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[TomF]

I'm not feeling so much like eating brains, but it occurs to me how much Dad used to like steak and kidney pie.

[TomF]

Was supposed to set off the zombie apocalypse, activating the 17G nanobot Marburg virus thingy.

Anybody got a kinda odd seeming appetite?...

[TomF]

People from Anne Applebaum to Ruth Ben Ghiat who study authoritarianism are pointing out exactly that. The well rehearsed script which authoritarians...

[TomF]

I dunno. I suspect that an Interim Speaker would have the authority to call votes on whatever he or she wanted, because I suspect that the rules don't...

[TomF]

He can't take the job unless the House Rules are amended. As they presently stand, they specifically prohibit someone becoming Speaker if they're under...

[TomF]

The current House Rules (adopted by the Republicans) say that a person is barred from serving as Speaker if they're under indictment in any felony with...

[TomF]

And they're furious that the Dems didn't save McCarthy.

No matter that the Dems apparently offered to meet with McCarthy to see if they...

[TomF]

Building Coalitions is exactly like making policy. And sausage. Except you still see all the nasty component bits, rather than having them ground up...

[TomF]

Rick Wilson, of Lincoln Project fame, observes that one should expect quite a range of these "petty outrages," which are being committed in...

[TomF]

Seen on Twitter: the GOP has learned the hard way that turning up the base too much blows out your speaker.

[TomF]

Word is that there's now a movement to expel Gaetz from the Republican conference. Presumably, as he did Trump's bidding, if he goes then there may...

[TomF]

Does that mean I'm just naturally bitter and evil? And you have to keep filling up the tank?...

[TomF]

When Trump won in 16, I said then that win or lose, that contest spelled the end of the Republican party as it had been.

You may be right,...

[TomF]

He's dead, and won't be resurrected.

"Moderate" Republicans are howling that the Dems should have saved him, if they had any...

[TomF]

I think there's no way out of a conviction for Trump now, nor jail time. And this civil case is essentially already determined - they're still litigating...

[TomF]

Speculation that Trump didn't "in error" select a judge only trial (he's bitching about being denied a jury despite that), but did it on purpose....

[TomF]

Imagine having book bannings as one's personal legacy.

[TomF]

as posted on the other thread, the judge has just now imposed a gag order in response to Trump posting threats (and doxing) the judge's clerk. Trump now...

[TomF]

Trump's finally got a gag order. He'd been trashing (and doxing) the judge's clerk on Truth Social, during the trial. The judge said no attacks on judge...

[TomF]

Seems to me that the notion that increased wages cause inflation is like the notion that the chicken came before the egg, or was that the other way around?...