WatDabney

I have zero doubt that if you could somehow wave a magic wand and make it so that men who are driven primarily by boner shame were unable to even comment, the whole anti-woke movement would instantly vanish.

Is that cynical supposition or an actual event?

At this point in our history, the two are pretty much indistinguishable.

Oh look - a blatant quid pro quo.

Supreme Court apologists have weakly been trying to excuse the Court's "gifts aren't bribes" ruling by pointing out that it still counts as corruption if the thing of value is given in advance and if there's an overt quid pro quo involved.

Both of those are the case here, so even by the Court's new abysmally weak standards, this counts as official corruption.

So who thinks anything will come of it?

Yeah - me neither.

I'd love to play poker against him.

And good fucking riddance.

I don't think they have any choice.

I have zero doubt that any visionaries or innovators who might've made it to the executive ranks have been long since weeded out so that they wouldn't make the poseurs and weasels and manipulators look bad. So the poseurs and weasels and manipulators are all that's left. And their skill set is entirely built around taking advantage of systems other people built - they couldn't build one themselves if their lives depended on it.

He doesn't want anything to stand in the way of his goal of remolding America in his own image - dishonest, spiteful, childish and stupid.

Of course it is.

Hamas isn't a cause - it's an excuse.

Israel is and long has been determined to conquer everything from the river to the sea, and to kill however many Palestinians it takes to do it. And if they didn't have Hamas as an excuse, they'd just find (or manufacture) another.

So?

Unless you want to argue that their likely refusal to carry out their sworn duties somehow frees them from any obligation to do so, that's entirely irrelevant.

Since they do in fact continue to have that obligation in spite of their likely refusal, it's just that much more important that we point that out as often and as loudly as possible.

It doesn't matter how edgy and cynical you are while you bend over to let them fuck you - you're still letting them.

I think that's actually the foundation for his mental illness. He really is, emotionally, a child, and fitting his childish emotional development to the realities of an adult world has so warped his perception of reality that he really is, by any appropriate measure, delusional and deranged.

Which makes the fact that he's clearly deranged and thus self-evidently unfit for office that much more significant, and it's that much more important that it be reiterated atvevery opportunity.

It's long past time to start the process of declaring him unfit and removing him from office. He's not just corrupt and power-hungry and deceitful - he's dangerously unhinged.

The authority of the Presidency cannot be left in the hands of somebody who is, as he so plainly is, profoundly mentally ill.