The realm in which he picks his fights is full of people who get off on being “above the fray.” Every time he attacks someone who can defend themselves, he quietly stops in a hurry.

More intelligence could do the guy some good. He can’t answer basic questions about things like his responsibility to abide by his sworn oath as well as how many signal leaks there have been at any given moment.

Lol, yes – Let’s hear from a conservative opinion piece and also the founder of Citizens United’s pet propaganda project to make our point about a factual event. I do appreciate the citing though, please keep doing that just with real sources.

Dejoy was step one. This is definitely step 2 or 3 at least. Arguably not making Amazon pay taxes when they’re one of the heaviest users of interstates was also a step…

The irony of that being hosted on NYT is palpable.

2 things missing that are more important than any of that:

Endless money and the freedom to lie endlessly. When you have standards, things take longer. Doing otherwise forms a weak government akin to fascism where you need an enemy at all times.

I guess definitionally Trump sycophants are extremely tolerant of the smell of shit.

It’s almost always a far right individual, even when the target is also far right.

Probably the same symbolic back and forth “will he won’t he” that Bezos and Trump play.

They definitely are, although the most fetishized thing by them is black bulls cucking white men. Seems easy enough to see their criteria is things that flare up their enormous sexual insecurity. Femboys stuff fits that criteria for some of them.

It’s a classic case of, “I made this song for a small audience, and now it has a big audience.” Resulting in wanting to remove things that aren’t acceptable to the big audience, even if they’re obvious. I feel like the right way to handle it was to show regret rather than pretend it’s something else.

If you think a president who extorts the lives of Ukrainians for capital during a war will not extort the lives of Americans for capital at home, you’re unreachable.

You could argue “Brought to your courtesy of the red white and blue” song after 911 was conservative. It’s still devoid of symbolism except for patriotic slop everyone understands

I am very dubious of Oliver Anthony’s attempts to retcon his words. If he didn’t come out and try to gaslight us into thinking it’s about how government food stamps aren’t enough to eat healthy or pigeonholing mental health in there then I’d be more amicable to his childish over simplifications and both-sidisms. It’s fine if you don’t know about politics, but when you lie about your lyrics, your narratives inherently take on new meanings. The lyrics were not symbolic enough to be misinterpreted. He said the government ought not pay for your unhealthy food choices… He meandered about other bullshit in the lyrics, but I guess he forgot to mention the actual thing he was talking about.

I’ve noticed every conservative song can’t quite keep their lack of skills for symbolism for the whole song. The closest they ever came was the dude singing about the rich men north of richmond, but even then, he had to shit on poor people in poor health. Truly a man of the people.

You are the first trans person I’ve ever seen using that slur to describe themselves. Is it a reclaimed word thing?

The only good part of 2024 I remember was when Tim Walz was picked for VP and immediately starting speaking his mind, culminating in the most successful deprogramming phrase against Republicans, “They’re just weird.” Too bad it went back to shit not long after.

God has nothing to do with Israel. It’s also quite the hubris to say their deity has helped them do something that has spread awareness of how evil they are to every corner of the world in ways never known before.

Bezos when someone hacks his phone and threatens to leak his dick pics, “Do it coward, I stand up to bullies.” Bezos when Trump calls him, “Yes sir, thank you sir. You’re going to look the other way on all the labor violations right?”

It’s definitely landlords. See: Rent seeking behavior.