“If everyone is covered in mud, it makes it less obvious that you’re covered in shit.”

This is Liz and her cohort trying to “both sides!!” away the behaviour they incited.

It’s crab-bucket PR: if they can get enough of the media saying how bad the left is, it makes the right-wing pogroms less horrifying.

Trump did the same thing post-Charlottesville, conflating BLM and Antifa with the rich-setting, “Jews will not replace us” chanting, protestor-merdering neo-nazis who supported him.

Do you think that gutting Chevron and the FTC's regulatory authority has anything to do with this?

I mean, it's not like banks aren't already making buckets of money...

Sometimes, though, fascism really is fascism.

Either PBS or NPR had a thing a few years back where they’d read sections of the Bill of Right on air, as part of Independence Day celebrations.

The right wing folks who heard it thought it was communist propaganda.

Dear media,

You're maybe two verses of Niemoller's poem from "...and there was no one to speak for me.".

Stop carrying water for this man and his sycophants, it will not end well for you, or anyone you care about.

I mean, other than Exxon, Shell or BP.

And the Knesset.

And Putin.

But other than that!

This is such a smart move: it really cuts the legs out from under the "....bbbbut Hamas are terrorist!!" bad-faith arguments.

You're forgetting 3. If people who are in an out-group aren't suffering more than I am, I feel oppressed.

I hate to say it, because it sounds like conspiracy-mongering, but the reason is "Money".

A lot of people want the narrative to go a certain way, and those people have a lot of money and thusly a lot of influence. That they're losing control of the narrative has caused them a kind of narcissistic injury, and they're lashing out.

There are Republican representatives who were hiding and cowering on that day and are trying to rewrite history now.

So it's not a stretch to say that he'd certainly suffer any indignity and still excuse his team's malfeasance.

You know, Jesus hung out with gentiles and lepers and the poor and the disadvantaged. People not like him.

You know who hung out only with their own? The Pharisees and Saducees that had him crucified.

So Ukraine should get the Soviet nukes back that they have up, right? Right?