Long ago, my father would inspect hospitals and would have to call in his reports and I'd frequently hear the r-word - in its original form - in those instances, at least originally. And like you say, that word was originally meant as a euphemism since it just means "slowed".

A term that was more frequently slung around on our playground, probably more than the r-word was "sped", which took me a long time to connect with the shorthand for saying SPecial EDucation.

Marklar is making things Marklar!

I think "maga" only means "loyalty to Trump" and little else. It has no real clearly-defined agenda other than hatred of libs, minorities, mouthy women, and loving a fat old washed-up never-was. It's hilarious to hear former-self-proclaimed "maga" people now claiming they are "america first" and talking about things that are "maga" as not being sufficiently "america first". I mean, what the fuck are they even saying? It sounds like Trotskyites getting cast out from the Stalinists, FFS. All it really boils down to is people rallying around various cult leaders - "maga" == trump, and "america first" == whatever grifters (Tucker, MTG) are able to grab the same set of people as the shine comes off of donnie and/or he retires/passes away.

In the meantime, "maga", meaning those still worshiping the fat bloated toad, will support whatever makes donnie the most amount of money for himself and his family, because they are mindless zombies in a cult.

But conservatives have always been very keen on further enriching the already obscenely wealthy and dismantling democratic institutions. It is conservatives that craft things like Project 2025.

Yep. I knew it was highly contagious, but I didn't know it could live in an airspace for up to 2 hours after an infected person leaves....

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/causes/index.html

It's all the more infuriating since apparently humans are terrible at passing down knowledge to younger generations. Measles should be more or less a solved problem - just get the fucking vaccine. No exception, unless you have a legit medical exception.

Even if these checks actually ever go out (lol), we probably will have paid more than $5,000 by then all thanks to the republicons and their idiotic policies.

I'm pretty sure Yarvin is fairly bright, even if he seems to have a stunted emotional intelligence...

This seems to be a fairly common thing for people who are extremely bright, but lacking in emotional intelligence - they seem to fall into the Libertarian swamp.

So much winning.

Everything donnie touches turns to shit.

I'm not sure that weird freak Curtis Yarvin is a billionaire (yet?), but he's definitely thinking like one and trying to give them a permission structure to destroy America.

Yeah, I keep seeing them making claims about how we are making so much money (on taxes paid by people buying shit being imported, AKA, tariffs) like we've never seen, and unless the clip is edited, I see no push-back on it. Pretty sure I saw recent claim of both "JD" and tiny-d donnie making that claim.

And there are obviously still people that believe them on this.

Was this timed after the midterms?

Cool, so Republicans get to break shit and then told later it was doubleplus unlegal along with some fingerwagging, but they are not made to rub their noses in their own shit and told they must clean up their own goddamnned mess?

I bet anything we get more Murc's Law Media bullshit when the Democrats are not able to snap their fingers and fix it overnight, and tell voters they are justified in their low-info response (sitting out, voting R or voting third party).

Came here to say this, LOL.