blockheads
behind the counter takes from
and places in the bag or box or bucket
along with the greasy taters
and the sweetened soda pop
to present to the hungry hoards.

The right-wing of this country has modeled itself on Likud since 9-11. The party has become a ideological hub for militarists, hyper-nationalists, racists, ethnofascists, white supremacists and fundamentalist religious nut jobs.

'It's all about subhumanizing and attacking The Other."

Israel is the model.

MTG is pretty hot in a post-decapitation Medusa sort of way...

"COVID thinned the heard on that group. Golden Corral is suffering as a result of all of those dead customers."

Golden Corral: Soylent Green for all the people who eventually end up becoming Soylent Green.

"Claiming "dereliction of duty" seems like like a polite way of making certain Trump never gets charged with a crime"

A majority of sleeping Americans might stand for that. Question is-- will Iran stand for that?

Regarding Civil War, a remote-controlled drone is much more effective than an F150 driving down the road with some semi-autos and a bunch of MAGA decals.

Because effectiveness in war has been and always will be based on the intelligence of the one who's doing the driving.

Some people believe that if they repeat exaggerations and lies in a calm and "reasoned" manner that they become something less than exaggerations and lies. They might eventually begin to resemble some sort of truth.

BillJohnson is one such person.

Americans always concerned about the smell of other countries' pigs' ----. Where's Dubya living again?

It's better she died looking forward to her 100th birthday then afterwards looking back at it.