@MidnightRider It's right up there with the "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" signs.
@coolserenity Isn't everything?
@singlemaltgirl Or geography or physical reality.
@LiberalLibrarian I don't think "Hell" means what he thinks it means.
@LiberalLibrarian But will you leverage synergies?
@LiberalLibrarian I don't think I'll ask.
@LiberalLibrarian Sounds like amped up Aspercreme.
@divisionbyzero @LiberalLibrarian Of course we also referred to their parents as aunt and uncle, which they actually were. A bit complicated, really.
@divisionbyzero @LiberalLibrarian My mother has nieces and nephews who are only slightly younger than her. As kids, we always called them aunts and uncles, since they were pretty much our parents' generation.
@LiberalLibrarian Not common, nor *that* rare. My mother has a niece only 4 years younger than her.
@LiberalLibrarian Presumably they're reluctant to give up forcing the data-hoovering app on people.
But if the user numbers continue to drop as they've been doing, they'll probably relent and offer a web version.
@catlynne333 It has been pointed out that his electoral coalition was similar to today's D voting bloc... which got much bigger as the population changed.
@catlynne333 Just so. Nixon *was* using the gov't and outside operatives to subvert the democratic process. It wasn't on the level of Trump's flat-out coup, but it was much worse than many people realize.
@catlynne333 Yes, but that means you are one of the relatively few who does know what was going on then. Most people now think "it was just a burglary."
@catlynne333 But, at the same time, it was far worse than people tend to remember.
I actually think this underplays the seriousness of Watergate. Nixon was abusing federal powers to sabotage opponents and interfere in the 1972 election. It *was* an attack on democracy.
Nonetheless, Dean is right that #Trump's direct coup attempt goes far beyond Watergate.
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.