No wonder he agreed to do this so quickly: he knew he was going to leave out the part that mattered the most.

All such cases should be referred to federal prosecutors. Local AGs cannot be relied upon to hold police in their jurisdictions accountable. Of course, further reforms are needed, since the FBI got involved…

That’s definitely fair. Though I think it would be fair to say that the use of REGN-COV2 gives cause to wonder whether he is sicker than they say. Remdesivir, at least, has been around since 2009 and has been (cautiously) touted as a promising treatment by Anthony Fauci, with its greatest benefit being the reduction…

At least in the West, a lot of it has come down to political maneuvering. Much of the social safety net in democratic countries have been either the result of political compromise to head off any possibility of revolution by the increasingly politically conscious industrial working (and war-fighting) class (like in…

That’s not how it works, and you shouldn’t let yourself buy into the idea that it just doesn’t matter or that everyone’s experience is the same. It’s the sort of thinking that drives the carelessness we’ve seen during this pandemic. Even people who get excellent care die. And if doctors could prevent people from…

I hope Trump pulls through if only because the last thing we need is a martyr right before the election – and a President Pence, who could potentially do just about anything to “restore order” if there’s violence. But if fascist John Goodman keels over, I will fucking dance in the streets. The world will be a better…

Not only would it create sympathy, it could ignite violent outbursts from those who believe his death was a Deep State assassination plot, and who knows what Pence might do to “restore order”. I’d be legitimately afraid if he were to die before the election.

You need to be incredibly self-centered to be a member of today’s Republican Party in the first place. Of course they are absolutely convinced that their own experiences, and theirs alone, are sufficient to allow them to judge everyone else from a position of moral and intellectual superiority. To them, those who…

From the very beginning, I lamented to everyone I knew that, if we didn’t do enough, things will get terrible and lots of people will die needlessly – but if we did a good job, the steps we took to fight the outbreak will be interpreted later as an overreaction, with damaging consequences for future preparedness. The o…

Okay, I know I’ve said this before, but I’m absolutely positive that the Second Amendment folks will definitely be rising up against these clearly anti-democratic (small-d) actions. Just you watch.

Van Halen’s “no brown M&M’s” requirement did have a legitimate purpose, though: it served as a way of easily determining whether their contract had been read and followed to the letter. They had real problems with venues failing to meet technical requirements, which resulted in damage and injury to the band’s…

It’s a red herring. Wikipedia just reminded me that this kind of thing has a more specific name: thought-terminating cliché.

Plus there’s simply “I’m entitled to my opinion”.

They already have the perfect escape hatch for any criticism: Donald Trump, like all men, is flawed, but he is God’s instrument, and they must support him as best they can.

How do they know Trump is God’s instrument and not, say, Joe Biden?

Duh. Trump is a Republican.

You’re responding to a troll.

Saw one of those on Twitter just now. They also added that he’s right to do it because he’s “over-taxed”.

If everything he’s done is legal, then he is not “over-taxed”. I don’t even know how you can begin to get through to someone who fails to see the error in reasoning here.

And even if you just allow for the…

2016–2020 in a nutshell. Everyone, everywhere is equally as bad as Trump.

If I could change one thing about self-described moderates or centrists (other than getting them to vote for Biden), it would be for them to recognize that Trump is not normal and this is not a normal administration. It is uniquely cruel,…

Nah, that’s eggregia. Close, though.

It’s more likely he was told he’d have to appear as a witness if the case were to go to trial, and he and his family could expect a lot of scrutiny and media attention. Plus the unspoken threat of being forever branded a cop-hater and thug-lover.

I doubt it took more than that.

Just give up on it. The nigh-universal attitude on the right now is that they feel like they’ve been trod upon, so it’s time to tread upon liberals right back. They’re not going to listen to anyone or anything, and they’ve given up completely on even pretending to care about institutions, principles or the law; they…

The problem is that they just see him as an ordinary politician who presents ordinary politician dangers, and they see the modern Republican Party in the same way. Even George W. Bush wasn’t this dangerous, and Nixon wasn’t this manifestly corrupt. Trump doesn’t just tell lies that make people do things they wouldn’t…

“Money quote” is right. The media merely reporting on what Trump does becomes a justification for him to keep saying they’re all out to get him – it’s reporters’ fault that Trump is a miserable excuse for a human being and an abject failure as a leader. Anyone who fights back against Trump, no matter how justifiably,…