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his chances of raising money and looking like a leader

Note that raising money is the first thing mentioned.

And note that winning elections isn't mentioned at all.

Which neatly sums up what's wrong with the DNC.

With any luck, it will kill google.

I don't see how they can even pretend that it will do anything other than steal website traffic, since the exact point is to provide you with the information you would have gotten if you had gone to the website, leaving no reason to actually go to the website.

So painfully obviously, Google intends to steal the websites' content in order to steal the websites' traffic.

Which would seem to me to be grounds for class action lawsuits on behalf of the entire internet, which, if judged fairly, should bankrupt even that foul beast of a corporation.

And ironically enough, that would almost certainly "rejuvenate the internet." As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single thing that would do more to "rejuvenate the internet" than killing Google.

Because tyrants have a shared interest in not normalizing the killing of tyrants.

There are a number of conservatives who straddle a line such that I can't be sure if they're genuinely stupid or if they're just cultivating that image.

Tuberville isn't one of them though.

But the Trump administration is refusing to reassure them they won’t be subject to retaliation.

That would be because they will be subject to retaliation.

Trump is nothing if not petty and vindictive, and as with all the rest of his many and profound flaws and failures, he's molding the rest of the government into his gross and detestable image.

And as with the rest of his brazen assaults on legal and ethical standards, nobody with any authority will do a single fucking thing about it.

I don't see how it could make any difference.

He's already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it's not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don't care (and likely don't even notice), since they're even dumber than he is.

And it's not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it's pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that's all as natural and automatic to him as breathing..

Really, there's just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it's more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can't see how any loss of it would matter much.

Yow.

Do you genuinely not realize that you just wrote an entire post methodically proving that my analysis of the situation is correct?

My idea of progressivism is something that leads to peace, not backing stupid theocrats that spread violence wherever they go.

If this was true you'd be condemning Israel as well.

It appears to me that your problem is that you're viewing it entirely binaristically.

You're accusimg the leftists who condemn Israel of being pro-Palestine, when that's actually two separate issues, and it's in fact quite easy to condemn the patently evil oppression and slaughter of innocents without supporting the government under which they live.

And at the same time, in your rush to opposevthe undeniable toxicity of Islamic fundamentalism, you're ignoring or excusing the laundry list of atrocities in which Israel engages on a literally daily basis.

If you had the working brain you claim to have, you'd be able to make the small stretch to condemning both Islamic oppression and Zionist oppression, instead of ignorantly treating it as an all or nothing prospect in which opposition to one requires support for the other.

As the proud owner of a Santa Claus beard (though in color and texture, it's more of a Grizzly Adams beard) I would say that the most important thing is to turn the care over to a professional. Just like your hair, don't attempt to manage it yourself (beyond washing, combing and the like). Find a stylist who also does beards and go on a regular schedule and have them trim it and maintain it. And they'll also be able to tell you if you need to do something special to care for it.

We need an entirely new term to refer to this Supreme Court. "Corrupt" isn't even enough to really capture the depths of their malignancy.

And...?

Oh look - a grotesquely incompetent and unqualified Trump appointee. I haven't seen one of those in... an hour or so. Maybe even an hour and a half.