These charges will go nowhere. This is just so Trump can characterize his enemies as criminals.

Trump does love stiffing people who work for him.

I think the cult just likes that he allows them to be their worst selves. After being told for years that they are bad for being racist, sexist bigots finally some powerful person who is all those things becomes president and so they feel justified in being the awful humans they are.

Strong talk from someone who fits all the criteria for an antichrist. Dear Mr. President, how’s your pedo spiritual advisor doing? Called him yet? Drafting a pardon for your fellow child molester?

He is both. His rise and subsequent tyranny are the result of a decades-long plan by autocratic moneyed interests, but the rapid dissolution of political norms was very much his doing.

He also announced a purge of military leadership.

Our courts don’t work that quickly, but probably the initial hearings will be the defense asking for dismissal with prejudice and the prosecutor having to explain why this isn’t actually exactly what everyone knows it is.

Unless it goes to Cannon’s court, in which case Comey will get the death penalty.

This is practically textbook malicious prosecution. The social media post by Trump and the statute of limitations being only days away at the time of indictment make me expect any non-MAGA federal judge to toss this case immediately. The defendant has such a good affirmative defense that this going to trial would be an embarrassment to the court.

My grandfather was an antifa. Sadly, he isn’t around to show this administration how they did it last time.

The US is increasingly resembling the 1986 comedy The Money Pit starring Tom Hanks and Shelly Long.

Fully Agree that Sinclair is a problem, but you can’t really boycott them aside from just not watching their channels.

Also, I kind of disagree about them being the real puppet masters. I’ve worked for an affiliate before. The network holds all the cards in that relationship. Sinclair saying they won’t run network content will just cause them to lose their affiliate status, ABC can just not provide them any content at all, then what will they put on the air? Especially since Disney owns a great deal of syndicated content as well. It’s a pointless bluff statement and ABC/Disney know it, they are just choosing to go along with the fascism.

I’d boycott Disney, except I haven’t given them any money for years now. They are an awful company and stifling political speech is perfectly in line with their prior actions.

Humans are complicated and often defy attempts at easy categorization, the only person who can tell us the actual motive has lawyered up.

Weird, I see the byline as David Corn, their Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief.

Look, your heart is in the right place, but your entire premise is built on a single word choice in my post about a man worthy of every ounce of scorn I can muster. Take a step back and realze that me being angry about mainstream media outlets like NYT and MSNBC falling over themselves to honor this vile man isn’t evidence of anything more than that. You have misread this situation.

You should gander through my post history before levying accusations.

That is perfectly the point. I am against violence and Kirk was a piece of shit who we should feel free to condemn for the harm he was causing right up to his last moments.

Klein’s fawning whitewashing of Kirk’s dishonest tactics is, if we are being exceptionally charitable, naïve.

Ezra Klein continuing to have the worst takes imaginable.

This fucker was lying about trans people, saying they are more likely than white men to commit mass shootings, right before he was shot.

He was perpetrating politcal violence against a marginalized minority when political violence silenced him. I don’t think this is a good situation (overall as a nation and a society) but this is very much a live by the sword die by the sword moment.

Because wealth over that value does little to improve your quality of life (actually far less than that, but this is a generous cap).