This was deliciously brutal.

Hopefully they’ll let you back in.  I’ll try to keep an eye out for you until then.

I really super hope Harris is studying up on foreign policy, because Biden is turbo bad at it and repairing the damage from Trump is going to be one helluva mountain to climb.

Here’s hoping.  I suppose there’s something to be said for Democrats being ready to vote like their lives depend on it, when in fact securely voting is now a risk to life and limb.  What a time to be alive.

I hope you’re right about that. It’s certainly a valid point. My fear is that they’ll just do the crimes, cross their arms and say, “Yeah, we did crimes to steal the election. What are ya gonna do about it?” And then have the answer be, “Have the election get stolen, I guess?” Too many things of that nature have…

Right? This is bananas! USPS can (could?) regularly get a package to me in rural New England from western Pennsylvania in three days. A similar package sent by UPS or some other private behemoth takes ten.

On a related note, Susan Collins is concerned about the post office.

Yes! Never let your gaze fall from the post office! I was already fired up to post this article about the warnings from USPS in Pennsylvania and the legal battle around mail-in voting. It’s worth a read!

I’d like to take this moment to check in on everyone living in the suburbs. Are you doing all right?

I sometimes use the term “Archboomer,” because it’s got a nice double-meaning.

I think you’re quite right that there should have been more focus on the Emoluments clause and other forms of self-dealing. Pretty much everybody gets corruption. To be fair to the House democrats, though, it was also about Trump fucking with the election, which I think was a pretty good reason to open the…

Though I’m sure the book will make a splash, it’s not like we didn’t already know Trump’s a real wiz when it comes to crime!

Yeah, I guess a lot of them are just opportunistic and don’t really care strongly about the outcome one way or another. If Democrats win, they get to attack them with the fucked up situation Trump left behind from a minority position, while obstructing anything that could fix the damage. If Democrats lose, then it…

Interesting. I guess most of them figure their seats are secure enough to get away with absolutely destroying America, starting with their constituents, and still get reelected. I wish I could say they were wrong about that. I guess I’m slightly more surprised they don’t want to keep their endangered allies in office…

I see where you’re coming from and I suppose that was the thinking from Democratic leadership. I do think having the process opened mattered, though. While he was being impeached, it would have been an order of magnitude more unthinkable if he had done more crimes he was already being impeached for. I think even the…

This is at once pathetic and probably the finest work of art I could hope to view today.  Amazing.

I was similarly confused by that. Clicking through to the CNN article, there’s a picture of the market and it’s a very small space. The article mentions that they’re planning to move the building so they can incorporate it as part of a larger museum somewhere else, not build a museum on that spot.

Yeah, I really don’t fully understand what their motivation is here. Are they confident that fascism will prevail and they don’t have to worry about defending their seats because they’re sure they can steal the election? Are enough of them really true believers in the reaganite farts they’ve been sniffing for 40 years…

I think that’s a pretty solid assessment. It’s possible the best hope to protect the election would be something like the Orange Revolution, but I have a hard time seeing people mobilizing on that level, if elites aren’t sending some pretty strong signals that it’s really needed (i.e. by blowing this shit up in the…

Oh it certainly could be, along with probably hundreds of other things he’s said and done. I think the Democrats made a pretty big strategic error in choosing to bum-rush impeachment. As long as the process was ongoing, the public scrutiny created a check on some of his worst impulses. We really should have dragged it…