Vance just looks like a smarmy dickhead.
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Vance just looks like a smarmy dickhead.
"...born to be criminals" Wow, those aren't coded words, are they?
Pentagon authorized 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, per memo seen by AP, dated August 27.
I'd rather run against Paxton. So much baggage.
Are you saying the president isn’t well enough to take questions?
John Cornyn will be in a fight just for the nomination.
He certainly will do just that. My question is, what's his motivation? Does he actually believe it, or is he a true charlatan?
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
I know
I don’t care if BlueSky is growing or dying, it’s nice here and I’ll never go back to Twitter - or bother with something like Threads - and honestly I’m pretty disappointed in all the folks I know who still use Twitter because they care more about reach than integrity.
Does anyone know the mustache man's name?
Clearly a bs statement. But, if parsed, isn't she by implication admitting that she did witness inappropriate behavior?
Abbott DeSantis Kash Patel
*born
It's arguable that Trump would not be President today, if not for this judge, both outside of the US. She delayed that case with the ridiculous approval of a special master.
So, Rudy is definitely dying soon, right?
It's not the limestone, it's the concept. It looks like a pool deck at a Disney World hotel.
How did we manage to diminish our standing in the world so quickly? 80 years of post-war diplomatic work, down the drain.
Russia, Russia, Russia!! HOAX!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Xi continues to smartly step into the global leadership power vacuum left by the US abandoning our soft-power commitments. The fact that his stated motives are bullshit is beside the point.
No mention whatsoever of the value that outsourcing in the IT and customer service sector brings to US businesses.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
George Carlin recommended the sun. How about we choose George Carlin as our God? I think he'd get a kick out of it.
That's an explanation for why he didn't charge Trump with insurrection. He was charged. He was set to stand trial. The SC bailed him out. But what difference would it have made? Voters elected him having seen it all with their own eyes, and knowing he was a convicted felon.
He was prosecuted. The Supreme Court short-circuited the impending trial.
I know there weren't so many typos when pressed "post". Wowsers
Agreed
I would advise clearly stating “anti-union state” rather than using right-wing messaging. If you are an average voter who doesn’t know that “right to work” is inherently anti-union, this message might strike you as odd.
I guess Barry Bonds hasn't licked Trump's golf shoes. Or, maybe...
I had this discussion with my wife yesterday. She hates Trump. We live in Texas and she really hates Abbott. But she still refers to it as "politics". It seems to be difficult for, even really intelligent Americans, to wrap their heads around the fact that this is different.
Filling that void, on the world stage, left by the United States
You know things aren't going well when they send Gorka out on the Sunday shows.
Republicans are incapable of evolving when new evidence is presented. They got it stuck in their heads that vaccines would prevent all transmission. Even against the original strain, it was only 90%. And of course corona viruses mutate.
No, the question was not whether Trump picked him. Everyone knows that, Senator. The question was, do "you" have confidence in him. They can't just have a list of things to get through. If he won't answer, asking. The whole can be that one question. There's nothing wrong with that.
One thing to keep in mind is that Republicans *never* act in good faith, for the common good. The *only* reason they want this is because they believe it'll benefit them electorally. Example. College students move a lot. It's a pain in the ass to maintain an up to date form of ID.
When his death does come, it will probably be treated with the exact same problem that gave this narcissist power in the first place - way too much of our attention. When he is gone, may we resume the hard work of community and democracy, and may his name disappear, along with his body.
A few months after Putin invaded Ukraine, and Putin was saber rattling about launching nuclear weapons,Twitter suspended me for saying, "if we really think he's serious about starting a nuclear war, we'll need to kill him first" I thought the logic was sound, but either way, it's Putin. Fuck him!
Arch the adopted Manning I guess
Can we revisit this later in the season?
Wait, what? Trump might attend a military parade in China? Will it go through Tiananmen Square? Sidenote...do you ever sleep? You're doing amazing work.
Putin landed in China. Will meet with leaders from China, Iran, India, Turkey He will meet “for tea” with Xi, then have a trilateral meeting with Xi and President of Mongolia, Khürelsükh. Kremlin pool shares that DJT has not confirmed nor denied attending the military parade on 9/3 in Beijing.
Looks almost like he's being held up in this pic
"miniature statue of President George Washington" They feel the need to let Maga know that GW wasn't three feet tall.
It has always been suspected, but I don't think it has been proven. Maybe Flynn's son as well.
One has mental decline and fails to recognize dates, important conversations, history, and didn’t recognize his wife. The other is Joe Biden. (Pictures were both taken today)
Trump could, for the most part, put a stop to it.
Russia kills children from a distance with missiles and drones. Those who fall under its control, it steals — erasing their Ukrainian identity. Russia forges their names, their documents, their entire lives. Children are forced to forget who they are. (Bring Kids Back UA)
Trump will blame Zelensky, wash his bruised hands of it, and allow Putin to continue to attack Ukraine.
Who says that? Biden passed a bunch of legislation. Obama passed the ACA.
Dems need Trump death truthers to start their own version of QAnon
I'll say this. If Republicans think they're going to lose the mid-terms badly, it makes sense to dump Trump before then in order to be able to secure their preferred VP appointee. Otherwise they might end up with a compromise pick who's not necessarily a reliable Senate tie-breaker.
Who's the gal in the foreground?
Top Gun
This here - is not a conspiracy, will not go viral, but it is real. She was 2. She was killed by Russia.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Is this what Putin told the US in Alaska that had everyone on the US emerge like they'd seen a ghost?
"Now", as in, "that just happened?"
NOW: In response to Russia's large-scale attack, Poland's Air Force said it had scrambled fighter jets to protect Polish air space, as missiles target Ukraine's far-west.
I usually say that Trump is bringing back all the greatest hits from the 19th century. In RFK's case, you're correct. If we were living during the Renaissance, these are the people who would put Galileo in prison.
I'll bet it was an expert that discovered his neurocysticercosis from the worm inside his brain.
You know what this means, right? JD is the one who leaked the Witkoff story to Politico.
Or "I'm building my immune system."
I like the fact that he doesn't soft-pedal it all. He leans into the deranged nature of Trump's mean-spiritedness, 7th grade schoolyard taunts, and general lunacy.
Senator Delivers Blistering Rebuke to RFK Jr.: ‘Just Shut Up.’ “I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith wrote. “Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls--t. You should be fired.”
I was sorry to see Al Franken leave the Senate, but wow, Tina Smith has been great.
Last time my Dad visited me before he passed, he made this sun how of a coke can and nailed it to my fence. He told me to tell everyone that your Dad hung the sun for you. 🥹
Or worse. It sticks and someone has to pee on it.
We've gone from "alternative facts" to just "alternative reality"
Weiselburg is getting this job, isn't he?
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
We can worship James Madison
Makes total sense that Trump would do this. It keeps the base in his corner as they "stand back and stand by" Plus, there's a significant maga faction in the military and amongst law enforcement. But she's a loser and an insurrectionist no matter how you slice it. Also she's a Qanon.
Also, there's this. I think this is still in his district. My mother was a nurse here and my sister was here. The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals – Mother Jones share.google/xAUB3mpOGGqN...
"a shocking number of local cops and state troopers" Don't forget the sheriffs. Especially in the South.
Uh, no
I agree. But that's why they're "deplorables".
So he drove his truck all the way to DC from down here in Texas to do this. They must be paying some good $. #ICEBountyHunters
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Russia isn't serious about peace. They're just stringing Trump along.
Russian FM spox: A peaceful settlement should include demilitarization, denazification, as well as a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status for Ukraine Russia also demands “recognition of territorial realities” and “ensuring the rights of the Russian-speaking population.”
MAGA response: "Good! If they hadn't entered our country illegally it wouldn't have happened."
Per Univision, this is what happened on 8/27 at Alligator Alcatraz (1/2)
If you say "NDS" with a certain emphasis on the "S" and elongate the end of the "Sss" it has a certain ring to it. Example: Take it NDS 🔥
Is there any member of this administration who isn't a scoundrel?
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
There's also an inverse of that. They don't actually believe that selfless/honest public servants exist. It's a somewhat nihilistic view. Politics of eternity. Putin I can't imagine going through life believing that there aren't some good, honest, people out there. Politics of inevitability
Or, now that we know how Witcoff's meeting with Putin went down, it could have happened then.
A big part of that mentality depends on someone, a politician, or something, religion, making sure those people are ignorant and scared.
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Watching an interview with former UKR President Yushchenko, who was poisoned by FSB ahead of the election He says when he met Putin after becoming president, Putin explained to him that he needs to “turn over the page”, now “he is the recognized president and they’ll have fabulous connection”
