brad k

The Roberts Court is systematically dismantling any semblance of ‘checks and balances’ and co-equal branches—much less Article I supremacy. We’re well down the road to Article II autocracy. But if a Democrat ever occupies the White House, it’ll all be about “executive branch overreach” again.

I wish I could believe this. Unfortunately many Dems seem to spend too much time stuck in ‘N’.

Exactly. He’s a stone cold CIA killer who was employed in a paramilitary death squad. Who wouldn’t have PTSD and other mental health issues after that?

As a Medicare recipient, I’m no longer so keen on Medicare for all. We need something better: a true National Health Service that covers 100% of hospital and medical care.

Love it! Can’t the DC City Council rename Pennsylvania Avenue “Obama Avenue”? I’d love to see Trump have to print new White House stationery with the address “1600 Obama Avenue”. (Nothing against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, mind you, but they’ve had their moment in the sun).

It will never actually happen and Trump knows it This is purely performative politics, another stunt for the TV cameras. But there’s a real danger that Trump’s vicious, reckless words will incite some of his unhinged supporters to take matters into their own hands. He’s playing with fire.

Trump’s name will forever be associated with graft and corruption in the nation’s highest office, at one of the lowest points in U.S. history. “Unbelievable graft, like you’ve never seen before! Some say more graft than any President in history. Maybe more than all the Presidents put together!”

This makes all photographic, video, and voice recordings suspect as evidence. How would you prove it’s not an AI-generated fake?

Time for us to step up to the plate and be the Next Greatest Generation, defeating Fascism on the home front.

Sen. Slotkin is 100% correct. “Just following orders” is NEVER a legitimate defense to a crime, whether in uniform or out of it. Surely the Nuremberg trials established that principle as applied to war crimes, but under U.S. law it applies to lesser crimes as well.

He’s always bern a creep and a sexual predator. He actually boasted about it. That much is obvious. I guess the MAGA crowd just didn’t care.

Double entendre?

I wonder if China is manipulating the soybean market with its on-again, off-again import bans. Futures are up 10% in the last month on news China will resume buying U.S. soy—a purely discretionary matter. They could have bought low & now either take delivery on the cheap or sell high at a profit.

Modern technology could allow creation of “ICE Alert” networks in cities targeted for immigration crackdowns. People would phone in ICE sightings, location data then automatically transferred to real-time online maps, thus alerting potential targets to ICE presence in their communities. Yes or no?

Trump seeks to force universities to bend the knee and pledge ideological fealty in exchange for priority treatment in federal funding. This is extortion. It’s also a violation of Constitutionally protected freedom of speech and bedrock principles of academic freedom. This hill is worth dying on.

GOP: You broke it. You own it.

I certainly agree that some people are just jerks. But sometimes it’s hard to tell.

The prospect of JD Vance becoming president is almost ad terrifying as 3 1/2 more years of Trump.

Specifically young white straight men, often socially isolated.

Don’t be too judgmental. Sometimes all the handicapped spaces are taken and people using mobility-assistive devices need extra room to get out of and into their car.

If Jan. 6th happens again, who will be left to stop it? Trump has federalized the DC National Guard and claims to be running the DC Police. His minions are in charge of the Pentagon and both houses of Congress. His current VP is a spineless lackey. What’s to prevent a complete coup d’etat?

It’s terrifying that the fate of the nation and 30% of the world’s economy is in the hands of an innumerate and economically illiterate delusional narcissist, operating on impulse and grievance with no institutional guardrails.

Trump’s entire life and career are built on an endless stream of lies. I’d like to believe the house of cards is about to collapse, but there’s no logical reason he should have gotten this far. I’ll believe in the collapse when I see it. Until then, it’s wishful thinking.

Murkowski should have thought about the consequences BEFORE she voted for the bill. This sounds totally insincere, a career politician’s CYA move: when you’re getting pressure from both sides, vote for it, then speak against it.

This business of using polygraph tests to root out sources of information that put the SecDef in a bad light is scary. It smacks of Gestapo/KGB tactics to enforce party line propaganda, shut down the free flow of information, and intimidate dissent.

Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the cut of Jeff Bezos’ suit. It’s the obscene levels of conspicuous consumption that I find absolutely revolting.

Jeff Bezos’ lavish Venice wedding is a vulgar display of what Thorstein Veblen dubbed “conspicuous consumption” in the original Gilded Age. Its indulgent excesses are a rude slap in the face to the working people of that historic city, and to working people everywhere struggling to make ends meet.

Now that Netanyahu’s self-destructive and utterly counterproductive war with Iran has paused, he can get back to the main object on his agenda: slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza.

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Proudly and Defiantly King-Free Since 1776.

And determined to keep it that way!

Notice to all military and National Guard personnel: “Just following orders” is not a legally valid defense if the order was unlawful. Nuremberg taught us that.