And in the meanwhile, Antonin Scalia’s homophobic failson Eugene was just appointed the goddamn Secretary of Labor. Yay.

The ahistorical understanding these people demonstrate is very telling. Only the election results that they like actually happened. Any results after those are completely invalid.

This entire administration has been a very sobering lesson in what happens when someone is promoted far beyond their actual ability, from the lower-level staff to the top echelons. Not a goddamned one of Trump’s appointees is up to the task.

I’ve never felt closer to you.

And goddamn, she was so prescient with her questioning in that hearing. If she doesn’t get the nom, I absolutely want her as AG, she is perfect for that spot.

So is Pompeo, which I had missed for some reason. We are saddled with a bunch of utter looney-toons who have a death-grip on government.

Welcome back to the ungray. Weren’t you ungray here a while back?

I think in this case it was the dude’s own niece (?), so it’s not so spurious as to suspect foul play by zee Russians, but I have also heard that mooted in various other contexts.

I’d settle for one very noticeable death in prison.

I’m loving the reports about the head of army communications at Mar-A-Lago getting caught uploading naked photos of a child from there to a .ru porn site. The Very Best People!™

The hubris of even assuming that journalists might have any final say in the arbitration of “credibility” is pretty vile, to tell the truth. And classic NYT of the moment.

My point was a rather mild one, I thought: that anywhere Germany has nominal control over its own facilities it exercises a much greater amount of ethical oversight than the US appears capable of right now. Viz., the new Ankers in Bavaria which have come under a lot of negative scrutiny for things like not allowing…

Jus reading this now, Über, and I’m gonna head over to DS and check out the convo. I was once engaged to a fellow with BPD (and even ran an online support forum for relatives/family of folks with cluster B diagnoses way back in the early days of DSM IV), so I’m betting your experience is going to sound quite familiar.

Wellll, coulda been Sue Gordon.

Baquet fails to explain why his paper needs to satisfy questions of the Whistleblower’s credibility in the first damned place, when the SOLE actors   even questioning that credibility are corrupt-ass Republicans and cultists.

Also see Kris Kobach’s (lol) demand to Republicans to decide not to impeach before any evidence is heard at all. It’s the American way!

Yes, and Germany is not innocent in any of that either. (Dear god, the number of trolls responding to my post trying to tell me about Mooslim crime and “no go zones” in Europe is a little astounding, like I poked an anthill of bored Limbaugh acolytes. Yuck, Splinter: get a better class of troll.)

If the analysis is the domestic effect of sovereign states’ governmental policies, as we’ve been discussing so far based on the article above, it doesn’t relate. If you want to change the terms of the discussion to global immigration patterns that’s a whole different analysis. But “exporting border enforcement” would…

Of course it’s a factor. I just don’t buy that it was just immigration that brought about populism, even though that is indeed the legitimation the AfD seeks; one could just as easily craft arguments blaming any other fundamental ideological stance of Merkel’s longtime coalition.

I’m German, you enormous doofus.