The 2nd amendment is not - and has never been - about an armed citizenry being able to resist its own tyrannical government.
Non-cooperation:
They can have my dead broken body, but not my obedience.
Sep 1, 2019
3.5%
Don't let the gun nuts fool ya.
The 2nd amendment is not - and has never been - about an armed citizenry being able to resist its own tyrannical government.
Non-cooperation:
They can have my dead broken body, but not my obedience.
The 2nd amendment is not - and has never been - about an armed citizenry being able to resist its own tyrannical government.
Non-cooperation:
They can have my dead broken body, but not my obedience.
Whoa
Yeah, it'd be nice, but nobody's coming to rescue us. We have to do the heavy lifting for ourselves.
According to my doorbell, the last son of Krypton just crashed south of #StAlbert. #yeg #fireball #meteor @CBCEdmonton @ctvedmonton pic.twitter.com/ZgJJuOXXhu— Dan Grassick 🏳️🌈☕️☕️☕️ (@Ninjarale) September 1, 2019
Color Me Unsurprised
ABC News:
The lawyers who wrote a letter saying President Trump had no significant business ties to Russia work for a law firm that has extensive ties to Russia and received a “Russia Law Firm of the Year” award in 2016.
Sheri Dillon and William Nelson, tax partners at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which has served as tax counsel to Trump and the Trump Organization since 2005, wrote a letter in March released by the White House on Friday stating that a review of the last 10 years of Trump’s tax returns “do not reflect” ties to Russia “with a few exceptions.”
In 2016, however, Chambers & Partners, a London-based legal research publication, named the firm “Russia Law Firm of the Year” at its annual awards dinner. The firm celebrated the “prestigious honor” in a press release on its website, noting that the award is “the latest honor for the high-profile work performed by the lawyers in Morgan Lewis’ Moscow office.”
According to the firm’s website, its Moscow office includes more than 40 lawyers and staff who are “well known in the Russian market, and have a deep familiarity with the local legislation, practices, and key players.” The firm boasts of being “particularly adept” at advising clients on “sanction matters."
Following the release of the letter, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) noted the firm’s connection to Russia, calling it “unreal."
The deafening silence coming from Republicans in Congress reinforces my conviction that it's not a matter of them not seeing the problem with this accelerating slide into the Daddy State, but that they're denying it because that's how they want it.
I could be indulging myself in Argument From Ignorance, but I'll need some pretty heavy convincing to get me off of this point. Every time we get another bit of confirmation about 45*'s corruption - followed closely by GOP denial &/or deflection &/or rationalization - it gets clearer: If Cult45 isn't really doing the shitty things they appear to be doing, then we should all apologize to OJ and help him find the real killer.
This is all kinds of fucked up.
Aug 30, 2019
Today's Tweet
This bit of distancing didn't totally come outa the blue. We've been hearing about some disgruntlement for a while, but I haven't seen anything quite so pointed.
Maybe DumFux News is acknowledging the writing on the wall. At this point, no one can be unaware that eventually, everybody hitched up with Trump is going to burn.
Has Trump finally compelled Rupert Murdock to give his hosts the green light to tell the truth.— Bill Maxwell 🌊 #CountryOverParty (@Bill_Maxwell_) August 30, 2019
If The executives were still protecting him the hosts would not be doing this and there are five or six of them over at Fox News who have turned now.pic.twitter.com/Mk6qhFYuJe
So we're left to wonder if this is a signal event. ie: Has Trump become toxic enough to the GOP that they're starting to recognize him as a threat to the Plutocracy Project? And are they just hedging their bets, thinking they can get Trump back into line by firing a shot across his bow, or are they telling him it's over?
Or maybe they're playing 45*'s Reality TV Flip-Flop-Flip Game where they throw something out there, making it look like there's a spat, when they're really just trying to get people to stop thinking they're always and only in bed with Trump?
But then again maybe not cuz it could be a real thing and then what if they're really mad at him and he's just being a dick to make us think the opposite, cuz if you're not a dick then people take unfair advantage of you and so you have to pretend you're a dick so you keep your fan base and holy fuck how do we get off this stoopid fucking ride!?!
But then again maybe not cuz it could be a real thing and then what if they're really mad at him and he's just being a dick to make us think the opposite, cuz if you're not a dick then people take unfair advantage of you and so you have to pretend you're a dick so you keep your fan base and holy fuck how do we get off this stoopid fucking ride!?!
The Joint's On Fire
...and the DOJ Inspector General is bitchin' about Jim Comey trying to put it out with a non-compliant fire extinguisher.
Harry Litman, WaPo:
Okay, so former FBI director James B. Comey failed to dot his i’s and cross his t’s in creating and retaining memos detailing his private conversations with President Trump during the months between Trump’s inauguration and his sacking of Comey on May 9, 2017.
The report issued on Thursday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that Comey broke no laws and did not release any classified information.
But Horowitz took Comey to task for retaining the memos rather than leaving them with the FBI when he departed. The inspector general concluded that the memos were “public records,” not personal documents, as Comey had argued.
Horowitz also larded his report with civics lessons on the rule of law and the “dangerous example” in Comey’s failure to strictly follow FBI guidelines concerning the handling of government records. There is a strong sensation of outrage in the Horowitz report, which the New York Times characterized as “blistering.”
The problem with the report is that it gives almost no weight to the context in which Comey acted, a failing Horowitz aggravates with his hall-monitor rectitude.
Because the context was extraordinary. When a president summons the FBI director to demand loyalty, and then urges the director during a second conversation to drop a criminal investigation against an ally, we are not in the normal territory of FBI rules and procedures
Jim Comey's legacy is a mixed bag. He's considered something of a Boy Scout, which isn't all bad, until it slops over into the kind of priggishness that the guy carries around with him like some Calvinist circuit preacher.
I think it comes down to the problem of trying to be impartial at the expense of factual reality.
He shits the bed with that round of ridiculous "disclosures" about how Hillary was a dishonest fuckup, and that more emails had been discovered on Anthony Wiener's laptop, and that meant the investigation had to be reopened, which turned out not to be relevant at all, but reinforced the bullshit narrative 45* and House Repubs were peddling - and for what? To make sure Hillary didn't win by the landslide everybody was expecting? To salvage something for the GOP?
But then it seems like he went into the new administration intent on "balancing things out" - or something. Fuck, I don't know.
And I think that little guessing game is the key to the problem. Everybody is so enamored with carving out their own little fiefdom, they don't have enough time or energy to do the job they were hired to do, and we're left to spend our time and energy wondering what the fuck they're really up to.
This kinda shit has to stop.
Harry Litman, WaPo:
Okay, so former FBI director James B. Comey failed to dot his i’s and cross his t’s in creating and retaining memos detailing his private conversations with President Trump during the months between Trump’s inauguration and his sacking of Comey on May 9, 2017.
The report issued on Thursday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that Comey broke no laws and did not release any classified information.
But Horowitz took Comey to task for retaining the memos rather than leaving them with the FBI when he departed. The inspector general concluded that the memos were “public records,” not personal documents, as Comey had argued.
Horowitz also larded his report with civics lessons on the rule of law and the “dangerous example” in Comey’s failure to strictly follow FBI guidelines concerning the handling of government records. There is a strong sensation of outrage in the Horowitz report, which the New York Times characterized as “blistering.”
The problem with the report is that it gives almost no weight to the context in which Comey acted, a failing Horowitz aggravates with his hall-monitor rectitude.
Because the context was extraordinary. When a president summons the FBI director to demand loyalty, and then urges the director during a second conversation to drop a criminal investigation against an ally, we are not in the normal territory of FBI rules and procedures
Jim Comey's legacy is a mixed bag. He's considered something of a Boy Scout, which isn't all bad, until it slops over into the kind of priggishness that the guy carries around with him like some Calvinist circuit preacher.
I think it comes down to the problem of trying to be impartial at the expense of factual reality.
He shits the bed with that round of ridiculous "disclosures" about how Hillary was a dishonest fuckup, and that more emails had been discovered on Anthony Wiener's laptop, and that meant the investigation had to be reopened, which turned out not to be relevant at all, but reinforced the bullshit narrative 45* and House Repubs were peddling - and for what? To make sure Hillary didn't win by the landslide everybody was expecting? To salvage something for the GOP?
But then it seems like he went into the new administration intent on "balancing things out" - or something. Fuck, I don't know.
And I think that little guessing game is the key to the problem. Everybody is so enamored with carving out their own little fiefdom, they don't have enough time or energy to do the job they were hired to do, and we're left to spend our time and energy wondering what the fuck they're really up to.
This kinda shit has to stop.
Aug 29, 2019
Today's Tweet
And respect for the decisions other people make regarding who they are and what they need.
The cuteness notwithstanding, this teacher is brilliant— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) August 29, 2019
She’s simultaneously teaching her kids about bodily autonomy, consent, & love of each other
Also that last kid’s pause😅
Love this ❤️
pic.twitter.com/l5KVg96uGH
And maybe we should be trying a little harder to make sure teachers get the support they should have - starting with the money they should be making.
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