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Jay Hansen (I.C.E.B.U.R.G.)'s avatar

Have you met Joe Manchin? Kyrsten Sinema? Dianne Feinstein? Senility would only occur in one of these cases, but adulthood occurs in none.

Cletus Safari backs Ukraine's avatar

I suspect that, if the Northern elites in 1861 had just said, "Fine, there's the door; don't let it hit your dumb Rebel asses on the way out", the truncated USA would still have become one of the world's wealthiest and strongest nations, and probably more social-democratic to boot--while the CSA would have become a banana republic, only with English instead of Spanish, and cotton instead of bananas.

Daniel's avatar

I mean, it is presumably pretty valid to ask why there wasn't better security- it's just this is not the time nor the place to do that. The issue in a murder trial is not why no one stopped the killer.

Bageled Mind Virus's avatar

how did the old adage go? psychopaths don't know that what they're doing is wrong, and sociopaths know that what they're doing is wrong, but are doing it anyway.

Bageled Mind Virus's avatar

devoid of anything but irrational hate, and greed.

Bageled Mind Virus's avatar

how did the old adage go? psychopaths don't know that what they're doing is wrong, and sociopaths know that what they're doing is wrong, but are doing it anyway.

janinedm's avatar

She's worse. MGT is a for-real crazy person. Collins knows better but never does better.

CatsNKY's avatar

I had no idea...this is terrifying to let one person have that much power over a SUPERPOWER richest nation in the world...holy bananas batman.

SammyDEEEE's avatar

THE DEBT CEILING IS MADE UP AND COMPLETELY UNCONSTiTUTIONAL

STOP GIVING IN TO THIS SHIT

CALL THEIR BLUFF

rtpoeman's avatar

When the "white penis havers" left the country better off on the whole than it was before, when their good qualities outweigh the bad, sure.

pstokk's avatar

And with a slave economy.

LeighBowery'sLuxuryComedy's avatar

Sorry, Schumer, but you're only half right: American Democrats pay their debts. Rethuglicants welsh on them and then laugh about it.

JoeChristmas's avatar

McQarthyism 2.0 is lame.

pstokk's avatar

Krugman. Save yourselves some time and trouble.https://www.nytimes.com/202...