Leaving aside how horrifying our government’s hanging the Kurds out to dry just after they’ve wrapped up a successful campaign against fucking ISIS, and the weirdness of his self-aggrandizement, because I really just can’t think of anything else to say on those:

One of them was slick enough to help with the Agnew conspiracy and Iran-Contra and came out of those without getting much on him. The other one could barely stop self-owning long enough to commit war crimes.

I thought they set up some rules back in the 90s, when Republicans were real into impeachment for things like “lying under oath.”

The really screwed up thing is that (from what I’ve heard) this event was the catalyst for a lot of the real intense voter suppression and other Jim Crow laws that sprang up at the time. So, not only is it extremely significant because “armed mobs overthrew an elected government and the rest of the country just went…

If they don’t look like pale Boss Nass, they can’t be trusted.

Can confirm, no part of this was taught in North Carolina K-12 schools while I was there. There was some information (with poor context) given on Reconstruction, and then they sort of handwaved a couple decades of state history and suddenly it was the 1920s.

God willing, this will be the dumbest thing any of us will read today.

The realists are mostly laughing at the idea that a centrist is going to win over any significant number of Republican or conservative voters at this point, and noting that progressive candidates have comparable poll numbers to Uncle Joe.

It really should be surprising that they’re going to raise hell over a 1% tax increase on their fucking genie treasure/dragon hoards, and assume that a lot of people aren’t going to then do the math and go “Oh, so, this will impact you less than when I give $20 to my local rescue mission so they can feed children,…

It’s a wealthy guy, backed by wealthy guys, hiring someone to undermine protections that increase quality of life for people they don’t give a shit about so they can make more money.

It definitely is. There are widespread efforts to find and frighten this person, and I hope they don’t work. Leave aside that the Trump administration is a tire fire of corruption and wanna-be authoritarians, and imagine the damn bravery it takes to do this.

I would assume it’s jail. That’s usually what’s on the line with subpoenas if you don’t cooperate.

Travis should not have listened to whoever told him whatever they did to his face was going to work. He looks like his own Cabbage Patch kid. I liked a fair amount of his music back in the day, but whatever happened to him was not a great choice.

Generally, yeah. Of course, I’m pretty sure the most famous pastors on the planet have prayed for harm to others to “bring them to God,” so you’re not gonna be the only one if you engage in a bit of Greek mythology-inspired prayer. I know of a church with a prayer circle that routinely beseeches the Creator of the…

My understanding is that from the rich/chosen evangelical perspective, it’s not really relevant whether or not he is sincerely religious. It’s more important that he’s interested in working with them and that he’s willing to do the things they want to see accomplished. So they’re putting it out there that he actually i…

The only two reasons I would argue that we shouldn’t load Geraldo onto a rocket and fire him into Jupiter are that 1. He did a Good Thing 40 years ago in reporting on institutions where people were basically being tormented to death and warehoused for life; and 2. that once we start loading dumbass old conservatives…

Jesus, I just realized some poor TA had to read this moron’s papers for minimum wage (if they were lucky).

I’m inclined to believe that he actually spent upwards of ten minutes on checking it over and nodding to himself at how clever it was, and then turning to get the TP after he hit the button to post.

I’m sure it’ll be the exact same level of pissed they were about Valerie Plame, or the people who had to book it out of Russia after Trump blew their cover in casual comments.