The Gift of the Pelosi

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Today's Menu: Really Meaty Nothingburgers

From CNN: Mueller indicts Roger Stone, says he was coordinating with Trump officials about WikiLeaks' stolen emails

Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, who alleges that the longtime Donald Trump associate sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump's opponents while in coordination with senior Trump campaign officials.

Mmm, that's a damn meaty nothingburger.

The Gomez Effect

(Or, "Shibboleths And You")

Those who recognize the above image need no explanation. For the rest, a brief explanation: Gomez Addams, patriarch of the Addams family, is driven into a passionate frenzy whenever his wife Morticia speaks French, even one word of it, exclaiming, "Tish, you spoke French!".
I have seen few people in the world who could be so worked up over words, or at least ones not meant to be harmful and belittling, until I watched the "leftists" of the Internet listening to whichever person crowed about being "anti-war". They fell for it when Racist Ronnie Paul did it, they fell for it when Racist Sexist Gun-Loving Finger-Wagging Peepaw did it, they even told themselves that Satsuma Shitbag was an "anti-war" candidate because he wasn't the Accursed Emails Woman. And now, now they're telling themselves that Tootsie Garbage and her dictator-loving ilk are "anti-war".

It's a shibboleth. A phrase to separate the in-group from the out-group. And if you're not saying all the shibboleths ("anti-war", "anti-imperialist", "Medicare for All", "Green New Deal", etc.), you're not Of The Body.

And if you're not Of The Body, well, you're not a person. How nice.

A Short Timeline

January 23 2019, circa 6:00 AM EST: Pete Buttigieg announces the formation of an exploratory committee regarding a 2020 presidential bid.

January 23 2019, circa 6:01 AM EST: Progressives declare Pete Buttigieg to be "Not of the Body". (And yes, I'm shamelessly stealing this from driftglass)

Okay, I'll admit that it hasn't happened yet, at least that I've seen, but I'll be damned if they won't do it the moment he becomes a threat to Tootsie Garbage or Racist Sexist Gun-Loving Finger-Wagging Peepaw.

I mean, I'll be damned anyway if I'm wrong, but still-

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