I honestly feel considerably better now that someone’s explained the extent to which the FBI counterintelligence investigation has a free-er rein, a wider scope & a lower burden of proof since even Mueller said that with more of the information he asked for he might have met a higher standard of proof within his…

no offense intended but as regards the “nothing new but...I thought I’d been paying fairly close attention but there’s a lot to stay on top of & we may have missed a thing or two...

speaking of nerdly interconnected details...the ever reliable Rooo provided a link to a Seth Abramson thread r freeing to a legal analysis someone outlined for the folks at Slate...

well, as far as he could tell that's exactly how the "proud warriors" era worked...& they're still on the payroll...

much as I agree with what you say there I’d also give a shout-out to the “tales of the black freighter” story the kid is so engrossed in...no superhumans but the one guy who survives to make it home does so because he does everything in his power to get home to his family but in the process sacrifices his humanity…

I thought that while on the one hand impeachment proceedings do confer judicial rather legeslative status which allows for a higher level of compulsion in terms of witnesses/testimony/evidence requests it isn’t until the senate confirms an indictment that the actual trial rules kick in & double jeopardy becomes a…

I don't know what else they did to make google serve that up to them but I'm no fan of Cult45 & I can't replicate that search even now...even if I include the magic "high definition .PNG file" incantation...

he didn’t watch anywhere near all of it...if he had them his early morning twitter rant would have been calm & considered compared to the evening edition...at least if he saw much of the answers given to democrats...or really even their lines of questioning...

I take your point about building on existing content for continuity...but from my vague recollection of the character on the page rather than the screen the rider portion of ghost rider was literally the spirit of vengeance & quite single-minded about that role...had a whole penance state thing...& also hailed from a…

[TL;DR: it’s certainly my prevailing opinion...& one I believe to be shared in direct proportion to the degree of attention a given individual has had the misfortune to have paid him...]

I might be willing to bet actual money that he thinks African American Community is what the middle bit of NAACP stands for...

as to when, it’s not so much that there isn’t an answer as there are a succession of them...racism of one flavour or another has been a broadly constant partisan issue for generations...& not just in the US...

I’m pretty sure the Godwin points go on his tab not ours...he’s the one using the Goebbels playbook out there in public like a man with literally no shame...

that their imagined sweet spot in history is a figment of their imagination rather than an artifact of said history means no more to them than the pre-nazi origins of the swastika symbol do to just about everyone these days...

you say it like you’re surprised...

the call isn’t just coming from inside the house...it’s a god damn party line...

a celebrity such as yourself...say it ain’t so...

speaking of interchangable ciphers with nothing of value to contribute...Baracka is out of the grays again & I’d just like to leave this here since he’s on his dismiss happy troll bridge kick again...

oh just fucking drop it already...you’re so full of shit it’s a wonder you haven’t detonated yet you mindless gibbering effigy of a human being...

the grew-up-in-a-small-town line is the same hand-waving distraction as Boris Johnson citing Pericles to declare that his current position is open to anyone be they never-so-humble & not at all because he is the produced of bullshit smeared with privilege...