politics

I wonder how the QAnon idiots are justifying what’s happened. After all: Isn’t Trump supposed to be the “real” President? If he was really in charge…why would the FBI raid his “inner sanctum”? Why would he have a warrant for a search? What I’m really wondering is: How much information that counters their stupid, cretinous, “world view” does it take to snap them out of it? Will they ever actually snap out of it or will it just be a gradual process of moving on to the “next thing”?...

The Republicans are a terrorist party. I want to be absolutely clear: I mean that the Republicans are a terrorist party in the exact same way as Hamas is a terrorist party in most democracies (including the United States). This is a political party which supported, and still supports, political violence to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States - and a good chunk of which wants to install a theocratic government in its stead....

Don’t celebrate yet. With the recent FBI raid on Trump’s home, I’ve seen some people celebrating as if it’s all coming to a head. I think it’s worth stepping back for a moment to realize that we should be unconvinced of any progress to put Trump in jail until such time as he’s actually in jail. The fact is that I cannot, for the life of me, see Trump ever going to jail....