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| Drawing by Neal Obermeyer, September 2009. |
I guess it's because everybody knows at some level everybody knows Republican concern with "law and order" is aimed at criminals of color, not "people like us" who always have presumption of innocence and mitigating factors like their mom was mean to them.
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
Of course this attitude gets reinforced by the fact that they usually get away with it. Greitens's guilt was obvious (even to the Republicans running the state senate, and on more questions than the famous kinky part) but prosecutors just folded https://t.co/EGcDtqh5H5
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
Whereas criminals of color, and commoners in general, are punished even when they didn't commit the crime, and many conservatives think they don't deserve defense counsel--if you have "public defender" in your résumé they'd disqualify you from the Supreme Court
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
And We Sit and Watch
We should take our F-22 planes,
put the Chinese flag on them
and bomb the shit out of Russia.
And then we say – China did it,
we didn’t do it, China did it,
then they start fighting each other
and we sit and watch.
He's so smart he just invented the concept of the false colors operation! Too bad he doesn't know Russians have the ability to recognize what country an F-22 is coming from .
Steve M has important things
to say about this plan, which sounds as if Trump has been watching more
Saturday morning cartoons than Fox News—notably that this is how the old
commander-in-chief is going to run national security if we can't stop him from
getting reelected, with no Gary Cohns or John Boltons to stop him, to which I
would just add:
Then again Gustav got assassinated in 1792, so you could say it didn't really work out for him.
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
He also "joked" in the same speech about how he wishes his subordinates would treat him the way Kim Jong Un gets treated by his, and I was moved to remind Twitter users of what Trump means by that:
"joked"
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
People with Trump's disorder have in common with some people on the autism spectrum that they can't understand what a joke is (somebody says some foolish thing that's clearly not true and then everybody makes this laughing noise, what's up with that?) https://t.co/oDF7iG82NN
And one of his ideas is that a successful joke might be a kind of wish fulfillment fantasy, where you think of something bad you'd really like to do but you're scared you'd get in trouble. So you just say it: "I'd grab 'em by the pussy."
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
So I think Trump has actually been doing that his whole life, looking for the approbation that goes to, you know, Jackie Mason or Rodney Dangerfield, trying to emulate this strange behavior. With a systematic idea that it involves talking about things you're not allowed to do.
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
(But Putin heard it as a request and put some people on it. And there's no reason to think Trump didn't welcome that. Just don't blame him for it, because he was "joking".)
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 6, 2022
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