Regina Santos-Aviles, 35, died on Sept. 14 after she doused herself with an accelerant and set herself ablaze at her home on Geraldine Avenue in Uvalde, Texas, Bexar County officials determined.

What a horrible way to go. Self-immolating isn’t really a typical suicide plan, is it? I’m sure the Uvalde PD did a thorough job investigating it, and are total professionals, and there’s no chance they are covering something up and it was really a murder.

… Wait, that town sounds familiar, where did I hear of that place before?

If I were writing the script, it would turn out that the aliens found us sometime in the late 60s, but they assessed that as long as we kept electing idiots we didn’t pose a threat.

“I’m not only the Child Rape Club for Men President, but I’m also a client!”

I bet he reinstitutes them under the BISSo doctrine (Because I Said So). Why not? He routinely ignores the courts

You joke, but I think he is about to try and tell us that Obama himself is an alien.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing

Didn’t they already do this?

There is a combination of factors that is turning America, a country founded on evicting a King from our government, into a country with a de-facto one.

First, one of the foundational principles of the country was the separation of powers. Specific powers were given to specific branches of government. The founders anticipated that ambitious people would fill those branches, and they would not give up that power so easily. They did not anticipate a Congress that would abdicate it’s power over directing the Executive branch when their guy is there. And a Supreme Court picked expressly to choose sides.

Second, the founders realized that there needed to be someone in charge of the Federal executive that had some real power. Recall that we had already formed one government , under the “Articles of Confederation”, with a weak central government that was not working. But, they did not trust the general electorate to pick it. That is the original purpose of the Electoral College: State Legislatures would name delegates, and those delegates would pick the President. We retain the Electoral College not because it still works in the modern era, but because it is too hard to change. (The fact that Congress hasn’t changed in size for 100 years also contributes to the inequity of the Electoral College, since each state’s votes are tied to their representation. In fact, I think the EC might still be workable if each district were smaller…).

Third, we had built up a strong tradition of non-partianship in the executive branch, with career civil servants doing their jobs across administrations, providing continuity. We even thought that protection was entrenched in law. But then this guy comes along, and decides that none of those laws matter. Once that merit-based expertise leaves, it is very hard to get back. And he can violate laws with impunity because of Point #1.

So, while we don’t call Trump a King officially, his office is being turned into a monarchy, where his opinion rules all and the rule of law is subject to it.

With a documented record of abuse like that, I’m surprised Trump didn’t ask him to run the department.

“Initially presented as a mechanism to oversee a Gaza-Israel peace process, it has been widely chided as just another unserious Trump vanity project,” Okail noted.

Oh, it’s definitely both. Trump’s ultimate Gaza “peace” plan has always been to raze it and build a golf resort there, with other people’s money. Golf Courses are very peaceful…

I have secret footage of the Democrats’ plan to recruit Progressives to vote for them:

Ah, yet another “Kavanaugh Stop” .

Kavanaugh assured us, though, that

“U.S. citizen[s] or otherwise lawfully in the United States” would be “free to go after the brief encounter”

There. Feel better now?

Something needs to me done while this headline is just a metaphor

In the course of Doing My Own Research, I uncovered classified footage of the party balloon, which proves Noem’s case that the balloon was dangerous and needed to be taken down…

This makes me wonder who owns Lindsey Graham

Speech jammer? Really?

Don’t underestimate how disasterous that last debate was for Biden. For many Americans, their last impression of him was a doddering fool who was up past his bedtime. I suspect that if he hadn’t run for a second term, but didn’t change anything else, he would be remembered better.

“There is so much crazy shit, outrageous corruption, and naked, ham-fisted ambition in this WSJ piece about Noem, Lewandowski, and DHS,” she wrote. “Read and take note of the of eye-popping number of sources who have knives out for Kristi and Corey.”

That’s why they are doing all this! They are taking Noem to the gravel pit, and once she is dispatched to that farm Upstate, the rest of MAGA will say “See! She was the problem all along. Let’s Deport some more brown folks!”

Why would the Administration be upset that she is planning a Presidential run?

Unless they already have plans either to steamroll a Trump 3rd term, or have something like Don Jr. run on a transparent platform of “Vote for me, get my dad too”.

Or, maybe it’s the fact that there’s only so far a woman can go in MAGA. So they’re really more upset that she might aspire to being more than a Secretary…

Maybe that’s the long-term plan, Democrats simply refuse to fund DHS at all. Take a page from the Republican playbook and drown it in the bathtub, or force Republicans to kill the filibuster ahead of an election which may put Democrats in the majority in the Senate.