Yeah… I read the article the day it was out.
It will be interesting just how many people think argue that this is fake news.
Most of us are sayin’ →
ETA: not calling it “thinking” at this point
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Yay for tacky reality tv stunts!
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“Sir, that is not the kind of injection we were promised as a condition of taking this case.”
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Dershowitz’ net worth is about to double.
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although that snl piece is modestly amusing, to me it is almost dangerous in the way it trivializes the phenomenon that is marjorie taylor greene. instead of providing a treatment of the remarkable popularity she had within her constituency it pretty much starts and stops at the eye-catching weirdness of some of the things she has liked and shared on social media. it also renders inert the dangerous intelligence behind her actions making her cartoonishly shallow and dimwitted. i wouldn’t be nearly so worried if that were a true depiction but i fear that her outlandish cognitive style is the result of deliberation and planning which has succeeded in her winning the republican primary over other, more establishment republicans; getting elected to congress; forcing the republican minority leader to eat his words and give her plum committee assignments; and finally, and most dangerously, gotten the blessing of the exiled president-for-life of the republican party donald trump.
huey long was considered by most outside of louisiana to be a buffoon until he became “the most dangerous man in america”. donald trump was a joke, a “reality tv star” until he became president of the united states and we saw what kind of mischief he was capable of. i can’t laugh her off until she is safely defeated in her next election and trounced in the republican presidential primaries in 2024. as things stand, i think we are at risk of laughing all the way until she becomes the 2024 republican nominee for president.
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I’m amazed that she can spout such total, and dangerous, nonsense and still stay in office. Her and oh, say, Ted Cruz. Where are the consequences? Are there really none at all, except being voted out when the next election season finally rolls around?? (Not questions for you, just what I’ve been wondering, not being a wonk about actual laws that apply to politicians.)
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here’s an opinion that hasn’t held up well–
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Thanks to the brilliance of our tripartite government, nobody gets to be dictator. And despite what nearly everyone seems to believe, our “broken government” works pretty well most of the time.
If Trump wins, he’ll be held more or less in check by the House and Senate because that’s the way our system of government is set up. Not even Republicans are eager to follow Trump’s lead.
There won’t be a wall. He won’t impose any religion-based immigration restrictions, because even Trump isn’t that lame-brained. He’ll dress up and behave at state dinners and be funny when called upon. He’ll even invite the media to the White House holiday party. He won’t nuke Iran for rude gestures. He won’t assault women. He and Vladimir Putin will hate each other, respectfully.
Oh boy.
That naivety about the robustness of the constitution is especially funny because those of us that didn’t grow up being indoctrinated into that particular jingoism didn’t have that faith in it even at the time.
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yep.
i read that when it was first published in november of 16. i thought that was foolishly optimistic then.
a bad take which will live in infamy for so long as the washington post keeps it archived.
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Bad news for anyone who was hoplng that the Lincoln Project guys would redeem the GOP. They’ve already disowned and condemned Weaver but given the extent of his alleged behavior it seems highly unlikely none of them had any clue about it before now.
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paywall. i do feel for the guy a bit. it’s hard when your relatives act as if they’re in a cult
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It’s the article you want to read.
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I don’t understand this. So in 2016, he didn’t vote for Trump? Then after 4 years of Trump in office, he decided that given the choice between Biden and Trump, he’d rather vote Trump because Biden’s vision for America is so terrible?
But now that Trump tried to have him killed, he would have preferred to write in a candidate instead?
Have I got that right?
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I found it telling during SNL’s Weekend Update segment that when consequences were brought up, the laughs stopped (around the 2:50 mark). They recovered for the ending, but wow:
It reminded me of the earlier sketch, about the neighbors who think they know each other…
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Sorry about that. Here’s a reprint on Yahoo
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Maybe down the road, these cousins will change their tune. I’d hang on to that petition as a reminder of which ones went that far, in case they try to sweep it under the rug in the future. Remember all those early members of 45’s administration who quit before turning around and saying they were trying to manage him and protect everyone else? Some did admit they were wrong.
Just like law enforcement before the Capitol was breached, most of his GOP colleagues in the Senate are signaling they don’t intend do what they should because of who committed the offense. I have to wonder if the reason for some is that 45 is too much like them, or if they want the ability to try the same thing at some point in the future. Letting them all off the hook doesn’t mean they’ll be loyal, because they take their cues from a very petty and vindictive leader.
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I love Cathy Anne…
But she’s right of course. The planned “protests” at state capitols fizzled when it became clear there were going to be consequences. They just need to arrest the ring leaders…
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