I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
With Mojtaba's ascension it's worth reminding everyone that one of the motivations for a deal with Iran circa 2008ish was to boost Iran's reformists by undermining the hardliner argument that the U.S. was committed to the regime's destruction. It worked for awhile.
It’s fun to remember that none of this was remotely fucking necessary.
How broken am I that I understood every word of this.
Well I’m confused
The departest from me I never knew thee of all depart from me I never knew thees.
when you absolutely positively don’t care one actual bit about the loss of human life, just whether any icky blood got on your tie
When you write people off simply because they are actively working to make the entire planet a frozen apocalyptic wasteland, it actually is you who are blotting out the sun—the sun of free discourse.
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Don't shun people just because they have different beliefs about blotting out the sun to usher in a new age of eternal darkness. We have to find an answer in the middle.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
HL Mencken
July 26, 1920
I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
Here is a man with more simple moral integrity & courage that the vast bulk of Dem electeds & pundits.
This cavalier indifference to our safety, while materially destroying our standard of living and personally enriching himself at our expense, is beyond impeachable.
Obama’s change in policy towards Cuba and the JCPOA happened, the world didn’t end, everything was fine. Part of manufacturing consent for more war is purposefully forgetting the very recent memory when it was proven to be wholly unnecessary.
It’s been oddly surreal to hear the news framing the news around regime change in Iran and Cuba as the culmination of decades of shared agreement when Obama did significantly change US policy towards both in pretty recent memory.
this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal
I guess it's fitting that Noem only lasted 14 months.
I just want all these senators who are Nuremberg-posting to really understand that you can’t say this stuff and then NOT do Nuremberg. We’ll be watching and we’ll notice if you just skip it
OK I have heard one (1) compelling argument for not tearing down Trump's ballroom immediately, and that's to use it for our Nuremberg trials.
Is it a problem to have a DHS secretary who has not graduated from college? I don't know! Let's find out together, as a nation!
I've seen schoolgirls confronted with violent fascism respond by diving in, both fists swinging. I think your references need updating.
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
…they’re gonna replace the gas tax with something like a 25% property tax on EVs aren’t they.
Defund the military.
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
If I were Stephen Miller, I’d be a little more circumspect about setting a precedent for revoking the human rights of murderers.
Men are too emotional to be president newrepublic.com/post/207384/...
