Uh-huh.

Excuse me, sir. The second amendment is exclusively reserved for good, white, Christian, Real American men who need to defend themselves from scary blacks and Muslins. When women, non-whites and liberals defend themselves with firearms, it’s called “terrorism”.

Who was accused of doing the, uh, junk-rubbing?

That’s the thing. Where are they going to go? Europe, where the taxes are significantly higher? Most American rich people want to be where the action is, so they live in places like NYC, LA or San Francisco. Which is why the rents in those places are so damn high! Some small percentage of them may move to Belize,…

Fair enough. I mean, I’ve been afraid for a while that this could happen, so I’ve been trying to take steps to get ready for the possibility. But I see a lot of people around here who seem to have this romantic vision of an easy revolution—overthrow the government, banish all injustice, everybody goes home for…

No one should be chomping at the bit for a fucking civil war. If we have one, millions of people will die. We are talking about the total disintegration of one of the most powerful, extensive and populous nations in the history of the world. We have more guns, bombs, military hardware, and chemical/biological/nuclear…

Do you mean this Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch, the ones who were widely reported to have fallen for a hoax about nonexistent state charges pending against Trump...?

I suppose they could bring up Trump on state charges, but that would also represent an unprecedented conflict between the state and federal governments that I’m not sure Mueller would be too keen to initiate. I mean, everything else about this administration is unprecedented too, but those are dangerous waters. What…

In any case, reports are stating that Mueller has “dozens” of sealed indictments still awaiting release, including Donald Trump, personally.

Thank you. People, there are so many legitimate reasons to freak out about the Trump administration. Can we please stop making up bogus extra ones?

They already have that authority in practical terms, thanks to the extremely broad language of the original AUMF.

I’m no fan of these guys... but come on. They are requesting that the AUMF be extended with no changes, as every administration has since 9/11. Are you going to call Obama a traitor too?

My dad tried to tell me the other day that not one solitary person has been detained or deported by the Trump administration who did not have a criminal record. I sent him a link to this story and he told me “the media” made it up; fabricated it out of whole cloth.

I certainly hope so, but I’m not holding my breath.

The allegations have been out for over a year. He won the election after 16 women accused him of sexual assault. If he was going to face consequences for this, it would have happened already.

Obama was by no means perfect when it came to border policy, but it was always clear to me that he was at least attempting to rein in the worst excesses of the DHS. Of course, they (and most Republicans) saw this as tantamount to treason, some kind of surrender to illegal immigration—even though the Obama…

As I already stated, we are not doing that. I can easily buy what I need in either Las Cruces or Santa Fe, so it’s not necessary to take things through the checkpoint. I don’t like to drive on interstates with drugs anyway. But it is still bullshit, and aside from the personal inconvenience, the message they are…

I’m not in favor of a police state, but until the law is changed you shouldn’t expect to be able to just bring drugs in and out of the border.

The checkpoint is in New Mexico, not in Texas. Weed is not legal in New Mexico, but the penalties for possession are not very severe. And I am not complaining that it’s illegal—it shouldn’t be, but that’s an entirely different discussion. I am complaining that the federal government is running a drug-sniffing dragnet…

Jesus, you are dense. For one thing, I never said that the use of the dog was unconstitutional. I said that it was authoritarian, which is a related but wholly distinct concept. I recognize that it is probably allowed under the law, but that does not make their dragnet tactics any less shitty. Secondly, it is not my…