What will they do when/if it reaches dead-pool (in two years) ?
#3 | Posted by donnerboy

Vegas will continue watering their golf courses and lawns. Fountains will continue to flow. Sigh.

"What did Jesus say about abortion, the favorite subject of Jeffress and the rest of the evangelical movement? Nothing. What does the Bible say about abortion, a practice as old as civilization? Nothing. Not one word."

Chris Ladd

Does anyone think this bothers them? With lifetime appointments why would it?

"...one, and only one, of our major parties has been going crazy for twenty years and is now having a full-fledged gibbering, I'm-The-Emperor-of-Antarctica breakdown. It is hard not to feel just a touch of schadenfreude about this. The Republicans have served up eight years of hatred and nihilism"and now they are surprised to find they have inherited hatred and nihilism as they actually appear in the real world, not neatly blown-dry and smirking but red and orange and heaving, cursing and swearing and contemptuous."

Adam Gopnik

If someone's religion tells them that a single cell has more rights than an adult human, and they want to live their life that way, they have every right to do so. Where they go wrong is when they use the power of the Federal Government to impose their religion on everyone else.

I just got my second booster. Gotta keep those Gates microchips up to date.

What if one personality doesn't want to run? Do they all have to agree?

"Our problem isn't the Democrats and their "messaging." Our problem is the Republicans. Justice has no place in a society run by people who care only about domination and the will to power.
What used to be called the "authoritarian tendencies" of conservatives have grown unchecked, and the parasite has now completely taken over the host body. American conservatism is an authoritarian movement. The American right has become enthralled with the same idea that has motivated fascists for decades, which is that justice, reason and reality itself do not matter " all that matters is raw power. "

Amanda Marcotte

Maybe a few years in prison sharing a cell with Big Bob will convince them that they're not so sovereign after all.

"Sometimes Texas political rhetoric is so wildly at variance with reality it's hard to tell what planet our elected representatives are from."

Molly Ivins

Texas is a good thing. It reminds the rest of the country what will happen to them if the Republicans ever get back in power.

"Eighty international scientific societies have endorsed the concept of a primarily human-caused climate crisis that is already starting to threaten the health and well-being of millions, and soon to be billions, of people in the next few decades. The total number of scientific organizations that dispute this is zero. If you were watching a basketball game where the score was 80 to 0, with one minute left in the fourth quarter, and you decided to bet your entire nest egg on that losing team, no one would argue that you were not severely delusional. ... Inability to discern reality is the hallmark of schizophrenia."

Dr Brian Moench

These are the kind of people who lynched Blacks who weren't properly respectful to Whites. It's Georgia. What do you expect?

The T-62 was introduced in 1961. How does a 1961 car compare with this year's model? How available are parts? How many mechanics have ever worked on one?

Texas is a good thing. It reminds the rest of the country what will happen to them if the Republicans ever get back in power.

Significant fraud "cannot be verified" because there wasn't any. But if all you watch is Faux "News" you won't know that.

"The willingness to abide by election losses as legitimate, on the understanding that our system is worth preserving and you can live to fight another day, is a hallmark of democratic stability. But it's becoming a hallmark of GOP primary politics to publicly renounce that ethic, and to do so defiantly and proudly."

Greg Sargent

This will probably guarantee him the R nomination.

"Fascism expresses itself in familiar and comforting national and religious symbols, which is why it comes in various varieties and forms. Italian fascism, which looked back to the glory of the Roman Empire, for example, never shared the Nazis' love of Teutonic and Nordic myths. American fascism too will reach back to traditional patriotic symbols, narratives and beliefs."

Chris Hedges

"When it comes to climate change, some of the wealthiest people in the world have weighed the fate of the Earth and every living thing on it for untold generations to come, the seasons and the harvests, this whole exquisite planet we evolved on, and they have come down on the side of more profit for themselves, the least needy people the world has ever seen."

Rebecca Solnit

"That is the most startling aspect of Trumpism " how otherwise decent Republicans with long-standing reputations for political normalcy and measured behavior have become cravenly submissive to Trump despite the daily deluge of incompetence, ignorance and buffoonery; along with the moral, ethical and policy hazards that accompany it."

Jeff Timmer

"it's coercion" Yes it is. They're trying to make him obey the law that says he must respond to a subpoena. All he has to do is show up and take the 5th.

"Eighty international scientific societies have endorsed the concept of a primarily human-caused climate crisis that is already starting to threaten the health and well-being of millions, and soon to be billions, of people in the next few decades. The total number of scientific organizations that dispute this is zero. If you were watching a basketball game where the score was 80 to 0, with one minute left in the fourth quarter, and you decided to bet your entire nest egg on that losing team, no one would argue that you were not severely delusional. ... Inability to discern reality is the hallmark of schizophrenia."

Dr Brian Moench

Schizophrenia, or Republicans.

"What did Jesus say about abortion, the favorite subject of Jeffress and the rest of the evangelical movement? Nothing. What does the Bible say about abortion, a practice as old as civilization? Nothing. Not one word."

Chris Ladd

"A lawsuit without provable facts showing a statutory or constitutional violation is just a tweet with a filing fee."

Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

"Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved, indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer