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kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC

His fear gives me life. That asshole deserves to be afraid for the rest of his life for what he’s done to this country.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC

Goddamn, this is thorough! It’s like I’m reading PoppinKREAM over on that other site… sees username …O hai!

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC

Oooooh, this one’s incredibly juicy.

kescusay , 11 months ago to world in Lukashenko taunts Poland again over Wagner troops near border

Ah, I see he’s considering doing the “fuck around” stage. He’ll discover that the “find out” stage is mandatory after that.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Even Trump's indictments haven't shattered the deadlock between the parties. Here's why

The problem here is that the Republican party is shrinking, and has been for years. So I’m skeptical that it’s really “deadlocked,” no matter how much the media wants a horse race. Trump’s support among Republicans is rock-solid, but his presence has caused a lot of people to leave the Republican party. The people left are the most extreme, the most hateful.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean they have equity in numbers with Democrats.

kescusay , 11 months ago to world in Zoo Denies Viral Claims Its Bears Are ‘Humans in Disguise’

!nottheonion

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Trump attorney calls him ‘the most ethical American I know’ in wake of superseding indictment

So, odds on when she leaves the team and starts telling people what a shit-show he really is?

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Trump Attorney Won't Deny Client Tried To Delete Tapes

Translation: Trump attorney doesn’t want to lose job or go to prison for shitstain client

kescusay , 11 months ago to softwaregore in Sorry, you won't get the

Yeah, it definitely cut off at

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in This Is Your Brain on Lies and Conspiracy Theories

Maybe, but I don’t think that’s the underlying motivator. I think down at the bottom, conservatives are driven by fear.

• Fear of the other.
• Fear of progress.
• Fear of being left behind by that progress.
• Fear of new ideas.
• Fear of looking weak.

It’s all fear. Right now, I’m leaning towards fear of looking weak as the biggest one. It motivates all the virtue signaling on the right, and causes them to treat safety precautions in multiple situations as signs of weakness, from refusing to wear helmets on bikes to refusing to vaccinate against deadly diseases. They have to prove they’re “stronger” than anything that could hurt them.

It also explains why they’re resistant to accepting expert advice, but easily fall for “strongmen.” If some effete scientist manages to get them to do what he asks, why, that’s just showing that they’re weak. But if a strongman does it, then falling in line isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of how gloriously strong the strongman is.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in DeSantis aide fired after sharing video featuring symbol used by Nazis

It’s a good thing. Makes identifying the actual fucking Nazis like DeSantis easier.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Most of Trump’s personal donations come from retirees

Could you kind of just… remind the rest of the Boomers that the planet will continue existing after they’re gone? And people younger than 60 would really like it to be liveable? That’d be great.

kescusay , 11 months ago to news in Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court

No, he’s not right.

Although the Constitution establishes the Supreme Court, it permits Congress to decide how to organize it. Congress first exercised this power in the Judiciary Act of 1789. This Act created a Supreme Court with six justices. It also established the lower federal court system.

Source: www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/…/about

Congress gets to set the rules of how the Supreme Court is organized. They are a built-in constitutional check on SCOTUS.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Sen Dianne Feinstein appears confused at meeting

It’s true, but in Mitch’s case it might be that staying literally kills him. He’s the minority leader in the Senate, which has got to be stressful, and if the fugue state he entered was caused by a mini-stroke, he needs to be resting and avoiding stress like a literal plague.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Trump faces further charges in documents inquiry - BBC News

Well. I guess now we know why he didn’t get charged in the other investigation this week.

No, the other other investigation. (It’s getting hard to keep track.)