The Russia is getting more evil thread

I guess it’s not impossible, but there are more proximate dangers to worry about IMO. Despots never seem to think they’re done until it is too late. And someone like Assad would far rather make a deal than be at ground zero, don’t you think? And there’s surely a deal to be made, if he wanted one.

Is this a threat by a sitting congressman to coerce someone about to testify?

Haha, Popehat thinks rich, white, male Republican members of Congress are like real people. Nothing will happen to him.

But in a phone interview shortly after he posted the item, the Florida Republican insisted that he was not engaging in witness intimidation at all.

“No,” he stressed, “it is challenging the veracity and character of a witness. We do it everyday. We typically do it during people’s testimony.”

“This is what it looks like to compete in the marketplace of ideas,” he added.

What the heck is this marketplace of ideas BS? Sounds like something a right wing anti-vax flat earther would say.

Get a lawyer, Matt Gaetz. Your dad won’t buy you out of this.

the world is full of coincidences


BBC is saying possible “radioactive substance” was used.

If anyone is following https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla
investigations into offshore funding of brexit/right wing ethno-nationalism then you will know she is currently unmasking the Brexiters and Putins involvement in Italy right now.


Countdown until Trump comments on how positive a step these laws are.

Jeez :(
Russia is not Russia anymore. It is the old Soviet Bloc.

Weird. It’s almost like they never cared about gun rights in Russia or something.

Man, who would have thought that an authoritarian dictator like Putin wasn’t actually in favor of widespread gun rights.

I imagine they didn’t care, as long as that sweet oligarch money was filling their coffers.

Main reason for you dying of getting shot by us in the chest was that you weren’t wearing a bullet-proof vest.