Steve Smith

The Chief Justice ought to install a mirror in his chambers so he can see why people don’t respect the courts.

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With the economic decimation caused by the tariffs, it’s almost like you have to have been stupid or in on the grift to have voted for him.

Hasn’t his mother-in-law suffered enough just by having him as a son-in-law?

US expels the South African ambassador, who Rubio called a “a race-baiting politician”. I take him at his word, because no one knows more about race-baiting than the Republican Party. See, e.g. Reagan’s “welfare queen” and Bush 1’s Willie Horton ad.

Hahahaha- that’s a good one.

“Nothing says “party of the everyman” quite like two born-to-riches nepo baby billionaires selling $80,000+ cars on the White House lawn.”
-Jeff Tiedrich

Trump is so far up Putin’s ass he can see Sarah Palin’s house

Vice President JD Vance is earning the description Winston Churchill applied to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles: a bull who carries a china shop around with him. - George Will

I guess we know now how he bankrupted all those casinos

Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the solution to higher egg prices is to raise chickens in your backyard.
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.

With Musk taking billions from government contracts and the White House parroting the Kremlin, it looks that that distinction, among others, is dead, too.

My grandmother used to say that the difference between the capitalists and communists is that the capitalists say “thank you” when they take your money.

Bezos is an embarrassment to Katherine Graham’s legacy

This was no blunder by Zelensky. It was a set up job to justify Trump‘s complete embrace of Putin. He made him an offer he couldn’t accept, and with brutal rancor designed to force a walk out

Bezos' offering The owner of the Washington Post serves up the Free Press

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The state bar associations and DC bar, which licenses attorneys, through their power of disciplinary proceedings and the penalties of suspension and disbarment, may be the most effective bulwark against federal prosecutors whose actions are political and not grounded in the law.

At a bus shelter in London

He and his father were legendary as architects of post WW II collective security. I often thought of Frank Sr. walking past their house on P Street in Georgetown

Political theorist, John Locke, on whose writings the founding fathers relied, wrote that a leader disregarding constitutional order gives up legitimacy and the people are justified in treating him as a “thief and a robber.”

“[W]hosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law and makes use of the force he has under his command…ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another.”

To Republicans bemoaning budget cuts; as Hunter S. Thompson said, “buy the ticket, take the ride.”

The proper response is “not as much Ketamine as you, bro”

Good to see that Fishin’ Sammy Alito is nothing but consistent

If Senator Susan Collins was truly “troubled and deeply concerned”, maybe she’d actually do the right thing for once in her life.

Happy Presidents’ Day- in the current climate, this guy seems like FDR

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"
The Tempest, Act 1, Sc. 2

Now, with that money frozen, they’re on the hook. As Spike Lee once said, they brought that shit upon themselves.

Farmers who signed contracts with the USDA under those programs paid up front to build fencing, plant new crops and install renewable energy systems with guarantees that the federal government would issue grants and loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs.