Interesting fact about *that *Great Wall : despite the colossal investment it didn’t actually, yanno, work. The Chinese *still *ended up with a Manchu dynasty. The Han were arguably better off cooperating with the Mongols & Jurchen rather than spending so much effort trying to keep them out at all costs, though. Maybe there’s a lesson there, too ;).
Cooperating with the people who had to be convinced that the Chinese people had more value as living producers of tax revenue than by killing them all and converting their lands to horse pasture? :dubious:
I’m on the fence about this one. Just tweeting “14!” without context is odd, and the responses from the open white nationalists are troubling, especially if she has not clarified her intent and distanced herself from them. And Coulter has dipped a toe or two into the racist sewer. I mean this as an honest question–not trying to be argumentative–what other explanations might there be?
That’s the Holman Rule. Probably will be used to hold as a threat against any civil service employee who doesn’t toe the POP* party line. For example a NASA civilian employee working with satellite data on weather insisting on reporting actual numbers rather than Exxon provided numbers. Not fired, just reduced to $1 per year salary.
*POP = Party of Pepe, the white supremacist cartoon frog.
Also has the side benefit of gratifying non-wealthy Trump voters’ resentment that other people have decent job benefits and workplace protections, when their own jobs (if any) are so lousy and precarious.
So the wealthy elite Republicans get to intimidate federal employees whose actions might inconvenience them, and the non-wealthy struggling Republicans get to enjoy the schadenfreude of seeing those better-paid middle-class workers suffering. Nobody does covert class antagonism like the Republicans.