Does it contain specific descriptions of specific incidents that can be verified independently? Like would it corroborate the Autopen signing pardons he didn’t know about accusation?

Oh good God.

Sometimes I think you and Isaac and Koz and Jay all sit around in a group chat and try to find the most out in right field beyond the bleachers thing you can come up with to invalidate a president you don’t like. All because the current guy got investigated and indicted and tried by the state of New York (and then convicted) of actual crimes. So we must make the last guy as bad.

Look - Trump wants this all to be scripted reality TV where every day he’s vanquishing an enemy. He’s as much as said so. Why give these rambling gs any more credence the that, especially when no one can bother to out evidence in the table?

No I don’t t believe that would be legit. I also don’t believe it happened just because one guy said so.

Then those need to be adjudicated. They haven’t been. And aren’t likely to be apparently because we are no longer going to bother with the rule of law. Apparently.

And the what? He issued pardons. He made statements about them. He left. His successor wants to reign as a tyrant and you are in the weeds of whether he held the pen. Which gives creedance to the tyrant.

You arguing such bad faith sometimes.

You are uncritically assuming Trump is correct to say these pardons were done without Biden’s knowledge or consent - it’s the root of your “can Elon do this” digression.

So again - why are you assuming anything Trump says is true?

What the Israeli’s know or don’t know is irrelevant. He is a lawful permanent resident and this subject to US jurisdiction and given the protection of the US Constitution. If the political speech of neonaz.is is protected by that constitution (and they are direct enemies of the US and its citizens), then his speech is equally protected.

Sending someone picking for political speech you don’t agree with is a direct assault on the First Amendment.

So betraying one of our founding nations principles strengthens our foreign policy?

That’s … something.

So you don’t agree with the idea that publicly funded institutions have a societal obligation to correct past societal wrongs?

Good to know I guess.

Why are you taking his assertions at anything close to face value?

I guess we only need one anti-vaxxer running a government agency on health in this administration.

My understanding is the courts keep right on going since most of their staff are exempt to critical. DoJ attorneys will be on the job as well.

It appears that senate democrats have become as cowed and cowardly as republicans and will not filibuster the CR. They are now complicit in the end of democracy.

The politics of show not substance.

Democrats didn’t go far enough left this cycle. And institutionalists like Schumer are utterly failing us.

How far into your cheek was your tongue when you wrote that?

We made a decision during the Cold War that individual vehicles driven by one or a few people was a better way to move goods an population across our vast geography. Then we build a road systems with car dealers and mechanics and gas stations to accommodate that mode. Then when private railroads abandoned passenger service as less profitable we scooped or all up into a quasi-governmental organization that we mistakenly try to force to be profitable.

Meanwhile our European understudies rebuilt their destroyed continent to expand their rail network for both intercity travel and intra-city commuting. They iterated; they went fast. And they mostly do so in an environmental friendly way. Which is why their trains are mostly full. What they don’t do is demand profit margin to just keep it all running.

We could have been Europe. Now it would be a heavy lift which we seem to not want to do.

When an intelligence service five years ago assumed something which may or may not be backed by evidence I’d say perhaps we need to move away from that assessment.

Have you considered the probability that what we knew in 2020 - in the midst of the pandemic - may not have been informed by testable scientific fact so much as fear?

What do you think that switch buys us other then a history free naive response next time that skips over dozens of effective alternatives in search of something that “feels” good?

Please god no.

And it took them how long to arrive at that analysis? Which tells us we should do what differently next time? And gets China to tell us the truth how exactly.?

When you remember that businesses are dictatorships, the right’s affinity for authoritarian leaders makes a whole lot more sense:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/musk-trump-doge-bosses-democracy-dictatorship-capitalism/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3lV3t1CRycXR2zNhBGkWgbze48YG97DqkTzJrAxuPnI0dYfVoj1QS8_8A_aem_mnNjcK0egkZRF6WHbYp5YA

Israel already has announced what land it considers its own - and reinforces that announcement every time it permits a Jewish settlement on Palestinians lands.