The law which, as we know, is incorruptible above all.

Apparently, technically, legal under the terms of...the last budget deal Congress folded on.

Please convey my gratitude to Wolfington Hall.

I absolutely agree those protests are great, but I think they work not just because of absurdism (though that got attention), but because they pain the regime into an undeniable corner as The Bad Guys on camera

In point of fact, Matt is a man who has canonically made out with Satan in a bar.

Canonically, Hitler defeated the Judeo-Christian God during World War II because he possessed the Spear of Destiny that pierced Christ on the cross. Here is the power of Christ defeating the Flash.

Maybe he makes all the ousted dictators and mistresses eat in the same cafeteria

Like, not only does something like the Kristi Noem airport video scan immediately as "evil" to travelers, the White House *knows* it scans as evil, and being the evil guys on tv screens is the whole point

I had an epiphany last night that their theory of mind really is just cosplaying as the villains in a dystopian sci-fi movie

"Creators: Joe Sinnott"

Technically speaking, Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing story is a DC/Marvel crossover

On top of everything else (it's illegal, the media will fall for it, etc.) one thing about Trump tweeting out that the troops will be paid is that I strongly suspect that post was the first time anyone working for him heard about it

I think this actually will happen, because it's the one case of Trump breaking a promise that could actually have negative consequences for him

When I was in college, I took a course called "Improvisation for Social Change" in which we learned how to stage obnoxious guerrilla theater outside the campus dining hall to achieve praxis. I am excited to see that my moment has finally come.

It's interesting to follow the logic, because it leads to the conclusion that the only remaining power of Congress is investigative (even if Trump's people refuse to testify, it still gets attention and has theoretical force). Which is why Trump is dead-set on stopping Dems from taking the House.

In a general sense, yeah, but I think there's also a larger extent to which mainstream liberalism became a purely defensive ideology during the current millennium

But what Trump is actually proving (and the Wall Street Journal just ran a big feature on it this morning) is that Thune, Johnson, and Congress are just totally irrelevant to Trump either way. He'll just spend the money without them. The shutdown is kids playing with monopoly money.

I may have lobbed a few of them, even.

Someone showed Trump episode 9 of "I, CLAUDIUS" just in the nick of time.

I sure hope banks don't make investments in tech companies, because that could be a problem down the road.

I said that's my read on what happened here -- which it is. I didn't say it's a universal constant, which it's not.

That's not what I was saying at all, and I'm not sure why you'd assume that's my position. I don't think the Democrats are huge pussies? I am in fact registered in that party?

Yeah, my take on this situation is that Democrats had a bad plan for a weenie fight, but Republicans (and Trump especially) handled it so badly that it's become a substantial win for them anyway

The good news for me is that I know perfectly well I’m an absolute fucking nincompoop