So, so bad.

Toejam and Earl

I would suggest this has very significant and negative social consequences that have transformed politics worldwide!

RFK Sr.'s trip to Mississippi in *1967* left him shaken. It is obscene how many problems we have solved in living memory and people just pocketed those gains and decided they could never return. Now we have Kennedy's son leading the charge to bring them back. It's deranged.

I know this is screaming into a well because young people don't read books now, and they certainly don't read books published in 1941, but this is still within living memory.

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was published in *1941.* People today do not have any conception of the level of ambient poverty, malnutrition, and just general backwardness that existed in the US prior to WWII. These are people who remember the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

This should absolutely be the message.

But this of course is why these people will not leave in ‘28. They can’t. And act like people who expect to never relinquish power.

Doesn’t mean it’ll work. We may yet have enough fight and institutional muscle memory to can these clowns. But it’ll be messy.

All of this is his fault. All of it. Happy he escaped vindictive prosecution but what he *deserves* to be prosecuted for is very consciously, very deliberately (don’t pretend otherwise) interfering in the 2016 election, going against DOJ guidelines, to swing a presidential election toward his party.

It was just a fight. Just happened to happen at a moment of deep insecurity for the NBA so they treated it like much more. It’s not even a top 10 all time NBA on court fight.

Donaghy, Sterling, and moving the Sonics were all much more consequential than the dismissed charges against Kobe Bryant. Are you insane? Do you know how many NBA players have actually been convicted of violent crimes since this? Why are none of those on your list above refs literally rigging games?

Part of it may be the ceaseless hyperbolic glazing by white podcasters of the only player in the league who looks like he could be related to them.

There’s no denying Jokic’s greatness but making an “IQ” argument against people hesitant to join the choir may be part of the toxic dynamic here.

Absolutely crushing accountability and the refortification of our republic will be the only electoral issue that matters

They wanted to steal our data and kill people for the lolz which they did

It also must be said that contra the impulse to be performatively cynical about America, before Trump we really did have enviably low levels of public corruption. Public shame was applied effectively, and rule of law was generally recognized and feared.

These people are an un-American aberration.

LARPing? MAGA have been crypto-Nazis from day one and anybody selling otherwise is gaslighting you.