Trump Got Tired Of Waiting On GOP Lawmakers To Decide Whether To Relinquish Their Authority

[coimmigrant]

@steviedee111

I can see some Islamic sect or group issuing a fatwa against Trump if he pulled such a stunt.

The 1st Amendment protects the free practice of religious beliefs, a principle that is fiercely defended by the Sanctimonious Six.

[cvilledem]

@darrtown

I’d prefer to keel over in this house where we raised a family and lived for nearly 50 years.
Just sayin’

I feel the same, but the house is waaaay big (and expensive to heat), so I am looking to downsize. Hard to do on many levels.

[known_thespian]

what do I do to get rid of the “Create an account to redeem your FREE article” banner that apparently can’t be scrolled past?

[darrtown]

@ladyfair

The CF really does have a sore loser complex and holds a grudge forever.

There is no “wrong” too small for trump to not remember and hold a grudge that requires retaliation 10X at minimum.

[McSweet]

Its not offensive in the sacrilegious sense so much as a vulgar trolling of everything Francis stood for.

[cvilledem]

@garrybee

……and all that gold……

I think trXmp needs an intervention from Room Rater: @ratemyskyperoom/Twitter.

[darrtown]

@known_thespian

what do I do to get rid of the “Create an account to redeem your FREE article” banner that apparently can’t be scrolled past?

I consider page overlays demanding I subscribe to be rude. I used to have a sub at cnn but dumped them because when I’d be reading I’d suddenly get a full page overlay saying how great it would be if I’d read the very article I was reading. I felt the goons at cnn were slobbering on my shoulder and gazing at my phone screen…fuck them.

[jnbenson]

@ruprecht

I take no joy in his passing, noting only that the world is a better place without him. I’ll save my prayers for his victims.

Fair. You know the folks who pray at those alters will take it as rejoicing, but I accept what you’re saying. As for praying for his victims and praying for his soul, I tried to be ambiguous enough to make it probable that I felt his soul needed forgiveness.

_{I think I just tipped my hand.}

[osprey]

@ralph_vonholst

Don’t be like those weird neighbors down the street.

Nice to know something good is coming out of all of this.

[darrtown]

The carnage in Gaza continues…

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 people in Gaza, officials say

… … … … …
In addition to wide spread air strikes on civilians Israel has blockaded all aid. A campaign of starvation is underway.

[known_thespian]

I’m able to get a fair number of “free access” articles off my morning news feed home page (and since I pay occasional attention to what the right-wing media is saying, it collectively has a News of the Weird quality); otherwise I don’t mess with CNN, WaPo, et al.

[osprey]

@becca656

Congress has the power to stop all of this, but the majority is too cowardly and simpering and ‘concerned’ to do anything that would result in their being primaried and losing their cushy job. My guess is there will be turnover in midterms, but it will more likely be toward more radical, lawless Congresscritters because some districts will simply never vote for a Dem.

We need a functioning Congress. Until we get one, the damage will continue.

More likely, the Republicans in Congress are fine with what’s going on. TSF provides the chaos and outrage to cover for the true damage to our form of governance and the social supports that allow our economy and people to prosper.

[ralph_vonholst]

[eldonlazar]

Popes take a new name when elevated. I suggest he take the name Gosteveezel.

Pope Gosteveezel.

[marciaann]

@jnbenson

I just feel like we need a solid way to express relief at the passing of unpleasant people while not rejoicing in it. One benefit Christianity might give is an easy answer to that.

I’ll pray for his soul.

I interviewed DH at great length some years ago, back when those “Academic Bill of Rights” bills he promoted to increase the number of conservative academics were percolating in a bunch of state legislatures.

He expressed great optimism about how only a modest increase in right-wing voices on campuses would change the country because the left was a complete dud intellectually and only had any sway over people’s thinking because they outnumbered conservative professors and writers by such a huge amount.

He predicted that as soon as the ratio between left-leaning and right-leaning academic voices dropped down to 3 to 1, conservative views and ideologies and policies would win every debate, vote, or other competition in a walk. That’s how superior his clan, the conservatives, are to liberals and progressives when it comes to being right about things.

It struck me that he was always a person deeply motivated by his personal experiences and related emotions and not really a person who ever sought rational ideas or solutions. His level of certainty about the ease of conservative wins once their thoughts were heard seemed so emotionally driven to me.

Plus, of course there’s the story of his youth – when he was apparently a very active leftie voice, even declaring himself a Marxist in the 1970s! --but then seemed to switch on a dime to being an equally agitated right-wing voice after a personal tragedy occurred among his friends, one of whom was killed by a member of the Black Panthers… So, the violence of one member of a belief group touches a friend of yours and then you feel that that incident-- that you may not even have noticed had it touched someone who wasn’t your personal friend-- changes every aspect of your own political and ideological beliefs into their exact opposites.

This says to me that he was 100-percent motivated throughout his life by emotions related to protecting his tribe, and not at all by the reasoning that he attributed to himself and that he wanted others to attribute to him.

Tragically, I fear that most political and ideological beliefs are motivated in the same way – And that’s the situation that’s leaving us stumped about what to do with a country in which so many support the very least rationally defensible government on offer. The “choice” is powered by tribal emotions that make absolutely no sense but are likely the strongest force that exists inside most people most of the time.

[osprey]

So basically, they’re working on condemning people to death or life w/o parole for littering. How humane.

[mch]

@known_thespian

what do I do to get rid of the “Create an account to redeem your FREE article” banner that apparently can’t be scrolled past?

How weird. Maybe WaPo is using its “shared link” mechanism to try to recruit new subscribers? Or something’s awry with this article – on my laptop, part of the the headline is superimposed on the sub-headline. Btw, I just successfully opened the article via the link I provided here.

Try again?

[marciaann]

@fiftygigs

So, if I shit on the speaker’s desk in the Capitol, the government will give me money too?

Only if the speaker at the time is a Democrat.

[thunderclapnewman]

@ralph_vonholst

affront to due process.

Due process is the cornerstone of the rule of law—and the rule of law is the cornerstone of our democratic form of government.

No wonder Trump wants rid of both of them.

[eaharrison]

Where is all this “liberal indoctrination” going on in college? It’s been close to half a century for me, but politics was not being discussed in Art History or Calculus. The only class that I can recall where politics was discussed was the intro course in Political Science.