The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Bombing a country like Iran is an act of war. Without being at war with them, it is simply murder - and answers the q would the military obey an unlawful order. Attacking ships in international waters - same.
Jamie Raskin for the win.
Thank God we wiped out small pox back when Democrats still controlled the government.
Way past time.
Long past time.
Life is a cheap knockoff of art.
$5 million to the family of Ashleigh Babbit. How much of our money is Trump giving to the family of Timothy McVeigh? $50 million? 100?
That ship has sailed.
I know what's going on. It's called old age and decline. And it happens to absolutely everyone who doesn't die young.
So's the "mute account," which I push every time I see a post I cannot comment on.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is how you resist! Jeff Sessions should have done this.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
National Guard raises flag on Capitol Hill.
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
Remember when people were outraged at the suggestion that Isra3l would bomb a hospital? This week, they did it twice. First to injure patients and healthcare workers, second to injure the journalists who responded to the first bombing. This is so obviously criminal it’s hard to know what to say.
It is purely nuts. There is a weak argument to be made not to *recommend* it to some groups that are at very low risk from covid. But even that is *very* weak. Every group is at greater risk from covid than from the vaccine (except people with certain allergies).
Marx talked about oppression. Modern academics talk about oppression. Ergo modern academics are communists. I think there is a name for this logical fallacy, but I lack the energy to look it up.
It doesn't "come from" the CM. It is a thing the CM discussed - and so do modern academics. Are you saying that modern academics should not discuss oppression, or they should use other words for it? But if they did, then modern translations of the CM would also use those word, so same problem.
No. Woke - being aware of and objecting to systemic racism - is a core principle of the Democratic party. It isn't even left. It is everything to the left of the radical/racist right. Being un-woke is exactly what it sounds like - either unaware/asleep or actively hostile to civil rights.
No it isn't.
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
Drink more coffee, less sugar.
Ex-Israeli minister Ayalon: "There is no famine in Gaza." Me: "Why does the IPC say there is a famine?" Ayalon: "The IPC changed the criteria." Me: "That's a lie. What criteria did they change?" Ayalon: "They changed many criteria." My full interview with Danny Ayalon: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
Seriously, no candidate should be weak or whiny. But woke is core to Democratic identity. "The way" is not to abandon your base to attract a handful of moderate conservatives like yourself.
So, "The way" is to get The NYT to write a puff piece on you? Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
I was told by my pharmacist that the old vaccine is considered dated now - like the flu vaccine that is different every year - and the new one is not available yet.
My God, these people are evil. Israeli i24NEWS analyst Zvi Yehezkeli claims that the journalist Israel murdered were terrorist *BECAUSE* they documented the atrocities Israel was committing in Gaza. That, according to him, is a terrorist act deserving of death. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
Indicted criminals shouldn't be let loose to do things like run for President.
You should thank America for that. Without all of our CO2, it'd be fall already.
Wish the DNC leadership got it. Hakeem Jeffries is still bewildered.
America is failing. 62% of the Americans who die between the ages of 25 to 44 would not have died if they lived in one of our peer-rich countries. 62%! slate.com/technology/2...
I'm not saying she isn't smart. I'm just saying she ran a horrible campaign. And there is an IMPORTANT lesson there: If your candidates run horrible campaigns, they will lose - even to horrible people.
In exchange for moving to a nicer prison and possibly be given work release, Maxwell says that she never witnessed Trump molest little girls with his pal Epstein. Before, she told her cellmate that she expected to get a deal for saying she *did* see Trump molest little girls. But Biden DOJ refused.
No. I don't think she does either. But she would have been President if she had picked him as her running mate. She thought she could win without him and without the "Bernie bros," and that arrogance cost her. Harris would be Pres if she had not run The Worst campaign I have ever seen.
Holy shit! The cache of documents found at John Bolton's house! He must be prosecuted because NO ONE Is Above The Law! If ANYONE else did this, he'd be UNDER the prison!
I would be shocked if Trump has nothing to hide, vis a vis Epstein.
Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!
Hillary would have won in a walk if she had picked Bernie as her running mate. The problem was not that she dismissed Bernie, but that she dismissed that entire wing of the party. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. And Harris didn't learn a thing. Made more appearances with Liz than Bernie and AOC combined.
They *said* they wanted to have a serious discussion about rent control and related policies, but they blocked me after the post above. Did I offend?
I suddenly like the idea of a super villain who's secret identity is - also a supervillain.
And the Joker. Lex is his secret identity.
I think you mean the 50s/60s.
It's median income is 20% lower than New York's. NY per capita income is even more higher. $214,991 vs about $61,000 to maybe $80,000.
Taxes, I assume.
The population of NY grew by leaps and bounds until 1971, when they repealed most rent controls. Over the next 30 years, it fell by over a million, as rent became unaffordable.
Strange that attacking the source was your go to when it was Wikipedia, but not for the WP - even though the WP has a stated policy opposed to socialist projects, and Wikipedia is about as balanced as you can get.
Tripled over what time period? And has bus ridership also tripled? And NY is a bit richer than Tuscon. They can afford things a smaller poorer city can't.
www.modernretail.co/operations/u...
"Often" does a lot of work there. Bezos has ordered WP not to write anything positive about "socialism," causing many to leave and others to write headlines like that one.
You complained about someone linking Wikipedia, but they are a *LOT* more balanced than a real estate firm who's *goal* is to keep real estate prices and rents as high as possible. If they are against rent stabilization, we should take that as an indorsement of it.
Tuscon implemented free bus fares in 2020 - the year that crime started going up *everywhere*. Can't pay for it? Obviously they can, since they do.
That would be a good point - except for the fact that they are old *successful* ones. Rent stabilization worked and still works well. Many cities have free busses - works. City-run groceries - work just fine, end "grocery deserts" and help hold down prices. All those ideas are proven to work.
Newsome says if TX takes 5 D's, CA will take 5 Rs. Insane! TX is R+6. CA is D+12! They should take 8 Rs maybe all 9.
I have been saying that for 9 years.
Trump helps another criminal, specifically sex criminal. Birds of a feather fock little girls together.
I would have preferred Carter, Wellstone and Lewis - and Reagan, just to really mess with them.
Right. Nichols is a centrist or right of centrist. But I follow him, and I am solid left. It's good to read sane conservatives, if only to reassure myself that even the sane ones are wrong. :)
Shame it wasn't a donut.
DC needs Statehood! If there was any question about that a week ago, it is gone today. The people of DC need and deserve not only representation but self determination every bit as much as the people of Virginia or Texas or Wyoming or California do.
It's very frustrating for everyone. But the right response is to show how this underscores - and proves - that DC needs Statehood.
Crime plummeted under Biden, and neither he nor Harris knew how to take a bow for it or even seemed to know it was happening. Trump: "Crime is out of control!" Harris: "Well, you're a criminal."
What brought this up?
For now, the goals should be simple: End the genocide and get the settlers out! The settlements are the ongoing War Crime against Palestine, the casus belli of the current conflict. They have got to go.
Drop a bomb on this country we are not at war with. That's an illegal order. Did anybody balk?
Newsome should not take 5 seats. He should shoot for 21. R's: Heads we win. Tails it's a draw? D's: That's right. And you better believe it, Buster!
MSNBC anchor was practically crying over Trump meeting Putin - that monster. And yes he is. But at least that was an attempt to get him to stop monstering - lame attempt as it was. What was this?
Also: "We don't know what happened, but it wasn't Harris's fault. She ran a great campaign." Once he committed to kidding himself, all analytic skills were dedicated to that.
He is at times very insightful. But on Israel, that goes out the window.
A funny coincidence: I was thinking this morning how people often use euphemisms for anything having to do with sex. An elder friend talking about getting her cat spayed tried to find another word for it. I said, "Call a spayed a spayed." (I don't usually use that expression; it might be racist.)
I am encouraging the Democratic party to let voter turnout decide the primary order. 1st primary should be held by the State with the highest Democratic turnout in the preceding elections, the 2nd in the 2nd.... And then by region, also in turnout order. Why aren't they already doing this?
I am encouraging the Democratic party to let voter turnout decide the primary order. 1st primary should be held by the State with the highest Democratic turnout in the preceding elections, the 2nd in the 2nd.... And then by region, also in turnout order.
Of course I know that you are just trolling. But you are one of the few conservatives I can ask and have any hope for an honest answer: Do any but the rubish of the rubes believe this?
They like controlling the process themselves too much.
I am encouraging the Democratic party to let voter turnout decide the primary order. 1st primary should be held by the State with the highest Democratic turnout in the preceding elections, the 2nd in the 2nd.... And then by region, also in turnout order.
Other people were also hacked is not really a defense.
The Rolling Pebbles. Or The Rolling Buzzes.
Whatever possessed you to dredge this BS up?
Bullshit. Bork was not filibustered. Not held up by committee. Given a full vote (unlike the supremely qualified Fortas), Mr. Saturday Night Massacre was rejected - bipartisan. Not only were his views abhorrent, he had already shown his willingness to ignore the law, breaking it to fire Cox.
All those regulations. They're killing industry!
The most famous felon in America lives right there.
DC is not in the top 25. realestate.usnews.com/places/ranki...
Thank you President Trump! For illustrating how much DC needs Statehood! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
We should have banned stock buybacks a long time ago. They serve no purpose other than as a tax dodge.
It's really at 50+ year low. DOJ was 'conservative' because changes in tracking methods made apples to apple comparison difficult past 30 years.
It's really at 50+ year low. DOJ was 'conservative' because changes in tracking methods made apples to apple comparison difficult past 30 years.
Who would have guessed? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The DOJ says 30 year low - but only because different reporting methods make apples to apples comparison to more than 30 years ago difficult. In fact, 2024 was at least a 50 year low.
It's like they have something to hide.
It's almost like they have something to hide.
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
"More than 30 years" almost certainly means more than 50. There was a drop in crime under Clinton, but not that big. It continued to drop for the next 10 years from 95.
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
Trump plans a press conference on Monday to take credit for the dramatic drop in crime that took place under Biden. A reminder www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
You're not supposed to bike on the sidewalk. But if you do, you have room to get around that tree. I cannot tell if it's wide enough for a wheelchair. But if that is a problem, they could smooth the curb, so the very occasional wheelchair could dip into the green to go around.
I still remember the collective gasp from the audience.
It first aired when I was in my 30s. I didn't and don't go out of my way for it. But when I catch an episode, it was and is usually funny.
It's usually hilarious.
A good point - whichever direction it is coming from.