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Satire is a knife that cuts both ways

J.D. Vance: "I think this is a very depressing way to spend five to six weeks of your life when you know you are innocent as Donald Trump knows that he is" Oh how I wish this had been said at that moment, That may be true, senator, isn't it more of a depressing way to spend five to six weeks...

Assassinations are another tool of authoritarians. Doesn't matter who gets lead poisoning, this should worry people who care about liberty and freedom.

Will mechanisms that prevent him from talking out of turn be part of the deal or is it going to be another cluster fuck caused by Trump's inability to listen to his opponent present their position?

Mike Johnson is there to do things for Trump that his wife is not doing.

When somebody tells you who they are the first time, listen to them. Justice Kavanaugh says unpopular rulings can later become ‘fabric of American constitutional law’ Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday that U.S. history shows c ourt decisions unpopular in their time later can...

Judges look for contrition and acceptance of guilt when setting sentences. What Thomas is doing should cause consideration of removal from office. He knows what he did. He simply refuses to admit he was wrong. That's not who we want on the SCOTUS. Just another whacko extremist right wing...

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This also belongs in the police interactions thread or maybe the thread about the campus protests but I think maybe this one because it's discussing the trend toward a police state from somebody who lived in one before they left Turkey pre-9/11. She documents the drift toward ever-increasing...

He's calling well documented reports "nastiness and lies". This guy is going to decide on the claim that presidents order a team of assassins to murder political enemies and anybody else who gets in their way without fear of prosecution and he's calling facts based reports "lies". Because, I...

If, as has been said many times, democracies behave like a pendulum that swing from left to right and back again. If this is true then let us look at what that model looks like: The pendulum's velocity is highest at the vertex or zero position. At each apex, or maximum absolute...

He will appeal to the SCOTUS and delay justice once again. He's going to lose this appeal too. Maybe he's hoping for a pardon from Trump (again). How humiliating, to scrape and kneel before a convicted sexual abuser, rapist and financial fraudster (at the very least). This person's adivce...

Tying a book keeping task that has to be done in order to carry out an election with a nongovernmental political objective and dressing the whole thing up with demagogue histrionics is so MAGA. The so-called "international money" those Ohio MAGA illiberals are voicing grievance about comes from...

Lyndon was doomed before the campaign even started. Fun fact, Noem and Johnson both had puppy problems.

This whole thing is being blown up, way out of proportion. From The Financial Times, today: Come on, man. This is nothing like 1968, nor does it echo of the George Floyd BLM protests in 2020. This isn't anything like those. Trump and his ilk might want to be so. I have no doubt that...