One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

So after all of their primary expenses are covered they would have a *disposable income* of $12,000 to $33,000 per year.

Folks, if your food, shelter, healthcare and childcare are covered and you still have money leftover what exactly makes you precarious?

Sounds like we should just keep the government shut down then

theoretically you would shut down the government and force the Republicans to include it in an omnibus.

Hell, these guys could've come to my hometown of Greensboro to do some human trafficking busts and they would be seen as having done some real good in the world. But no, ethnic cleansing was the operation of choice.

Like make them fucking fire you, the moral cowardice of the modern American officer corps knows no bounds

not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries

here is one of the obscure political strategies I became fond of at the very beginning of my career:

say that you are good and that your opponent is bad