He is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His job is to determine if something is lawful or not, that’s the whole point of his job.

I know. The point is he should have said it is unlawful, not “likely unlawful”. Or if he’s so afraid of hurting their feelings, he could say “I find it to be unlawful”.

“Likely unlawful?” Isn’t it literally your job to have the final say on whether it’s unlawful? If you found it unlawful, then say so!

They certainly have a lot of lawyers.

Each day when it (infortunately once again) opens its pig-like eyes, its first thought is, “what is the most filthy, disgusting thing I can do today?”

I can see how Alaskans keep voting for Murkowski because she always manages to get special dispensations for Alaska in return for her vote. That’s why she always acts like she “might just” vote differently than the rest of the party on bills that are important to them. Alaskans are OK with her voting with Repubs because it’s a red state, and they like the special carve-outs or extra funding they get from her efforts.

Collins just plays the “might just not” game because she’s in a Blue state so she has to appear more moderate and “reasonable”. I don’t know why Maine has put up with it for so long.

Rat in a dollhouse always cheers me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYbLv20Q0I

For at least the last 45 years, Republicans have cast every Democrat politician as a Socialist or extreme leftist. No matter how left, center, or middle they are, Republicans always say they’re far left. So why the hell would you move to the right just because you’re afraid they’re going to call you names? Everyone knows that no matter how far to the right you move, they’re still going to scream that you’re the most extreme liberal who has ever run for office?

What I found irritating was that the interviewer started off by falsely claiming that Nixon had campaigned with Piker, and Nixon had to point out that she hadn’t, before saying she’s heard of him but doesn’t know much about him personally.

So get ready folks. Piker is the new Pelosi–the poster child that the magats and magat-supported media will do everything they can to portray as a boogeyman villain, and tie all Democratic candidates to, regardless of where they are on the spectrum of Dem political views.

IMO this is where all the cries of “Socialist! communist! Left-wing extremist!” that repubs have hurled at Dems over so many years is backfiring on them. No one believes them any more. So now even actual socialists can run and repubs screaming that stuff doesn’t have much effect.

Wow, yeah it could depend on the area. I haven’t seen any in at least 10 years around here.

The only problem with that idea is that no one goes trick or treating any more.

edit: so are you all who get a lot of them in densely populated urban areas, or more suburban or rural? Just curious.

So many examples of getting away with crimes I can’t begin to keep track of it all. I hope someone is keeping track of all the crimes, and all and broken things that will need to be fixed. Just in case we ever get a chance to.

DJT: “I thought ‘the buck stops here’ means I get to keep all the money.”

We are so far past all the “but he can’t do that!”, “that would be illegal” bullshit now. This is a fascist regime. The rule of law no longer applies.

I hope we all realize by now that Dump doesn’t give a shit whether something is legal or whether he has the legal authority to do it. He just does it. He doesn’t care if one day in the future some court will say, “Oh you shouldn’t have done that.” By the time courts can do anything, it’s far too late–the damage was already done. He has the support of the Congress which is controlled by repubs. The courts either go along with his corruption or he just ignores them. I read yesterday that they’re going to carve his name directly into the marble facade of the Kennedy Center, ignoring the courts. ICE and his concentration camps violate all kinds of laws every day and nothing is done to stop it. He’s put billions of our taxpayer dollars into his own and his cronies personal pockets.

So can we please stop with the “don’t worry, he doesn’t have the authority to do that” stuff?

He’s been saying out loud that he’ll declare a state of emergency, which lets him do whatever the hell he wants. But people will still be surprised because most people just can’t conceive of it. I don’t expect armed guards while voting is going on (though wouldn’t be surprised) as much as I expect the state of emergency declaration, and armed teams of Fed agents will sweep into selected polling places (dem-heavy precincts) and confiscate the ballots and/or voting machines.

So unless states have taken measures to physically protect their ballots with force against Feds (exceedingly unlikely), this will be very easy for them to do. They’ll allow ballots in repub-heavy precincts to be counted and/or let the election be declared invalid or whatever, it won’t matter as long as they disrupted the ability to count all the votes.

And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes–i.e. the technically legal income.

I love that we’re finally getting good progressive candidates and I only hope we’re not one election cycle too late for a free and fair election.

If at all possible, everyone who can should vote early at the election center to make sure whatever fascist plans they have in store will not interfere with your vote, especially in swing states and Dem-leaning districts. Help others vote early by giving rides or otherwise helping them get there.

Don’t depend on mail-in ballots and be concerned about election-day voting at polling places. If you have to wait until the day, go as early as possible. They can’t be everywhere the whole time so their plans will be to pick the places their interference will have the most impact.

All candidates are not the same and candidate quality is very important, as much as policy positions. Some great DSA and DSA-aligned candidates have won their primaries, endorsed by Bernie and AOC. But in their judgement they both decided not to endorse Hong.

Yes, when the article was published in the newspaper of a city in that very US state of Georgia, there is no need to doubt, or to specify. Do you seriously expect a newspaper in Atlanta, GA writing about a local election should specify that it’s not talking about another country?

So that means they must have thought Iran would shoot his plane down. I guess they considered the poor suckers flying on the Air Force One expendable. I wonder if anyone told them about it.

edit: Oh, per the article the answer is No, of course they didn’t:

On this occasion, the journalists who thought they were traveling with Trump on the older Air Force One reported being advised to keep their window shades in the press cabin closed. The Post said aside from ‌reporters, some White House staff also believed the president was on board.

When asked later by reporters why they had to keep their shades shut during the flight, Trump said it was because they were “probably on ​a dangerous flight”. He went onto say: “But if I go, you go. Right?”