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"cavalier" is not the word we would use. am waiting to see if @KaineParker suggests you need a punch in the face before we say more... though we will share a news story, just to give gd something to think 'bout in the interim. Thousands of cars form lines to collect food in Texas HA! Good Fun!

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which should be the position o' those who wanna defend texas for not regulating. point out that the storm is unprecedented may not be complete accurate given the warnings texas was provided by mother nature and the feds in 2011, but is at least a reasonable response. the harsh reality o' cost v. benefit analysis might lead to the conclusion that preparing for a unprecedented storm is economic inefficient in the long run. opt instead for pathetic deflection and mendacious gaslighting? if wind turbines v winter were the problem, then north dakota should be facing yearly problems akin to what texas is facing today. north dakota gets a higher percentage o' its electricity from wind turbines than does texas and the historic cold weather in texas would be viewed as mild by a resident o' north dakota for this time o' year. yeah, when temps in north dakota drop below negative 20 F, which they do all too often, the wind turbines grind to a halt. the thing is, north dakota plans for such events and is not complete crippled by 'em. nevertheless, governor abbott in texas, representative boebert in colorado and the considerable weight o' conservative talking heads at fox is nevertheless tilting at the wind mills. proof trumpism is not gone. there is many in the gop who realize that once an issue is framed as an us v. them situation, there is no need to provide facts or reasonable arguments. get the trump base angry at democrats and the green new deal and then abbott will not need to defend lack of regulation o' energy producers in texas. perhaps worse, the pure mercenary motives o' fox has 'em whipping the trump base into a lather 'cause doing so increases viewership. fox and politicians know they is lying to viewers and constituents. lie 'bout the pandemic. lie 'bout the 2020 election. lie 'bout wind turbines? is some boardies who is gonna wanna try and claim that 2021 is no different than the past decades o' political and media mendacity. am calling bs. such claims is just another lie. the problem is we don't see a way out o' the mess we have created in this country where people don't care 'bout the truth near as much as they is concerned 'bout preventing the other side from being able to claim they were right... 'bout anything. HA! Good Fun!

fox news has been doubling down on the claims that the texas power outages is proof o' the non viability of the green new deal. it may be ludicrous, but recall that a large % of americans get their tv news almost exclusive from fox and from online sources even more mendacious. many in the trump base will be parroting tucker carlson in the days and weeks to come. iowa is also a red state hit hard by the recent cold, and the hawkeye state gets +40% o' its power from wind. during the winter months, texas gets 7% o' its electricity from wind, though yearly is just under 25%. iowa is suffering blackout issues, but almost all is attributable to natural gas issues. admitted, antarctica is much drier than texas, so the icing problem is not the same in antarctica as were the case in texas, but is many places around the globe where wind turbines has been successful winterized. nevertheless, fox is using this texas republican failure to properly regulate their energy producers as a way to make a point 'bout the evils o' renewable energy. after the election and the loss o' fox vieweres to oan and newsmax, the network's gameplan looks to be an effort to out fox previous fox polarization efforts. fox post mortem conclusions were that as an organization they were being too sympathetic to opposing viewpoints and the fox news people had too much power with their insistence on at least infrequent referencing facts. HA! Good Fun!

... perhaps mark zuckerberg just saw the cars that ate paris (1974)? lord knows we have yet to forgive peter weir and australia since the mid 70s. HA! Good Fun! ps ain't actual a facebook tantrum. australia wants facebook to pay every time an australian created news product is viewed or linked. so...

the talk o' home values reminds us how much we don't wanna continue being a landlord. overall, housing prices were flat in our county in 2020, but in our specific area there were marked increases. seems that living in a relative remote bit o' civilization far from the maddening crowd sudden had appeal during the pandemic. go figure. the couple local rental properties we own saw significant increases in value this last year, but as a landlord there is always something to worry 'bout. am tired o' the headaches. am more motivated to sell. if hurl doesn't mind a +1.5 hour commute, we can likely get him into a nice 1-story, 3br/2ba, 1800sqft which backs up to greenbelt in a gated community a bit east o' sacramento. available this may. other than the prohibitive commute, downside is you would be living literal a couple hundred meters away from Gromnir. am always shocked by just how many people in our neighborhood make the commute to the bay area for work. our morning jaunts to the office were only in the +40 minute range depending on traffic. soul sucking. however, the shift to telecommuting is making it much more viable to live somewhere not the bay area even if that is where is your job... though not for hurl we s'pose. 'course the sac valley/foothills summer heat and predictable wildfires is also becoming unbearable. can't get away from it. we know a bunch o' folks who moved from ca to tx the last couple years. tx were just so much cheaper. a couple such persons never quite recovered from the great recession and retirement were gonna be either texas or mexico. other acquaintances moved to tx specific for the tax situation. am recalling one ca ex-pat bragging to us 'bout how much cheaper were their utility costs w/o the rolling summer blackouts. am a smud customer, so we didn't have any blackouts. regardless, am thinking we give it a month or two before we remind our friend o' his utility boast. probable a too soon faux pas if we needle today. HA! Good Fun!

pps speaking o' pyrrhic victories, am gonna remind all the people who were cheering raffensperger for standing up to trump and similar congratulating trump appointed judges for dismissing trump campaign election cases, that yesterday's heroes is gonna be in the news all too soon and for same/different reasons. reaffensperger did more to suppress the georgia vote count than perhaps any single secretary o' state. literal hundreds o' thousands o' voters purged from the rolls close to the election in spite o' georgia being an automatic registration state. raffensperger were a bad guy if you are a voting rights advocate. he drew a line in the sand at the overt fraud trump appeared to be demanding o' him, but the georgia secretary o' state single-handed did more to help trump reelection efforts in the peach state than any other person you might care to name. the thing is, individual action such as raffensperger nonsense as well as state legislatures placing more limits on voter registration is gonna be the republican game plan going forward and they are gonna be aggressive 'bout their efforts. in battleground states with automatic registration, the republicans lost. period. so, is republicans in places such as michigan or pennsylvania where they got state legislature majorities and more than a few overt qanon members in leadership positions gonna advocate for ways to enhance voter registration or is they gonna increase their efforts to suppress? democrats historical do not vote. for decades republicans have depended on democrat indolence, but they ain't gonna assume democrats are gonna go back to their habitual apathy in 2022 and 2024. republicans now have the trump base and they know just how rabid those people are. if republicans want an edge in future elections, they know they gotta see a return to democrat indifference or they can take matters into their own hands and suppress votes in battleground states where they have a legislative majority. is not difficult to predict what happens, eh? we made this point more than once, but needs repeating. for decades, voting rights groups has attempted to get judicial relief when states impose new and harsher limits on the franchise. those voting rights groups almost always fail 'cause o' lack o' standing. if you were laughing or cheering every time the trump campaign had their equal protection claims summarily dismissed by the courts, you need consider just how (not) amusing is gonna be when same thing happens to a historical marginalized minority group complaining that a voting limit disproportionate affects them. the senate passed little in the way o' legislation the past couple years, but they did confirm fed judges at a historic rate. those judges were no more willing than raffesperger to commit fraud, but they were given district and appellate court appointments not to legitimize trump's attempt to steal an election but 'cause they were known to be sympathetic to some o' the more extreme conservative positions on gun control, abortion and voting rights. so, get ready for a particular ugly next couple years. HA! Good Fun!

wrath of the righteous, unlike many premade pnp adventures, contemplated companion npcs who would join your party, albeit at a somewhat diminished level. the pnp ap contemplated romances with the companions and bisexual were arguable the default option. yeah, more than a few o' the companions in owlcat's wotr are unique to the crpg, but we would be surprised if paizo didn't have input on the choice o' romance preferences o' companions. for those familiar with the wotr ap, the romance preferences o' companions being inclusive as 'posed to exclusive is predictable. from our pov, companion romances in crpgs is always terrible. always. as long as such is kept optional and tangential, am not concerned. am finding weird how invested is people with not just the romances but the gender preferences. *shrug* optional and tangential, so who cares? is not as if owlcat invested a whole lotta effort into the writing aspect o' kingmaker, so is not as if adding romance options is some kinda resource sink. whatever. have spent some effort doing the army management. heroes o' might and magic is an obvious inspiration. the interface is less intuitive than we would want-- took us a few long minutes o' frustration trying to figure out how to split units. am understanding there is less o' quest on a timer aspect to army management than were the case o' kingdom building in owlcat's previous effort, but am not certain how that is gonna work in wotr? you gain resources based on a timer, so... am too early into the army management stuff to offer some kinda definitive opinion. am a bit annoyed that our default tactic when fighting powerful melee units involves offering sacrificial single units to be destroyed while our archers decimate. have become extreme reliant on cleric and leader healing to restore unit strength before the end o' a battle, which feels like cheese. am having difficulty impacting morale to any degree. etc. will offer more meaningful feedback when we have more experience. we will note the combat and army management doesn't appear bugged to any significant degree. like it or hate it, army management is working as intended. as we play more, we notice more bugs, and a few is irksome. having to toggle rapid shot is a pain to get the correct number o' attacks as we default to a single attack for our zen archer/sanctified slayer unless we do so. we took an animal companion as part o' our priestly domain, but the animal companion archetype did not carry over from animal companion generation to actual gameplay. maybe not a bug, but am having nowhere to purchase cold iron arrows/bolts early in chap 2, so archery value is diminished. skalds is busted every which way with the inability to apply keening spells or choose bard specific feats as well as archetypes defaulting to vanilla skald post character generation. pc slayers is similar busted when attempting to choose feats. mythic stuff is borked as often as not. can't get a second spirit for our spirit shaman companion, 'cause that option don't work. impossible domain is indeed appropriate named as is impossible for a cleric to add a third. etc. nevertheless, the bugs is still fewer in number and severity than expected and the overall stability o' the game is excellent. loading times is satisfactory and nowhere near as bad as were kingmaker when it were released. is not a deep rpg experience so far, and our pre-knowledge o' the ap perhaps undercuts some o' the impact pivotal events, but am not thinking fans o' kingmaker were looking for depth so much as breadth. kingmaker offered a huge range o' character development and gameplay options and wotr expands the menu o' choices. wotr is exceeding expectations so far. as an aside, one o' the recent developer gameplay streams was a h00t. we didn't watch anywhere near seven hours, but we wanted to. HA! Good fun!

can't keep your eye on the ball, eh? the post you quoted included our observation that the trial were political and the law were a side show aspect. the conclusion were never in doubt. trump's acquittal were a pyrrhic victory. is unclear how devastating to the republicans were the loss. depending on how the covid and economic situation is the next couple years will be more significant than the trump trial, but again, the point o' the trial were never to change hearts and minds o' the mob. there were never any chance 17 republicans would do the right thing if the evidence warranted a conviction. decisions to acquit were made before the trial started. the acquittal were never in doubt. is why in an earlier post we observed how matt gaetz would actual be a superior choice for trump's defense 'cause were never 'bought lawyering. the point o' the trial were to make trump actions appear indefensible to some % o' voting republicans and then have republican senators need defend the indefensible. didn't need convince a large % o' republicans neither. were never gonna change the minds o' the base or other gibbering maniacs we all have come to know these past +4 years; you all know who you are. the aim were to change the pov o' a small percentage o' republicans and based on the recent election which trump lost, at least a few republicans with college educations were open to changing their minds. gonna remind you and others that enough republicans had recent chosen not-trump and that were before the chaos at the Capitol on january 6. the goal o' the trial for democrats were to cement for many republicans that they made the correct choice not voting for trump in 2020 and to make certain republicans in washington had to announce their approval or disavowal o' trump. the incompetence o' trump lawyers were clear to most, but it never needed be obvious to all. not apparent to skarp_one? big shock, eh? lindsey graham, in spite o' being spineless, were correct on one point. the trial and the excuses made for defending the indefensible has a serious chance o' haunting republicans in the years to come. the republican party is divided and the trial forced republicans to polarize further, which will make it more difficult to win in 2022. not impossible by any stretch. again, covid and the economy will be much bigger issues. ... however, am gonna admit call trump's acquittal "pyrrhic" is unfair... to pyrrhus. the greek general were a brilliant battlefield commander. hannibal included pyrrhus in his extreme short list o' the greatest military commanders in history: alexander, pyrrhus, himself. the field general efforts o' trump's lawyers do not make one think o' hannibal. maybe gideon pillow? gomer pyle perhaps? HA! Good Fun! ps we mentioned pillow with a certain self-aware irony 'cause as incompetent as he were on the battlefield, am understanding he had some success as an attorney after the civil war. perhaps pillow were a slip-and-fall lawyer? dunno.

have avoided saying anything 'bout the legal aspects o' the senate trial 'cause is a political trial and not legal. senate makes the rules. pundits complaining 'bout hearsay and even Constitutionality o' the trial is misguided as the senate trials is not a federal civil or criminal trial. nevertheless, when trump's lawyer, michael van der veen, claimed trump knew nothing o' the danger pence faced at the Capitol on january 6, we had an "oh fudge" moment. why would he do that? republican senators knew what happened and didn't care. apparently pence didn't care in any meaningful way that trump were tweeting criticisms o' pence while the attacks were in full swing. gonna now start discovery? is possible an agreement where certain facts previous uncontroversial is agreed to as stipulated and entered into the record. otherwise... HA! Good Fun! ps

our first major bug would be annoying if this weren't a beta. at the end of the first chapter, the player is required to makes choices which correspond with mythic paths and alignments. choose "good" is a dead-end... which could be owlcat commentary. at the very least, a couple of the "lawful" options were viable. am s'posing we will try a bit o' wotr army management in the coming days. as an aside, am not certain how xp is generated, but our 4-man party is having little more xp than our 6-man party does. am recalling in kingmaker we took fewer party members and level'd a bit quicker, but am noticing almost negligible xp variance depending on party size. HA! Good Fun!

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finally started playing the beta. for a beta it is pretty solid. haven't experienced a crash in something approaching fifteen hours o' gaming... though admitted a significant % o' our fifteen hours were spent at the character generation screen. is a whole lotta minor bugs, but most is simple math errors or the kinda thing which disappears after a reload. example: our zen archer is not benefiting from the correct ac bonus for wisdom... at least not always. am not sure what is the trigger as isn't an ability or equipment issue. am also losing extra attack from flurry unless we activate and then deactivate rapid shot ability. is minor annoyances at this point. am about to choose our inquisitor class, but is difficult from the character generation screen to tell exactly how faith hunter is implemented. might take sanctified slayer this time. have been playing exclusive tb. a few larger battles is rather time consuming in tb, but am otherwise satisfied with tb in general. we do not have the gnome or the half-succubus, but the other companions is having useful stat distributions and classes. sure, we wish there were a respec function, but am having minor quibbles over stats and abilities. whatever problems we have with the game is expected. wotr is a munchkiny pathfinder adventure, so fact we gotta ultra-specialize is kinda part o' the game dna and there nothing owlcat were gonna do to change the fundamental nature o' the ruleset. we haven't finished what would be the conclusion o' the first ap module, so we do not have an army; can't say whether army management is better or worse than kingmaker kingdom building. am expecting disappointment from the army, so anything less than rage inducing frustration will be an improvement compared to our experience from the previous title. am not near as angry as dennis green, but if you played kingmaker, wotr is gonna be what you thought it would be. good news is that for a beta, wotr is a solid piece o' work and so far we would say it looks like the game needs fine tuning as 'posed to major fixes. when is game s'posed to be released? am having no idea as to release as we never bothered to look for such info. that said, if you told us the game were gonna be released in a few months, we would be neither shocked or worried. HA! Good Fun!

made a late breakfast. guess it kinda looked like eggs benedict, but not. prepared a béchamel with cheddar, manchego and half-and-half 'cause we looked in the refrigerator and those items spoke to us. we have good bacon so we cooked up three thick cut pieces. drained off most o' the bacon grease and then fried two eggs using these little egg ring thingies which had been gifted to us some time past but we had never bothered to use. toasted an english muffin and buttered... am not certain why we buttered the muffin other than some weird reflex. unnecessary. anywho, we placed a piece o' bacon (well, two halves o' a piece) on each muffin half and then added a fried egg which were nice and crispy from the bacon grease. topped off our muffin, bacon and egg stacks with something 'tween a drizzle and a pour o' our béchamel. closer to a pour if am being honest. after tasting we decided it needed some pepper. for those paying particular close attention, there is an unaccounted piece o' bacon. am knowing it ain't the most healthy food for dogs, but is no way possible for Gromnir to cook bacon w/o providing the dogs with a taste. as the bacon sizzles in the pan, the pooches stare at us, drooling and hopeful. hard stares. pleading stares. third piece o' bacon were to keep the dogs from shanking us in our sleep if we didn't give 'em a bit. food was ok. dogs thought it were excellent and are no doubt looking forward to us making in the future. however, the dogs eat deer p00p and rotting animal carcasses with gusto if they get the opportunity to partake, so their gastronomical insights is ordinarily ignored. side benefit: our house smells like bacon. HA! Good Fun!

understatement. unless china invents cinema-grade time travel, they got what appears to be a massive and insurmountable population problem o' their own making. if china were gonna implement decades-long draconian population control to stave off their recurring famine problems, they shoulda' gone with logan's run life clocks and carousel. 'course is understandable why the old men running the chinese communist party didn't consider carousel. HA! Good Fun!

on friday afternoon we finally got our first shingles vaccination. coulda' been worse. nine hours after receiving the shot, we suffered 'bout six hours o' terrible shivering and a rather significant headache which has only just begun to diminish. we were told side effects could last 2-3 days, so am guessing we were lucky. don't feel lucky. two-to-six months from now we get a second shot. am so looking forward to it. HA! Good Fun!

well, they are trying her in juvenile court, and no doubt her defense will be along the lines o' what you suggest; that she was just doing what she was told to do. has never been a particular strong defense, but the fact she were a kid will no doubt be a significant factor. am not bothered that a secretary would be deemed complicit for knowing aiding in mass murder. the thing is, am wondering how far down the proximate cause chain justice demands we take this. how many germans knew? how many germans had some small role which contributed to the attempted extermination o' a minority population? is probable that the guy delivering bread or milk in 1944 to stutthof knew what were happening to jews, poles, russians and others. why wasn't he put on trial? were the milkman's contribution so fundamental different from the secretary? how do we distinguish the stutthof milkman from the secretary? is doubtful the milkman and the secretary gets put on trial in the days immediate following the war even if there were strong evidence which showed they were knowing exact what were happening in stutthof. how many delivery people and craftsman who contributed to the maintenance o' stutthof knew? is always civilian contractors and workers at such facilities. can't help but wonder how much o' this is political theatre. decades removed from events, prosecutors get a chance to show they is still aware and sensitive? again, am actual ok with finding a seventeen-year-old to be complicit if the evidence supports. the thing is, if she is guilty, then so were a whole lotta other people and no effort were made to prosecute 'em. lack o' prosecution o' the multitudes does not make the secretary less complicit, but it severe undermines fundamental notions o' justice if she gets singled out so temporal remote from actual events. and don't get us started on the pogroms from before the war, and the dirty euro secret regarding the large number o' jews quiet murdered by local populations after they were liberated from the nazi camps. is a whole lotta complicit. is mighty convenient for 2021 populations to single out the nazis as the villains when is fact the nazis neither started nor finished the murder. HA! Good Fun!

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we fully support mr. navarro's suggestion. am thinking this is a fantastic idea. a trump defense should be directed by an individual with a dubious ethical code who understands that all you need to convince the trump base o' anything they already wanna believe is volume and a bit o' gaslighting. as long as the republican party is pandering to the trump base, sound legal representation is a waste. what trump needs is an infernal carnival barker. matt gaetz were born for the role. HA! Good Fun!

our approval o' pathfinder: kingmaker were marginal given a few o' the perpetual bugs, our dissatisfaction with 3.5 legacy dnd, and our frustration with the horrible kingdom building mechanic. the ap (adventure path) wotr is based 'pon were also not a fave for us, although the first two adventures weren't bad. tragic, the ap descended into stoopid right quick after those initial offerings. our ambivalent approval were not enough to keep us from backing a tier which included beta access. go figure. we recognized the only potential games we would be playing in early 2021 were betas for bg3 and wotr. beggars and choosers. whatever. haven't managed to steel our self enough to actual play the wotr beta, but am certain to try out a zen archer/inquisitor at some point. likely a dwarf. is too bad for shady that owlcat went with wotr, 'cause carrion crown were not only a fantastic ap (top three out o' ~ two dozen in our estimation) but it were filled with gothic stuff. HA! Good Fun!

agree, but as odd as it seems, is not unreasonable if you ignore the lessons o' history. if you are nevada, how do you compete with texas and their tax friendly scheme? looking ahead, how do you compete with shanghai? sure, the problems won't start with a self-contained future intel campus in sparks, nevada, or at least it won't be noticeable. the stem employees got too much personal leverage and automation will increasingly handle the grunt work, but there will be less educated employees being exploited amazon style. all those menial job folks working in the company towns/counties who is insta interchangeable with thousands o' other unemployed service workers will be having zero power. count on big business to look out for such persons? 'course tech is looking ahead. problem is too few is looking behind. HA! Good Fun!

y'know, if at least the company town stuff were the realm o' science fiction you might be able to excuse nevada. unfortunate, multiple somebodies didn't pay attention in class when teachers were talking 'bout the late 19th and early 20th century coal wars. teddy roosevelt had to step in in 1902(?) to stop what looked like a looming class war. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/minewars-coalcamps/ there were kinda a sea change with the passage o' the national industrial recovery act o' 1933, which made massive unionization efforts possible. even so, it took more than a decade for the government to dismantle the worst excesses made possible by the company town model. am knowing this stuff were 100 years in the past, but the kinda necromantic stoopid by nevada is exact why we teach history in schools, no? HA! Good Fun!

am not sure if such is a fair description, but from a practical pov it probable don't make a difference if democrats know how to plan strategic and tactical. the issue we see is that you are dealing with a polarized "they." democrats and republicans is suffering similar problems insofar as their parties is not unified. understatement. am unable to tell you what is core republican values as o' today and is not much better for democrats. pelosi, schiff and schumer, to name a few, is not dumb, but you got a deeply divided caucus and is tough to draw from sun tzu and clausewitz when every decision is a compromise 'tween wildly disparate pov. am recalling a minivan our folks bought when we were in high school. both parents hated that van. the reason they bought the damn minivan is precise 'cause they both disliked it. mom and dad couldn't agree to purchase a vehicle one o' 'em liked, so they purchased a vehicle neither liked but were nevertheless functional... cause that were a fair resolution? 2021 democrats is far less simpatico than were our parents, so am thinking for the near future we gotta assume democrat compromises is gonna continue to be fugly. and as we noted, is as bad and likely worse for republicans. mitch may be an ammonal opportunist, but he ain't stupid. kevin mccarthy may not be the historic smartest minority leader o' the house (again with the understatement) but he ain't as much o' a fool as circumstances make him appear to be. 145 house republicans in a secret ballot voted to not move against liz cheney in spite o' very public calls from the mouthy trumpers in Congress to remove her from a leadership role. converse, public votes to impeach trump after the attack at the capitol garners less than a dozen. the republican caucus is painful divided and endemic cowardice/pragmatism has 'em saying stuff public which many clear do not believe out o' fear o' antagonizing the base. house members, far more than senators, is constant running for reelection. democracy is ugly even if is better than the alternatives. HA! Good Fun!

hmmm. also sprach zarathustra were what came to mind. HA! Good Fun!

not that anybody asked our opinion, but am against punishing marjorie taylor greene by a house vote. mtg is a nut and a dangerous nut at that. am not gonna run down the list o' all the lies she has told... too many. mtg should not be a member o' Congress, but she ain't the first dangerous loon we has had as a member o' the house o' representatives or senate, and she won't be the last. so assume mtg is kicked off o' Congressional committees (or worse) by democrat votes and ask selves what happens when republicans win back the house. under harry reid and obama, democrats removed filibuster rules for Presidential appointments save for SCOTUS. sure enough, when the republicans got control o' senate and had a republican President, they went crazy with appointments, many o' whom were demonstrably unqualified. didn't stop there neither as the SCOTUS filibuster rules were changed. the reason you got acb on the Court is 'cause democrats refused to consider the consequences o' changes to filibuster. predictable. were all so predictable. similar predictable is republicans looking for payback if mgt is punished. mtg deserves punishment. republicans shoulda' done so. however, what is arguable a reasonable and justified action by Congress to punish a member for behavior unbecoming a member o' the House needs be viewed from a perspective two, four or six years in the future. consider that ilhan omar and rashida tlaib has made comments which were at best ill-advised and arguable bigoted. tell us mtg comments ain't same as squad member nuttery and you are preaching to the choir, but when the opposition party gets control, they ain't gonna be concerned with fairness. btw, am not suggesting members o' Congress should be free to say and do anything w/o any possibility o' punishment by the house or senate. however, am not gonna chase anybody down the proverbial rabbit hole. Congress has had too many foolish, unhinged and even dangerous members. the thing is, the behaviour being punished need be so egregious that we ain't having this discussion. mtg deserves punishment, but if you doubt for even an instant the inevitable day o' reckoning once republicans take back the house, you are being as obtuse as all those qanon dopes. convince us mtg should be given the option o' "crossing the desert" the entire distance 'tween the capitol and wh if she wanna keep her office and committee seats? you win. we agree. unfortunate, in a few short years, is gonna be republicans with the paddles and are you telling us you are comfortable with relying on their restraint and wisdom? HA! Good Fun!