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1. 10 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Dueling impulses – pro-CEO and pro-gun.

2. 18 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I didn’t say those proponents were right – just that that is their justification for capital punishment

3. 18 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   In TX they are

4. 18 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Except “executed” doesn’t mean the same for corporations. They can be broken up and sold off, which is as close as the metaphor can stretch, but they aren’t people because they have no individual sentience.

   People who support the death penalty say it’s a deterrent from the worst criminal behavior. But in this metaphor, the corporation’s decisions are made by the amoral cancer cells in the brain.

5. 18 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Until they can be put in jail…

6. 24 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   At the time he resigned, the vast majority of Nixon’s criminality was not public knowledge – the real weaponization of the doj, the fbi, the irs, heck even the postal service. Nixon’s treason to get elected in 1968.

   Now all that stuff is public knowledge and the gop still falsely say he was “unjustly hounded from office”

7. 24 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   When Nixon resigned he still had ardent supporters

8. 25 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Forget Pickety… Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (the capitalist bible) advocated for taxing the rich

9. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

   I heard a segment on the news yesterday. A reporter went around talking to immigrant communities in NYC, and it was kind of mind-boggling – green card holders saying “I wish I could vote for trump! I came here legally!” Same with recent immigrants. Ignoring the fact that trump’s first administration slashed legal immigration too.

   They even talked to illegal (still) immigrants rooting for trump – “I’ve been here for decades! He’s talking about the new riff-raff! Throw them out!” Completely ignoring trump promising to deport 20 million people (do the math; that includes you).

   Just like trump and musk could have a multi-hour circle jerk talking about how much they hate unions and want to break them – and yet pick up so much blue collar support.

   It makes me think of that Simon and Garfunkle song – “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

10. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

    It doesn’t get pointed out enough, but on top of the batshit crazy legal “reasoning” of the opinion, the corrupt 6 put themselves in the position of declaring what’s “official” and what’s not. And they clearly intend to rule any corruption by trump as “official” and everyone else is left to their own devices.

    So as long as anyone listens to them, they will protect republican corruption. But if you stop listening to them, you’re sliding down the slope to the dictatorship they’re enabling anyway. Lose – lose.

    And without any apparent shame or integrity, they’re already talking about Attorney General Aileen Cannon. Why not? The corrupt 6 legalized COD bribery last session