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Resident of the beautiful State of Oregon. Humanist and Rationalist. Secular Buddhist. Amateur pianist and clavichordist.
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What an absolutely monumental idiot our president is.

Meaning, of course, how much WE have to pay. It's not a deal, it's dictatorship.

I would like to think that in the 21st century we don't need to "both sides" medicine and quackery, but apparently I'm wrong.

This is so f*ing embarassing. I don't think we will live this down in my lifetime.

Thank you Marc Elias and Leah Litman for keeping up the GOOD FIGHT.

Bald faced LIAR.

How can you tell they're lying? They're posting. It was MAYBE 10K (even OAN estimated it), which is barely more than would've been there on ANY Saturday. Contrast: AT LEAST 5 million nationwide attended NO KINGS demonstrations. Trump's birthday bash: a dud. NO KINGS: the will of the PEOPLE.

Of course not. War is Peace. An out and out assault by secret police goons on the Senator of a sovereign state is "lunging' and 'uncivil behavior" on the part of the Senator doing his job... calling out outrageous lies by the regime lackey. Fascism is HERE NOW.

Newsom has to a great extent redeemed himself in my mind by his frank and open denuciation of the dictatorial actions, gross incompetence and failure to adhere to constitutional norms, and outright lies of Trump and his regime.

I agree 100% with this critique. It seems especially true of TV and radio... including NPR... and mainstream newspapers. Some of the web based and YouTube based outlets, even the ones that admit openly to a progressive viewpoint, do a MUCH better job of founding their reports on verifiable facts.

Gov. P could teach the rest of the Dem party a few lessons about plain speaking and sticking to principles.

I agree with this. It is crazy talk to say that protesting fascism helps fascism. Might as well just lie down and die if you believe that.

Bit o' Gallows Humor, there, George? Too bad it's all too true.

This is absolute insanity. We have sealed our economic doom. And it looks like we're in the process of sealing the doom of the republic itself as well.

If this isn't naked fascism, I don't know what is. We are reverting to monarchy, and if we don't stop it, we're cooked as a republic. Back to business as usual: TYRANNY. Our 250 year experiment in democratic governance failed once and for all.

Anyone who fails to see the through line from the abdication by Congress of the War Powers, granted unequivocally to it in the Constitution, to where we are now, with the President well along in the process of arrogating ALL POWER unto himself, is just not getting it. We MUST RESIST by all means.

"Concentrated power in one set of hands is dangerous." --Sen. Angus King this weekend. That just about says it all. WE MUST RESIST at ANY COST.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

A healthy functional society? Never heard of it! Not around here, that's for damn sure.

No, no, no. Carry on! We hate you both so much!

I find it absolutely delicious that these two utterly deplorable human beings are tearing each others' throats out.

Absolutely phenomenal. Spiderweb will go down in history alongside The Trojan Horse. No kidding. It's epochal.

I'm no expert, but as I understand it, the Constitution gives Congress the power to determine the scope of jurisdiction of the courts, but only the Constitution, which has certain implicit common law basis, sets the POWERS of the Court. So this provision is likely UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

I wouldn't eat a taco... or anything else from there. Ptomaine salad anyone?

The fact that the first thing he thinks of is whether a criminal "liked him" or not tells you all you need to know about this narcissistic sociopath.

Ick. I did not want to have that image in my mind. Ever.

All the more reason to expedite the court decision which of course WILL FIND the tariffs are UNCONSTITUTIONAL and ILLEGAL...unless the decision is rigged. Which, of course, it probably will be (*sigh*).

I wish I could say I believe a single word this disgusting weasel ever says, but I can't. Hopefully this will happen, but his saying it reassures me not one bit.

This is absolutely disgraceful. Democrats need to stand against FASCISM ... at home and abroad.

I don't fully understand who is behind this, etc. but it is RIGHT ON. I've thought Schumer was out of touch for years, but his actions this year qualify him to be ousted from leadership, primaried, and forcibly RETIRED. There is NO COMING BACK from this.

What a GDSOB. Seriously. This man is despicable.

As a Tesla owner who can't afford to ditch the car for what amounts to symbolic reasons, I hate Elon Musk. I don't like to hate people, but some people are so destructive to humanity that they actually deserve to be hated. And he's one of them. I don't wish him dead, but I wish him GONE.

This level of cluelessness in any normally functioning political system would be instantly career ending.

Well, duh. I think this is a major concern for a lot of judges.

I am so sick of Republicans and Trumpers droning on about debt as justification for their horrific anti-human 1BBB (ugly). The debt is ballooning for just 1 reason. THEY refuse to impose fair taxes on the very rich. We are now living in THE MOST INEQUITABLE society in history. Due 100% to them.

Jesus. This is about an honest to Baal monster. WTF?

Well, that pretty much clinches it. The fix is in. We need to lean heavily on the few Republicans who just might vote no... we need 4 or 5 if that a*hole Fetterman votes for it. Gonna be tough.

Obviously the right decision. This is going to end up in the Supreme Court, sooner rather than later. I'd say not all that unlikely that there will be at least 5 votes that agree that this EXCEEDS the temporary, limited transfer of an inherent Article I power to the exec. that the statutes confer.

What total crap. Scary thing is this sociopathic idiot probably actually believes that.

The principal problem in most American cities is that the pattern of development makes the "last mile" virtually inacessible by rail lines, unless literally hundreds of lines and feeder shuttles criscross development built for access exclusively by cars. Not impossible, but a huge project.

Since graft and money laundering are the principal raison d'etre for crypto, especially this kind of naked personality cult BS, this is hardly surprising. Anyone who thinks this is a real investment, and not a beyond risky pump and dump scheme, is JUST PLAIN STUPID.

This is so ridiculous. "86" can mean "get rid of" figuratively, and is used in that sense all the time. The idea that for saying "get rid of 47" Comey can be treated as having seriously threatened Trump's life is beyond absurd, and is obviously yet another fearmongering tactic of Trump's gestapo.

Total bullshit. Biden's not steping aside earlier certainly contributed to Trump and Trumpism's victory. But Biden is gone, and the American people are suffering under THIS regime. The past is the past; what matters is the present. And the future. And even MAGites are seeing they're getting screwed.

Do they really think that even most MAGites won't realize that it's Trump and Trumpism that's causing this inflation, which is specifically focused on consumer products purchased mainly by working and lower middle class Americans?

If you really can't understand why this is grossly inappropriate in a republic with a government of, by, and for the people, then you are FAR too clueless to hold ANY job in government.

Actually nothing new about this. Rich political donors have gotten private tours of aircraft carriers and similar perks from time immemorial, and it's worse than unseemly in a democracy. I have always thought so.

Amen. I wont return to the disgusting past I was born into with separate doors, bathrooms, tables, water fountains etc for whites and "coloreds"- a Jim Crow world supported by the KKK and Southern Evangelicals. They had these kind of water fountains in my school.

Accusing the opposition of exactly what the regime itself is doing is so quintessential a totalitarian characteristic that you can use it as a clue to what they're REALLY up to.

Uh, dumbo... almost by definition, White South Africans were not born in the US, so the question has no meaning. If they were, they're citizens, unless they've renounced their citizenship. Next question, please. (Whether other countries have birthright citizenship is not up to us).