With Ka$h Patel on the case, what could possibly go wrong?

#423 etc, etc, etc.
"Admitting failure like drinking bitter tea."
Charlie Chan

"The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb extract, demonstrating a knowledge of plant and prey ecology coupled with lethal technical abilities."

In historical times, San and others in SA used root extract as well as that from beetle larvae. I recall an ethnographic film from the 1950s (probably) in which a group of Bushmen hunters pursued a giraffe one shot with a poisoned arrow. The pursuit went on and on and on and on. Finally, the giraffe dropped, the women and kids showed up, camp was made for feasting, and that's where those folks remained until it was time to go out and find another giraffe.

Pigs, trough, gorge.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Farewell Address" (1961)

How many Proud Boys and pardoned Jan 6 traitors are in federal policing forces, e.g. ICE, these days?
The lowering of standards can be seen in the number of masked tubbies among the wannabe Horst Wessels.
But beyond that ... any checks for Proud Boys and pardoned traitors?
Any?

I say release the files, all of them along with the faces of the accused.
If we are going to let it all out, let it all out.
#25 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Therefore you condemn the DOJ breaking the law with its behavior in this matter, right?
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Why did you only mention Trump? 90% of the people in the "files" are Democrats...LOLOLOOLOLOLOL...
#16 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Yet the Democrats and Republicans join (!?!) to push for release of the files and only Trump resists.
Gee, Boaz, why do you suppose that might be?
LOLOLOOLOLOLOL, ye feckin maroon.

#11
If the Horst Wessel wannabes were actually (verifiably) rounding up and corralling hordes of the proverbial ooh-they're-coming-to-get-you murderers and god knows what all sort of vicious criminals as proclaimed in advance we would most definitely be seeing confirmation of that blasted across the media.

Nobody in their right mind believed the situation as described by the administration reflected reality.

But MAGAts continue swallowing it the way they seem to like their lies, raw and rancid.

She's a MAGAt "alternative facts" kind of US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Old Orange Julius of Cloud Cuckoo Land doth decreed it be so.

Have you seen some of the stuff thrown at me? You never said anything about the vile stuff Snoofy, legallyyourdead and others say to me.
So until you call out your own, you don't really have a leg to stand on.
#81 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Good advice.

Yeah, it's called theft.

There's clearly something wrong with all the lenses on all the cameras pointed in Old Yeller's direction. Don't know yet if it's a plot, but that's what some people are saying already, which is a record for some people saying that and some people not saying those things, that it is but maybe not and maybe. So, fake news, not fat.

That's one explanation.

The other? Trump is the Fatty Arbuckle American politics. (No disrespect intended for Fatty.)

Coriolanus, there's an interesting treatment of Angleton in the A Spy Among Froends miniseries that highlights Kim Philly and Nicholas Elliott with plenty of room for Angleton. On Lincoln, Jim Bishop's book provided my intro to Lincoln's assassination as a "yute." Don't bother with Theodore Roscoe's The Web of Conspiracy (1959), a huge, dense tome I attempted tackling in middle school. Basically, he thinks Stanton was the main guy. Edward Steers, Jr., Blood on the Moon is a solid Lincoln assassination source. And you're right, plenty of confusion and fubar associated with the entire affair.

Cassidy's behavior is typical of the enablers. Susan Glasser writes about them in "Trump's Golden Age of Awful."

So, like the proverbial broken clock, James Jesus Angleton (for his yuuge faults) had a point about that shadowy trade.

He seems to have placed his allegiance to the MAGA cult over the Hippocratic Oath he took.
#11 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

He likes the position and perks he thinks insulate him from the consequences of his decisions.
Which, needless to say, are based on what he thinks helps him.
Typical blinkered pol and useful idiot.

Cassidy's vote in committee guaranteed Kennedy a narrow party-line victory in the Senate floor vote. But for his supposedly handwringing vote in committee, the nomination would have died in committee. Instead, we have another Republican gift to America. These people deserve to be forgotten but need to be remembered.

I listened to Trump's yap to the House GOPers. The whole thing, a stream of consciousness performance that anyone with a reasonable claim to being considered normal cannot help but find deeply disturbing.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell, 1984

Determined to preserve the nation's history, some 100 members of Congress, mostly Democrats, have taken it upon themselves to memorialize the moment. For months, they've mounted poster board-style replicas of the Jan. 6 plaque outside their office doors, resulting in a Capitol complex awash with makeshift remembrances.

Mark Kelly's reelection campaign folks should thank their mega fundraiser: Pickled Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Warrrrrr. (Reality hint: Still officially the Department of Defense. Eat it up, MAGAts.)

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Why bother going to the gang of eight or Congress?
SCOTUS gave Trump immunity.
Couple that with the his pardon power and an embarrassingly supine congressional GOP and you get ...
What we have: a dictatorship in its early stages.