Hitler was a very nice fellow until SJWs started calling him a Nazi.: Today in Tweets

@IgnoreSandra

I’m so sorry to hear about your kitty. Pain and guilt are your constant companions during times like these, especially if the circumstances of the leavetaking aren’t ‘ideal’. You have a LOT of self blame if it’s not.

I still feel terrible about how we lost our skinnykitty a couple of years ago, because we weren’t there when the vet helped her cross. The thing is, the spouse dropped her off that morning when he noticed her being off, and then we were called and told it was acute renal failure and gallstones combined with being fifteen, and we weren’t willing to put her through all that pain for our benefit. Maybe we could have been there, but it would have only prolonged her suffering and driving while crying during SoCal rush hour is dangerous. The vet (a lovely lady) said we made the right decision and gave her a kiss from us before the final injection. But we still miss her terribly, and I still feel like I failed her, somehow.

I’m still dreading, as our remaining Coconut is seventeen and showing early chronic renal failure. Other than that she’s in fine fettle, but I’m constantly reminded she’s not immortal and that terrible day will happen again, sooner or later. We’re going to be gutted.

Yes, there’s horribleness going on in the world, but he was *your* kitty and you loved him and love and guilt aren’t rational. Be good to yourself. *hug*

I’m giving a few extra scritches to my scaredicat in honour of yours, Sandra.

FishyGoat,

That’s interesting. Especially since for the time being, this tactic has backfired on the Republicans and made Trump and the right look even worse.

Fucking weev and the Stormer want Heather Heyer’s funeral to “get feet on the ground there.”

kupo
August 14, 2017 at 8:07 pm

@SpukiKitty
I remember you! Mostly because I really like your nym. ? Kitty pics are a good way to get replies. :3

But of course! After all….

….Kitties are DIVINE!

D
August 14, 2017 at 8:29 pm

Of course Trump isn’t un-American; he’s America’s id. But I see where Krugman is coming from. If we ever managed to redefine everyone’s idea of Americanness so that it means what Krugman wants it to mean, that would be the end of the Republican Party.

A commenter on Krugman’s column says this:

“The main thing I wanted to say is that to win, you need a narrative. That Trump is un-American is as good as I’ve ever heard. Trump had a narrative. A despicable narrative, but a narrative just the same. That’s why he won. A similar thing happened in my country, Poland, two years ago which led us to being governed by a radical right-wing (and stupid) regime. Sound familiar? They expressed something people could identify with, however awful that something is. They also won because because the centrist parties had nothing to say except that they provided ‘warm water in the faucet’. The left had no narrative whatsoever… This is serious folks. And it goes way beyond whatever notions of ideological purity or historical correctness you might have. You need a narrative to win and ‘DJT is Un-American’ is the best I’ve heard so far.”

Indeed! It’s important to have a good counter-narrative and counter-voice. Jerks take over when non-jerks sit on their thumbs. The best way to overcome is to refute the opponent and then present something else appealing.

While bigotry has always been a part of America’s DNA, it still goes against the professed ideals in which the Nation was founded. The United States has been hypocritical for too long. Time to be truly the Land of E Pluribus Unum!

@D

They also won because because the centrist parties had nothing to say except that they provided ‘warm water in the faucet’. The left had no narrative whatsoever…

Except that centrist parties aren’t the fucking left, are they. If they were on the left, they wouldn’t be in the damn center. And centrist parties are shit, because they’re fascist appeasers. The left has got a perfectly good narrative, and Americanism’s got nothing to do with it, nor a lack thereof. It’s the one that goes ‘Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!’

@Dalillama

Maybe, but talk like that doesn’t tend to win elections round these parts. Some people are just too afraid of the spectre of “the red menace”.

@weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee

That’s interesting. Especially since for the time being, this tactic has backfired on the Republicans and made Trump and the right look even worse.

Either the bill passed before they realized the damage, or they completely missed that, or they just don’t care.

Unless Trump runs against another candidate as “bad” as Hillary was (she really wasn’t), my parents who have been mostly Independent (and Republican most recently) will be voting against him and most of the rest of the Repubs in next elections. Texas being pretty strongly red in most areas, this may make no difference, but they’re in their early 70s, white, and college educated.

Still can’t convince them that removing Confederate statues is a good idea, because “history”. We’re a young enough country that statue removal isn’t as common as it is in Europe.

Of course we removed many of the early inhabitants “statue-equivalents” when we came over from Europe, but people want to forget that, or say it’s not the same, because “blah savage blah colonies blah”.

This whole “you can drive through protestors” laws thing… I’m hoping it wouldn’t have excused that ass from driving that quickly into a crowd. Knowing how Republicans write legislature though, it probably excused everything including death, “by accident”, unless the driver was a liberal.

@Strawberry Wizard: Bernie Sanders did very well in the primaries with “talk like that”. Enough to maybe have won if the DNC hadn’t stacked the deck against him.

At the same time, corporate Democrats’ avoidance of “talk like that” doesn’t seem to be winning them many elections these days. The less they talk jobs, health care, housing affordability, and public investment, and the more they talk balanced budgets, “free markets”, bipartisanship, and foreign wars of choice, the fewer Democrats (and more importantly, Dem-leaning independents) bother to show up to the polls. Sure, they’re being privileged gits. These voters are mostly white and straight, so they have less to lose than some if a Repub wins. They ought (if in a swing state anyway) to vote Dem to prevent shit like what’s been happening, even if that shit mostly happens to other people. But the fact is, this particular voter segment doesn’t. What would energize them? Someone with a platform that would better their own circumstances.

Unlike the Trump voters, nearly all people who put their racism above their economics interests, the stay-at-homes are people that can be reached. And it’s now been demonstrated that it’s “talk like that” that will reach them, from the way they turned out at the primaries.

Democrats need to run on a platform that combines social justice of the sort the right derides as “identity politics” with economic justice if they want to really sock it to the Republicans in 2018. Those Democratic candidates who ignore economic justice are just as guilty IMO as stay-home left-leaning white voters for letting Republicans walk away with elections. Whether they would really, as some have alleged, rather lose with a corporate-friendly candidate than win with a progressive one is not the issue; that they are losing with corporate-friendly candidates, while the data show they’d stand better chances with progressive candidates, is.

And that’s before observing that some of the corporate-friendly ones are also racism-friendly, dogwhistling and pushing “law and order” and “tough on crime” policies as much as “moderate” Republicans do. I’ve yet to hear any of the progressive wing Dem candidates do those things, though if you have a citation for an instance where one did so, I’ll stand corrected.

Unfortunately, the toxicity of some of Bernie’s supporters is still causing rifts in the party. Someone should probably float the notion of a Kamala/Bernie (or Bernie/Kamala) ticket for 2020 to defuse that until the 2018 elections are done.

@ Sandra

That’s my recurring nightmare for my kitty. She’s relatively healthy according to the vet (barring a thyroid problem that we’re medicating, and near-total deafness), but she’s still pushing 18 years. Far longer than either of the others (her predecessor died at 8 of pneumonia, and her brother was hit by a car ten years ago), and some time back I realized she’s been my cat for over half my life. I’m terrified I’m going to come home one day and find her on the bed not breathing.

Gonna distract myself with Nightcore. Free offer to anyone else who finds speed remixes calming, as well.

EDIT: Oh, geez, especially to you Axe. Starting to think my Youtube lists aren’t up to the task, but please accept condolences (and hugs, if needed). ;_;

Bernie Sanders did very well in the primaries with “talk like that”. Enough to maybe have won if the DNC hadn’t stacked the deck against him.

I know, if it just hadn’t been for the three million “illegals” voting for her – no, wait, that was Trump’s excuse. What was Bernie’s excuse again?