5953

How have we not mentioned Rand Paul getting attacked?

5954

Jeez, wtf?

5955

If only he’d had a gun he could have protected himself from the neighbor who attacked him behind the walls of his gated community…

5956

The only thing that stops a bad rich white doctor with a flying elbow is a good rich white doctor with a flying elbow?

5957
5958

Vox asks what if Mueller proved his case and the GOP responded by ignoring it?

5959

“I’ll tell you, in Washington education circles, the conversation is already about the post-DeVos landscape, because the assumption is she won’t stay long,” Toch told Politico. "I think she’s been probably one of the most ineffective people to ever hold the job.”

Politico notes that Toch’s assessment was “somewhat harsher” than comments from department employees, since they perceive DeVos as ineffective and deterred from seeking major changes after discovering the limits of her power.

“If there’s one thing DeVos has learned so far, it’s that getting your way in Washington requires time, patience and government savvy — three things she does not have,” the profile bluntly states.

5960

Dude, that belongs in the Trump optimism thread.

5961

Oh. Yeah, that probably would have been a better choice in hindsight.

5962

Sounds like how all the Trump cronies are faring.

5963

The Deep Educational State is preventing DeVos from draining the swamp.

5964
5965

Shocking it wasn’t an ‘Antifa’ hit…

5966

So our libertarian hero can’t resolve a petty dispute with his neighbor without the government intervening.

5967

She just flipped off President Don; she’s going to Disneyland.

5968

The “best” part of that article describes how a director from the same company went all alt-right “cuck” on someone on Facebook account while representing the company… got called on it… and had zero happen to him.

Fuck the corporate cesspool this country has become.

5969

It’s not just this country, but yeah… I couldn’t agree more. We live to serve the corporations these days.

5970

On the bright side, it isn’t necessarily a double standard born of corporatism that explains why her higher-up dude got away scott free. The country could be a misogynistic cesspool and that’s why the guy was cleared. Or since it was the Prez she gave the finger to, perhaps it’s a heavy authoritarian hand hand keeping her down while the higher-up man didn’t irritate powerful enough people. Don’t limit your reasons why injustice thrives!

5971

Well the bird to the president might not have gotten that much attention but them firing her sure has. It’s true, you’re not protected from consequences of speech but this was not racists or sexist or threatening or real vile compared to the other firings we’ve seen.

5973

So much truth:
Enough
https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2017/11/06/enough/

But enough. Enough.

Who are the “special snowflakes” of early 21st Century America, the people whose underwear is too tight, who are too sensitive about everything, who can’t take even the least criticism? No, it’s not some exquisitely tuned 20-year old leftist at a selective private college. It’s the cultural right, the people who curl up into a Rush Limbaugh-endorsed fetal position every time anyone says even the slightest thing that perturbs the preciousness of their world. I get that everyone in all the wide world feels entitled to the integrity of the lifeworld in which they have grown and thrived as human beings. But that entitlement has its limits, and they are at a minimum the classic limits of liberalism: swing your fist if you must, but stop at my nose. In fact, stop well short of it. Right now we have a minority of people in the United States who insist that they can still flail wildly long after they have pummeled everyone else bloody.

If America is not great, it is not for a lack of attention to our sensitive right-wing snowflakes. They said: hands off our guns. Well, we stand now at the moment of the most intense judicial restraint on any attempt to restrict gun ownership and use in the history of this republic. They said: lower our taxes! We are the least taxed liberal democracy on the planet, we are 37 years into a national regime of ceaseless tax reduction. They said: cut the welfare state, get rid of the safety net! The safety net has been cut, the great revolution of the late 19th and early 20th Century in favor of public goods is nearly totally undone. They said: stop teaching our children what we don’t want them to know. Creationism is back in schools, the government is actively hostile to science, it’s ok for the top leaders of this country to endorse historical falsehoods and insist they be taught to the nation’s children. They said: we’re too free to see pornography and get divorced and live together outside of marriage and take drugs. And where is it that pornography is most popular and adultery flourishes and opoids and meth take hold? In Trumplandia, where people apparently need the Nanny State to stop them from doing what they blame on others who do it far less. They said: stop crime at all costs! And thirty years later, they’re still afraid in a country that locks up more of its own people than any other comparable nation, that allows cops to kill black men with impunity.
…
What is not small is the catastrophe of this historical moment. That a nation with so much possibility, so much hope, so much to give to the future, should be now gripped so tightly by cruelty, fear and triumphal malice is one of the great tragedies of human history to this point. The President exemplifies it, but he is not where it all comes to rest. It comes to rest with the people who at every turn and at every moment bare their lightly bruised flesh and insist, against all common sense, that they bleed from stigmata. Who look to every pointless massacre that they wish to excuse and call for prayer, but turn to every other pointless massacre that they wish to curse and call for suffering.