If you are maga, and upset about your travel being canceled, just take solace in knowing that trump is getting his big beautiful ballroom. The skyrocketing price of groceries is nothing to worry about because Musk just got a trillion dollar compensation package. Being furloughed or fired is fine, as long as those filthy immigrants are gettin’ bagged and booted, ammiright?

As it becomes increasingly difficult to travel, or eat, or get healthcare, just rejoice in that you live in the greatest country in the world.

Pedant gonna pedant.

I for one am 100% done with giving soldiers any grace on these matters.

I’d been wondering what Kyrsten Sinema was up to these days.

In our fucked up society money buys relevance.

I’m going to say it again. If you are active duty, and you follow these orders, you an enemy of this nation.

Remember back when Apple’s achievements revolved around making great products?

Perhaps if we build him a bunker under the east wing, he will continue to emulate his hero.

I don’t know if this happens, or if it doesn’t. There should be zero tolerance for even joking about this. The only thing that I will assert is this: If this happens, and some combination of: another branch of government, state governments, the public, law enforcement, the military, and the media, don’t immediately halt everything and throw his as in out, then the United States is over. I don’t mean ‘over’as a descriptor for decline. I mean it’s just immediately done. There is no nation, there are no laws and we have no constitution. The entire project ceases to exist immediately.

That’s cool. Apparently the school didn’t give a shit.

Well, if there was at that time (I’m talking about around 1990), it certainly didn’t come into play at that school.

I was regularly detained when I refused to participate. As I stated in an earlier comment, this was a private school that felt entitled to be forceful about things like this. I don’t know if the situation was different at the area public schools at that time. BTW, this was 35 years ago, in case that’s relevant.

Is forced the right word? Maybe. Did they beat me? No. I was certainly compelled to do it and punished whenever I didn’t. I went to a private school that regularly expelled students for things like causing disorder. That didn’t happen to me although I was retained after school day after day when I had enough stamina to resist the brainwashing. This went on for years.

I was forced to stand and pledge allegiance to the flag every week day for four years as a US high school student. Just sayin’.

He needs to be hung upside down in DuPont Circle.

Sounds extremely rational in the context of US trade policies.

By “antifa”, Beck means any person or organization with beliefs that disagree with the administration, or work to counteract the administration, or support those who oppose the administration.

Beck, the administration, and law enforcement are just adopting this as a framework to violently assert power, further dismantle democracy, and suppress any form of dissent. This is straightforward fascism, in motion, in the open.

I know that these points are obvious, but I just feel compelled to articulate them.

The United States really feels like being locked in an asylum with a bunch of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world.

People are concerned about authoritarian overreach, so the state decides to step in and do authoritarian overreach in response.

I would like to hear all the very strong and principled second amendment “don’t tread on me” cosplayers, who have been lathered up about this very danger my whole life, explain to me why they aren’t setting up sniper positions right now to counter the deployment of these troops.

I continue to believe that Vance is literally a Nazi. I don’t mean ‘Nazi’ as shorthand for a racist right wing shitbag, or even just a run of the mill fascist. He is those things too. But, I mean an actual, sieg heil-ing, has a swastika flag in his basement, occasionally dresses in the brown shirt, arm band wearing Nazi.