Why "Don't print lies in the newspaper" isn't Rule #1 for journalists, I'll never know.

Basically, everybody in power acting in bad faith have figured out they can hack the incredible natural and especially professional discomfort people have for calling somebody a liar into a license to just make up whatever they want at any time, knowing they will NEVER realistically be called on it.

At some point I hope we can someday live in a civic society where sources, agencies, officials, and cops might conceivably face some kind of consequences or at least embarrassment/derision from just straight up lying into our fucking faces when everybody knows they're lying.

Literally everything critics say about it is based on "theoretical" harms—stuff they imagine in their head to be happening or which they think could happen, because they don't care or refuse to learn how it actually works. Just a made-up problem. Like so much else.

Jesse Waters has two children from a previous marriage, previous because his wife divorced him because he was having an affair with one of his producers 15 years his junior.

I don't know why so many people are nervous-laughing it off. If I had to wager, I'd wager that Stephen Miller's line of thinking—nobody's going to go to war with America over Greenland—will carry the day. And he's probably right, even. But Lord, talk about a New World Order.

I mean, if you want to know how our democracy is, the way we responded to that darkest day is we did nothing, the guy became president again, and all involved were pardoned. So...