This really is so surreal, though it just continues the trend ever since Trump came to power. Under Trump, the GOP has shed all pretense of putting country before party/career. We’re watching the internal bickerings of the court of a petty monarch, not the deliberations of a legislative body. Watching American…

Can you hear the rest of us from way up there on your high horse? The cynical fascists who follow Trump disgust me, but this flavor of holier-than-thou, pie-in-the-sky liberalism is nearly as counterproductive.

I’ve been staunchly on the “don’t impeach, it’ll blow up in our faces” side—and still am—but I have to admit I find myself wavering.

Yeah, ditto. I’ve been casually following Tottenham for about a decade and a half now, and I can 100% say that I started paying attention to them because I always found American Arsenal fans just irritating as hell. I mean not all of them, but... God, so many of them. They’re like Yankee fans, but somehow worse. So I…

Bear in mind that Americans are stupid about everything, including things that they should know a great deal about. And nobody knows shit about parenting, even parents, but certainly not anyone who’s never parented before.

I’m totally with you in principle, but I still think that starting an impeachment within 18 months of an election with the current Senate would be counterproductive. And not just in that it’ll give Trump a victory, but because it risks further entrenching the very precedent you’re looking to avoid. My fear is if they…

It’s really striking how ad hominem attacks have simply become the norm among the right, and it’s equally striking how often vicious personal attacks, with no substance or basis in fact, are accompanied by the attackers whining about how uncivil their opponents are.

I’d also like to point out the power quotation marks in “Who’s side are you on?” Whenever I see this, I’m always taken back to my early twenties, sitting with my mouth agape in a conference room as a 60-something man lectured me about how putting a sentence in quotation marks is a standard way to place emphasis on…

Oh, definitely. That’s always been the biggest problem with Trump. And even when Trump’s gone, I’ll never be able to forget that tens of millions of idiots in this country willingly voted for him. I’ll never look at this country the same again: we’re far, far dumber than I ever thought possible.

No, I agree. I don’t think he could successfully throw a coup if he loses or anything. I know he has a lot of support in the military, but I absolutely don’t think he has anywhere near enough support that he could get them to ignore their oaths.

I love this idea because it sounds nice and it gives me comfort, but don’t buy it. It looked like he’d lose in 2016 right up until election night, and he didn’t drop out. Nobody has any clue what to expect because Trump’s blown the existing paradigm out of the water, and even lifelong pollsters are pretty much…

We need to accept that even if he loses in a landslide, he’ll pull something.

Chickens coming home to roost. That’s all this is.

Serious question: was Loomer famous for anything before she was low-level famous for being an unhinged racist? Or is she just a budget version of Tammy Lauren?

If they try to impeach Trump, then the theme of 2020 becomes “the Democrat’s failed impeachment of Trump.” Almost nothing else will matter. Trump will start the election cycle on a high, and the Democrats will start even more on the back foot than they already are. I’d argue that a failed impeachment would even be…

“It is what it is and I’m not going to comment on that. I think the veracity of my ‘all in’ statement matches the level of accuracy and integrity that people have come to expect from everything else that dribbles from the flickering gateway to hell that is my word-hole.”

Wow. Just... wow.

Preach. I’ve never bought a new car. Not once. I grew up in a lower-middle class family, then I was a college and grad student, then I was a dirt-poor person with shitloads of student debt.

Oh, for sure. But my point is that the general public didn’t turn against him until the more tangential allegations came up, and therefore the GOP politicians weren’t able to speak strongly against him until they did. You’ll notice very few, if any, GOP folks were making any strong statements about not voting for him…

In the Trump era, pretty much anyone can be appointed to any post, no matter what criminal and/or immoral stuff they have done/are doing. So it’s always weird for me to see something withdrawing a nomination.