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  • Hillary Clinton had classified emails in a private, password-protected server. Conservatives have spent over a decade frothing at the mouth, calling for her head. The DOJ announced that they would investigate her two weeks before the 2016 election, possibly dooming her campaign.

    Donald Trump had classified documents in a box in the shitter at his private residence while a Russian envoy was there, and conservatives think that’s all cool.







  • Tangentially related. I watched a pretty interesting documentary many years ago about avant-garde art in Weimar Germany. Back in the days of the kaiser and before, if you painted a horse it damn well better look like a horse. During the third reich, if you painted a horse it damn well better have hitler on it. But during the interwar years there was quite an explosion of weird shit from the German art community.

    Then, of course, the war happened and all that shit ended, just like it’s happening in Russia now. Not that America did much better back then. Frank Capra was directing WWII propaganda films and Bugs Bunny was flying a B-29.



  • I think some people have problems with your evaluation of the last few points.

    I’m not gonna give him credit for calling off the war with Iran, since it was his own stupid decisions that got us there.

    There are a lot of NATO fans here, so you’re catching flak for the +/- evaluation on both of those points.

    The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a goddamn trainwreck, so I don’t think he should get points for that. Not entirely his fault, because the actual exodus didn’t happen under his watch, but his timeline certainly didn’t set his successor up for success.

    But in general, saying anything even vaguely complementary towards Orange Julius is gonna earn you some downvotes around here.