I’d eat a hundred well-done steaks from Denny’s topped with ketchup if it meant we didn’t have to deal with Trump again.

Last time I went to one (2020), the shelves were 80% empty, and what they had was mostly karaoke machines on consignment sale.

It was super depressing.

Let’s not be too hard on them. They have a rich history of working all over the world in a variety of roles.

After all, what other company can you name that helped operate Japanese internment camps in America and Nazi Concentration camps at the same time?

They’re making islands the size of continents out of trash!

They made a chemical that will prevent Covid in most cases, and Corporations are trying to keep from paying for it!

When was the last time you had to pull over because of all the bugs hitting your windshield? They’re killing all the insects just so they can have your money!

As much as I love them, I’d love to see it keep the same tone to attract the crazy conspiracy-theorists, then poison their minds with factual information presented as if it was deep-state conspiracy revealing secret knowledge.

Want to know the best part?

Federal judges aren’t required to be attorneys, so even if she’s disbarred she gets to keep her appointment as long as the Republicans refuse to impeach and convict her.

The bones of the story beats leading to that moment were so good, but ruined by terrible dialog along the way.

Government employees providing government services have to provide them to everyone. It isn’t a private business where you can just refuse service because you don’t like someone or their message.

What if the postal worker thinks abortion is murder. Should they be allowed to refuse to deliver mail for Planned Parenthood or the ACLU?

If a county clerk is opposed to homosexuality should they be allowed to refuse to issue a marriage license to a gay couple?

Motherfucker I work in development. Telling someone they can’t have their pool equipment pad in the side setback or that front-yard fences have to be 80% transparent isn’t exactly sending them to the gas chamber.

If your committing a felony and someone dies from the unintended consequences of that felony you can be charged with murder.

It’s called the “felony murder rule” and people have been sentenced to death based on it.

That doesn’t mean people aren’t responsible for the outcome of the assault.

If I kill a motorcyclist because I’m checking my phone it doesn’t matter that they may have been fine if they’d been in a pickup.

Other medical professionals criticized him for his call. The stress and fear from being assaulted by the mob almost certainly triggered the strokes.

If you’re allergic to shellfish and someone forcefeeds you shrimp and you die, they don’t get to say you died of natural causes.

Your right. My mistake. The officer who died following the induction was Brian Sicknick, who was pepper sprayed and possibly struck on the head with a fire extinguisher, leading to lethal stress-induced strokes the next day.

We’re an ordered society. We elect leaders who adopt laws and ordinances. Who the hell am I to throw that out the window and instead tell people they have to follow my will.

A police officer was ~~beaten to death with an American flag.~~assaulted, pepper-sprayed, and had a stroke from the stress.

Yeah. I have very strong political, moral, and ethical opinions.

I’m also a government employee, and those opinions disappear when I’m performing my duties. I enforce rules I find idiotic all the damn time and let people get away with bullshit that should be illegal. They’re not my rules.

A violent mob invading the Capitol, committing murder in the process, specifically to interrupt the certification of the election?

Not election interference.

Yeah. It’s not like someone thought, in 2008, that this particular black guy guy would eventually be running for governor as the major party candidate on a platform based on bigotry and re-electing a convicted criminal as President.

We’re becoming numb to the insanity here.

And that numbness is the point. All this crazy is exhausting, and we’re gonna be completely burned out and unable to engage in a serious political battle when the scarier elements of fascism kick in.

Yep.

Give a rich man a dollar and all you’ve done societally is remove a dollar from the economy. If you instead make him give that money to his employees things change, but cause poor people actually need money and will spend it.

You give a poor person that dollar through increased minimum wage and they spend it at a business. That business now makes more money, which is passed on to its employees through the increased minimum wage, and they spend that dollar again.

And again.

And again.

That dollar you took from the rich and gave to the poor drove a lot more than a dollar’s economic activity.

OH - and it’s also taxed every time it changes hands, so it also brings in more than its initial value in tax revenue.