With the non-stop news about this, it does feel like it’s been forever, but it really hasn’t. It took like a year and a half for Nixon to be thrown out. I don’t think this is going to go that long. This is moving very quickly.

The two likeliest options would be either that they impeach him or the pressure gets bad enough that he is forced to resign. That’s what happened to Nixon. It was likely he was going to get impeached, so he resigned. There’s only one other legal way to boot him, and that would be his own cabinet invoking the 25th…

I actually think the calculation will be interesting for 2018. As long as it doesn’t pass a certain level of severity (which it may have already), they will hold off until after 2018. But if it gets to the point where they are better off separating themselves from him, I think they’ll try to push for it before 2018.

Things are moving very quickly. What do people think the timetable is for the end of this administration? I would have said it was going to be more than a year from now before impeachment even started, but it seems a lot closer now.

What the hell are you talking about? I’ve admitted our system has problems. In fact, some of them are huge. I think the electoral college is a vestigial relic that should have been abolished long ago. I think we need to stop dark money and limit political spending in general. We have massive problems. But as large as…

In your quoting of me, you’ll note I had the word “almost” in front of “completely closed economy.” If not for that, I would say you caught me. However, “almost” is kind of a key term there. And I stand by it. They had very little trade with countries outside the Soviet Union. You’re right that I said “no one was…

I’m glad, because I think you’re nuts. If you think the US system is equally bad as one where the media is run by the state and political opponents are murdered by government thugs, you are a crazy person. I will try to remember to avoid dealing with you in the future.

I haven’t actually seen the movie, but from the trailers, it seems like there are a lot of shots of tons of soldiers. It would be one thing to not focus on them, but to cast all white people instead of making any effort to show the people who were actually there... That’s not good.

The thing is, though English is the common language here, it isn’t official. Under the law, they are no more right or wrong to be speaking their language than you are to speak English. Would you think it was cool if people could only get legal status here if they spoke Spanish?

Okay... That’s true. But it seems like you and Miller are the only ones mistaking the two. Acosta was pretty clear that he was talking about tradition, not law, and Miller was the one who conflated the two and you were the one who believed him. Acosta is the only one I’ve mentioned who seems to have a good grasp on…

So, we like to hate nerds now. Great...

My favorite part is when Miller tried to act like Acosta was an elitist or even a racist because he pointed out a lot of people who want to come here don’t speak English.

He was referring to “American tradition” not our laws. He’s pretty right. In our entire history, a ton of people have come here who didn’t speak English.

All I said was that it was a closed system with very little foreign trade. Yes, they did have some exports to a few countries such as China, Cambodia, Laos, and North Korea and they did have the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, where they helped out Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam, but there was just not much…

The fact that the electoral college is shitty doesn’t change the fact that we do have relatively fair elections. Here’s a question for you: How many times has the White House switched parties since the turn of the century? It’s three times. In Russia, it hasn’t happened, because Putin shut down the free press when he…

Here, the government will not kill you for speaking out. In Russia, they will. Here, there is a free press, not controlled by the government. In Russia, the state now has almost complete control of the media. Here, there are two political parties with real differences, and the White House and Congress do actually go…

Because it’s been going on for decades. Who do you blame for the Cold War? Our fear of communism was pretty equal to their fear of capitalism. Our propaganda about them was pretty much the same as theirs against us. It was a constant competition in which we were both moving against each other on many different fronts.…

Are you trolling now?

At this point, they should just try to make the blanket statement that nothing he says should ever be used against him. I don’t think anyone would accept that, but that is basically their argument.

Whenever law enforcement decides to just round large groups of people up, it needs to be stopped. It’s immoral, cruel, and idiotic. And even if you are one of the bigots who loves this, you should think about the fact that it is hugely expensive to arrest everyone and sort them out later. Not only does it cost a lot…