Thank goodness, but the fate of the republic should not hinge on the courage of a few honest Republicans.

Plus California is just too damn slow.

It's obvious hyperbole to anyone not already prejudiced vs Signal (which is largely b/c some trans activists have been making up lies out of whole cloth about him ever since the Atlantic piece). Still, he expects people to know the arcane context of his comments & that is rarely worth the effort.

What's even more appalling is that Kennedy isn't truly low IQ stupid, he is often putting on an act for the rubes. IMO it makes him more evil than ignorant, but then again, bigotry has been known to steer otherwise rational people into an extra stupid corner of blindness.

So the super-opinionated billionaire donor who’s concerned that Ivy League colleges are no longer teaching critical thinking fell for an obvious internet hoax, eh? You don’t say.

The quote is threatening future tense consequences for past tense violence, and that leaves me wondering if Jesse's obvious hyperbole is based on accurate observations about naive approaches to criminality. My expertise is limited to knowing that Michael Hobbes is a contrarian joke.

Man, I don’t know. I feel like the real mask off was going all in for Bashir al-Assad in 2015. Ever since then it’s just been slaloming further and further into hell.