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Re: The Most Powerful Political Figure in American History

LynnDee — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:47:23 -0000

I'm not a historian, so maybe someone who is can do a better job of this. But -- and this isn't to disagree with Erik Loomis's assertion -- shouldn't we at least acknowledge a bunch of contributing factors, starting with our hollowed-out institutions that made collapsing them with a good strong exhale surprisingly easy for Trump to do? Probably ought to include our original sin in there too.

Re: Randy Barnett’s unending trauma over a black man having been president

LynnDee — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:55:10 -0000

I didn't think Barnett was making a joke. But I did think he thought he was being clever -- which of course he wasn't.

Re: Women in Hegseth’s Military

LynnDee — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:54:43 -0000

Fine. I'm guessing not enough to put Ilsa in a position of power in the chain of command. Sounds extra-curricular to me.

Re: Fox News Grandpa very flattered by thoughtful gift from dictator

LynnDee — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:44:07 -0000

Lol. So now it’s 10 wars he’s managed to resolve. (That’s counting “pre-wars.”)

Fcking putz.

Re: Women in Hegseth’s Military

LynnDee — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:34:08 -0000

I don't think so. They might want "hot babes" around but not in positions of power.

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING WHETHER A BIDEN WITHDRAWAL WOULD HAVE SAVED THE DEMOCRATS IN 2024

LynnDee — Wed, 14 May 2025 19:49:16 -0000

Moron alert

Re: Good News

LynnDee — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:15:54 -0000

I remember that. One of those precocious leftists who surprised no one by making a hard right.

Re: Dementia

LynnDee — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:00:36 -0000

I don't know. How is this dementia rather than, say, raging megalomania?

Would someone with dementia look at a map of North America and describe the border between the U.S. and Canada as "artificial ... [drawn] right through it"? It's like he's on LSD and wearing some cognitive version of night vision goggles. Crazy maybe, but I don't know if it qualifies as dementia.

Re: Dunces of the Confederacy

LynnDee — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:41:16 -0000

Lol. The original statement, however, said nothing about where the New Zealander went, and I didn't think that was even a factor. Kind of a key piece of information, it turns out.

Re: The appropriate response to RFK Jr. is to destroy him

LynnDee — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:38:37 -0000

I burst out laughing at the title of this piece.

Re: Dunces of the Confederacy

LynnDee — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:42:57 -0000

This was somewhat mysterious to me, but upon googling, and coming upon a similar claim involving two U.S. states, I'm guessing you probably should've said the New Zealander who left his country went to Australia? If so ... lol. If not, I remain baffled.

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: The Canadian Peril

LynnDee — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:45:57 -0000

Quote: "Gerardus Mercator has a lot to answer for."

Well, Euclid certainly does.

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE WINGNUTS IN AMERICA THINK THEIR WORST SUSPICIONS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED, RIGHT?

LynnDee — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:29:48 -0000

So, Gen. Milley broke the chain of command, which he shouldn't have done. Many will also feel he did the right thing. Both things will be true. I sometimes think that's the built-in fail-safe -- someone will do the right thing by violating the Constitution in some fashion and then, as he (or she) must, fall on his sword, because that is the price that must be exacted to prevent this sort of thing from becoming commonplace.

Will Biden want him to resign? If so, I assume that's what will happen. But what if he doesn't? In fact, at this point what do we have? We have a book by Woodward and Costa, who (Woodward, that is) has a history of coming up with "exclusives that read as a bit too good to check." (That's from Josh Marshall.) Do you ask for someone's resignation based on a book that doesn't disclose its sources? And if no one comes forward to vouch for the veracity of this or that revelation?

Maybe it's just my mood, but at the moment I feel like Milley should just lie. (Again, this is assuming Biden doesn't want his resignation.) Or if that's a bridge too far (and I suppose it is), then just refuse to confirm or deny. And stick on that.

Steve says he believes Trump was unlikely to drop a bomb on a foreign enemy under the circumstances. Maybe that's right. Steve has great instincts about a lot of things, but how can any of us know what Trump was likely to do? And Milley was right there, in the proverbial room.

So I guess we'll see.

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: WHY IS KEVIN DRUM MEASURING WHAT EACH PARTY'S VOTERS SAY AND NOT WHAT EACH PARTY'S POLITICIANS DO?

LynnDee — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:16:16 -0000

Wow. So shifts in partisan satisfaction with gun laws are to be understood as the result of Dems losing their minds and not the result of rightward changes in the gun laws themselves??!! That's crazy.

Re: Our Political Elites

LynnDee — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:14:57 -0000

You're correct on the extension of O.C. thing. And of course, it's not a compliment.

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: HOW IT STARTED/HOW IT'S GOING

LynnDee — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:52:26 -0000

Jeez. Kurt's taking this really hard. He's not even willing to wait and see if it's just a spat or a misunderstanding.

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: IS IT FRAUD IF YOU'RE A CREDULOUS CRACKPOT?

LynnDee — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 03:15:29 -0000

I'm picturing him the morning of Jan. 20 as a valet holds up two outfits on hangers, one in each hand: "The white strait jacket, sir? Or the orange jumpsuit?"

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: IS IT FRAUD IF YOU'RE A CREDULOUS CRACKPOT?

LynnDee — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:35:05 -0000

I'm not convinced Trump believes he won Georgia. I think he's utterly indifferent to whether he "technically" won, he thinks objective truth is beside the point because all that really matters is PR, and he bullshits the way the rest of us breathe.

Re: ‘Your Honor’ Episode 4 Spoilers: Will Margo Martindale's Elizabeth expose Adam's crime and go against Michael?

LynnDee — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:01:59 -0000

Margo Martindale isn't old enough to be Brian Cranston's mother, but she's certainly old enough to be his mother-in-law ... all you have to do is assume his deceased wife (Robin) was a lot younger than her husband.

Re: I Hate Oregon Nazis

LynnDee — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:50:41 -0000

And let's not forget the eastern portion butting up right into white supremacist Idaho!

Re: Happy Solstice

LynnDee — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:49:40 -0000

Speaking just mathematically, it's obviously possible as long as there isn't another day that has both a later sunrise and an earlier sunset.

Re: More on Yalie Hedge Fund Elegy

LynnDee — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:07:46 -0000

Lol. You're welcome. Now it's all worthwhile.

Re: More on Yalie Hedge Fund Elegy

LynnDee — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:01:58 -0000

I threw this book across the room many times while reading it. I had really looked forward to reading it and wanted to like it. But it was terrible for any number of reasons. With regard specifically to GOP talking points (and bullshit arguments in support thereof), Vance's defense of payday lenders was particularly egregious. He gave as a personal example of when payday loans can be useful a time as a student when he needed to pay a bill -- rent, I think. He had the money, having just received a paycheck from his part-time job, but he didn't have cash on hand (which he needed to pay the rent) and wouldn't until the following Monday. Too proud to ask for help (roll eyes), or to explain the situation to his landlord (roll eyes again -- personal responsibility, you see), he got cash from a payday lender to pay the rent, then promptly repaid the loan on Monday.

Well, gosh darn, JD. If you have the money to repay the payday loan on the following business day, you just aren't in the same fucking situation as most of the people who fall prey to payday lenders, now are you?

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: HAVE YOU PEOPLE LEARNED NOTHING?

LynnDee — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 12:02:35 -0000

Yeah, this is bad. So is what Hillary is apparently doing, I gotta say. Even if she's successful, at what cost?

Re: No More Mister Nice Blog: COULD WE ALL UNITE AROUND SANDERS?

LynnDee — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:35:57 -0000

And if Bernie is the nominee, I may spend some time on twitter immediately after he clinches it telling his supporters I intend to vote for Jill Stein. Is that bad?