I realize it is a trap of old age and 20 years of marriage to think you'd be good at something you were objectively bad at previously, but I know several basic greetings and apparently that makes me some sort of dating savant now.
Kristi Noem's face is perpetually stuck in "just took the first sips from the wrong grail chalice. Like any second a 900 year old Joe Biden is going to pop out to let her know she chose poorly.
I'm yet to hear a plan for how the cost savings from a destroyed job magically accrue to the newly jobless instead of the shareholders of the companies that realized those labor savings. I'm sure the venture capitalist who looks like a thumb has a plan. We should uncritically accept his thesis!
They love it, and I say that unironically. If any of these big institutions weren't fully on board they'd be speaking up long ago. But tax cuts and deregulation are just too valuable to shareholders to care about the rule of law, or human rights.
I refuse to believe that Vance and Mike Johnson and his ilk would behave this way if getting smacked in the face occasionally was on the table. "Five across the eyes" should be a staple of campaign platforms moving forward. We can debate open VS closed fists and frequency, but it's worth a try.
