What’s the over-under on this move getting blocked by lawsuits? I want to believe that there’s some decency left in the country, but I’m really not holding out any more.

This. McConnell was trying to get Moore to drop out when it looked like he might lose. If he’d done so early, he could push Sessions as a write-in and achieve the double accomplishment of 1) getting a recused AG out of the DOJ, so That Asshole could put some toady in his place and commit his own Saturday Night…

That Asshole: *brought into state court for the Southern District of New York, in shackles, to face a raft of racketeering, money-laundering, RICO violations, conspiracy charges, etc. etc., all after the impeachment, after each of his eldest kids has been hauled off to jail, after his business “empire” has been…

I’m willing to bet that a significant portion of white Alabamians aren’t voting for Moore in spite of Jones being the guy who prosecuted the Birmingham church bombers, but because of it.

Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn.

So this motherfucker is going to win, the GOP is going to hold on to the slimmest majority and use it to ram through the worst tax bill in 40 years, and the Democrats are going to spend their energies tripping all over themselves prosecuting their own. Progressives don’t want to win.

Prediction: the political side of our nation’s slow and grudging sexual-harassment awakening — which started with a well-sourced article accusing a Senate candidate of decades of harassment, stalking, and assault against underage girls — will eventually result in the Democrats, ever eager to keep their own house…

It’s all very Shock-Doctriney, what they’re doing. Deliberately cause economic chaos as a pretext for enacting a Brownback-style dismantling of social programs. And you’re exactly right: by the time the real economic problems start to hit, nobody will connect the dots, and will probably blame Democrats for having to…

When I’m really looking (?) to plunge into a pit of despair, I remember the theory of the Banality of Evil, and realize that a very large portion of the population is fundamentally cruel and bigoted, would love to cause another person suffering, would love to exercise power over another, would love to force another…

Why do these videos make my mouth water? Is it pre-vomit prep because it’s disgusting, or does my subconscious find nasty pus and blackhead grease somehow appetizing?

OK, first of all: the Navaho Code Talkers were not code “breakers.” They were literally what their name says: they transmitted information over radio in their native language — using, IIRC, lots of slang and word-games and the like, but nevertheless basically just sending highly classified information over open…

Here’s another:

This argument is always disingenuous bullshit. If I hand you a tool, and say, “this tool can make millions of people’s lives better, and you’re the only one who can use it,” and you decide that that’s not what you signed up for and just walk away from it, that isn’t a defensible position, much less one deserving…

Start with this article from 2015: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristofer-harrison/putins-man-in-congress_b_7957480.html

Worth also pointing out is that Conyers has been a Kremlin stooge for decades. His honor is not the hill the Dems want to die on.

You think that’s bad? That was the law in Germany for everybody. A woman had to show physical signs of resistance in a sexual assault (bruises, broken nails, etc.) or the charges would be dismissed as a “lovers’ quarrel.”

(Too late to edit) ETA: I just want to check up on something. My partner and I don’t have kids yet, but probably will someday once we’re done with school and can settle down. Last year, when I was despondent over the election, my father sent me a long mail about how Hillary was actually a warmonger, and that That…

This is the correct move.

A more prudent country might wonder why its most hostile and aggressive adversary — with literally centuries of practice in using espionage, ratfucking, and other Checkist tricks to undermine its target — would suddenly pop up in the middle of a highly disruptive series of sex scandals involving political figures.

Buried lede: Buzzfeed got the tip from Mike Cernovich (yes, the Pizzagate asshole) who himself got it from a Russian deza Twitter account: