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To date, this is how the very few interactions I've had with Never Trumpers have gone, because I want to talk about the Befor...
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“This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really j...
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It seems like the idea that lying is morally wrong, and that that is a bad thing is under full scale attack about now. Sure, there were always liars in politics (remember MSNBC's chronicle of Mitt's mendacity?) but this shit is just on a different level.
So do we just bet that people will eventually reject being lied to all of the damn time? It seems to me that a bunch of them like it that way.
Or perhaps that the lies will eventually catch up to the liars that told them? After all, reality doesn't give a rat's ass about your fantasy world, and you'll eventually forget which lie has to go where and tell on yourself. Perhaps, but by then who will care?
It seems like the only time lying becomes a serious political problem is on those rare occasions (see also: Iraq, invasion of) when lots of people at once directly and publicly suffer because of the lie. And these days the goddamn Republicans just baldface deny it and it goes back to the way we handle lies in general.
This would be an interesting problem if it wasn't so directly and profoundly buggering our country.
Frank Herbert had the concept of Gowachin law, one of the precepts of which was that anyone found lying in a court of law was executed on the spot, but that is just capital punishment for a different crime and not to be trusted any more than it is now.
Goddamn it, we're back to trying to change culture again, or stop it from being changed in bad ways, and that always works so nicely, don't you think? Urf.
Well, we just all do our own little bits and hope for the best, and really, hasn't it always been like that? This iteration is still mostly different from past iterations because it is us standing in harm's way.
When I have to stop myself from picking up something and throwing it at my screen because JD the fuck Vance just said that Fergus saved the ACA, I remember my dad, back in the late sixties when footage from the Vietnam war was on the six o'clock news every night, standing up an yelling at the teevee screen any time one of our soldiers got shot "Why doesn't that camera man have a gun?"
Dad, you were a goddamn Republican, but you got our family the fuck out of Oklahoma the year before I was born and I will always adore you for that.
Thank you again for the podcast. Paperwork, burnt valves, interpersonal strife and changing plans, sure, but progress is being made.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Romancing the Ballot/
Been very anxious and eager to vote already. Got my mail in ballot and all of a sudden. I am previewing it, re viewing it. Planning a sit down with delicious goodies with pleasant music in the background. Considered a candle light moment.
Then, a out for dinner celebration.
I know this, Trump loses he will fade away and it is actually possible for him to flee America to avoid a time out in the pokey.
Like the many rebranding of the GOP base as TEA party and Now MAGA or QANON, GOP will rebrand that same base as something new.
As a republican businessman does, But cheap blankets. Cut off the top 1 foot of the blanket and sew it on to the bottom of the blanket and sell it as new improved and innovative blankets you must have.
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