A Quote

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

--R Scott Bakker, from The Judging Eye

Say What, JD?

It's close to a dead solid cinch that there's a subtext here. Cuz this is pretty extreme, and this kinda thing is never about what it seems like it's about on the surface.

What kind of idiot politician do you have to be to tell people they're lying about enjoying a holiday meal - and then turn right around and say you're going with that holiday meal yourself?

Paranoid Mike says this is JD Vance trying to condition people in uniform to go along with whatever he says.

Today's Amanda

Because Trump Is Soft On Crime

Today's Today

Happy Thanksgiving, boys and girls

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Today's Belle

DC is selling us out, as Republicans hold all the levers of power.

Shouldn't that tell us pretty much exactly what their real mission is?

Republicans have always

hated our traditions of

democratic self-government.

Their project is

to tear it all down

and replace it with

a corporate plutocracy.

Today's Robert

"Something is shifting. Something deep and old and electric is waking up in the marrow of this country."

A Quote And More

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."

--Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

If you're not a jerk who likes to shit on people, how do you justify this? What has you thinking it's OK to put your neighbors thru this?

Amanda

Today's Erika

1. Inflate the legend
2. Merge with the most loyal believers
3. Declare reality optional