If all of these Republicans, including members of congress like Rand Paul, are complaining, where are their actual teeth?
If they have even the tiniest bit of integrity left, they should be saying, “If he accepts this plane, which would be a huge crime, I will personally do everything in my power to ensure that he is impeached and removed from office.”
The problem is that he doesn’t have the authority to do this via executive order. So if he does create this illegal order, it will almost surely be struck down by the courts, just like the previous one was.
But in doing so, he can claim credit for trying, despite never doing anything.
It’s easy to assume that Witkoff is, to quote the article, “a bumbling fucking idiot,” but it’s not outside of the realms of possibility that this is a deliberate act of a Russian asset.
If you assume that Witkoff is a Russian asset, then he’d want fewer intelligent Americans in the room when he speaks with Russians. It would be silly to think that he’d be getting orders or giving a report in a meeting with Putin, as there would be other less high profile opportunities, but assuming he’s heavily compromised, there’s a good chance he’d give something away to his American team. Fewer people means a smaller chance of being exposed.
I’m not saying that it’s off the table that he’s “a bumbling fucking idiot.” Just pointing out that there are other possibilities. Witkoff is described as a real estate tycoon and a cryptocurrency trader, so there would have been plenty of chances for him to be targeted by Russia in the past, similar to how they targeted Trump long ago.
Bad headline, WaPo. “Judges say” is pointless. There’s simply no other explanation. Somebody is saying, “I know where you live.”
The library may need to review its policies if a person can borrow 100 books at once, though.
I agree 100% with everything you said. Just like you said, it was a good point and definitely worth a mention. My problem is that it was the main segment of his first show back. Just like I said, a waste of time when there were much more important things to talk about.
The comedian in question is Jon Stewart, though. Do you really think that Jon Stewart has to “both sides” everything so that he doesn’t alienate his conservative audience? I doubt that you’re saying that. I don’t think he has ever done that.
It doesn’t make sense to try to generalize how comedians act when we’re talking about how one specific comedian acts, and it’s already clear that he doesn’t act like the generalization presented.
I have no doubt that Jon Stewart simply did the segment because he thought it was funny, and he didn’t care about alienating people.
The reason I’m so sure is that he predictably alienated a lot of left leaning people with his “both sides are old” segment. I say “predictably” because there’s simply no way that somebody didn’t talk to him before air and say something like, “You know, this is going to irritate the people who like you the most.”
Even if they’re not a right-winger and don’t claim to be a centrist, "both-sides"ing things is a waste of time, at best.
Like, when Jon Stewart came back to the Daily Show. I think it was his first show back, but it might have been his second… And his main talking point was about how both Biden and Trump were old. I know he’s just a comedian on a comedy show, but it still felt like a betrayal. At the very best, it was a waste of a chance to say something that could have actually made a difference.
If you need more proof, they said Biden was most responsible, but he wasn’t. He didn’t propose the bill. He only tried to improve the bill, knowing that it would pass no matter what he did, and the things he changed did not do what they were talking about. That’s assuming they’re talking about the 2005 bill.
That would be relevant if Biden were currently president, and it would have been somewhat less relevant had Biden even been the Democratic nominee for president in 2024.
But Biden wasn’t even on the ballot. It’s almost completely irrelevant.
When people talk like this, it just reminds me of how they talked about Hillary for Trump’s entire first term.
It just gives off the air of bad faith. We’re talking about things that are happening right now and are relevant to millions of people. Former politicians can’t be anything except a diversion.
My favorite places that I’ve lived all had transit that was so convenient that I didn’t even own a car. Unfortunately, today I live in a place where there is zero mass transit near my house.
I don’t think I could ever go back to a gas-powered vehicle now, simply because it’s too convenient to just plug my car in at home. For trips, yes, it’s slightly less convenient to charge it than it is to fill up a gas vehicle, but it’s not like it can’t make the trips in a similar amount of time, regardless.
In the last election, the LDP lost 68 seats for a total of 191 seats where 233 seats are needed for a majority, meaning it at least needs to make a coalition.
The CDP, which is described as center-left gained 52 seats for a total of 148 seats, and is the second largest party.
This reminds me of the old “when you see it” meme.
It’s hard to imagine how he could have sycophants among those people in the first place. Those people, despite their low moral character, are among the highest echelon of politicians in this country. It’s weird that they’d just fall in line.
Well, we know that some of them are simply afraid of the money that he’s grifted for campaigns. And on top of that, my current guess is that Trump, a Russian agent, has been given access to all sorts of kompromat to blackmail them with.
The person being sworn in as President by the Chief Justice that day was ineligible for office according to the 14th Amendment section 3. And he could only do that because Congress neglected its Constitutional duty to enforce that provision.
That is all three branches of the government colluding to break the Constitution to put an ineligible man into the highest office.
I think the two things that negatively surprised me the most about Japan when I moved there and started talking to people:
First are that the press has less freedom than you’d expect for a democracy. I learned this after becoming friends with a local member of the Communist party.
Second, that although the police on the street are incredibly kind and helpful, often going out of their way for people, if you do get arrested, the treatment of prisoners is pretty bad. They are very good at getting confessions, even out of innocent people.
If he has the prince’s memories, then it’s pretty much the same thing, either way.
The cope is that the cross and skull are “cover up” tattoos to hide the fact that he was in the gang.
That brings up two things.
First, if you’re covering up gang tattoos, I’m pretty sure that means you’re not in the gang. The claim was that he was a gang member. If he’s not a current gang member, and has committed no gang crimes domestically, and has no extradition request to El Salvador, then all of their phoney baloney reasons don’t even hold up on their own.
But second, even if you don’t accept that he must not be in MS13, then like you said, it’s ridiculous to think that the skull is a cover up for a 3. Looking around the rest, we can see that there is no cover up for the “S”. It’s just a smile. The “M” doesn’t look like a cover up, either. So, what they’re asking us to believe is that he had a tattoo that said “marijuana”, “smile”, “1”, “3”, and despite still being in the gang, covered up the “1” and the “3”. As if the thing he supposedly covered up wasn’t cryptic enough. He must have suddenly just become paranoid.
So in the first case, it’s impossible to believe that they have a good reason to think he’s in MS13. And in the second case, it’s impossible to believe that they have a good reason to think that he’d cover up his tattoo.
I think any reasonable person would look at this picture and see it as evidence fabricated after the fact to hide that he was the victim of a crime by the federal government.
This is how you get past the problem of Senate confirmation hearings when the person you want to appoint is so horrible that the process could expose things like how they’re less of a Nazi sympathizer and more of an actual Nazi.
Similarly, Trump’s team has repeatedly denied that Elon Musk was the head of DOGE in order to reduce the amount of congressional oversight that he receives.