This has been my experience as well. Sometimes it is just better to just cede a chair that has already been destroyed than to fight nature.

You’re a good cat parent.

To be fair, his vast experience as a Fox News host surely impacted his competence.

This is exactly it. It costs a lot of money to hire attorneys and time, effort, and aggravation to fight charges. As a consequence, this weaponization of the justice system serves to chill the exercise of constitutional rights.

Not a fan of Bolton, who was a major proponent of the Iraq war, and who also was Trump’s National Security Advisor during his first administration. While it’s not surprising to see the narcissist he helped enable turn on him, it is deeply disturbing to see the mechanisms of the state so clearly being used to exact revenge on enemies. Neither him nor Comey deserve their political prosecutions, but perhaps if they had directed their efforts to keeping Trump out of power in the first instance they may not be experiencing this now.

Apple and Google should just prevent their app stores from functioning in Texas.

Ha ha, that’s a good one! Fascism’s enablers standing up to fascism.

Perfect!

Narcissism gives a person an insatiable appetite for attention. Giuliani couldn’t gracefully fade into obscurity any more than he could sprout wings and fly away.

Have a foreign military on U.S. soil to do things to the U.S. population that the U.S. military might not.

It’s definitely a cycle, and unfortunately we’re getting really close to the end of one world order and the birth of a new one.

Shit Stain Lane.

It’s ridiculous. The fact that a significant part of the report was clearly fraudulent calls into question the merit of the entire report. How could anyone take it seriously after finding dozens of fraudulent sources? They should sue to recover 100% of what was paid.

I imagine using the TOR browser would work as well.

Every accusation is a confession.

I’d take it back further - Not wholesale hanging the leadership of the Confederacy and pursuing a tolerant reconciliation after the Civil War, which allowed the Jim Crow laws and the “Lost Cause” myth to flourish set the path for racism and division to flourish.

The Supreme Court as well. So much for checks and balances…

Yes, lets get rid of our most experienced, life-long soldiers. What could possibly go wrong?

He’s just looking to fight crime.

Sadly, I agree. This is a hard-stop moment. Birthright citizenship was added by the 14th amendment in 1868 to give citizenship rights to the newly freed slaves. The amendment overruled Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that black people could not be American citizens, either enslaved or free. The plain language of the amendment is clear and unambiguous, “All persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It has consistently been construed as applying the principle of jus soli—right of the soil, as opposed to jus sanguinis—right of blood, which looks to the nationality of the parents to determine citizenship. Simply put, if you were born on American soil, you are an American citizen. Anything less than a unanimous decision rejecting Trump’s efforts to destroy the Constitution would be deeply troubling. If birthright citizenship falls, there is no longer a binding Constitution.

There is a reason that gold is at an all-time high (~$3735). Even adjusting for inflation, it is higher than the 1980 peak following stagflation from the 1970s. Moreover, central bank purchases have been the backbone of the current gold market, with central banks now holding more gold than U.S. treasuries, something that hasn’t been the case since 1996. We’re witnessing the demise of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency in real time.