It’s always been for sale when it comes to the Saudis. They are the main financier of islamic terrorism throughout the world, and have been for decades. This makes them accessories to tens of thousands of deaths - including some three thousand American civilians on 9-11. Almost all of the hijackers were Saudi…

Carter was never “presidential” to the pundit class in the beltway - because in order to be presidential, you have to murder brown people abroad, as every one of his successors has done. And in order to be a proper elder statesman, you have to cash in on your popularity, as, too, every one of his successors has done -…

It’s kind of bizarre that the most passionately defended movie by liberals against conservatives in the last year - Star Wars: The Last Jedi - prominently features a scene that celebrates the burning of priceless and unique old books as something virtuous, wise - and even glorious.

The Republicans understand that politics in the year 2018 isn’t a Gentlemen’s game under Queensbury rules anymore, but total war. They move aggressively and decisively, and, like in actual war, that often saves the day - even when one is numerically outnumbered, which the Republicans have been for decades.

There won’t be a Democrat so perfect and flawless that the media won’t have ample opportunity to blow his or her every skeleton in the closet so way out of proportion that they can maintain their established horse race journalism with both-sideisms and false equivalencies.

Anyone who is still with Trump at this point - about 43% of the electorate - will never, ever let go of their belief in him. It’s a cult, and they’re fully integrated into it.

the damage Trump is doing to our global standing is gonna take a hell of a long time to fix, and the sooner we can get started the better.

It’s been proven in several studies that there’s no measurable increase in happiness related to income growth beyond twice the median income in a participant’s area. Simply put: If the median household income in your neigborhood is $60.000 a year, your happiness will increase until you make about $120.000 a year,…

I’d rather have Channing Tatum than Cheeto Tantrum as President.

More importantly: What’s wrong with a country that chooses this senile fool over someone who doesn’t break a sweat being grilled by a dozen hostile Republican Senators for eight hours straight?

If the next Democratic Presidential candidate isn’t Jesus reincarnated, they will once again blow his or her every missstep out of proportion - like they did with Clinton’s emails. They need that election to be a close horse race, an exciting game right down to the wire, just like the last time. They have learned…

It’s like you said - it’s not about sex at all, but about power. Sex is only the medium to channel this particular kind of power. While there are many forms of power (financial, political), none is more personal, direct and intimate than invading someone else’s personal space and violating their physical agency.

Just like most of the mainstream media pundits in the United States aren’t really mad at Trump’s policies, at the actual bread and butter of politics, but about his conduct, about the optics. They hate the player, not the game.

This example would only be fully comparable if the people they used were their own citizens, not enemy noncombattants. However horrifying to you and me, there is nothing extraordinary or unique about abusing the latter, it happens in almost any war. Apparently, as per your Wikipedia article, Imperial Japan used human…

Putin: “Next time you want to have a journalist removed, I recommend you put a bit of polonium in his tea.”
Salman: “Agreed. He will positively look radiant.”
*both laughing in a Skeletor voice*

They are a typical representation of an empire in its waning years.

You’re beating a straw man. Of course the Nazis take the cake of being the greater evil against pretty much any regime, but they are not guilty of this particular kind of evil. Hamas is the only contemporary government I know of that purposely puts civilians in harm’s way with the specific goal of maximizing injuries…

Which is when you end up with a military dictatorship like Thailand or Pakistan, where the elected head of state is only a puppet of the generals.

Carl Sagan was the rare breed of genius whose intellect was paired with a genuine kindness and love of other people.

Personally, I want him to be sentenced to death and hanged by the neck - as is befitting of someone guilty of high treason - and every dime his entire miserable family swindled out of the American people over the last 130 years should be seized and given to charity. Don Jr. and whoever else was involved in selling out…