Not entirely true, they can’t get enough of art that is exactly like the things they already like. A boring landscape that could have been painted a century earlier? They love that shit.

But if you dare try to get creative (with message or medium) they will demand your head.

You know how the Tesla board voted to gone him a $50 billion compensation package? After child support gets deducted he’s actually making a modest six figure paycheck.

Yeah, but highlighting the horrific shit doesn’t seem to stop them. Maybe highlighting the embarrassing will get them to at least feel shame for once in their lives.

The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn’t look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:

Oh, boy–they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!

And that thought had a brother: “There are right people to lynch.” Who? People not well connected. So it goes.

Robespierre’s cigar cutter?

I’m saying ‘Ira[x] bought a bunch of uranium from Niger’ sounds awfully familiar.

When did it become 2003 again? And why is it one letter off from the way I remember it?

Ernst Rohm (an out gay man) was in the previous iteration right up until he was no longer useful to the state/party apparatus.

Hell, Mussolini was originally a Communist who, I guess, decided he was tired of working on making a better world and decided to settle for immediately making a worse one because at least he’d be in charge of part of it.

Would seem to be, and probably should be if self preservation enters the mind of the person in question, but ideologies, even those that would seem to have a pretty narrow appeal can (at least at a surface level) make themselves appealing to people of all sorts.

Because there’s now an infrastructure built up around him with plans on how to override those checks and balances (Project 2025).

Don’t know what breed I figured Seamus was, but I don’t think I would’ve guessed borzoi.

I seem to recall seeing an infographic (uncertain of its provenance) indicating that one juror listed the NY Post as a frequent news source. That guy’s presence on the jury certainly had me concerned.

Debs ran from prison (for the high crime of telling people that WWI was none of our business and people shouldn’t enlist to get turned toa pink mist in Belgium) in 1920

As for voting as a felon, that varies state to state. I don’t think there’s anyplace that allows people to vote from prison, but quite a few states let convicted felons vote once they’ve completed their sentence and any parole that follows it (and in some states, pay additional fines, which sounds a bit like a poll tax to me, but I’m not one of our nine kritarchs, so what do I know about that sort of thing?)

As for people running for office when they couldn’t vote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton ran for office well before she could have voted, and the first woman elected to Congress (Jeanette Rankin) was elected in 1916, several years before women’s suffrage was added to the constitution, though her state, Montana, had allowed women to vote already.

If a recording of it comes out, it won’t be his undoing, it will be license for the people who like him to join him in saying it.

A farcical accident

News of his attendance at someone else’s party made all future time travelers give him a wide berth.

Instead, because it was established in the middle of our aughts war crime spree, we passed the Invade the Hague if they Arrest any of Our War Criminals Act.

It is and it has been since 1787, but there’s no functional difference between a law not being enforced and the thing the law’s about being legal.

(Art. I, § 9, cl. 8): “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

(Art. II, § 1, cl. 7): “The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.”

(Art. I, § 6, cl. 2): “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.”

When you’re paying 40k a year to attend their hedge fund with a sports team, there shouldn’t be much of any place that’s off limits to you.

And it seems rare that college kids get arrested en masse. So they’re right to be at least a little surprised that this protest got cracked down on so hard.

They invented FSD in the sixties and it makes a handy little loop through downtown Detroit.