Steve

I'm sorry to say it, but I find discussions of international law increasingly difficult to talk about in the current context.

I feel a bit like Gandhi, when asked about Western Civilization...

"I think it would be a good idea"

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

You see, the rules are: if you have information that would be damaging to a Democrat, release it immediately, don’t bother with things like, you know, verifying if it’s true. If it might be damaging to Trump, well, we have to review it until everyone forgets about it and moves on.

But Kat were they really mean?

Second, even if that were possible, I have zero, really, less than zero confidence in people like Trump and Lutnick to achieve it.

If the objective really is to use tariffs as a means to “rebalance” trade deficits with other countries, first of all, good luck with that. We’re a consumer economy. You think tariffs are going to change the fact that we buy more from China than we sell to them?

This is funny, because the Republican Party has been running up huge deficits while in power for as long as I have been alive and have no problem lying to voters that the Democrats did it.

I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.

What every head of state is saying around the world right now.

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Or as I like to call it, the “you’re making me vote for Trump” argument. They have no choice! If they see a gender neutral bathroom, they have to vote for a fascist dictator. They don’t want to do it, but they must.

“Then your client should not have campaigned on the promise to do things that are not within his power to do.” (Bangs gavel)

Second, that’s not how the Constitution works. It doesn’t say the president can do whatever he wants if he campaigns on a promise to do it. For my sanity, I need a judge to explain this to them.

They keep saying “but the President was elected on the promise to do these things, we can’t just let some judge stop him”! First of all, they have no problem running to the courts for an injunction any time a Democratic president or legislature does anything, so that doesn’t hold up.

You are describing some people that I know with a degree of accuracy that is uncanny.

She doesn’t even need to respond to Trump’s stupid rant, she’s already written this:

The appropriate answer to this is "Who gives a single fucking shit? He was better as a dead guy than the people installing the Plane Crashing Machines and disappearing people off the street so they can cash in on military contracts while firing veterans." It's possible to not take the bait, I swear!

The horrifying reality is that the fascist movement in this country has figured out how to work the political press like puppets on strings, but they don’t care, as long as it results in clicks and ratings.

The problem with building a massive natsec apparatus in the wake of Sep 11th was always going to be this: what happens when it falls into the hands of very bad people who use it to redefine a terrorist as “anyone we don’t like”?

Step one of everyone’s plan to make the Democratic Party win elections is always “First, my personal ideological faction will gain greater control of the Democratic Party,” which is the exact point I stop taking you seriously

Louder please for the people I meet on a daily basis.

Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.

I’ve been listening to Kai for a long time, and he doesn’t normally sound the alarm like this. It’s bad.

It’s really too bad that the rest of us have to live under fascism now because Stephen Miller didn’t like hearing Spanish spoken when he was growing up in Santa Monica, California.

Not only how unhinged they are, but how absolutely, hopelessly far they have strayed from the core beliefs of a religion they claim to make almost their entire identity.

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

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