It is foolish to leave weapons on the table when you are at war. When your enemy, a truly evil man, is thin-skinned and has a hair-trigger temper, you should incite his anger constantly. If he demeans himself in front of of his voters, it’s to your advantage.

It looks flammable. Someone should take care of that problem.

Trump’s election was not a suicide pact. You don’t get to do crime every day because a judge won’t enforce the law. You remove the judge and you put the criminals on trial. It’s not like we have never removed corrupt judges before, albeit on a smaller scale.

Nizaemon Koizumi (1874-1952, ferronnier), Manufacture Koizumi, Bouilloire, Japon, ère Taishô (1912-1926), vers 1925. Fonte moulée. Exposition "1925-2025" Cent ans d'Art déco" au MAD Paris.

Jesus, it’s all of them. The peace of our world has always been bought by the bodies of others. People didn’t look because they didn’t want to know. But what are here for, except to love and be love, care for the weak, develop our abilities, respond to the beauty?The meaning of life is in the fight

Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Cabinet "État rectangle fleur", Paris, 1922-1923. Exposition "1925-2025" Cent ans d'Art déco" au MAD Paris

Ahhh, Lalique!

It is what he does: loot every organization he controls until it goes bankrupt.

ratfucking SS and VA

This is how Trump says the n-word

Immigrants can teach us how to fight dictators: "Myrla Baldonado became one of the “forced disappearances” under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in 1983. She was kidnapped by state agents, swept away to a secret location, tortured, and then imprisoned for two years." And yet:

You will never win if you quit before you try.

When you’ve been partying for 50 years and the check finally arrives.

84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.

It’s the new sensation that’s sweeping the nation.

There is only one way to prove he is dying.

This is yet another example of a private institution capitulating to the federal government’s assault on transgender rights. In the face of these attacks, New York City will continue to be a refuge for the LGBTQIA+ community.

(nods wisely)

This is the worst poss answer he could give. This is how we got Trump.

Setting Hoover's economic policies aside (hah!) he also had the Office of Naval Intelligence break into Democratic Party headquarters in New York, as Jeffery Dorwart discovered; see point 2 here erauchway.github.io/posts/oppenh...

I would open free cafeterias next door.

LEAVE IT ALONE! PUT IT BACK! HOW DO Y'ALL NOT KNOW DANGER WHEN YOU SEE IT IN HIGH-DEFINITION? THEY ABOUT TO RESSURECT A DEMON GOBLIN WITH AN OVERBITE. PUT IT BACK!

The Economist’s second greatest crime has been the support of billionaires as they reduce the planet to destruction and the people to poverty and death. Their greatest crime, of course, was kickstarting the career of Megan McArdle.

The American political term of the year at least, but probably the decade if not also the century, is "elite impunity".

Meanwhile, we family members never forget, no matter how much time has past. That anger still fuels me. youtu.be/8mhadN-8oZE

The man needs an audience. And when he is not speaking, he can nap through the rest.

Don’t let him replace Alito. Drag it out until he kicks the bucket.

Nothing says “you are dead to me” like giving the ok to arrest his brother and then going shopping, so to speak.

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

The practice of elite impunity has always depended on the silence of people who are worried that jailing the elite for sex crimes will set an unfortunate precedent and elite who have committed financial crimes will become vulnerable.

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

How nice, they even have a cuck chair for their spouses.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Have you read the max read piece about him? I think it really nailed it all he does is post and as long as people are paying attention to him he really could not give a shit if he’s wrong. This does not matter to him at all. It’s a game and a payday.

I will never, ever forget that YG dismissed the deaths of foreign workers as merely the price they must pay for being poor. Someone with no empathy and thus no imagination has no business giving advice on human affairs.

It is possible that trans people are merely pawns in a strategy to demonstrate to the donor class that the D party will lean right. They can’t pledge economic fealty without turning off D voters, but if they can convince D voters that social issues make them use races, Ds will move right.

yet

Herbert Hoover was horrible. In fairness, we could say that he caught a lot of the blame for presiding over the wreckage created by the disastrous policies of his predecessor Calvin Coolidge. But this McArdle take is white hot garbage.

It takes a lot of nerve to dredge up this lazy argument after the past year.

Vulgar, greedy, licentious, stupid. A fitting leader for the Republican Party.

American Exceptionalism was, at its heart, always about refusing to acknowledge and take responsibility for crimes.

GLOUCESTER Where it seems best unto your royal self. If I may counsel you, some day or two Your highness shall repose you at the Tower: Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit For your best health and recreation. PRINCE EDWARD I do not like the Tower, of any place.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

It is long past time to push over the first domino-Roberts. Surely lying under oath during confirmation is disqualifying, even belatedly?

I’ve always said that Trump would never go to jail. Americans are too authoritarian and too brainwashed by the elite to prosecute a president. I would love to be wrong.

There is no such thing as “our elite.” This is a war and only one side is fighting.

Should have known even before sunrise I couldn’t scoop him on Elite Impunity. My excuse is severe jet lag, what are you doing up this damn early.

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

It appears one can actually arrest people in high places, and even jail them for life. That is something to remember when leaders start to talk about healing instead of jailing. If we can’t trust politicians to end elite immunity, they must not be elected to office.