The mental gymnastics and moral justifications someone will go through just to convince themselves that their people aren’t slaughtering and starving children.
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
I agree asking for Trump’s help is not the best idea but she clearly did that. Also, stop calling him Hitler, there so many better nicknames for him, like Agolf Shitler, Epstien’s BFF, Cheeto Benito, etc.
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
Walt, what are you doing wasting time commenting on this story?? Don’t you know democracy is under attack?? Why aren’t you at the WH right now with a shotgun?? In fact, I’m not even sure you should be on BlueSky with this rise of fascism. March to Washington and don’t reply until we defeated them.
Some journalists get purged from MSM and start up a substack or independent platform and I’m grateful to still have their voice amplified in some form.
The Israel-Hamas peace agreement “grew directly out of Trump’s desperate thirst for the Nobel,” Jonathan Chait argues. “If dangling the award in front of Trump encourages him to work hard to end conflicts,” we must wonder what will happen if he gets it:
I wonder if they were persecuting all Dans instead of trans, would ole Danny Boy here still be ready to throw an entire group of people to the wolves to win an election?