Michael P. Breen

Today in Every Conservative Accusation is a Confession

LBJ knew what he was talking about

He has no interest in defending the nation

Accusing someone of virtue signaling is, in itself, virtue signaling.

The virtues one is signaling are way more important than one's perceived sincerity.

Phil Neville contract extension in the works…

It’s a little-known fact that they were big fans of absolute monarchy

Obsequious lackeys seem likely to side with the mad king.

Film at 11.

Just as the Founders intended

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

As this tweet from 9 years ago today reminds us, the dismantling of the institutions and habits of mind that make modern governance possible in a pluralistic democracy has been a project that "conservatives" like Gorsuch have been on board with for a long time.

Well, the alternative was an experienced, competent, & serious non-white woman & well, many in the media & electorate (across the political spectrum) decided that was an unacceptable option

REMINDER: People need to get the fuck off X.

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum

Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)

Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

My friend, we’re still living with the consequences of 2000

Y’all’s refusal to understand politics as anything more than an exercise in instant gratification or to play anything remotely resembling the kind of long game the far right played for 50 years is why we are where we are

Gorsuch received 3 DEM votes, all from deep red state Senators. Kavanaugh & Barrett received none

The best part of being an American leftist is that no matter how wrong your predictions turn out to be, you can always find a way to blame Democrats (who are far from blameless, to be fair)

Give Trump this much credit: he looked at the GOP & saw a group of craven, amoral frauds who would sacrifice all they professed to believe to cling to power and he leveraged that for all it’s worth

Calvin and Hobbes playing Calvinball

The transcript of today’s SCOTUS argument is up already

I’m beginning to suspect that all the folks on the Bernie or Bust left who spent 2016 lecturing us about how the Supreme Court didn’t matter & that letting Trump win was a small price to pay to “bring the revolution” might not have known what they were talking about

The EU can’t possibly be Nazi

If it were, Elon & Trump would be its biggest supporters

I'm amazed to watch major mainstream media either ignore or write silly chuckling pieces about the Trump national security strategy, while around the world it evokes horror and rage. It's good evidence of how brain-dead US media have become.

Imprévisible ça…

Ça va vite, la radicalisation extrémiste dans les prisons.

Our planet is being ruled by the spoiled children who crashed out of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory tour…

Can’t believe Bari Weiss let this go out on state media

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

- Lyndon Baines Johnson

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

This.

If you can benefit from winning a conference championship game, then you should lose something if you perform poorly

Saying that Ohio State should drop b/c they lost but Alabama shouldn’t is incoherent, but coherence hasn’t really been the committee’s strong suit…

People who said things like this were executed for their crimes after the Nuremberg trials

Now that the Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize has been awarded, is there really any need for this?