all the righties saying Trumps election would lead to riots or equivalent misbehavior by the Dems or the Left are now proven entirely and completely wrong and they should be expected to cop to that.
I didn't take it as a criticism of Fetterman. I took it as a plain statement that someone somewhere was saying something obviously stupid about Fetterman and asking who said it.
Apparently, nobody.
Hoosegow Flask is not saying Republicans do not, in fact, have agency. He's repeating a common internet meme that Republicans -- falsely -- disclaim agency for their own choices, hiding behind the "look what you made me do" defense.
But you probably know that.
It's entirely possible that somebody did say something like that in the '80s or '90s, and almost certain that he was harking back to the common misunderstanding of what Kael said.
Bezos owns a newspaper and can do what he wants. Like anyone else who owns a newspaper. And the rest of us can point and laugh. Or cancel our subscriptions.
You are perfectly free to start a newspaper and run it on those principles. But your principles are just that -- your principles. They are not baked into the cake of the moral universe, grounded in the history of journalism (quite the opposite, in fact), or anything else. Of course freedom of the press is for those who own one, but who knows, you might hit the lottery
And inflation happened everywhere, in countries where Joe Biden wasn't President, and where both right-ish and left-ish governments were in power. We came out of it a lot better than most of those other countries. The incumbent parties in most of those countries took a pounding, and so did the Democrats. Did they all, or did any of them, deserve it? Even asking the question is a mistake. As JFK once said: "Life isn't fair."
Remember "Kamala is a cop"? And she actually did talk about her experiences as a prosecutor talking to victims. Fat lot of good it did her. And the people who voted against her wouldn't have paid attention or believed her anyway, because "those people" are soft on crime no matter what they say or do.
Saying "crime is bad" isn't a policy. Talking honestly about the hard, boring slog of actually investigating and prosecuting crimes, and establishing sensible enforcement priorities within the limits of the resources taxpayers are willing to provide is a crashing bore unless you spice it up with frothing savagery.
Most of the time, they don't even do that. How hard would it be to say: "The whole world went through economic hell starting with COVID. The whole world experienced inflation the like of which we haven't seen in decades. It hurt for as long as it lasted. We felt your pain and we worked very hard to help people through it. We succeeded, better than any other country in the world, breaking inflation without setting off a recession. A lot of people said it couldn't be done, but we did it, and our recovery was the envy of the rest of the world. Inflation is mostly dead, and has been for about a year. The economy is humming. The stock market is at record highs. Those are facts. We did all that, with almost no help from the other party. but there is more to be done -- [fill in details]."
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On “How Republicans Can Save Trump’s Presidency”
I'm sorry, I thought I was dealing with an adult.
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all the righties saying Trumps election would lead to riots or equivalent misbehavior by the Dems or the Left are now proven entirely and completely wrong and they should be expected to cop to that.
Expected by whom, and on what basis?
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Well, yes. That's why I said "Normal Presidents."
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Normal Presidents don't seem to have much trouble finding people generally regarded as qualified.
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Romney and McCain didn't need to run on I'm Not That Guy, because it was obvious on visual inspection.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024”
I saw him at another blog a few hours ago. He seemed fine. Should I let him know you're concerned?
On “The Four Stages of Post-election Cruelty”
You don't get it. Jaybird, and only Jaybird, gets to be a moral scold here.
On “An Election Map that Asks “What if Only Educated People Voted?” and a Follow-up Question”
Explains a lot.
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I've long said that some folks here don't really have politics at all, only aesthetics.
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Related:
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On “Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024”
Is Gaetz more interested in the Justice Department than the Justice Department is interested in Gaetz?
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If you say that's what you meant to say, then I assume that's what you meant to say. English be hard.
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I didn't take it as a criticism of Fetterman. I took it as a plain statement that someone somewhere was saying something obviously stupid about Fetterman and asking who said it.
Apparently, nobody.
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You’ll always have a handful of people saying something like “Fetterman is the most influential senator to sit in that chamber since Lyndon Johnson!”
I'll take three -- two if one of them is someone people have actually heard of.
On “He Got Away With It”
Hoosegow Flask is not saying Republicans do not, in fact, have agency. He's repeating a common internet meme that Republicans -- falsely -- disclaim agency for their own choices, hiding behind the "look what you made me do" defense.
But you probably know that.
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Your rules, your move.
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Wasn't there supposed to be "an actual conversation" next?
On “The Shepherds have a Credibility Problem”
It's entirely possible that somebody did say something like that in the '80s or '90s, and almost certain that he was harking back to the common misunderstanding of what Kael said.
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I'm sure you would. What it might contribute to the point under discussion is obscure, but what else is new?
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Bezos owns a newspaper and can do what he wants. Like anyone else who owns a newspaper. And the rest of us can point and laugh. Or cancel our subscriptions.
"
You are perfectly free to start a newspaper and run it on those principles. But your principles are just that -- your principles. They are not baked into the cake of the moral universe, grounded in the history of journalism (quite the opposite, in fact), or anything else. Of course freedom of the press is for those who own one, but who knows, you might hit the lottery
On “Trumped”
And inflation happened everywhere, in countries where Joe Biden wasn't President, and where both right-ish and left-ish governments were in power. We came out of it a lot better than most of those other countries. The incumbent parties in most of those countries took a pounding, and so did the Democrats. Did they all, or did any of them, deserve it? Even asking the question is a mistake. As JFK once said: "Life isn't fair."
"
Remember "Kamala is a cop"? And she actually did talk about her experiences as a prosecutor talking to victims. Fat lot of good it did her. And the people who voted against her wouldn't have paid attention or believed her anyway, because "those people" are soft on crime no matter what they say or do.
Saying "crime is bad" isn't a policy. Talking honestly about the hard, boring slog of actually investigating and prosecuting crimes, and establishing sensible enforcement priorities within the limits of the resources taxpayers are willing to provide is a crashing bore unless you spice it up with frothing savagery.
"
I'll go with facts versus vibes, even if vibes win in the short term. Especially if you don't put them out there early, often, and hard.
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Most of the time, they don't even do that. How hard would it be to say: "The whole world went through economic hell starting with COVID. The whole world experienced inflation the like of which we haven't seen in decades. It hurt for as long as it lasted. We felt your pain and we worked very hard to help people through it. We succeeded, better than any other country in the world, breaking inflation without setting off a recession. A lot of people said it couldn't be done, but we did it, and our recovery was the envy of the rest of the world. Inflation is mostly dead, and has been for about a year. The economy is humming. The stock market is at record highs. Those are facts. We did all that, with almost no help from the other party. but there is more to be done -- [fill in details]."
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