It’s pretty much the standard response. Since we can’t blame the victims right at this moment, we instead blame everyone who was in the general vicinity of the abuser. How often have we seen coworkers or acquaintances of people like Harvey Weinstein or Louis CK called to account, as if they are somehow partly to blame…

I admit, I kind of respect cold reading as a parlor trick. It isn’t magic, but it’s kind of neat.

Right wingers are masters at weaponizing concepts like free speech and censorship for their own ends. When a right winger is censored on platforms like Twitter or Facebook, they throw temper tantrums and even get the attention of Congress.

NY Daily News always seems a bit grimy IME. 

I think this is what happens when we elect an internet troll as president. He can’t think of any policy other than doing whatever “smart people” tell him not to do. He’s “owning the libs and the eggheads”, and when it eventually goes south he’ll find a patsy to take the fall — illegal immigrants, the Democrats, the…

If you’re a genuine target of persecution, anything you do to defend yourself is justified morally. That’s why they want to be seen as victims, so when they commit horrific deeds they are exempt from criticism.

They have a use it or lose it policy IIRC. It’s frustrating, but the guy is in his 80s. I guess the real blame should fall on the folks who didn’t think that’s it was a good idea to vote in the last three elections.

IIRC Zinke’s team planted rumors about other cabinet members. Maybe we’ll see a revival of that strategy.

Yeah, but you hadda be there

Good point on the age.

For his sake I hope so. The guy was asked to stop coming to the White House cafeteria because he was eating there too much. He’s going to need to find jobs for himself and his worthless family so that they can eat, and this time he won’t have EPA staffers to help him.

What if he nominates his sister, who is already a federal judge? She was appointed to the federal bench by Reagan and moved up to the court of appeals by Clinton.

I believe Pruitt wrote it. Remember how during Cabinet meetings Trump makes his people go around in a circle to praise him and tell him how blessed they are to be his servants?

Trump will never understand that Sessions is not his personal attorney. I don’t even think people bother to correct him any more.

Exactly how do Democrats block nominees? the reason why the Democrats can’t block nominees is because they killed the filibuster rule several years ago. That has nothing to do with what Waters is saying now; there’s no connection between that and any notion of “civility” or “compromise”. Trump is getting what he wants…

I guess I don’t understand why we can’t rally around Waters even if the Democratic leaders fail to do so.

It doesn’t seem as if he’ll be able to find anyone with the whitebread handsomeness of Neil Gorsuch. He might have to settle for the MILF handmaid or one of the geeks.

What I find sad is that Pruitt seems to have fallen not because he was objectively bad at his job or because he pushed destructive policies, but because he was a slightly bigger grifter than his colleagues. If he had the restraint or the decorum of Betsy DeVos or Mick Mulvaney, he would have never been in this…

“Brave rhetoric aside, it’s hard to celebrate Waters literally willing to put her life on the line when her own colleagues are quick to throw her under the bus.”

I think that similarity probably helped them stay together for 25 years.