Sunday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, November 28, 2021
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I’s a proud Miserian this morning:
Aha, the real reason they let him go: Healthcare is expensive.
Well of course we cheapskate Miserians only pay off when DNA is involved. As Strickland’s attorney herself said, “The vast majority of folks who are exonerated are exonerated through non-DNA evidence, and the vast majority of crimes do not involve DNA at all,” Bushnell said. “So what we see in Missouri is [that] folks get home and they are provided nothing.” If we paid off everybody wrongly convicted, we’d have to raise taxes or something. This is just fiscal responsibility!
Besides, we provided, room, board, clothing, healthcare, educational opportunities, a steady job, etc. for 43 years. What more do they want?
That’s his own damn fault for not having a better alibi and better alibi witnesses. A white person knows this!
Speaking seriously, I can not imagine his sorrow at all that he has lost, nor the fear he feels as he faces an unimaginable future he is in no way prepared for.
His GoFundMe page.
Okay, then.
It seems that Q-Anon is a CIA disinformation plot cooked up by Democrats. Cool.
@Michael Reynolds: I had no idea we DEMs were so imaginitive.
@Michael Reynolds:
Flynn is insane. Powell is insane. Wood is really, really insane.
@CSK: Yes, people seem to skip over that that’s why Obama fired Flynn.
Brexit leaves EU-bound Christmas presents out in the cold
Brexiteers hate Christmas. Who’da thunk it?
@gVOR08: That’s not why he fired Flynn! He fired him because he’s a Republican!
Wait a minute… that’s what you said.
😉
@OzarkHillbilly: I entirely agree.
@gVOR08:
Aaaannnd…according to Flynn, Obama tried to dissuade Trump from hiring him because Flynn “put the fear of God” into Obama.
Obama is not alone in firing Flynn. In February 2017, he was fired by Trump from the National Security Advisor position. Trump said that Flynn had lied to Vicepresident Pence. A Presidential pardon does not mean that there was no wrongdoing; it’s a foregoing of punishment and not an exoneration.
@CSK:
To be redundant, Obama knew Flynn is crazy.
@Sleeping Dog:
Speaking of crazy, Mike Lindell used his 96-hour Pillowthon to declare that he was pulling his ads from the Salem Radio Network, home of Sebastian Gorka.
Lindell claims that Salem is worse than Dominion Voting Systems.
@Slugger:
Like Trump, or anyone else, gave a damn if Flynn lied to Pence.
@gVOR08:
TFG would now claim that the deep state, Priebus, Mattis et. al. tricked him into firing Flynn
In Betrayal, Trump re-enacts for Jonathan Karl a scene that took place with his son, Barron:
Trump: Do you love your dad?
Barron: Uh, I don’t know.
Trump: Too cool.
The Guardian reviewer describes Trump as “needy as a black hole.”
Currently at the southern estate, not far from the Flora-bama border…
The wife took me and the dog for a walk, where we went around the corner and down the street. There I saw that one of the neighbors had put out Christmas decorations.
There, central to the decor, was a 20 foot high Grinch, wearing St. Nick clothing. And in Grinche’s hand was a sign: Let’s Go Brandon.
Thoughts:
1) Good that he knows his internal spirit animal and identify himself and his perceived self-importance with a 20-foot high grinch. Could not be summarized better.
2) Nice way not to politicize the holidays, eh?
The cult is strong with them.
@Michael Reynolds: “It seems that Q-Anon is a CIA disinformation plot cooked up by Democrats”
Which Flynn has been actively promoting because… why?
Apparently the non-crazy version of Flynn is even crazier than the crazy one.
Moving away from the politics of insane residents of banana republics where it’s too cold for bananas to grow for a bit, toward the end of the day, Jax asked about sweet potato pie tasting different from pumpkin (because I use my pumpkin pie recipe for both). In case she missed it, I replied
Hope that helps, Jax. (Be careful not to boil or steam the sweet potatoes too much. Runny pie chiffon is very sad. [weeping emoji].)
@Just nutha ignint cracker: Thanks! I was laughing at the “picky eaters” comment as I was drinking my coffee this morning.
My youngest is super picky and hates cheese. Always has. For a number of years I could still get her to eat grilled cheese if I called it a “grilled butter” sandwich instead. She eventually caught on, unfortunately. I’ll probably just call it a pumpkin pie, since she might balk if I tell her it’s leftover sweet potatoes. 😛
@Jax:
Growing up my eldest daughter ate the following: pasta with butter, Nutella and white bread. For years. Years. Absolutely would not budge. We spent 6 months in Tuscany and she ate pasta with butter, and Nutella.
Then one fine day, back in the US, we got her to eat steak. Here is the key error: we got her to eat filet mignon, at Morton’s. And we thought, OMG, she’s actually trying new food. Perhaps we should tempt her with other savory delights, and some day, she’ll probably be happy with hot dogs.
Roll the tape forward a decade and a half and she loves: lobster, truffles and yes, caviar. Also sushi – but only the very best sushi. “I thought you were going to make lobster mac and cheese,” she complains, as she peruses the Petrossian catalog.
That’s what’s called, the long game.
@OzarkHillbilly:
How is it that from just reading that part of the report I knew that Strickland suffered from wrongskincolorism?
@Jax: Let’s be real, if you put the correct quantities of spices into the pie filling batter, it really ends up tasting like brown sugar (no, I don’t use white in holiday pie, I like the slightly molasses taste better) and spice no matter what type of pulse you use as the base. The problem I’ve encountered is that I’m no longer careful enough to avoid overcooking whatever I’m using and too much moisture in that base ingredient changes the consistency of the chiffon. Then again, the last time I baked a pie for a holiday festivity, I’d not gone to Korea yet. It’s been a while, and store-bought pies seem good enough for most people. (If I’m being really fancy, I’ll buy an unbaked one instead of pre-baked, and most people really can’t tell the difference then–and no, I don’t hang with gourmands and Luddite only asks me to bring yams and soda bread anymore anyway.)
@Michael Reynolds:
The Kyle Rittenhouse aspect to Lin Wood’s melt-down is fascinating. Seems Kyle wants to keep the $2 million bail money, nearly half of which came from Lin Wood.
This may explain Kyle’s pilgrimage to Mar A Lago, the Mecca of outrage monetarization.
@Michael Reynolds:
It took me YEARS to figure out why my parents, who normally insisted that we all eat the same thing, were happy to give my sister and I hot dogs because we did not like steak
@Just nutha ignint cracker: SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!
@Michael Reynolds: Ha! I feel this in my bones. Same kid ONLY eats the chicken strips when we go out to eat. For years. She mixed it up a couple weeks ago and got the fish sticks, we thought we were making real progress!
@OzarkHillbilly: You want me to bring yams and soda bread if you ever invite me to dinner? YOU GOT IT!
@Just nutha ignint cracker: You’re always welcome with your yams and soda bread here, Cracker. You and Luddite both. We’ll have so much fun making fun of the human race! 😛
@Just nutha ignint cracker:
Yeah, but your soda bread is outstanding, and the yams are always perfect to my burned-out taste buds (and unlike my BIL, you don’t insist on coating them in melted marshmallows. Besides, all I have to do these days is cook the turkey, and wash the dishes (BTW, thanks for drying!)
@Jax: Sweet! But how will your neighbors react to us rolling through the neighborhood with our cigars a-lit and “Uneasy Rider” playing on the radio? Don’t want you being run out of town on a rail.
@dazedandconfused:
“Seems Kyle wants to keep the $2 million bail money…”
Well of course he does. Where else is this numbskull ever going to see that much dinero in his lifetime, without, you know, actually being a grown-up and working?