Yeah, no worries. I just noticed the parenthesis thing and the weird conspiracy symbols.

Carlin is great, though.

Alt right garbage

If the reports about the extreme animosity between Kushner and Bannon are true, and I bet they are, then I agree 100% that Bannon is toast.

If there is one thing that rich olds like Trump value even more than their 1950s vision of 'Merica, it's family. (As an aside, the more I watch Trump, the more he seems like a typical old white guy. The only real differences are that (i) his wealth has left him even further out of touch than usual; and (ii) he loves social media.)

I also doubt that Bannon has any interest in meeting Kushner half way. I suspect he would rather go out on his own terms.

I easily could envision a situation in Bannon gets the boot and Breitbart starts going full ham on Trump. And I think we should agree in advance that anyone who cites with approval a Breitbart article that is critical of Trump will catch an auto-ban for life.

Yes, but the majority does not see it the way you and I do.

Rather, they see the opposite because as a society we have conflated nationalism and patriotism in such a way that they are interchangeable. Supporting the military regardless of what it does is nationalistic. Speaking out when people go against the ideals of our country is patriotic. In other words, nationalists support institutions while patriots support ideas.

I'd be willing to argue that patriotism in America is dead and has been dead for a long time. We abandoned the ideals we were founded on a long time ago and now support institutions like the government and military instead regardless of how far they have deviated from what we once were.

Yup.

What's going to bother me most is that if BB does go anti-Trump, anti-Trumpers are going to start using Breitbart articles and posting them the way the pro-Trump crowd used to. It would be the height of hypocrisy.

Dude we just create terrorists we don't harbor them. Get with the program MAGA dog.

Pretty sure he takes Bannon over Tiffany

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/st...21076111978496

I guess it depends on what you mean by "a long time ago." I would argue that blind support of our government and military was more prevalent from 1910-1960 than it is now. Vietnam/Nixon/Watergate marked the beginning of big changes in people's views about the gov't and the military. And those changes (especially the attitudes about government) were not all for the good.

It's a relatively short leap from deep cynicism to populism.

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/sta...15405127757828

Over/under on weeks until sanctions on Russia are lifted in response to Putin intervening with Asaad?

This is the first time since the election I've went 48+ hours without checking The News. I don't do the alert-on-smart-phone thing.

It's an incredible feeling. We could be at war with NK right now for all I know. Or, Paul Ryan could be Prez and doing some sick-ass bicep curls in The Oval right now for all I know.

These are days you'll remember, the days of miracle and wonder.

Damn women, always playing their woman card to get one over on men. Donald is going to put the feminists in their place.

Oh.

Some people are just terrible.

http://www.theroot.com/uber-bans-pas...ium=socialflow

Breitbart vs Trump would be super interesting in terms of how much the tail wags the dog. Trump plus BB totally destroyed fox news (cucked them in the parlance of our time) but trumps 30% approval has to be mostly alt right swamp dwellers by now right? I don't think bannon will take on the fight because he knows it'd be to the death whereas if he goes quietly he can keep his empire regardless. I'd like to see it though.

It should be mentioned that these Fellate the Military pageants are paid for by the DoD. The league gets to look like it's patriotically recognizing the troops while also cashing checks from Uncle Sam.

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/11/4/96...report-million

I do like the whiz-bam jets, tho, tbh. Great fun to be at a Navy football game and get buzzed by an F-18.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ram...eminars-991267

"Alright folks, you see the things Trump and Bill O'Reilly did?...Anything more than that crosses the line here!"

Every game has to start with the national anthem, and god help you if you don't stand and give overt respect during it. TV is however allowed to run commercials for beer over it tho, bec time=$$

To be fair, this is not exclusive to America.

I wouldn't have a problem playing the anthem if it didn't suck so much.

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/stat...71259643879425

But but this is different. His golfing is used for solving world problems. Don't you know that!

Because he's an alcoholic ******* who won the lottery. He's Jamie Gold on HSP thinking he can make syk plays brah bc he won WSOP.

Said institutions were implemented by elites to protect wealth and they've always been pretty good at it imo.

That's one thing a government does.

Quite an oversimplification to imply that it's the only thing.

The government was supposed to operate based on the US Constitution. Unfortunately, that founding document might as well be set on fire now given the changes that have been made.

We have been indoctrinated to think that being a good patriot means supporting the government regardless of its decisions. But that's being a nationalist. True patriots are protesting and forming a resistance against the current administration.

It's probably inevitable that the richest and most powerful country militarily is very patriotic and militaristic.

Historians, is there an exception? 15th century China?

I'm not a historian, but I would guess that the average US citizen is less militaristic than the citizens of most countries/nations/empires with strong militaries throughout history. For most of its history, the US has no compulsory military service. Only 1.4% of US women and 13.4% of US men have ever served in the military. For a huge percentage of Americans, the military is a very abstract concept -- that is, something that other people (mostly people with fewer opportunities) do.

You can add isolated and ignorant to that list.