2 If, say, a Japanese government had performed as badly as the Bush administration has, there would be no one left to turn out the lights.
“The Buck Doesn’t Stop,” by Richard Cohen, The Washington Post, Tuesday, April 6, 2004
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One way the conventions of "objective" political journalism are broken is that they draw a false equivalence between one candidate refusing to condemn his white nationalist fans and saying he won't accept the results of the election with the other guy calling him a "clown."
"Authoritarian regimes take root when citizens give up on their democratic institutions as rigged and illegitimate; voters succumb to their fear of the party in power and choose to sit out. That’s why it’s vital to clarify what a U.S. president can and can’t do."
God, I love this woman. https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1311380433939189760
Oh my god, Katie Porter.
"I’m totally puzzled, you guys. After being asked to comment on the orc hordes maiming and eradicating whole villages, Sauron kind of sidestepped the question and started talking about how orcs actually have great table manners? What does this mean?" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-didnt-sauron-condemn-the-orc-hordes
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Custer pie
“Yes, and had Custer known he was attacking so many Indians, he might have chosen to wash his hair that day instead.” Great line.
And good column. In Japan, the officials wouldn’t just have resigned if they’d bungled things as badly as the Bushies have. They would commit seppuku.
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Re: Custer pie
Yes: the streets of Tokyo would run with cabinet-level blood. As opposed to the streets of Washington, which run with cabinet-level horseshit.