What's your dinosaur political compass?

https://twitter.com/OwlFamiliar/status/1334302727753621504

From David Brooks (from a while back):

"What the Voters Are Trying to Tell Us: They are not always wise, but they have something important to say."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/opinion/trump-biden-voters.html

From the second half:

...It’s not policies that cost Democrats. The core Biden policies are astoundingly popular. It’s that they’ve built a cultural blue wall that keeps the other half of the country out, no matter the circumstance.

They’ve done it by telling a certain sort of story. American politics, progressives commonly say, is all about the historical shift from homogeneity to diversity. They see America as divided between those enlightened cosmopolitans (Democrats) who welcome the coming diverse postindustrial world and those knuckle-dragging, racist troglodytes (Republicans) who don’t.

The first problem with this narrative is that it is perpetually surprised by events. Election after election, the emerging Democratic majority fails to emerge. The second problem is that it oversimplifies the different processes going on in America. Somehow, we have to have the racial reckoning, which is essential, while we understand the other mega-narratives people feel are driving their lives. Third, it’s just astonishingly smug, self-congratulatory and off-putting.

The voters have handed us a political system that will be led, probably, by Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell. These are not culture warriors. They are politicians and legislators.

We now have two parties whose best version of themselves is as working-class parties. Maybe the next few years can be a partisan competition over who is best for Americans without college degrees.

Would divided government devolve into gridlock? Maybe. McConnell will do whatever is in the G.O.P.’s best interests in 2022. But I’m not so sure. America is bitterly divided on cultural matters, but it is getting less divided over economic policy. Populism has weakened the G.O.P.’s anti-government wing and opened senators like Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and others to ideas that call for more federal involvement in industry. For some that includes worker training, for others, an infrastructure bank, wage subsidies or R&D industrial policy...

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How bad is that politician?

The guy is literally Hi....

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☐ Turtle

☑ Dog

MM's tweet ends with a fun new word.

*snork*

The guy is literally Hi....

I for one welcome our new *checks notes* Namibian overlords.

Wonder if this includes all the major funerals?

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany lambasted Democrats for “hypocrisy” on their coronavirus lockdown measures during a Wednesday press conference, playing footage of prominent Democrats violating social distancing on a loop.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/02/mcenany-white-house-trump-democrat-hypocrisy-coronavirus/

See if you can catch the secret message.

A more extensive list of our betters.

https://redstate.com/bradslager/2020/12/03/the-list-of-politicians-defying-their-own-lockdown-orders-is-extensive-and-growing-while-they-all-share-the-same-menu-item-n288632

Adolf Hitler wins election.

https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1334431697715269633

Who says Americans don't have royalty?

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1334101256638324736

Six, 6:55. Wutameye, chopped liver? Don't answer that.

Coney: Lemons lemonade.

1863: scientists realize the Sun doesn't burn coal for fuel because it would have run out lo these many eons ago, so it must be fueled by he asteroids that fall into it.

Yeah, that's the ticket. Now decommission the Patent Office, Alphonse, our work here is done.