the roiling all-consuming thirst for blood on the right is extremely undercovered

Rewatching Knives Out before Wake Up Dead Man, a) great movie but b) crazy how much the political references are already dated six years later. In particular this (2019) is before conservatives learned the word “woke” circa 2021, so it’s all like “sjw” instead What an innocent time that was

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Wait is this not how you all walk?

Again my kingdom for prominent democrat comms people to learn to just say things directly You don’t say “is this bribery?” you say “this is bribery”

It cannot be overstated how clear it is from literally any context surrounding the Constitution — and just in the text of the Constitution — that Congress is supposed to be the main instrument of American government. The unitary executive isn’t just wrong it’s backward

Uh oh

(Two years later) damn Fargo season 5 is good

Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.

Lmao

We shouldn’t let the inevitability — did anyone in America think the Republican superlegislature that is the Supreme Court was going to fail Texas republicans and Trump? — take away from how outrageous all of this is

Presented without further comment: There is an Albert Brooks movie coming out next week that stars 29 year old Emma Mackey as a 34 year old lieutenant governor of an unnamed state, and her parents are portrayed by 64 year old Woody Harrelson and 43 year old Rebecca Hall

I'm at the combination

Either someone somewhere in south downtown Seattle plays saxophone very loudly off and on many afternoons, and no one else in my office is hearing it for some reason, or I am having a frequent recurring audio hallucination

Hypothetically: 1) SCOTUS kills the tariffs, 2) some major foreign policy breakthrough (maybe Russia or Bibi does him a favor), 3) Trump sends everyone a $2k “tariff rebate”, 4) OPEC/domestic oil significantly lowers gas prices, 5) dead VRA and more GMandering add a dozen more House seats.

Damn I didn’t think anyone disliked Paul Dano’s whole thing more than me, apparently very wrong about that. (He’s good and perfectly cast in TWBB; only movie I’ve ever liked him in but still)

RETURN.

You’re telling me there’s a whole net, entirely for ham?

Trump trying a new “what if I just do all the insane corrupt pardoning most presidents do on the last day of their last term whenever I want” strategy and correctly assuming the press won’t care. (Assuming he even knows this is happening, which)

My leftist radical professor told me bats aren't bugs

This is all true but 1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law 2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

I’ve been to two Seahawks games in the past thirteen years and the combined score was 84-0 Hawks

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

In retrospect for the physics midterm I didn’t do well in I should’ve just put a passing reference to Philippians or whatever on the final page. Then it would be illegal to have given me a bad grade

Excited for the media to totally ignore this insane use of the pardon power

The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:

For decades the media has tacitly agreed that they have to care about whatever, and to whatever extent, republicans want them to (Swift Boats!) and they will not change that simply because it is now an insane pedophile dictating Republican priorities

Average American Thanksgiving: President declares total ban on immigration, calls an esteemed democratic governor a slur, and then goes on TV to talk about Somalis like animals when asked about a mass shooting by a former child soldier and member of a CIA associated death squad.

This is almost beat for beat what the bill of rights — and, sort of, the whole American Revolution — was intended to prevent

shark: *smirking* no hablo inglés

I want all the interesting directors who were fired by nervous studios back. We’re getting the Del Toro Hobbit, we’re getting the Lord and Miller Han Solo, the Edgar Wright Ant-Man, etc.

The fact that congress needs a bare majority to grant the president power but a veto-proof majority to withdraw power seems like little bit of a flaw in the system

Part of how you can tell the media likes Trump and wants him to succeed is how little they care about the unprecedented wave of state censorship aimed at their colleagues

We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)

This level of just procedural incompetence — even setting aside the obviously political prosecutions — would be a huge scandal for any other president

Saw a cop car labeled “TLC Police” today in Brooklyn and I turned to my wife and said that’s who arrests you if you go chasing waterfalls and it’s maybe the hardest I’ve ever heard her laugh. Still got it

Musk’s immunity to scandal or consequences is both weirder and more ominous even than Trump’s, I think

Again, totally setting aside partisan politics it was an absolute dereliction of duty by the United States senate confirming RFK Jr Every senator who voted for him — so, literally every Republican except Mitch McConnell — has blood on their hand

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Checking in on MechaHitler

Yeah I’ll take the under on this one. Democrats haven’t won white voters at the House level since at least 1990 and that’s back when they had a 100 seat majority including most of the South and, like, all of Idaho. (A Democrat hasn’t won the white voters for president since 1964)

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

One of many reasons Federal Clerk Omerta sucks is I’d love to have the story behind this from whoever had to, like, try and edit it

Finally

When this happened in Trump’s first administration, Senate Republicans like Lindsay Graham rebuked him and threatened to hold up legislation. Senator Marco Rubio, now the nation’s top diplomat, called for severing US ties with Saudi Arabia over human rights. Press should ask them about it too.

San Marino, a country with 35,000 people, has 16 domestic soccer teams.

Okay closer but still not there. Donald Trump isn’t “connected to” one of the most notorious pedophiles in the country, Donald Trump IS *the* most notorious pedophile in the country.