[–] [S] 14 points 19 hours ago*

So, after blowing up schools, wasting lives and money, donnie dumb dumb is going to arrive at....a "deal" ( JFC, this stupid washed-up never-was real-estate grifter, always talking about "making a deal" like he's still on that cursed game show he was given. Literally the stupidest people are running things now. 🙄 ) that is worse than the JCPOA, but donnie dumb dumb had to blow up because Obama did it while being black?

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago

    LOL, that entire performance, from fucking up the location, but then not wanting to admit the fuckup and having it anyway, all the way to him trying to, in real time, simply wish away the election results, because "the media"....

    It was a perfect encapsulation of the donnie administration 1.0.

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  • [–] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I just recently listened to the Books That Kill podcast where they went over God and Man at Yale, and that book, which was a bestseller in 1951, is apparently what I always thought it was - Buckley sniveling that Yale was not sufficiently coddling conservatives.

    This book is still held up as something that is influential, etc. 60 years after it was written, (2011):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_and_Man_at_Yale

    "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" of Time magazine on "the 100 best and most influential [books] written in English since 1923" (the first publication year of Time)[6]

    These days, you have people wanting to pay little snitches to record teachers being too "woke" or whatever the fuck, and recently that guy calling for being able to supply video streams for parents to keep an eye out for teachers doing "illegal" DEI, or shit like this: (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/mizzou-probes-professor-caught-in-anti-dei-sting-operation-as-video-draws-scrutiny/ar-AA2cjwiC) but this conservative insanity goes way back. Apparently, Buckley seems to have cribbed all his grievances from other conservatives of the time, so it obviously predates that book he wrote in 1951.

    And remember, the typical reactionary centrist narrative is that Buckley was one of the "good conservatives". LOL. The guy that dropped a gay slur on television aimed at Gore Vidal and threatened him with violence.

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