I am heartened by the news scottmill links in another post on this thread, detailing the WSJ’s investigation on how the top Republican-affiliated lawyers in a few departments actually sent criminal inquiries on Trump’s behavior to the DOJ (which promptly sat on them). There is really no squirming out of that no matter…

Don’t be so modest, you’re amazing.

Condolences. The one positive about Collins remaining in the public eye is that restaurant workers I know all over Maine have assured me that she has rarely if ever eaten a meal out that’s devoid of someone else’s human DNA.

Donnie is the king of projection

I mean, we can all make pretty accurate guesses as to why he’s doing it, and are mostly going to be correct.

Susan Collins happens to be my Senator and I will loudly celebrate in the streets the day we take down that craven, insipid patsy.

Wow, excellent work. What took these people so damned long to decide they were patriotic Americans? I know, I know: better late than never. All the tipping-point theories on human nature do appear to be true.

I can warmly vouch for both Holly and scott from the ranks of the longtime ungrayed, if it’s necessary. :)

And GOP senators:

How do the Republicans (or better, non-cultish conservative voters) actually explain Trump’s need to investigate an election he won, or question the Mueller report which supposedly “exonerated him fully”? Have they even tried? I thought that little episode during the Finnish President’s visit was very telling, where…

It will be very hard for him to win again without substantial Repuclican ratfuckery — not that we should rule that out by any means! — looking at recent numbers, he is massively underwater in the very states he had strong support and eked by with those extra hundred thousand votes last time. He’s really flailing in…

The majority of voting Dems (as opposed to the DNC) don’t really give a shit about Joe Biden; he was already sinking in fundraising and the polls before all this came out. Not a soul I know would object to Biden and his son Hunter being investigated yet again, waste of time as it would clearly be — as long as every…

My take was that Volker was actually committed to helping Ukraine in its quest to establish a new and non-corrupt administration that can fight Russian aggression, and he just took this deal with Trump as the best way to achieve that, allowing him to sidestep whether the transaction was actually morally upfront (or…

Exactly this. I listen to her and see the prison guards from Idiocracy:

Anecdotal from one American male: my husband always says about her that she looks great from a distance but zoom in and it’s like you’re in a John Carpenter film where you just want to shriek “Get that thing AWAY from me!”

Nope. Not the solution for me. I was raised in a country without guns and can’t advocate killing anyone for any reason, even when they are clearly threatening others’ lives with their legislation. It’s the one thing I really don’t get about American culture. (Although in my wilder moments, I have speculated that if I…

*treatable diseases they won’t vaccinate for, which is another arm of their anti-scientific and anti-rational ideology.

There was a commenter on a Jez piece a few days ago, whom I knew as otherwise fairly rational over my years here, morally vaporizing about the danger of a foetus being aborted “the day before it would be born as a healthy baby!!i!” The level of disinformation is huge even among the fairly well educated.

That is how anti-abortion proponents would like abortion to be framed, but it isn’t really the heart of the abortion question. The heart of the question is: can you force an American citizen to provide and/or endanger their body in service of another (a person or a thing, it doesn’t matter) if they do not consent to…

He can’t even fire someone himself, to be fair.