That’s plausibly true. Prosecutors are generally meticulous in listing the correct code sections from the penal law in the charging documents, to avoid problems later. While in reporting it’s okay to leave off those details since they aren’t necessarily relevant, you don’t want to charge someone with the wrong crime.

Agreed. It’s easy to feed a story into an ideological prism and come up with a result that would be indefensible and frankly embarrassing a short time later. A lot of these stories have very little information to start with and we only learn the full context a little later; jumping to any kind of conclusion too early…

Yeah she started this company in her late teens / very early twenties. The whole teen genius / wunderkind college dropout was a huge part of her story that she sold to investors.

I agree. It’s barely more substantial than Madoff’s hedge fund. (Theranos at least has employees and attempted to generate revenue by licensing medical devices, even though — to nitpick — the devices did not work and were not possible to create). I don’t understand how it still has a board of directors and why Holmes…

To be honest I’m having a hard time understanding why anyone cares enough about Kimberly Guilfoyle to call for resignation or object to calls for her resignation. It’s so abstract, like finding out someone is trying to take down AshLee Strong. 

Can’t be. Nixon only ever had one wife, so he couldn’t have beaten “both” of them. And it doesn’t make sense to suggest that Nixon’s chief of staff ‘let’ him keep his job IMHO; the chief of staff is employed by the president, not the other way around.

It makes sense that Kushner is sympathetic to prison reform. He’s probably the only person in the administration who actually knows what it is like to have a loved one in prison. Plus, there’s a non-zero chance that he himself will end up there as well.

On the other hand, Pruitt is totally lawless. Sessions’s decisions are horrible, but he at least grounds them in statutory interpretations that you can deal with in court. Pruitt just makes stuff up, and he can do a lot of damage pretty fucking fast with the DOJ before anyone can stop him. It’s weird, but I’d almost…

Um... I want to guess:

No they don’t. That’s the craziest part of this for me. There are people who are genuinely upset because they don’t think the current government is right wing enough to their liking. There are people who routinely refer to Trump as “Amnesty Don”, because they don’t think he’s tough enough on immigration.

They like the idea of cops and soldiers as an abstract concept or symbol representing authority, power, and control. They would happily kill any actual police officer or soldier who got in their way or tried to prevent them from committing crimes. People — even people they ostensibly claim to like — don’t matter to…

I agree. It’s the last time in their lives before they start learning all that fake-ass “human decency” shit that people try to use to disguise their inner petulant asshole.

They don’t see it as a threat. Realistically, if ICE accidentally grabs a US citizen, it probably won’t be a white person. For the MAGA crowd, there’s no real downside. It’s not as if they have a lot of regard for nonwhite Americans to begin with.

Agreed. While it’s somewhat unlikely that Trump would ever sign it, it’s still a worthwhile exercise to have this out there. Maybe seeing a united front of Congresspeople drawing the line might encourage him to back off.

Possibly. I think the reason why i thought it was a deliberate lie is that he tried to deny that he had said that to her later. If he had made a mistake it would be easier to just say so; it sounds like they get along pretty well, so it’s not like it would have been this huge issue.

It might be a good bet, but it’s not a necessary bet. There’s a reason why they gave up on ACA repeal; because the issue was hurting their poll numbers and they couldn’t get it done. They could have waited until after midterms to try again, but now they’re basically teeing off again right before people go to the…

He definitely knew he lied. If he was mistaken, then when she called him out he wouldn’t have tried to misrepresent what he said to her later. If he really thought that he had, then he might have insisted that he was right, or apologized.

That’s true. It’s just so asinine. Even if the victim genuinely believed that it was a joke, that isn’t proof that the assailant was joking.

This doesn’t bode well for the North korea summit. Is their Kim as effective with negotiating against Trump as our Kim? Let’s hope not.

I was going to use a gory metaphor for this kind of decision, but in light of recent tragedies it’s probably not a good time.