Note that she’s also very carefully stating that kids will be separated from their parents if the latter have broken the law, carefully eliding the recent policy change to turn away all asylum seekers (which is against the law, US and international), and to treat any border crossing as a de facto crime.

Meanwhile:

blind and h*cking old dog loves you in spite of pervasive existential dread. 12/10 would deconstruct Sartre 4 u <3

quick somebody with better image-macro skills do up that hippo coworker screaming over his partition HEY DO YOU EVER WONDER IF LIFE IS REALLY JUST AN ENDLESS VOID HURTLING EVERY DAY A LITTLE CLOSER TO INEVITABLE OBLIVION?

Remember that scene in GoT a few years back, when the Freys are laying siege to some castle, and Jaime shows up with the lord of that castle, and tells him to hand it over or he’ll send his kids over the walls in pieces? Remember the look on the generals’ faces when they all know the lord has been turned, that if they…

That’s a quote from his book, referring to his losing a lawsuit brought by tenants of a building he was trying to tear down to build luxury condos. He is, of course, referring only to his loss, because the subsequent “victory” can only ever be his.

ho-lee shit.

Don’t worry: ever since Gaddafi, every murderous tinpot despot knows that “security guarantees” from the US in exchange for disarmament don’t mean shit, so the DPRK will never actually give up its deterrent capabilities.

I have a very hard time imagining that a shark like Avenatti would publicize embarrassing information about his opposing lawyer without being able to defend against an inevitable defamation suit. Only a moron would do something like that, and Avenatti is very obviously not a moron.

Fun (?) Fact: Anne Frank’s father, Otto, desperately applied for refugee visas for his family, finally just for himself, in 1941. The process even then was arduous, and they were eventually denied on the grounds that the Nazis would use refugees to sneak in spies or suborn espionage. Does that narrative sound familiar?

Right? Just saying “oh, trust me, it’s way worse than pee hookers, and nobody would believe me if I told you” is torture. But alas! I suspect he found out through some of his classified work, and will thus never divulge it.

Myriad other everyday activities that involve the crossing of paths with individuals who happen to be members of terrorist organizations would also be covered, such as selling such a member groceries on the same terms as are applied to the public generally, or cooking breakfast or doing laundry for one’s spouse who is…

Having resided here over a decade (and with family friends who grew up here under US occupation and depended on my family to survive) I can tell you that this isn’t far off. Germans are deeply emotional about how they view the Americans. I explained once to a colleague of mine here how the US has deep racial and class…

The quotes and observations Susan Glasser pulled for this article are pretty stunning:

Nah, it’s not just that. I’m inclined to believe OG Russian Conspiracy Twitter @20committee, that the kompromat Putin has on That Asshole is much worse, even than money laundering or pee hookers. Something of which even That Asshole is deeply ashamed and (quite obviously) would do anything to keep hidden.

They are thinking, correctly, that most voters — particularly in red states or gerrymandered-to-fuck purple states like Texas — don’t actually connect the GOP’s dismantling of the ACA with their voting choices, and are instead voting based on their sense of personal identification with their party’s “brand.”

Let’s not overlook the fact that he was also a paid shill for one of the most notorious child traffickers of the EU, Moldova’s Vladimir Plahotniuc, making him also an undeclared paid foreign agent in the style of Manafort.

Not at all. My only hope in these, our fallen times, is that some day these motherfuckers will be perp-walked, or dragged kicking and screaming, to face justice. That That Asshole will watch federal prosecutors systematically dismantle his business “empire” brick by brick, that each of his three eldest children and…

Much as I’m sure they would love to, a good chunk of the Republicans in Congress are compromised. If That Asshole goes down in an impeachment trial, they go down, too.

Except, as That Asshole probably correctly surmises, the current Congress wouldn’t ever impeach him.