“I still cringe about things I did in 2nd grade.”

Except that there has been a surge of hate crimes, for example, with almost half of the perpetrators explicitly mentioning Trump during the crime. So yeah, it’s hardly new but people are being emboldened by Trump to be more active/vocal about their awfulness who otherwise would be racist quietly.

No, it’s not a cure - in fact, it’s not much of an experimental treatment, apparently, and wouldn’t do much or anything, even at best, for a child in such an advanced stage.

The experimental treatment in the US is for less-advanced cases and would provide little to no benefit for the child (who might not even survive the trip). The US doctors have even apparently recommended they not do it. The whole issue is about trying to stop the parents from unnecessarily torturing a dying child.

Too late. I was reading right-wing American articles about this case and how it “proves” that under single-payer health care, the state “owns you” or some nonsense, for months now. (They conveniently ignore that the real issue is that it’s about the parents torturing the kid, not a refusal to administer a treatment,…

When even the treatment providers are saying that it’s not going to help, one has to face reality, though.

What I recollect reading is that the US medical staff have even advised against their experimental treatment in this case because it’s not even potentially a cure, and given his advanced state, isn’t even a real treatment at this point. So it’s not that the treatment is itself cruel - it’s just worthless - keeping…

A problem in this case is even the people providing the experimental treatment have said it’s not a cure and it would, at best, merely extend his suffering a bit longer. It really is a hopeless situation that they refuse to acknowledge, and their child is suffering as a result.

Boy, why can’t it be like the good old days, when members of congress physically assaulted each other during debates and routinely came to work with guns - and sometimes pointed them at each other (and very rarely shot each other), and were covered by armed political reporters (responding to congressional death…

“I think he’s really lost it.”

A giveaway: no one got called a “loser.”

“the president took a 15 second break from shrieking at the TV to bang out a couple of faux-conciliatory sentences”

“As an American, this is humiliating.”

Yeah, he’s a hateful theocrat, but at least he’s not also a thug.

It should be noted that Jacobs also previously did an article about how Gianforte had been doing business with Russian companies sanctioned by the US. So Gianforte was probably already pretty mad about that.

standing in front of a bathroom mirror and reciting an incantation.

Yes, indeed.

The safer the environment, the easier it is to be a tough-guy hateful asshole. Online anonymity being the safest, followed by being surrounded by similar people and polite journalists. I suspect even Spencer has mostly managed to insulate himself until now from confrontations or even dissenting views.

Dammit, it’s at times like these that I wish we had some team of Robin Hood types who could swoop in and strip the man of all his assets and give his money to hotel maids. If only Leverage weren’t fiction. That team would be really busy.

Or I should say: who knew Nazis were such whiny, crying babies?