I almost want him to try so that the military will refuse to carry it out and maybe he will realize that he is not king. But part of me believes that not enough Republicans would care that the President tried to commit a major war crime and had to have his orders countermanded by the military to do anything.

The Supreme Court has been pretty clear that a threat of violence requires actually proving beyond all reasonable doubt that the state of mind of the defendant was such that he intended for the threat to be taken seriously as an actual specific act of violence that he would commit, such as saying, “I’m going to kill…

I’m not sure where the “heavy fines” would come from. This comment seem to pretty clearly fall under the auspices of the first amendment (there is no imminent threat of lawless action per Brandenburg v. Ohio). While I fully support discipline, including firing for officers in a case like this, I’m not sure that is…

 LA and New York are the biggest metropolitan areas in the US. The greater urban areas of those two cities has over 40 million people between them, over 10% of the entire US population. Small, local farms in the metropolitan areas are not going to feed everyone there. Also, you’re not going to have a small avocado or…

It’s Mike Pence you are talking about. If Trump were outed as a frequent patron of a sex dungeon for transsexual midgets, the equivalent Mike Pence scandal would be learning that he once kept female goats on his private ranch and sometimes tended to them on his own, outside the watchful gaze of Mother.

1. Most of what you say doesn’t make much sense. An acre of land from a large industrial operation generates just as much runoff and transportation needs as an acre from a smaller operation. Most farms grow monocultures, whether they are industrial operations or not. It’s pretty rare to find a smaller farmer who is…

1. Agriculture, whether it is planting GMO or non GMO crops, is dominated by large by large industrial farming operations. Small farmers plant GMO crops and large industrial operations plant non-GMO crops. It really does not matter.

To be fair, studies have shown that the citizens of most other wealthy countries don’t actually know more than Americans about science. They just are less likely to reject certain scientific conclusions like evolution and global warming because of their religious or political beliefs. And even then, it is not as if…

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I don’t think that Pence is a competent version of Trump. He’s nothing like Trump. He’s just quietly hiding in his coattails, waiting to ride them up into power.

And if a spontaneous and totally not preplanned cross-burning breaks out, he might ask someone to call the fire department. 

He is not afraid of them. He is afraid of Pelosi and Biden. But the far left of the party is where he thinks the Democrats are weakest. His goal is to stoke infighting among the Democrats and exacerbate xenophobic fear among swing voters.

Most Republicans condemned his Charlottesville comments. Most Republicans are ignoring or even defending his, go back to where you came, from comments. It is a watershed moment really, because the Republican Party as a whole is tacitly (even to some degree overtly) endorsing open and naked xenophobic and ethnic bigotry…

They did. They basically found:

Most hate crimes are enhancements that require proving the accused state of mind of the accused beyond any reasonable doubt, which can be a tough thing to do. The judge is usually supposed to do his best to make sure that the jury doesn’t hear about any evidence that is not directly related to the alleged assault…

Domestic terrorism is defined in the Patriot Act, but it is not a specific crime punishable under the US Federal Criminal code.

Charlottesville was a huge mess and the whole police response was deeply unorganized and ineffective. However, the courts have long held that the government does not have a legal responsibility to prevent crimes from happening and the government is generally immune from lawsuits regarding someone being injured, killed…

It’s just the way the courts work, and for good reason. You’re usually not allowed to introduce evidence that is prejudicial to a defendant being predisposed to commit the crime that they are accused of unless you can show that it specifically speaks to their motivation in the particular crime they were charged with.

Nobody is going to physically remove Trump from the White House. It doesn’t matter anyway. The only thing that matters is that congress certifies the electoral votes and the new President swears in. Trump will physically leave the White House on his own accord once the new President moves in and makes him feel…