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The Atlantic : The Right’s Disinformation Machine Is Getting Ready for Trump to Lose My team’s research at the Stanford Internet Observatory tracks the way malign narratives spread online. The notion that so-called deep-state insiders and Democrats are orchestrating a color revolution against Trump...

Thanks for the concern everyone. Mrs. FRP basically ordered me to take a mental health day today, because she is wise. I've dealt with empathy fatigue and mild burnout in the "before times" but the pandemic sort of takes every small problem and makes it existential. To address something TRT mention...

I had mentioned to Mrs. FRP that a Biden Administration will probably offer Vindman the chance to return to service if he wants it. He was due a promotion to full-bird colonel, the denial of which was the proximate cause of his decision to retire. Frankly, I would be happy to see him offered a two-s...

Another candidate for a presidential pardon ? I don't think so. Trump and Broidy don't appear to have been particularly close the way Trump and Stone were. The 1MDB thing doesn't appear to have a direct Trump connection. I'm sure Goldman Sachs wishes they could have dangled a pardon to keep Broidy ...

Suranis, you are spot on about that Ben Garrison cartoon. Garrison's embrace of antisemitism was already well-established and loathsome, but his portrayal of Donald Trump as some sort of hyper-masculine muscle-bound paragon of virility is just kind of sad and pathetic. Not to mention the fun homoero...

That sound you're hearing is a whole bunch of state AGs and local government general counsels getting the lawsuit engines revved up.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:00 pm Was Foxconn the Big Get that NY was vying for? The one Fuckhead taunted Cuomo about when NY didn't get it?

That was Amazon.

I'm suddenly not coping super well. Maybe it's because I had to drive five hours round trip pay an in-person visit to a client in the Wisconsin prison system yesterday. He's housed in a facility that hasn't been publicly acknowledged to have a serious COVID situation, but lo and behold he tells me t...

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:46 pm What question did she ask that caused him to flee?

Or what answer did he give that he realized was irretrievably awful and wanted to go on the attack before CBS could air the footage?

The sad thing is that an awful lot of people here in Wisconsin will insist until their dying breath that the whole Foxconn deal would have created a billion jobs by now if only the voters hadn't kicked Scott Walker to the curb and replaced him with the evil socialist Tony Evers. (Seriously, seeing p...

I have been watching the Web in addition to TV. ETA: And, regrettably, a lot of Continuing Legal Education videos. It’s that time of year again. Same. The first week of November would have been conference week. I generally look forward all year to spending two evenings and two days in Milwaukee at ...

2020 has just been one great big quod erat demonstrandum for we atheists who have been observing for quite some time the gross hypocrisy and amorality of the most prominent Christians, to say absolutely nothing of the fact that their claims are entirely nonfalsifiable when they aren't provably false...

Wow, I hadn't heard he was having problems paying legal fees. That's where I'd assumed most of the campaign $$ was going. Well, that and the fundraisers he has at his properties at trumped-up rates. trump was just here a couple of days ago and I saw two trump ads that day the night before his appea...

That 77-cents-on-the-dollar article tracks with the math when you look at Trump's September numbers for total raise and cash-on-hand. The burn rate is just ridiculous. And I saw something else this morning indicating that the campaign may have some problems paying legal fees. A violin sounds for the...

The details in the Toobin story just get worse and worse, but Twitter is having a ball with it. Apparently it was an election simulation, and Toobin was playing the role of the federal courts. Obviously, the jokes with words that sound like "election" are getting made, but my suggestion is that Toob...

This is all disgusting, but Twitter is having a field day mocking Ron Johnson with fake allegations of horrifying things he has done and pleas for someone to start an investigation.

Too old.

I'm 36, and I am too old to be my ideal SCOTUS nominee for the Biden Administration.

Donald Trump Jr. was a speaker at the annual Safari Club International Convention (promotes trophy hunting) in February 2020. The Beach Boys performed at the convention amid protests from fans. There is the connection. Another entry in my personal file of proof that all that nonsense my elders talk...

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:46 pm The Beach Boys are still alive? Do they perform with oxygen tanks and wheelchairs?

It depends on how you define "alive" in the case of Brian Wilson.

Welp, fuck the Beach Boys.

Oh, and there's also the fact that Obama has the personal safety of his Secret Service detail to think about. We've all pointed out how cavalier Trump has been with his detail. Wouldn't it be rather hypocritical not to object to President Obama putting his detail in danger of exposure to COVID?

That face is easily translated: "Can you believe these suckers?"

What kind of "campaigning" do you want him to do, Sterngard? Unlike Republicans Death Cultists, Democrats aren't interested in doing the large rally-style events where Obama would be the most useful, because we're still in the middle of a pandemic. I believe he and Michelle have been doing the Zoom ...

Trump won't leave the country. He needs his fans and sycophants. Mar-a-Lago is perfect for him. He'll reign like a king there and rely on his lawyers to handle the lawsuits. How'd that work out for Lear? Turns out not many people want to hang out with the former king, much less pay exorbitant membe...