“Giving $400 to millionaires is just stupid. They don’t even need the money! We should obviously give millionaires a $10,000 tax cut.”
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That’s the thing.
Charles Schulz never did let Charlie Brown kick the football, but I’ll still watch Great Pumpkin until the day I die.
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As someone who read way too much Sullivan back in the Bush years, firstly he has not been a Republican for years, though he’d still describe himself as a conservative, secondly he’s a preening narcissist whose writing is largely an effort to defend the contradictions in his worldview as advanced, nuanced thinking and disdain those demanding he make a fucking choice already (are you gay or a goddamn Catholic, which is it?) as naive, simplistic level-1 thinkers. He’s like Greenwald in that each of them write with the goal of enshrining some treasured self-perception. Greenwald’s is Man of Objectivity and Holder to Account of the Powerful, whereas Sullivan’s is Man of Nuance and Ambiguity Tolerance. Both spend their lives alternately trying to demonstrate these qualities in themselves and denouncing the lack of them in others; both are also utter hypocrites in this regard. In Sullivan’s case, there was absolutely no nuance in his vehement description of Iraq War opponents as fifth columnists and traitors. If Sullivan believes two contradictory things, that’s praiseworthy nuance. If someone else contradicts him, they’re just wrong.
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Yeah I’d never heard of any of them and doubt anyone could care less whether they are still available. Right-wing media of course starts squawking “Dr. Seuss is being cancelled, cancel culture run amok!” and no one feels the need to look into the details.
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I’m old enough to remember when Fox hated Dr. Seuss because The Lorax was socialist propaganda indoctrinating children to oppose The Great and Glorious Free Market in the name of environmental protection. That was an outrage, this is an outrage, everything’s an outrage!
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Today we love that Dr Seuss,
But yesterday we didn’t,
You’d think it was a planned out ruse,
But really it’s just blatant,
Hypocrisy is what we love,
For in the end we only care,
That we remain above,
The gay, the brown and gender fair,
Our worldview assumes we’re victims,
And their out to get us,
The fat orange man provides the dictums,
So Dr. Seuss, we must discuss.
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There are no millionaires in Iowa Joni.
First line: “I am a while (sic) female”
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So he’s basically saying that no country should ever enter into any kind of agreement with the United States? We pretty much knew that already, but good to know.
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He’s saying that Democratic elected officials aren’t true Americans and don’t represent America so anything done with Democrats are provisional.
There’s always a tension between the different visions of different parties with the continuity of the US as an entity, but rarely do people phrase it as the other side is wholly illegitimate as political representatives.
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In a sane world something like this would ensure no republican is ever elected again.
We do not live in a sane world. We are the product of multiple generations of people raised on an addiction to oil cut with lead. It has broken our brains completely.
Hey’s saying Obama should have gone through Congress.
Of course the same scorched earth Congress that would never give Obama a win on one single thing, no matter how much it benefited the country or the world.
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There’s a reason conservatives are so upset about Dr. Seuss. He is the author of the only books they can read and understand.
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This isn’t true. Conservatives are absolutely not capable of understanding the basic morality in a Dr. Seuss book.
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Hold up.
Are you telling me that THE DEMOCRATS COULD HAVE DONE THIS WITH THE TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT?!
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Good point. I’ll revise my statement to he is the author of the only books they have read cover-to-cover. 
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