Stop reading then. Why should I give a fuck?

I expressed my view and provided my reasoning. I couldn’t possibly care less whether you agree or not (and particularly since you can’t even manage a contrary argument - all you can do is ball your fists up and stamp your feet and shout “Nuh UH!”)

For the first, I think that white meat is in fact superior breaded and deep fried, because flavor really is irrelevant at that point. You don’t bread and deep fry something to enjoy the flavor - you bread and deep fry it to make it satisfyingly crunchy and chewy (and use a dip for flavor) and white meat has a better grain for that.

For the second - I’m just saying that though I otherwise agree that dark meat is better, I don’t dislike white meat. I guess I felt some need to stick up for it a bit…

I’d disagree on one count - white meat is better breaded and deep fried. It has a better grain for that, and its lack of flavor is irrelevant.

And I don’t dislike white meat in soup or the like, though I do think that dark meat is superior.

In fact, for lunch today I made chicken and rice with a leftover whole chicken that was mostly white meat. I started by boiling it until the meat fell off the bones, then adding spices and vegetables and cooking it down until it was thick, at which point the chicken was in shreds. I like that, but at that point, the chicken isn’t so much chicken - it’s just protein and a carrier for the spices.

This is a good example of what I believe to be the basic dynamic going on in the US.

Trump isn’t really leading this autocratic coup. He’s a tool of the people who backed and made up the Heritage Foundation and the like.

None of them want to, for instance, suspend habeas corpus because they actually consider immigrants to be an invading force - that’s just rhetoric to stir up the base and provide cover for their real goals.

Both Trump and his handlers want to suspend habeas corpus so that they can imprison whoever they want whenever they want.

But while his handlers want to do it for the standard autocratic reasons - so that they can disappear dissidents and political rivals and the like - Trump wants it just because he’s thin-skinned, egotistical, petty and vindictive, and he wants to be able to punish people who piss him off.

So they share a goal, but for different reasons.

That’s how we end up with a relatively nuanced coup apparently being led by a delusional moron - the Heritage Foundation and the other conspirators have arranged things so that the toddler in chief can be allowed to basically run free, telling his lies and throwing his tantrums, and it ends up benefitting them.

Not necessarily.

Trump doing his thing 2016-2020 met with a lot of obstacles and pushback.

Then he was out of office for four years, and while he was crashing around spewing nonsense and vitriol, some very intelligent and very evil people were working behind the scenes to secure some significant Supreme Court rulings and to draw up a step-by-step plan for instituting fascism in the US.

And now Trump doing his thing is met with almost no obstacles or pushback - virtually the entire government is bending over backwards to enable him.

And it must be noted that he’s not particularly smart or sane, but he is a childishly greedy and selfish narcissist. That means he’s incredibly easy to manipulate. All anyone has to do is frame something in a way that appeals to his crippled emotions and drop a few hints to get him going in the right direction, then just stand back and let him do his thing.

Not saying that that’s certainly what is happening, but…

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It’s really sort of amazing.

While most corrupt politicians would be content to work for the benefit of whoever pays them a fat enough bribe, Trump appears to actually go out of his way to only work for the most foul, loathsome and destructive corporations and industries. It’s as if he has a rigid set of negative standards - “you must be this evil to gain my advocacy” - and any industry or corporation that isn’t sufficiently evil is turned away.

I don’t see what any of that supposedly has to do with it.

I didn’t mean and don’t think I even implied that she stays as far away from him as possible because of some sort of moral or ethical qualms. I think she stays as far away from him as possible because he’s repulsive on a very immediate and personal level.

It’s safe to assume that she stays as far away from that stinky lardbucket as she can for as long as she can.

And who would blame her?

I’m guessing you think

You don’t have the foggiest idea what I think, so don’t you fucking dare mansplain it to me.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

Ahhh…

I had (and still have) Rattus Norvegicus and this on vinyl, and they were one of the first pairs of albums I put on two sides of a 90 minute cassette.

Yes.

Both before and after.

All of them, real or imagined.

Seriously - how did we come to be in a timeline in which the PotUS is toxic, deranged and stupid, all at the same time?

It’s like we somehow, on a national level, picked out that drunk uncle who we deliberately didn’t invite to the reunion because he’s a lunatic who always makes an ugly scene, but then he showed up anyway, got stumbling drunk, went on a cringey slurred rant about who-the-fuck knows what, then threw up in the punch bowl and passed out and pissed himself in the back yard.

Screw impeachment - he’s so obviously deranged that he needs to be ruled unfit for office and simply removed.

Wow… there’s a name I haven’t heard in years.

I lived in Denver through most of the 80s and saw lots of live music, so saw her perform… I don’t know how many times. She always put on a good show.

RIP

Even if this is true, it’s already so awful that I don’t know how anyone would notice any difference. What would it do? Go from “really sucks” to “really really sucks?”

Reminder that Trump isn’t carrying out an autocratic coup d’etat in the US by himself.

He has the active support and assistance of the Republican party and their politicians at every step of the way.

Trump is Pol Pot. The Republican party is the Khmer Rouge.

I’d like to see the story of the Red Year in full detail, so early 4th era in Vvardenfell. I imagine a certain amount of story to establish some background and key characters and the story behind Baar Dau, then what could only be a jaw-dropping depiction of it crashing into Vivec City, and of the subsequent explosion of Red Mountain, then the drama of the aftermath, likely as seen from a few different viewpoints, and with some plot hook to tie those different people together.

Think he’s figured anything out about mob mentality and the damage they do in service to utter bullshit?

Yeah… me neither.