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A GOP-led Senate intel committee report states the obvious: Russia favored Trump in 2016

 

Depends.

Was he acting on the instructions of a foreign power when pulling US forces out?

The move seems to have taken everyone by surprise - including our allies and our own military.

 

I don't really know what to say to anyone who thinks impeachment is out of line at this late date.

Seriously?

 

If Trump's conduct ain't impeachable, I hope we never have a president whose behavior would warrant a "higher" ethical standard for removal.

 

Bush was a terrible President, but not IMO a malicious one. My thoughts on him now (glad he's gone, don't think he deserves pariah status) stem in large part from my knowledge that I too would be a terrible President, although in different ways.

 

John Kerry seems like a relic from a different era. Yet, he is younger than several current Dem candidates for POTUS.....

 

First of all, pushing for the Constitutional amendment barring states from recognizing same-sex marriage is a pretty big goddamn distinction from verbally saying you support civil unions instead. So is pushing to get anti-same-sex marriage ballot measures on the ballots in a dozen states to boost turnout for your own reelection campaign. So is appointing justices you hope will ultimately rule in favor of marriage inequality. So is working behind the scenes to help secure the appointment of another justice who is now poised to confirm the right of employers to fire people solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. So was the whisper campain about Ann Richards when he was running for governor.

Look. I think people should be civil to one another. I think Ellen was right not to cause a nasty confrontation in person. And at an individual level, I have no doubt GWB is a genial individual who anyone could get along with. But I completely uunderstand those who took Ellen’s disingenuous reduction of Bush’s record to “different beliefs” as though people’s fundamental rights can be reduced to differing preferences for Pepsi or Coke. Especially since she - with all her wealth and influence and the elite circles she travels in - is completely insulated from threats to her own comfort and safety.

And let’s not pretend Kerry’s (or Obama’s) statement that he’s for civil unions - without actually lifting a finger to prevent same-sex marriage - because he wasn’t politically courageous enough at that point to give vocal support is the same as taking an active effort to prevent LGBTQ people from enjoying equal protection of the law.

I’m really sick of the ”let’s put our political opinions aside and be kind” bullshit when it’s being deployed as a manipulative way to make people feel blissfully ignorant and better about themselves while preventing those whose safety and dignity is threatened by actions stemming from those “differences of opinion” (ie. about who gets to be treated like a human being) from making others confront that reality and maybe making them feel a little bit uncomfortable.

She didn’t need to spit in Bush’s face but she didn’t need to bend over backwards to play to the “fuck your feelings, Snowflake” crowd either.

 

Worth noting Elizabeth Warren has a staff poet.

 

There's a weird historical rehabilitation going on with GWB that is worth a book alone.
I don't know how he's done it - and it's not all Trump - but he has transformed his reputation in a brief time.
For a known dim bulb he had the great sensibility and discipline to make himself disappear. Not many of his stature could pull that off, I don't think.

 

I think it was his cute paintings.