I’m from Texas, btw.
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If you look closely - they are books and magazines, featuring him as the subject or in articles. They aren’t “work papers” at all.
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I tell people here in New England when they complain about produce prices now: where do you think we have a local growing season, for anything fruit or vegetable wise, going on here in Connecticut, just now? Of course prices are higher. Otherwise you have no fresh produce anywhere in the State.
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One of the best tomatoes I’ve ever had was in NE CT. Unfortunately, this only lasts for about two weeks, or so it seemed.
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Wrong. It became criminal at 12:01 on January 20, 2021 when he became an ordinary citizen without the right to possess those documents. And no, what Biden and Pence did was not even close. They had handwritten working papers that got mixed into their other effects. They were not deliberately stealing to benefit themselves.
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I didn’t realize that what Biden and Pence had were handwritten working papers. Thanks for clearing that up. But can we agree that DonOLD is a hoarder?
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Love your pearls. You did say you were the one with the good hair.
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Exactly, and still that is over harsh. I don’t blame Dems or Dem voters or liberals generally. I don’t believe you do, either. But, this was the problem they faced and since they were the only people who were going to step up and try to put a stop to it…what measures they took were all important.
And they were basically half-measures that didn’t seem to recognize the extreme peril we were in. And always being too careful to commit a foot fault, looking so pure and proper, and above playing politics. This called for extreme measures. Still, it wasn’t the Dems fault that the judiciary was corrupted and every institution and safeguard failed.
Someone said upthread that it was unprecedented how 75 million people voted for a felon and traitor…but what was really unprecedented was that we had a prez (2016-2020) and prez candidate (2024) who was a felon and traitor and motivated to destroy us.
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What stuns me is how small and putrid Chump is. He looks like a world-beater if you don’t look too closely. But every time you zoomed in in the last 9 years - he was a total fuck-up. It was the cowardly R party bending over at the mere sound of his approach, and the deluded, maniacal, zealot R voters who continually propped him up that kept him on his feet. Even to the point, after the Harris debate, where he seemed to be totally unraveling and incapable of dressing himself or behaving rationally…he wins a decisive presidential election. He was worse every day, right up to election day…raving and ranting and delusional…and they put him in.
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Well said.
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Unlike Hegseth I believe in germs, which is why I don’t touch the sink in Tractor Supply.
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I will never come to terms with or make sense of it.
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We have attempted in many elections, in a row, to win with ‘everyone else’. If you just count actual eligible and conscientious voters, of both parties, we can almost pull that off. Esp. when Rs were not rabidly enthused. Chump does manage to energize them, and what is more, he is able to deal with how many people he turns off from the Rs by mining 10s of millions from the HUGE non-voting pool.
If, however, the vast bulk of the nation (which are not civic minded, not minorities, and don’t vote often or at all) get involved we can be swamped. We have wrung 80 million out of the population, we can squeeze and squeeze but we aren’t going to get more of ‘everyone else’. We already have all the decent, thoughtful, and civic minded people…and if we go trolling through the 100 million non-voters we come up empty.
Even with this existential election, we evidently could not juice up more than last election. So we have to change course and stop shunning the vast majority of people in the nation.
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I’m liking Bluesky a lot. The same people are not posting over and over again and saying nothing new. TPM’s comments section is, sadly, turning into the domain of old whiners
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“Judicial activism” just means anything they DON’T like. Just like “freedom of speech” is your freedom to agree w/ them. 
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Right.
Which you have to do, or they’ll put a lawyer on salary with the sole job of draining all your money for no purpose.
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I’d take that bet. The SCOTUS made the POTUS’s Official Acts off-limits for prosecution, and Impeachment is a fucking joke - no POTUS will ever be convicted by any conceivable Senate for anything, including homicide.
This Senate would never convict Biden for anything to do with Trump - even if he shot him dead in cold blood on the White House steps. Same likely goes for Trump.
The difference is that Trump is a uniquely evil actor and the fact that he won the Presidency for the SECOND time tells how truly pathetic this whole “divine” notion of a “United States” really is.
The Constitution is not useful for protecting the rights of anyone, EXCEPT the rich and corrupt. It may have outlasted it usefulness.
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I used to argue regularly w/ “small gummint” types in western OK that, fine, let’s close the local public school and post office. They’d start crawfishing immediately! 
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Thanks for quoting it so I didn’t have to, @brian512! 
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Well, I’m not going to tolerate and create dialogue with the intolerant. Maybe this awful period just has to run its course like Franco in Spain.
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