I've heard all the arguments for letting Mark Milley serve out his CJS term, and I have to confess I find them increasingly unpersuasive
"Sure he didn't stand up against misogyny against soldiers or brutality against protesters, but we need command continuity and... uh, leadership"
Esper spinning this as "we did the right thing, delaying these women's nominations actually helps their chances of promotion" is just... itclyxexygudysufogivibohivivhff
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Everyone's dunking on Lauren Boebert for not understanding the Constitution -- which, yes! -- but if you really want to know what it looks like to elect a shock-radio id that would rather own libs than govern, look at the whole list of bills she cosponsors congress.gov/member/lauren-…
This is just a massive list of grumpy symbolic stands that build absolutely nothing for anyone, not even her constituents... but that she can use to fundraise off of the insecure, excitable, and ill-informed
Boebert is essentially the apogee of the Republican Party's long transition from governing to a being a financial institution that controls a secondary market in white grievance. And it turns out that's much easier than governing!
Sincerely, passionately, as a longtime possessor of firearms: require training to possess firearms
There are two kinds of people in this world: people with a for critically examining their own reflexive first crack at drawing a logical parallel it identify potential weaknesses, and John
A real disservice is done by using limited headline space on the fact that this perp is an Army vet, rather than the many more germane and remarkably horrific facts in this story. Let me share a few of them here: apnews.com/article/race-a…
He was wearing body armor and laden with ammunition for his pistol, but needed to "defend" himself. Against whom? Glad you asked...
Speaking as an armed citizen who observes all applicable laws, I would be very wary of going back to a workplace where my colleagues almost got me killed and subsequently insisted on being able to be armed in said workplace
We are moving ever closer toward the possibility of an incident between members of Congress that would make Brooks's caning of Sumner look like en elementary-school recess fight
Put another way: a gun-fetishizing member of Congress, who faces censure for disobeying the sergeant of arms and tweeting leadership's location during the siege, now makes a public show of circumventing security measures. Sounds like a flashing signal to extremist groups to me.
No person -- no politician, pundit, podcaster -- who surveys the events of the past days, weeks, years, and reacts by adopting the mantle of victimhood by lamenting the loss of Trump's social media or their followers, deserves any future role in deciding the course of this nation
The cavalcade of TV hosts, site owners, senators, administration officials, tweeting like they're waiting for a rail car to Treblinka because Twitter might deplatform them, is disgusting beyond any reasonable pale, and that culture of glossing over real inhumanity needs to end.
There are sitting members of Congress whose speeches have been flagged by the ADL; former governors who have defended the Confederate flag; and TV personalities who've reified white supremacy, trying to argue that the *real* fascists are deplatforming them. AFTER an insurrection.