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Today's Tweet

Lot's of truth here. pic.twitter.com/9XvTbLSybp

— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) April 3, 2017

This New Thing

This counter-terrorism expert believes the Trump campaign and Russian propaganda were synchronized pic.twitter.com/Y3rZhKb1tz

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 3, 2017

Since it's pretty obvious Putin is waging war against us in Cyberspace, somebody needs to explain to me why 45* is pushing us so hard to waste our time energy and money increasing our capability for fighting wars in Meatspace.

What was that thing we were supposed to remember about stuff like this? 

Oh yeah.

Politicians and generals always insist on starting out by fighting the previous war

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Today's Internet Theme

Eventually, we'll hear about somebody quitting a job at the White House so they can spend less time with their family.

--thirty-blue million people online

Today's Tweet

The faces of Sexual Assault Awareness And Prevention Month. pic.twitter.com/IMX5ee7KZI

— Talia (@2020fight) April 3, 2017

Gerson

File this one under "about fucking time".

Republicans got an administration that is morally small. Trump’s proposed budget would require massive cuts in disease research, global development and agricultural programs — just as a famine gathers a hideous strength. The proposed budget practices random acts of gratuitous cruelty.

This is a pretty bad combination: empty, easily distracted, vindictive, shallow, impatient, incompetent and morally small. This is not the profile of a governing party.
But then, I look a little closer, and I see the standard "moderate sensible conservative" thing goin' on.

Gerson is providing a way for Repubs to put some distance between themselves and 45* - as usual (driftglass nails this one pretty consistently).

As soon as the voters act on the bullshit that guys like Gerson are always flacking at them, guys like Gerson are always quick to bail.

1. Take whatever shitty things the GOP has been up to and tie them all to (eg) a president
2. Pretend you were never actually in favor of the shitty things "this president has done" (which gives every rube the rationalization for denying ever having voted for that phony traitorous bastard)
3. Make sure nobody even mentions his name at the next convention
4. Find the next guy to front for your fuckery and start again at 1

You may have noticed a slight change in the last dozen or so years.

First of course, there was apparently no such thing as a Republican President since Reagan. And there was no Republican majority anywhere in DC or any of the states where some really shitty things were happening to the GOP's most faithful voters.

Second, rather suddenly in the last few years, not that many folks are doing a whole lotta talking about Reagan either. Possibly because even the dumbest rubes have started to think a little - and they're thinking the Golden Era of the 80s is beginning to look more and more like a very long time ago.

And the kicker - what we've known for a good long time: they've been promised all kinds of sparkly results in return for their party loyalty, but what they've been delivered is little more than balloon filler.

BTW - that Gerson piece was very boiler-platey. We can now look forward to the followup which will attempt to nail it down in terms of "Trumpism" (in order to further distance the GOP from the guy they pimped at us - the guy carrying their fucking flag), and shoehorning it all back into the usual Yeah-But-The-Democrats-Both-Sides bullshit.

Today's Toon

I may have done this one already, but it's just too good - especially the bite marks on his butt.

A Podcast

And the winning phrase for this week is:

"Your government turned itself inside out to try to find a way to rationalize the lunatic ravings of an asshole."

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