So the right wing media will make a big deal out of any findings, which will probably have some corruption uncovered but of the vanilla, boilerplate variety everyone does in DC, the conservative base will get frothy over it, the libs will Nothingburger it, everyone else will see it as more “both parties are corrupt” background noise, impeached in the house, senate acquits.

“Muh immersion” is the “but what about the children?” for

My favorite Burning Man anecdote was one I read in a magazine about a decade and change ago about San Francisco, right when the last traces of the old hippie counterculture was being snuffed out by techbros. It was a not-rich San Franciscan talking about their difficulties with the housing market. They had a floor they were renting from an old landlord, but the house got bought out by a new owner that promptly told them they were getting kicked out. They went to the new landlord’s floor to ask for an extension as they were having trouble finding new housing. The landlord was in the process of putting on this ridiculous light-up jacket and snapped at them, “Can’t you see I’m getting ready for Burning Man!?” Which says everything about both Burning Man and San Francisco.

That’s pretty much what happens in deep Blue states, a conservative block of Dems always manages to emerge that blocks anything significantly progressive from getting through the legislature

I’d say the difference, besides culture war bullshit, is that neoliberals see western military imperialism as the global police, whereas for neocons they see it as a tool for their right-wing Trotskyite project. Which often is a distinction without a difference, but just that the rationale aren’t the same. Neoliberals need to be convinced that there’s some injustice they’re going to rectify, neocons simply see not being aligned with Western hegemony as a good enough reason to swarm invade and speed run turning the country into bourgeois democracy.

Yes, the old west, free from the government. Except for the homestead act. And the feds constantly pushing back the natives in order to make room for the settlers.

Floridians can take care of their own? Oh, good, so he won’t be asking Washington for any of that big government disaster relief funds.

Subprime Stadium

Where’s the evidence that the Ukrainian soldiers have better training? Blind assumption that Western training is inherently superior?

Surprised they didn’t instruct Bradley to rub his hands together and grin menacingly