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And Merrick Garland rolls over gently in bed, vaguely troubled by an uneasy dream.

 

Well the city would be safer if Steve Bartman didn’t get in the way of the Bowling Green Massacre.

 

Jim Jordan's "Medal of Freedom" was an advance.

 

The “there’s not as many murders as there used to be“ might be the strangest argument in the progressive arsenal.

 

Yeah, facts are for losers.

 

So many Ls.

 

I'm wondering what Fox News' endgame is here.

If I'm Dominion I'm not dropping this suit, ever, even if I'm offered an eleventy billion dollar settlement. Every bit of discovery has made Fox News and its personalities look like a bunch of frauds.

Murdoch et al seemingly don't care. Neither does Fox News' audience. Every time one host leaves (Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly), he's replaced with someone further out in Bananaland. The crazies feed into the hosts' batshitness and that feeds into the crazies, etc.

Eventually someone is going to have to rip off the Band-Aid and this cycle will end. At least you'd think that.

Then again with OAN and Newsmax and RSBN and all the other channels for the kooks out there, we're just going further into the abyss.

 

I want Fox News to go the way of Gawker but it won’t. This should be an eye opener for the industry to actually fact check and fire people who pose a literal billion-dollar liability for the company. But it won’t. The fact they peddle in lies is a problem they want to have. They have no honor, no values and they will make their money back in a year.

 

He said that living with democracy
Was bringing him down, yeah
And he would never be free
When Dems were around

He's got something to hide
He's got something to hide
He's got something to hide
But he don't care

 

The judiciary committee has been the tipping point in her prolonged absence. Without her the deadlock is keeping them from appointments and confirmations. If she was in a situation where her resigning would change the balance of power I get hanging on, but if you are going to miss as many votes as she has and the end game is to be replaced by your party and you turn 90 in two months and you've had the job for 31 years, it's probably time.

 

“I feel unsafe.”

Yeah, well, you should’ve felt less safe back then because there were more murders.”

I have no idea what she felt in 1996 or whether she even knows what she felt. My point is progressives are bizarrely sanguine about hard, serious crime that does not involve long guns. Why, I dunno.