Randy Davenport

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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

April 7 Liz Oyer, pardon attorney: In February, I was assigned to a working group that the attorney general created to restore gun rights to people convicted of crimes. I was asked to identify suitable recipients, so I looked for people who had committed minor low-level offenses in the very distant past and demonstrated exemplary conduct in the community for many years since their conviction. The pool was narrowed to nine people. And then I was asked to add Mel Gibson to the list. Mel Gibson has a history of domestic violence, and I'm well aware from my experience and training that it is very dangerous for a person with a domestic-violence history to possess a firearm. As attorney general, Bondi has the power to restore rights without my blessing. My recommendation was sought, I believe, to give a veneer of legitimacy to what was actually a political favor for a friend of the president. I said I couldn't recommend restoration. And then I waited for the other shoe to drop.

I finally got a phone call from Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general. It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know. I felt sick. I literally did not sleep at all that night. I wrote back still not making the recommendation. At 2 o'clock that afternoon, I was in a meeting when I learned that I was fired. My deputy told me to grab my bag and literally pulled me out of the room by my elbow and told me in the hallway that she had gotten a call saying that there were security officers in my office waiting to walk me out of the building. I threw everything into a grocery bag and walked out of the office. I passed a lot of people I knew on the way out, and everybody was just looking on in shock. Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, issued a statement saying that I was lying about the circumstances leading up to my firing. Then I was invited by the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to testify in front of Congress. The administration sent armed U.S. Marshals to my home to deliver a letter warning me about testifying. A career employee who was still at the department helped me get it called off before they got to my house, where my teenager was home alone. I felt the purpose was to intimidate me. And I think it was intended to send a message to other department employees, too, who might be thinking about speaking up.

I needed a lawyer. I spent the entire weekend calling all of the lawyers that I know at law firms around D.C. Everybody I talked to was saying: "Thank you so much for what you're doing. We'll do whatever we can behind the scenes to support you." But nobody actually wanted to sit behind me at a congressional hearing. Nobody wanted to put their name on a letter to Todd Blanche. Unfortunately, only Democrats attended the hearing. There were no Republicans. It has really perplexed me that there's not a shared level of bipartisan concern about what's happening inside the Department of Justice.

Liars and cowards

Something something monkey’s paw

I’m certain it will get worse before it gets better but I’ve also become pretty sure that it will, in fact, get better

Wish there was some sort of opposition party in this country that could fight back against him. Alas,

America First is when you drive your own soybean farmers out of the international market and then heavily subsidize the country that took all the soybean business

It’s pretty amazing that illegal immigrants are both poor enough to mooch off all of our social services and wealthy enough to buy up all the housing

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

people as things, that’s where it starts

if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track

Anybody who wants to run for president should have to survive a month in food service or retail first

I think it should be mandatory for anybody wanting to be in charge of anything significant in this country to do at least week of low-paid menial labor without cracking or doing anything fireable before they can have power

This is the way someone might talk to their grandparent while they’re on their deathbed and need comfort

I’ve done this exact move before, marshmallow skewers come in clutch sometimes

Homie we just won multiple important elections on Tuesday and Trump’s approval ratings are falling by the minute, how is it not working

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

If only there was some recent metric or bellwether to judge public opinion of the democratic party by

Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them

If only

Yeah, “The Dems are taking away your SNAP benefits” doesn’t really work when you’re in the middle of actively and very publicly fighting to take SNAP benefits away

At least this one was funny

These are the questions political candidates actually need to be asked.

When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week?

When is the last time you cleaned a toilet?

When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill?

Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.

They immediately embraced all the aesthetic traits of authoritarianism without actually constructing any of the functional mechanisms of oppression that authoritarians use to stay in power.

They’re acting like they rigged the system but they haven’t actually so they just look like dumb assholes.

Democracy at work is a beautiful thing, ain’t it?

The journalism industry could be saved so easily and we’d never have to deal with paywalls again

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

I love Scoot Bloop. I will risk life and limb to protect him.

Has there been a single ICE officer killed in the line of duty during this administration? If not, you can’t really say this guy is “putting his life on the line”, can you?

i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

Fair point, Australian realtors are looking to be a key 2028 demographic