Because 2 of his golfing buddies own trawlers would be my guess. Or really shares in some bullshit synthetic bet on swordfish futures. Or he is trying to show he’s a man of the people by completely misunderstanding the causes of the demise of the Long Island fishing industry/perpetuate the myth it is regulation and…

The President just called these women liars, but can’t back it up with receipts. He just opened himself up to a whole new range of defamation suits - and he used the official apparatus of the White House to do it. This should make for a whole lot of billable hours that he’ll eventually refuse to pay for.

Below the Supreme Court, there are a couple of mechanisms for judicial discipline beyond impeachment (which has only been used when there accusations of criminal conduct since the turn of the 19th century even though it could be used for any number of issues in theory). Typically complaints get referred to the chief…

My wild speculative take is that women who work for or have worked for Fox have a tangled relationship with sexual harassment. They want to be on the side of claiming the left is hysterical, but also want the benefit of the doubt when they accuse their slimy co-workers. So she wouldn’t be offended by a pervy old man…

On top of his bottomless need for approval and grifting contributions, calling them election events lets him kick out anyone he doesn’t like. If they were official events there’d be major First Amendment questions about the type of screening that’s done at campaign events.

In a district like Conyers (safe Dem, he’s been in office forever) he basically owns the local Democratic infrastructure that is critical to getting up and running for office. Everyone in the local party hierarchy likely owes him one or major favors. If this was the normal retirement his endorsed successor would be…

And Washington was Obama’s inspiration for how he conducted himself in office. He openly laid out his admiration for Washington all the way back in Dreams From My Father. There should have been no surprise as to how he governed. 

And not to mention that on top of an obstructionist opposition, his own party had to rely on Democrats from Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia and North Dakota (just to name 4) to get anything done. Claire McCaskill and Ben Nelson are not exactly flaming leftists, which is the process of passing major legislation had…

It happens all the time with people who are intellectually disinterested but want to sound smarter than they are, not just cops. I knew the head of an agency once who was like this - she wanted to sound like she knew all the cutting edge buzzwords, but she didn’t understand them and couldn’t be bothered to learn. So…

What really sucks about this is it isn’t just a flagrant slap at Native people who consider the land sacred. It isn’t just a slap at the numerous locals who treasure Bears Ears and don’t want extractive, intensive industry. Both of whom Zinke ignored. It also undoes years of work that went into the designation that…

My daughter is 12 and I keep thinking she’s going to stop wanting to see animated movies (at least US made ones) but she loved Coco and so did I. I really like Book of Life but Coco had the Disney multilayered storytelling that makes me cry as a parent every time (and spend half the movie looking over to make sure…

This is what is the scariest part about Trump - he will chase them wherever they lead, then claim to be their leader. He won the GOP primary by surfing the middle between JEB! and Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz, and policy stances could flip in the damn same speech if one version got a bigger reaction. Schumer and Pelosi…

Sometimes they say stuff like that to try and get the attacker to confess/get them to surrender peacefully. Sometimes it is just because they are assholes. Problem is it sounds the same to the victim, and like you said sure sounds like sympathy to the attacker.

Sure, if I’m Kushner/Trump’s defense attorney I attack Flynn’s credibility. But it is pretty hard to say he’s always lying while Trump is claiming on the record that the version of events he’s now telling is true. Now you have to claim he’s a selective liar who went rogue, only Flynn’s story about being instructed on…

Or phrasing a law as saying “no preferences on account of race,” or saying “all racial classifications are inherently suspect” without differentiating between those that ameliorate inequity and those that exacerbate it. Sounds just fine and almost impossible to attack as long as you have no context of racial…

I personally find the middle class to be the worst - they are convinced the poor are getting hand outs and every minority is taking their jobs through affirmative action, while also being (more accurately) convinced the rich and corporations are hosing them through the government. What makes them infuriating is that…

And of course the tag that Flynn was in the Obama administration - without the context that getting shit-canned by Obama for incompetence is why he was available and eager to work with Trump in the first place, which seems like a pretty good reason not to try link it back to Obama -but I guess when your desperate you…

Pence couldn’t keep Republicans happy in Indiana. He’s a special kind of stupid in his own way - he almost always goes too far with the evangelical bullshit, and unlike Trump he really means it. He’s easy to run against if he actually tries to run the country like he did the state (like trying to push an anti-abortion…

In practice you are right that an impeachable offense is whatever there is political will to support as an impeachable offense (see perjury in a civil deposition as fitting “high crimes and misdemeanors” for Clinton and the GOP house). If you actually used a 18th century model, though, what Trump did with Comey would…

Yeah, but he was known as a moron when he was in Congress (at least that’s what a lot of people in Indiana thought when I lived there) don’t underestimate his ability to fuck up foreign affairs in his own special way (like God told him to nuke the unbelievers levels stupid).