The last time it happened to me I replied, but I waited until the end of the next day and shut down my laptop and put my phone away immediately after clicking send.

This question really pushes the boundaries of the concept of “no stupid questions”, but I will respect the premise and answer with all seriousness.

There is nothing about being a former anything that is automatically disqualifying.

Not everything he says is without merit. Even a blind, dumb squirrel can accidentally find a nut.

Americans aren’t trusting him. He is only respected by the deluded cult members, and then only because their pedophile leader tells them to.

The people who don’t realize he’s full of shit are the people who can’t handle being the most ignorant person in the room. They’re swallowing all the bullshit that this administration spits out because it’s the only way they can pretend they are better than everyone else.

It’s all just corrupt, diseased minds taking advantage of other corrupt, diseased minds. If they didn’t reject the compassion of their opponents, I’d have sympathy for them. However, they chose the darkness.

Oh no. We must stop this threat to democracy that hasn’t already happened yet.

Thank God democracy hasn’t already been undermined for years.

Amazing. All that happening, and not one person thought to pull out their phone and record it.

I’ve been listening to Jim Croce lately.

I was listening yesterday while shoveling snow and Ball of Kirriemuir came up.

A nice little giggle during a miserable day.

I shoveled for hours yesterday. I rushed the end because I couldn’t feel my fingers anymore, but I managed to get it all done without losing any digits.

Took a dose of Advil and Tylenol (autism be damned) yesterday so I could move around, but I was still really sore.

I just woke up. I feel ok so far, but I haven’t tried getting out of bed yet.

Edit: There was a couple inches of snow on top of where I shoveled before I even went to bed.

Well, on the increasingly unlikely possibility that they are not increasing the budget to target American citizens, I hope other nations in the world know they have to dramatically increase their own defense spending.

What chance is there that this means the US defense budget can be cut?

I feel like sooner or later they’re going to try this shit on someone who both has guns and isn’t interested in living, and it will end badly for some of the ICE thugs.

I once played tuba.

My gift to music was deciding to stop and never play again.

Until the punishments are targeting the people hiring undocumented workers, it’s all just racist bullshit.

As demonstrated with Brexit.

You spelled con man wrong.

I listen to the Up First podcast every morning. Then I see what I see while doom scrolling lemmy. That’s pretty much it.

My wife leaves MSNBC on just about all day long, and it’s rare she mentions anything I don’t already know about.

Ok, this is interesting because this question just came up with my wife.

I started playing the original Civilization game in college.

I shifted to freeciv when it became available.

If you consider them the same game, I’ve been playing that game about 34 years.

You’re cruel.

I like it.

How can sliced bread not be great? It’s been the ruler by which all greatness is measured since it was created!

would you like a recipe?

If you have a good recipe, I’d suggest that your question should be restated in a form that includes that recipe.

… bottled water, canned food, fuel, underground bunkers…

But the thing about that kind of concentration of power is it’s not a matter of if that power will be abused, it’s only a matter of when.

I’m thinking it’s more about how much of the abuse you can tolerate. It’s not like the US has been all that hesitant to abuse our allies in the past. It’s more like our allies have previously been able to convince themselves that the benefits outweighed the costs.

Like the friend who’s an asshole, but he’s got a 120" TV and is happy to share his booze. When he gets drunk and makes an inappropriate joke, you might ignore it. You tell your wife that he’s not that bad and you owe him for all he did for you in college.

The US has reached the point of whipping it’s dick out and waving it around at everyone at the party. It’s time to leave.