Regardless of his general awareness of Project 2025’s schemes, I have a feeling his mind tends to, as a general default, wander back to nonsense like his stupid ballroom, or finding ways to insult better Presidents with dumb plaques he writes the text for, or slapping his name on the Kennedy Center, or his beef with Rosie O’Donnell, etc.

If they weren’t so high on their own supply, virtually anyone could have told them this years ago.

I was watching the Bulwark guys react to the way Gen Z is going on the right and it was certainly interesting. Tim is a former Republican and if he didn’t see this trend starting years ago, I don’t know how he could have missed it…

I’m sure they thought they were The Good Ones.

Derrrrrrp.

The video from this was wild.

I think that word is designed for someone like Noem.

Yeah. I mean I understand that for a very large population - the boomers - the Watergate thing was extremely formative for the time. But when someone tries to tell me that Iran/Contra was not as bad as Watergate? I just don’t get that. It’s just like what you say - it sounds like some wild-eyed black helicopter thing when you read it out loud. It also reads like a rather salacious Hollywood plot when you add in that Ollie North, decades later - in 2025 - married the secretary (Fawn Hall) that helped him shred documents…Fawn Hall also dated Rob Lowe because he saw her in the trial…and she was offered lots of money to pose nude.

Ever since Watergate, a -gate is added to every scandal, even after Iran/Contra, even though Iran/Contra seems remarkably worse. I guess at that point, the boomers and the Silent Generation were jaded and had PTSD by so many things that came before, but…wow. Also, Gen X is a much smaller set of people, so their opinion on it or impressions didn’t really matter, and Gen Y was much too young or not born.

Could not agree more.

If only it was the boomers that had to wake up.

Isn’t that part of their job? To tour things like this?

John McCain earned a lot of respect when he rejected an attack on Obama and pointed out that Obama was a decent person and family man who merely disagreed with McCain on some political issues.

Well, from normal people, he earned respect for being truthful about this.

From the far right, he got labeled a “RINO” and was considered a “squish” and so on. But this same bunch also felt betrayed by McCain voting down their attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans, too.

The conservative playbook is to never admit you were wrong and definitely never apologize and just continue with the Gish Gallop. Also, follow The Blessed Saint Ronnie Raygun’s (PBUH) 11th commandment - Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

In other words…she fucking LIED the first time around. And this time around she’s expecting us to believe that toddlers are carrying out violence that requires tear gas? How is endangering the lives of toddlers keeping anyone safe? So, more lies. When I see her sitting there and giving bald-faced lies to reporters, I think that’s the same face she had as she murdered her dog and goat. It looks like you are just watching a psychopath reel off their talking points.

Also, remember how the right lost their minds over things like Jade Helm and how Obama The Kenyan Usurper was going to seize Texas or whatever?

These fucking assholes are unironically giving names like “Operation Metro Surge” to their terrorism conducted on Americans. It’s clearly just a pretext to do the worst things to areas and people not sufficiently loyal to conservatism’s aims.

If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.

He did start babbling about it early in his second failed term. And I did see attempts to sanewash this talk about Greenland in places like The Atlantic, for example.

But yeah, the messaging on this has been extremely scattershot.

That is wild. I wonder why Greenland would be the tipping point?

Usually conservatives practically swoon at the notion of invading and occupying things, despite all their talk about “America first”, it’s usually really Israel first, Americans dead last, and when it’s time to bomb/invade something, they are balls-deep on the cheer-leading.

There is a bit of small print when it comes to worthy victims vs. unworthy victims.

Same. He has a history going back decades even before he ran for office and before he was given that stupid game show that gave a lot of halfwits the idea he was Good At Bidness (and Being Good At Bidness == Good At Presidency, naturally).

He’s always been a vainglorious evil piece of shit failson and evidence for him being quite racist goes back to the 70s.

Well, isn’t Pam Blondie’s DOJ “investigating” the wife of the victim?

California is one of the few states (most) Americans would not want to give up.

How about some of the Deep South?

Well, the domestic policy is not exactly Sermon on the Mount stuff, either.

Hm, so weird.

I thought this was conspiracy theory, at least according to the corporatist media, the Elevated Centrists, and certainly Donvict himself.

Right now, it’s next to impossible to tell the difference. Even in cases where the ICE activity is “legitimate”, it looks like a kidnapping. Some of these people are unable to be located for long periods of time.