Eating crow is a colloquial idiom that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

I think you have to write “JD Vance did not have sex with a couch once” or else it’s potentially libel.

My favorite answer from conservatives is that “this is just a think-tank; it’s not really gonna happen.”

Despite the Christian nationalists explicitly saying this is what they want and having achieved a huge victory for the patriarchy by taking away the right to abortion.

Fucking shameless.

You don’t find it newsworthy that a cop wanted to use his badge to (at minimum) intimidate librarians and (at worst) charge them with trumped up bullshit?

Why is this greaseball employed if he can’t find something better to do with his time than to make sure people can’t read the books he hates?

Also, homeschooling parents complaining @ a school board meeting? Wtf?? 🤔

Reactionary entitlement knows no bounds.

Found the article.

It’s so incredibly stupid how he takes himself so seriously; he’s like if Poirot had a satchel of lead beads he would stick up his nose occasionally.

And then like a coward he won’t elaborate on his master plan of making education and edification punishable by law.

He wasted important people’s time and then just fucked off, pretending it never happened.

What a dunce; no wonder he became a cop.

I’m so fuckin’ sick of reactionaries acting like they’re the reasonable ones.

Every little miniscule step in the right direction is impeded by loud, braying assholes trying to drag us back into the wastelands to prove how manly they are.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say they’re not about to stop.

I’d watch a Hannah-Barbera cartoon of Biden and Major getting into grandpa fights like that time Buzz Aldrin punched a stupid dude.

I think Rick Steves would fit in there, too.

Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.

I believe the kids today call this “based AF.”

Is that Weyoun looking in from the background?

Their empathy and compassion do not extend past their own “tribe.”

It is a mistake to think that reactionaries have a value system based on morality; the closest they come to this is confusing it with their highly tuned feeling of disgust for people who are different from them.

To a reactionary, the highest “moral” good is to fit in your box and fulfill the role that society has dictated for you.

It’s why they’re calling Harris a “DEI” hire: the implication is that she jumped her station and so doesn’t deserve to be president. It’s why they said Obama isn’t an American: to attack his legitimacy.

They simply cannot help themselves, and it’s why Harris is anathema to them: their focus on identity politics means she cannot be legitimate because they don’t actually care about her qualifications but instead on how much of an insult to white men her election would be.

They don’t want to be “good,” they want all the people they hate to be put back in their place. It’s what reactionaries always do.

RWers just don’t understand it.

There are buildings full of things that reactionaries don’t understand: they’re called libraries.

Loved the story and setting, but I wish the enemies were less “bullet spongy.”

Reactionaries believe that all of the problems they face are due to the fact that the wrong people are ruling.

They are 100% in favor of a neo-feudal pseudoaristocracy where billionaires are unleashed to rule the States as their fiefdoms and will impose their vision upon their subjects.

Reactionaries do not value individual autonomy except for the privileged man who runs the factory, farm, or family; all others should do as they’re told or face his wrath.

They do not believe in structuring society to be fair and equitable, as is evident by their crusaides against DEI, holding police accountable, women, LGBTQ people, the non-religious, the unhoused, progressive taxes, and welfare.

All they care about is power to enact their will on others.

He designed a way to gross people out at work by soaking his feet in the toilet.

Their entire value system is based on it.

To the conservative mind, there is no higher good than to fit into your little box and fulfill the role that was assigned to you.

When they say they “don’t like identity politics,” it translates to “I wish people would stop trying to change their role or their box.”

All of conservative politics makes sense with this axiom.

If you’re never seen Columbo, you’re in for a treat.

I wasn’t intending to criticize you, I get it.

Just wanted to add some context.