Naomi Rao is humping — and humping hard — to replace Alito or Thomas as the Trump Administration’s next plant on the Supreme Court.
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Naomi Rao is humping — and humping hard — to replace Alito or Thomas as the Trump Administration’s next plant on the Supreme Court.
This is as much juice as this little brownshirt will ever have. When things turn, as they will, he -- and so many others -- will have so much to answer for. Let's make sure we remember them.
Remember this son of a bitch. Patrick O'Hanlon. If it bothers him that people know his name, there's a reason.
CHICAGO…
We will not emerge from this (I could probably stop there, but) so long as we continue to imagine that the people who want this are susceptible to reason and persuasion. Trump's base hates us and wants to destroy the way we live. The goal must be to neutralize these peoople, not chat with them.
Megan McCardle, as always, actively and aggressively blind to the broader advent of the fascism that will also eventually come for her, so long as the moment offers an opportunity to exercise some incredibly short-term ideological gripe. She and Ross Douthat are the perfect Trump era commentators.
Devastating, with malice aforethought, everything that made America the gift that I had been undeservedly given at birth.
One thousand percent. The America we knew is dead, and the project now is to do everything possible to drive a stake through the heart of American fascism, using every tool available.
I'm also pretty sure he works with a body quadruple. Four old sloppy fat guys roped together with a red tarp on their heads.
I literally have a cache of fireworks, just ready to go when the blessed event actually arrives. It will drive several of my neighbors crazy, but that will just add to the day's delight.
Yes, well. Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas lie in wait. Trump will get the cover he needs.
So it turns out he’s a fucking fascist. Super.
One hundred percent. Absolutely no respect for anyone willing to serve as a member of Trump‘s personal militia.
Pretty gross to see these mooks —willingly serving as members of Trump’s personal militia — placed in front of a monument to actual heroes.
I can see the adult’s face and the little girls’ faces clearly, but the fucking goons there to intimidate them are covered up like chickenshits. America, 2025.
Caleb Ferguson took care of that.
Absolutely. A well regulated militia and all that. Thank our white, football-loving Jesus that our garages are full of AR-15s and whatnot. They’re the only things standing between us and, you know . . . tyranny.
Let it burn. Sorry. This country deserves every bit of every bad thing that happens to it. It elected this man, and now this country — in the main, uneducated, lazy, and broken by any of a thousand different addictors — lacks the guts, or even the attention span, to stop him.
We should all be grateful that a person like Paula Xinis is a federal judge and that this case landed with her. I have no doubt men like Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas despise her.
As in, von Papen old-school.
With vanishingly rare exceptions, one doesn’t ascend to the upper strata of American political life without tossing one’s principles (to the extent ever held) into the ditch fairly early in the climb.
God Bless. Patriots need to stand up to this fascist piece of shit — by any means necessary.
Ah, American Exceptionalism. What did we used to say? That Americans will never abase themselves to please a lunatic dictator? Something like that? These grotesques would eat their own shit in a casserole if Trump told them to.
If you’re a country in which the incarcerated can be forced to, literally, live in their own shit, but possess no recourse — in which a court says that it wasn’t obvious those responsible knew they were doing a bad thing — you’re a pretty fucked up state.
The American Basiji.
It's all perfectly clear -- unless you're listening to humps like Schumer and Jeffries talk about distractions and the price of fucking avocados. This wouldn't be the first time a desperate opposition had to develop ways to hobble power. Fight everything; cooperate with nothing. Fight very dirty.
These people are physically afraid.
You are absolutey doing Trump's work for him here. Again. He can post all the bullshit letters he wants, but hasn't fired her because he doesn't have the authority to fire her. Your persistent, credulous reporting of his fantasy as fact has proven to be one of his most powerful weapons.
One hundred percent. He can post all the bullshit letters he wants. But if she stays in her office and continues to perform her duties, they will have to remove her by force, in which case it will be a very, very different thing.
I lack the power, the tools, and access to the information needed to formulate and execute an actionable solution, if there is one. But I desperately want to be led by those who do -- and they can start by naming all of this clearly, and by dumping the enervating, over-triangulated poli-babble.
As long as they characterize it properly — as a”crackdown” on political dissent — I’m okay with it.
Now there’s an idea. Ordering one now. Fingers crossed I get pulled over.
He’s regrettably right here. These terms frequently serve as the tribe-signifying equivalent of some MAGA shithead pasting “Let’s Go Brandon” on his fugly truck. The point is to tell people who you are. I like the jargon users more than the MAGA shitheads, but I also want to seem them elected.
If you actually thought that the president was sending troops into the streets of major American cities and having random masked shitheads disappear delivery guys off scooters to distract from grocery prices being higher, I feel like you'd seem angrier about all that than Hakeem Jeffries does.
He and every other governor ought to do everything possible to undermine the morale of the people who’ve been ordered to invade. “Is this what you signed up for? Is this why you serve? To be used as a member of Trump’s private militia, using force to intimidate Americans? Really?"
Hakeem Jeffries informs me that this is a distraction. So I guess when these goons come to Seattle, I should just get out of their way, lest I become, you know . . . distracted.
I don’t believe that. History explodes with examples of the feckless and the weak who would prefer to believe they’re not on fire when they’re actually very much on fire, and who therefore turn to familiar tools, like condemning the flames melting their skin as a distraction.
Don’t consider it. Fucking do it. This has been political war for some time, and Trump is turning into an actual physical confrontation. We use the tools available, or we just get fucking steamrolled.
Jeffries, Schumer and the rest of them are gutless pinheads who think they can fight guns and tanks by adjusting the political algorithm just a smidge. The thing is fucking HERE, and they refuse — or are just too terrified — to see it.
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
I’ll not sure what the precise over/under event would be, but if “dirt nap” is part of the bet, that’s where my money is going.
This is what gives me hope, not Chuck Schumer whining like a goddamn chickenshit about the price of avocados. I mean seriously - fuuuck these people.
If it works for those fuckers’ confederate heroes like John Calhoun, it can work for us.
Be nice to see some “enthusiastic” resistance.
“Hey, no . . . you have to leave the blow-up doll. Just stop."
I’ve always said immigrants are criminal masterminds who place their concrete tubes and monkey bars right where ICE agents can’t just walk around them.
Every single word of this. I am the quintessence of centrism — legally, politically, culturally. I don’t come to any of this from the left. But no man save Trump himself has done more to degrade representative democracy, the Supreme Court, and the rule of law itself than this execrable coward.
This is among the truths we’ve learned over the past decade — national publications and cable networks do not practice journalism so much as they conform their information delivery to market whims and to the devolving, financially-driven mores of the social circles in which their leaders circulate.
It’s impossible to capture in words the slobbering ludicrosity into which these malignant fucking clowns have plunged the country.
And that, of course, is precisely what Trump wants to communicate to all Americans. You haven’t identified a bug. You’re describing the feature. Trump wants nothing more than to construct a Putinesque political and legal culture in America, and he’s well on his way.
Actually, sounds like no small number of those dipshits were cheering that toad.
The fascists are of course almost entirely to blame, but some of this lies at the feet of cowards and time-servers like Schumer and Jeffries, who seem to lack both an understanding of the moment and the courage to do anything about it if they did, at least if a personal price were involved.
Vulgarity may be the concept that captures late-stage America more completely than any other, though ignorance nips at its heels.
The extent to which lawyers and judges like John Sauer and Naomi Rao — who manifestly know better — are prepared to comprehensively beshit themselves to curry favor with this authoritarian pedophile is absolutely stomach churning.
There are perfectly sound justifications for rejecting Christianity, but that Joel Osteen is a giant asshole isn't really one of them.
I agree that the Dems absolutely have to ask themselves why they seem unable to beat these execrable people, but if the only effective answer is that that they can't win because they're unwilling to outfascist the fascists, then the entire country is really pretty much irreedemably fucked anyway.
Fucking Schumer. Just a weak, weak man.
Agree wholeheartedly, though if we need a left Stephen Miller, or some similar tool (of any sort) to break these fascists, I’d certainly tolerate it.
He’s just a complete fucking Orwellian goon.
There will be violence at some point. It seems increasingly inevitable.
This sort of exchange is guaranteed whenever Trump encounters competence.
It has been stupid, remains stupid, and will end stupidly.
My judge not quite that punctilious, though I and my co-clerks lived in abject fear of getting a cite wrong in a published opinion (or even citing a case for a proposition that it did not squarely represent).
My wife and I have debated this. Is his immediate descent into Hades preferable to a form of incapacity that lasts long enough that we know he’s suffering? Not clear.
No, she will never pass a peaceful dotage in a little cottage at the end of the lane. But there is also no out for Trump — anything he does for her, anything, will be broadly understood as precisely what it will be, which is the purchase of her silence (or her perjury). This is his nightmare.
I have long hoped for intervention from the God of Righteous Infarctions.
Insofar as his stress level correlates inversely to his remaining remaining time on earth, turning the stress machine up to 11 can only be regarded as a gift to humanity.
Teeth are so woke.
It would appear that Ghislaine the juvenile sex trafficker doesn’t like being in prison, and is playing hardball in an effort to get out.
Sumbitch lies like he breathes. Just instinctively.
Going to have to arrest Michele too, I guess.
Opinion | Don't get angry at ICE agents. They are just following orders. by Adolf Eichmann
The little shit couldn’t even get a document into evidence in Trump’s felony trial in New York. She’d never be hired as a fucking intern at any real US Attorney’s office — which is to say, a US Attorney’s office as those things existed prior to this past January.
I understand the “us” part, but I have no stake in these people. They are my enemies, and I will fight them to my very last breath and by any means necessary.
These people are precisely who feared they’d be. This — not merely this, of course, but this in conjunction with everything else we’re seeing — represents the assault the Founders predicted and feared. Unfortunately, the Founders were far more courageous than our leaders are proving to be.
These people are manifestly loathsome, but the clips consist of Hasan just yelling at them before they can speak, which is just . . . yelling at them.
Superb new piece on John Roberts, the man most directly responsible for giving Trump license, both personally (via the immunity decision) and structurally (via virtually everything else he’s written), to destroy the country. His affable affect notwithstanding, Roberts is a plague on this country.
Nope…we still remember you’re a rapist and child sex trafficker.
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
A crime and a coverup. Trump was at least adjacent to a massive, repulsive criminal enterprise. As president, Trump is now directing the coverup of this enterprise. Six months into his second term, almost no one expected the Epstein case to pose a grave threat to his presidency. But it does.
I'm on Team Righteous Spontaneous Infarction. It would certainly not solve all problems, but it would help.
Well, here's some healthy journalistic competition. The NYT, annoyed that the WSJ got the birthday card scoop, is trying pretty damn hard to catch up, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
It was all outstanding, but that first few minutes, with the story about the kid who spilled the wine and the way he linked it to Trump, is genius.
No, to me it seems more like Nixon's Lewinsky scandal.
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I've hardly died on this or any other hill. It's just a mindless locution for the Times, which purportedly prides itself on linguistic precison, to use.
Sounds like a superb dog, but did you really refer to her as a "dog influencer"? Oof. I mean, you know, this dog did not know she was on YouTube, and no dogs watched her on YouTube.
That has got to be botched edit that they didn't properly proofread. No human being can be that fucking stupid.
The thing actually being communicated here, of course, is remarkably accurate, which is that Nancy Mace and the people around here are dumber than a bag of hammers.
The New York Times' headline suggesting that Trump has chosen to defer to the judiciary on this is one of the most pukeworthy things I've read in a long, long, line of nauseating NYT takes.
I guess this is what American Exceptionalism means.
As Popehat as noted, Bove looks like someone who’s been kicked out of a mass grave for killing the vibe.
Do they not have access to any actual fucking lawyers at the New York Times? This is such demonstrable bullshit to anyone who understands anything about how this process works.
Beyond the fact that he was far more coherent 20 years ago, my guess is that he did the drawing and someone else put together the text for him. He’s not doing to sit down and type that up; a staff person did it, or perhaps even Maxwell, who coordinated the thing. But he undoubtedly approved it.