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OK, Kennedy ... so if you think Pete Buttigieg uses slogans and uses racial terms, how do explain your pejorative? And anyone in Rupert's circus accusing anyone else of using propaganda is rich.

 

I’m talking about any repercussions. They couldn’t even get him off the ballot in the future because most Senate Republicans are eunuchs.

 

Chart courtesy of Marcy Wheeler

 

The guy who took over for Rob Ford (remember him?) steps down as Toronto mayor after a report about his affair with his much-younger underling.

Toronto mayor steps down after affair with ex-staffer | Daily Mail Online

No word on whether, as Ford once said, he was performing lots of oral favors with his wife.

 

I agree with the headline. But that article was unreadable.

 

This is a clear intelligence violation, and it wasn't in Trump's possession. I think Jack Smith is going to squeze the everliving shit out of this person if there is any meat on the bone. If it was say a staff photographer and they had a picture of some top secret folders on a desk in their hard drive, they'll probably skate, but if there is evidence of a serious violation I think they're in the hurt locker. These are not small violations, and the intel pros have got to be pretty pissed off by now.

I don't know that I buy that Smith is near closing his investigation just because Pence is near the top of the chain. They're probably still finding out new info via the grand jury that leads to yet more subpoenas, but Smith has brought a lot of powerful people in for depositions under oath quickly. Color me naive, but I think that the justice system is going to put the clamps on some big fish yet.

 

Who was amazingly more competent than any president we've seen in a while . . . and may not see again for a while.

 

I've said all along: It's going to take a jurisdiction outside of the feds to break the seal on Trump indictments.

Georgia's on my mind.

Once that cherry pops, all the dammed-up legal action will come pouring in to fill that massive gap. Lake Lanier will blush.

 

[Looks at Vietnam wall after the year 1968]

 

The matter with Kansas

Kansas GOP picks election conspiracy promoter as new leader

 

In that one, though, early Nixon supporters turned their backs on him. Unfortunately, the stoopid is too entrenched in even the truest of believers for that to happen this time.