Under bedrock constitutional principles

I would love to be a fly on the wall in DoJ meeting rooms where they have discussions about whether they have enough to move forward with an indictment, the procedural hoops they’d potentially have to jump to secure a conviction, etc.

They can be shamed, but not with this. We are dealing with what is fundamentally a breakaway society with totally different morals and values from our own—the second most shameful thing you can do is lose for any reason; the most shameful would be to admit defeat or concede a point to the opposition.

Oh shit, is that confirmed? Or are you saying that that’s probably what she’s gonna get?

It’s an abbreviation of “cissexual heterosexual”, which is to say there’s nothing about her (other than being a woman of course,) that will be deemed unseemly, socially unacceptable, or unfit for power/accolades by the other members of her ostensible ideological/political community. In other words, she is advantaged…

She’ll have a job with the campaign of whatever Republican challenges Trump for the nomination in 2024. Failing that there’s think tank jobs, lobbying jobs, she could run for the House in a district that likes Trump policies but may not like the insurrection, or failing that, state house (even narrower constituencies…

This would be fatal to any Democrat, and probably some Republicans. But for rank and file Republicans, and certainly for Donald Trump, it will be meaningless.

We very seriously need to plan for the likelihood that there’s no way to stem the tide here. People are angry about Democrats not doing anything—okay, be angry, rail at Democratic politicians, whatever. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: if you take the most dim and cynical view of Democratic politicians,…

Regardless of where you think the majority of Democrat politicians’ priorities are, I would hope you’d agree that securing their ability to win elections would be at the top (if only because it relates directly to their own ability to retain power.) And yet they have not been able to do even that because not enough…

Dismantling the whole of the administrative state is 100% on the table for this Court. The FDA, FTC, FCC, FAA, SEC, EPA, IRS—none of these are long for the world, folks. 

Republicans split out the portion of the population who will fall for any goddamn stupid thing and turned them into their base. The Democrats can’t do that, those people are already Republican voters.

lowering/removing taxes and deregulation aren’t capitalist ideas

I don’t think I would have taken the position he’s not a Democrat—there’s a “D” next to his name and he counts towards the Democrats “Majority” in the Senate. I’m more prone to take 1000+ words to over explain the position “he’s a Democrat, but so what/that doesn’t matter” (which I know you love,) than I am to speak…

I could see a de facto monarchy (inasmuch as you’d have a very wealthy and highly visible class of persons protected by the law, but not bound by it,) but I doubt they’d literally abandon capitalism. It is practically woven into their literal religion at this point, and (thanks to the prosperity gospel,) has become an…

Anyone who initially supported Bernie but then supported Trump is not and never was on the side of abortion rights.

Now we won’t have any progress, at all, ever.

There’s a difference between saying that “Manchin isn’t a Democrat”, and saying that the Democratic party should not be held accountable for Manchin’s behavior given the fact that he’s insulated from the pressure and influence the party at large can typically bring to bear against its members as a mechanism of…

one side wants to make us a Fascist theocracy in which we are cogs in the machine for our capitalist overlords and the other just wants us to be cogs in the machine for our capitalist overlords until the end of time.

It basically took Republicans 50 years of party discipline and organizing to get this done. They captured state governments, trained a sizeable minority of their voters to vote straight Republican tickets no questions asked (and then ensured, via their capture of state governments, that that minority would have an…

I don’t really feel betrayed people who would have voted for Bernie, but didn’t come out to vote for HRC (or worse, voted for Trump.) I mean, I don’t like those people—they are ejusdem generis with Republicans and basically garbage—but I can’t feel betrayed by someone who was never even on my side in the first place.