Our side also has a sense of restraint and basic respect for life and human decency that they lack. They are bloodthirsty and will stop at nothing, will think nothing of murdering anyone for their dear leader, and they will enjoy it.

It turns out they CAN just ignore the courts until someone starts enforcing the court orders. Just like how subpoenas aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on when delivered to someone who says “Oh yeah? Make me.”

Anyone who thinks we’re getting through the next two years without large scale political violence—most likely in the form of widened white supremacist terrorism—is delusional. This is particularly true in light of the fact that we don’t have free and fair elections and can’t trust the democratic political process.

Trying to imagine this kind of back-patting attaboy Splinter post if Warren or Biden or Hillary in 2015 has heart surgery. This fanboy cultism is depressing.

The worse it gets for him, the more dangerous for all of us. If he senses he will have to make a personal sacrifice, he will sacrifice the world instead.

I bet Splinter would be just as subdued if this was Warren or Biden.

If this happened to Warren, Splinter would be calling for her to drop out and endorse Bernie. If it happened to Biden, Splinter would report him legally dead. If it happened to Hillary Clinton in 2015-16, Splinter would publish Breitbart-like conspiracies about her health problems.

What do you do when tens of millions of Americans are insanely delusional, blindingly angry, and stoked to commit political violence? We’re about to find out.

The idea that anyone thinks we’re escaping this regime without large scale political violence is downright laughable and always has been.

It will be worse than a smear campaign. Trump will unleash the brownshirts. Some maniac will kill this whistleblower if his/her identity is revealed.

If this whistleblower testifies for the House Intel Committee without some kind of identity protection, raving lunatic Devin Nunes will out him/her to Trump immediately. I hope Schiff is taking into account that Nunes can’t be trusted.

Welp, now they confirmed that they’re approaching this as a “sprint” with “few, if any hearings.” So now Trump and the GOP know they just have to wait it out for a few weeks. Wonderful. 

According to the Speaker of the House (at least as of yesterday), yes it is.

Exactly. And it should be broadcast live on every channel without commercials, every minute of it.

According to Nancy Pelosi, no it doesn’t.

I’m not talking about Trump voters either; they’re lost causes who wander in a mental fog from which they’ll never emerge. I’m talking about your standard issue low-information voter who unfortunately decides our elections but doesn’t bother to track what happens in DC because he doesn’t really care as long as his…

Said one person commenting on a Splinter thread to another (i.e., we’re clearly invested in the details of this). Just try explaining a scandal that involves a secret whistleblower, Ukraine, a fired prosecutor, military aid, and Joe Biden’s son to some guy in Pennsylvania who doesn’t pay attention to the news but…

And herein lies the problem with hanging impeachment on only this event: It requires an explainer. It’s inscrutable and complicated and obtuse, which means most people won’t bother to try to understand it (much as most people tuned out the details of the Mueller investigation), and guarantees it won’t stick with much…

Two and a half years of constant lawbreaking and corruption, and she wants to brush it all under the rug quickly like the rest of it never happened. Why am I not surprised?

It’s not in the exact same situation as Greece was - I was using Greece as an example to illustrate the point that major economic disruptions aren’t limited to one country... they have contagion effects. That’s why the EU hasn’t just told the UK not to let the door hit it on the way out... they know that there will be…