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We now return you to Epstein-ICE III: The Reckoning, brought to you by Soma. Use only as directed.
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Hypocrisy Tournament
The Ethical Gaming Society will be hosting a Hypocrisy Tournament for the next two months. The rules are below.
Hypocrisy Game Rules
Create a random list of six (6) identities or groups of people. Create a random list of six (6) evils.
The game is played by rolling two dice. Each player rolls the dice. On each roll:
1. Use the leftmost dice to pick an identity or group of people from the list of identities/groups. Use the rightmost dice to pick an evil from the list of evils.
2. Ask yourself, "Am I Ok with this identity or group of people engaging in this evil?"
3. If the answer is "No," eat a Hershey's Kiss. If the answer is "Yes," swat yourself once in the face with a flyswatter.
The winner will be determined by a dentist checking for whoever has the most cavities.
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Democrats Have to Be More Than the Anti-Trump Party
The moment is ripe to deal a debilitating blow to Trumpism and the MAGA movement.
Right-wing populism is staggering. Democrats are not only favored to win back control of the House, but they also have a long-shot chance of taking over the Senate.
President Trump’s favorability ratings on both his job performance and the issues that propelled him into the White House have nose-dived. The ICE and Border Patrol killings in Minnesota have focused public attention on the dangers of autocratic rule. His second term has been dominated by a bizarre combination of narcissism, corruption and a lurching foreign policy.
But if Democrats are to succeed in excising the Trump malignancy from the body politic, their party faces a major hurdle: public distrust, if not downright animosity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/opinion/democrats-trump-midterms-future.html
Imo, this is the way to win.
Americans on the left and right finally agree on something
It's okay to bring loaded weapons to protests. Yay!
Although this may seem like an unmixed blessing, it might actually turn out to be a problem in the future. We should keep an eye on it.
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It's the Economy, Stupid!
It's not "democracy." It's not Epstein. It most certainly isn't angels vs. devils.
It's hard-working, honest, friendly people living comfortably and securely. That's the job. That's the way to win elections. From my perspective, that's where the real passion is as well.
(Obviously, credit to Carville for the immortal phrase in the title.)
Really hoping the Islamic Republic is destroyed
Young folks may not remember these lowlife taking over Iran in 1979. They took American hostages, and they destroyed Jimmy Carter's Presidency. To my mind, they still haven't paid the fiddler.
My arch-conservative uncle strikes again
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We were all just sitting there talking about movies and music and sports, and my uncle has to jump in. Typical.
He actually said, "Women need to be much more modest. They need to listen to their husbands and fathers."
So, I came back with, "No, women should be able to wear whatever they want to wear. And they are equals."
He glared at me. We've never gotten along.
Later, we were talking about a gay celebrity. And, of course, he comes out with "Homosexuality should be outlawed and severely punished."
And I said, "No, people should be allowed to be attracted to whoever they are attracted to, as long as they are adults."
He glared at me. We've never gotten along.
We finally got into politics, normally my favorite subject. But he ruined it of course. He's very religious.
I said, "I love the Constitution. And I love democracy. It lets the people decide how we govern ourselves."
He comes back with, "As long as what the people decide is approved by religious leaders. They have to run things, because only they know what things are right and wrong."
"Nope," I said. "I have the right to not care what your religion thinks is right and wrong."
He glared at me. We've never gotten along.
That's the way
I don't know if he's actually Muslim. Apparently, he has an Arab name, and, at least statistically, he's likely to be Muslim. But he could also be Christian. I guess we'll find out.
But if he is Muslim, he can be an example for all of Islam. That they should stand up and fight their morons, their psychos, their arch conservative, homicidal, execrable lowlife. Purge them. Excommunicate them. Ostracize them. Turn them over to the authorities.
Pay less than zero attention to the sweetie pies of any ilk who want to accept fat-headed murderers on the grounds that they are "brown." Ostracize and decenter the sweetie pies too. Send them to the corner to pick up their dunce caps and suck their thumbs.
I saw a post on X where the Muslim community wanted nothing to do with the body of the piece of filth who committed these crimes. That's the way.
We'll either cool off or pay at the polls next year
Love your post. Well said.
Because of social media and the legacy media business model of getting all our hormones in an uproar, we're unfortunately going to be very vulnerable to steering ourselves into a ditch.
We can hope. Maybe people will count to ten, really think this thing through, tune out everybody who's sweating, whose face is a little too red, and who's standing on the table. Those folks, for the information of all, belong squarely on the list of non-leaders.
We have to trust. We have to back each other. We have to stay cool. Or Trump and the Republicans are just going to laugh at us.
Right now, we have the proper definition of the word "irony" being demonstrated. The folks who are angry about not getting the health care subsidies extended are so angry that they're going to weaken our position in December for getting the subsidies extended.
What was the plan for the SNAP brick wall?
If there was one, I don't remember seeing any good plays coming out of it. I hope there was a plan, because failing to plan is planning to fail as everyone knows.
From the outside, it looked to me like some were just going to hope Trump wouldn't appeal the last SNAP decision from lower courts and would just fund it fully. I think that's unlikely, unless he got visited in the night by Thanksgiving ghosts.
Barring spectral intervention, if Trump did appeal, the hope might have been that the Supreme Court would rule against him. I admit I don't know which way they would have gone. But they tend to agree with him most of the time.
Meanwhile, people were going to go hungry. If ever there was a need for a plan to prevent something, it's that. The compromise does that.
Personally, as I understand it, I think we got the best win we could expect. People have food through September of next year. We strengthened our ownership of the affordability issue. We pushed the ownership of the health care premium spike to Republicans. The current compromise only lasts until January 30th when the government can shut down again. And I certainly hope it won't.
If we could have planned this outcome, it would have been a pretty good plan.
I think we should take the win and not try to turn it into a loss. If folks choose to make us feel like we lost, then I'd like an explanation of the practical path to victory we missed taking. I'm not talking about accepting the prospect of hungry people, accepting federal workers going without pay, and making fierce-sounding YouTubes and tweets. I'd like an explanation of how we would have avoided hunger, gotten federal workers paid, and somehow gotten the Republicans to capitulate on the premium subsidies.
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