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Comments by Mike Schilling

On “Quiz!

You are correct.

On “Can We Stop With The Anti-Semitism Nonsense About George Soros?

No, I'm going to rely on the fact that no one thought Adelson was a boogeyman that was single-handedly destroying America. I understand the urge to posit Adelson-dislike as equivalent to Soros-hatred, but it's crap.

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I don't recall barrages of "Koch!" aimed at individuals the way "Soros!" has been aimed at Bragg, But Republicans are better at "message discipline".

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And you recall how Democrats used to smear GOP officials as "Adelson-backed".

Oh, you don't? That's because it never happened.

On “Of Drag Queens and Michelangelo’s David

As a Monty Python fan, I think Carol Cleveland in a low-cut top is far more sexual than Terry Jones in a dress.

On “Gavin Newsom’s Absurd War on Walgreen’s For Following The law

which returned laws regarding abortion back to the states where it belongs

As witness a Texas judge being encouraged by anti-abortion groups to ban mifepristone nationwide. As usual, states rights means they haven't get the feds on their side yet.

On “Tucker Carlson Doesn’t Respect His Audience

In another examples of Trumpist's flexible ethics, his attorney Jenna Ellis

1) Accepts censure by the Colorado bar for her lies about the 2020 election.
2) Vehemently denies in her social media that she's ever lied.

On “VIDEO: Who Would Be King?

The electoral college is based on the Holy Roman Empire's, arguing that an American monarch would have been elected for life, with a strong bias for dynastic succession.

On “A Tale of Two Riots

How much does the Democratic Party support Antifa and the Black Bloc?

How much does the Republican Party support the 1/6 rioters?

But, you know, both sides.

On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 2/27/2023

4. Now it's run by Christopher Rufo.

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That feeling of satisfaction you get after completing a post.

On “The COVID Origins Debate Heats Back Up

Chinese stonewalling is consistent with everything.

On “Against ‘National Divorce’

So we'd better not do national divorce by a referendum with a 50% +1 threshold.

On “Horseshoes and the Ukraine War

During WWII Russian Jews were quite likely to be murdered by Nazis. As were Russian non-Jews. And we know what would have happened if the Nazis had won. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

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. I’m not sure that there was much difference in the life of someone living under either regime

If you were Jewish, one made your life much shorter.

On “New Conservatives: Do You Want Vengeance, Or A Solution?

Imagine your leaders being Trump and DeSantis, and thinking there's any other reason you're losing educated people.

On “Thursday Throughput: Masked Astronomer Edition

[ThTh8] And Zeus will cheat with hot chicks all over the galaxy.

On “When the Fox News Guards the Henhouse

We now know that Fox News is who we always knew they were.

On “The Urge to Purge

I'm surprised the more orthodox don't have a catchy nickname for the deviationists. Maybe call them Revolutionaries In. Name Only?

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The real question of 2024 is whether DeSantis is rutles enough to beat Trump.

On “POETS Day! Hilaire Belloc

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

On “POETS Day! William Carlos Williams

I have written
a poem
about
some plums

which does not rhyme
or use metaphor
or allusion
or simile

you might say
that it's nothing
like a poem
or even verse

but you're wrong
it's a poem
because
I said so

On “Hogwarts Legacy: The-Game-That-Must-Not-Be-Named

Some of Twitter thinks the game is anti-Semitic. No idea id that true, false, or questionable.

On “POETS Day! William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

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