iirc back in the day the phrase “rule of thumb” came from the notion that if you decided you needed to give your spouse the old punch’n’judy whack-a-do that was your business...it only rose to the level of assault if the stick you beat her with was thicker than your thumb...

I can’t remember right now if this is actually a thing or just something I read in some louis l’amour paperback or something but I think there might be another kind of coup that’s associated with the practice of taking scalps...

[apologies in advance as this bangs on at arguably undue length...]

“Trump is going to destroy his own presidency from within because he’s a petty, brainless bully completely obsessed with revenge and so far out of his depth the fish have little lights on their heads.”

de nada & all that sort of thing...

“all hat & no rabbits” is hands down the best expression I have learned today...thank you...

I think it’s essentially a sort of combination dog whistle & double bluff...

whatever you call the opposite of an apex predator is at it again...

Maxi...c’mon now...you & I have been here before...the answer remains entirely within your ability to educate yourself about...

sure, Boris is stupid...it’s hard to argue otherwise...but he’s the sort of stupid where he clearly has a mind capable of something else...

we know you aren’t that smart Max...it’s no secret...but you’re not this dumb...the fact that you think pretending to be allows you to feel smart & smug isn’t important to anyone but you...

you make a series of effective points there...which I have to say is kind of par for the course where my reading of your comments is concerned...I was pitching for somewhere in the vicinity of wry amusement but I’d admit that I was also looking to imply something along those lines...

that sounds like something Bill Hicks might have said in that Arizona Bay set...

They fully expected their guns to be taken away.

to be fair, though, not all of them grew up to be Harry Brown...

the works of Joe R Lansdale suggest the spectrum may be broader than you suggest, even in Texas...

I can’t be sure but I think it may have something to do with the constant existential terror derived from a subconscious awareness that they are utterly incapable of comprehending the world...& since as a rule they are similarly incapable of considering the possibility that anything could be their fault that means it…

oh, don’t get me wrong I entirely agree with all of that...I guess if I had a point it was that where Barr is flat out in the business of enabling malfeasance Mueller does actually seem to take the whole notion of the law seriously & possesses some discernible principles & even a track record thereof...

He also knows that being President may be the only thing keeping him out of prison, at this point.

Wouldn’t be entirely shocked if his entire empire was leveraged to the hilt and he really has no money.