A senator, and minority leader, is more than a dude who complains and votes whenever they can, and occasionally calls the president an unhinged asshole on social media.

Homie could walk from skyscraper to skyscraper in NYC calling out CEOs individually and gather an insane crowd behind him doing so.

Make a spectacle, get attention, start trouble. There is a genocide and a war on. Paint “impeach” on your chest and start running around the Lincoln memorial, lol. He can do shit, obviously, because he has a huge pulpit.

But he won’t. And he doesn’t deserve this defence simply because he doesn’t have the votes.

Bro ushered in the primary defeat of Bernie sanders by Joe Biden

This is key to why dictatorships decline and fall. Dictators cast out naysayers and refuse to listen to evidence that contradicts them. So they are eventually surrounded by incompetents or manipulators.

But being surprised at increased oil prices after bombing Iran like a week ago?

Are his advisors that deep in their media and social echo chambers? Is this just a line fed to the press?

News: shitty ass decision gets made by a federal court

Me: 5th circuit?

Govt: yup

Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

They already had the previous example of the sale of indulgences within the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even American colonial revolutionaries were offered pardons by King George III to stop fighting.

Commenter below cites the fact that the expectation was that the congress would step in if popular sentiment was outraged by this sort of thing, but this state of affairs was foreseeable.

They ended up with a powerful executive even though they believed previous kings had too much power. e.g. “His Excellency” George Washington refused the title of King.

Also of note is that there were relatively few voters and they were privileged and generally well educated and informed members of the public. White men with land.

Deep in the outback, there are more stars than you can imagine. The soil is so red.

Driving along the highway, seeing a single pair of headlights on the horizon for twenty minutes, combined with the dust and bug reflections in your headlights, and the sheer remoteness of it all, does things with your mind.

Why? Because she can count? Because she can be stern to her caucus and get them to STFU?

She took impeachment off the table for Bush.

Hey, I spent some of 2009 and also 2013-2014 in Kenya working alongside USAID folks

Not calling you a liar but could you please educate me? My experience was that the goal was the opposite.

Now, wading through shitty opportunistic local capitalistic scumbags was an issue, but a separate one.

*Trump’s former National Security Advisor

He should be in jail but prob not for whatever they’re charging him with

Edit: just read the charges. If they have evidence he should be in jail for this stupid shit too. Also Trump and Hillary Clinton and maybe Joe Biden

He is a fucking fascist that tried to overthrow the government. Why are we concerned with whether he declined from bad to worse?

Exactly. Americans are insanely cowardly nowadays.

Is this debate fundamentally about stare decisis regarding that 5-4 Citizens United decision which specified that the first amendment rights of collectives should be upheld…. versus… the first amendment rights of the electorate as a group in deciding, by 75% majority, to remove such protection?

It’s so American to put a price in this headline

It’s not inconceivable that foreign nations will use the USA as a sort of dumping ground for undesirables - if they can be reliably pipelined to CECOT in El Salvador, it is a way of laundering humans. Of trafficking to the point of disappearance.

Fuck Schumer.

Putting aside the fact that he is also literally doing that and has also hurt his poor wife

https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1888062229540487332?mx=2

Alright buddy.

Actually this might be true. There are many ultra conservative Indians