Chairslinger

Didn't the dossier lay out a scenario where the collusion was proffered to Trump, and he used that press conference as basically a way to look Putin in the eye and say, "Its a deal"? Things fly by so fast in these news cycles that I think even many anti-Trumpers forget just how damning some of this evidence is. The storyline has settled into something like, "Well his subordinates might have colluded, but Trump is too smart or oblivious to have become directly involved". But no, there is still the very real possibility that this guy was balls deep in all of it.

Living right on the border, I think the best thing I can say about Ohio is at least it's not Indiana.

Somewhere Roger Stone is screaming about the beating of that hideous heart.

If Russia really doesn't have kompromat on Trump, Putin must look at his intelligence guys everyday and be like, "You sure vee have no pee tape? You vould tell me if vee had pee tape, yes? He is sure acting like he thinks vee have pee tape."

Fun fact: The South crying about how Sherman warred too mean at them is the first documented case of triggered snowflakes in American history. True story.

Is Kim actually using the "American have such big penis" gambit from South Park?

At least he didn't come right out and say bringing peace to the dark continent is the white man's burden.

Aren't these special editions designed for the relatively low number of hardcore fans rather then trying to sell 100k copies of a $150 SE? Personally I would never buy one of these, or SE in general, but if just a few hundred people who are big fans of the series buy this it seems worth it to the publisher. We all have a few games that most people don't care about, but we might shell out an inordinate amount of money for a SE. Even if it's not my favorite game out there, DS seems like a good enough game series, with the addition of it's unique aesthetic, to have some really big fans. I believe I got Darksiders 1 on PS3 through PS+ years ago. Then I got Darksiders 2 on PS4. What I played of the original on PS3 was good enough to make me grab the Remastered edition on PS4 during this current sale for 2 bucks. I figure if I ever feel like going through both games now I'll have the Remastered set.

Haha, yeah! *Jazz hands*

I am starting to think everyone in the Trump scandal is assigned a Morty as a lawyer.

Hey. WWII was from the middle innings

Can't restore our civilization with someone else's babies.

I am thinking it's Cavanaugh.

So by my count, out of 113 Justices over 200+ years 3 have been non-white, and 4 have been women. And one of those women is also one of the non-whites.(Which, by the way small sample size because 3 of the women were nominated by Democrats, but the one female nominated by a Republican was also vital in joining Kennedy to save Roe in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey). So that makes 107 out of 113 white men. But yeah, the real problem is white men facing discrimination. Reminds me of people saying, "Well I am not going to vote for Hillary just because she's a woman!!!"" Yeah, because electing people just because they're a woman is the defining fucking struggle of our time. I swear, I am not even that big of a proponent of identity politics, but your lack of awareness on the reality of white as a "default" in this society is just staggering. It is easy to say that identity has no effect on ideology when you've never had your very right to exist be the subject of hot button political debate.

That is not what I am arguing. I am arguing that in the rulings that I have seen SCOTUS make, a diversity of identity is a good thing. For instance, when they struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that dealt with Southern States with a long history of racism requiring approval, part of their reasoning was literally that racism wasn't a thing anymore. It didn't preclude 4 liberals from dissenting, or Thomas from going with the majority for that matter, but if your ruling is based on what things are like for a certain group on the ground, it helps if someone in the room has lived that experience. I dunno, maybe after we've tried it for 200 years to even out the time white men have had a majority of the court we can reconvene and compare notes.

I think there are times when identity politics is overused on the left, but not in this case. When you are ruling on weighing the rights of a woman to have bodily autonomy vs. the rights of a fetus or the rights of gays to be treated without prejudice vs. Christian beliefs you're identity weights on that decision.

Ron White tells a joke about being drunk and being arrested. He quips that they told him he had the right to remain silent.....but he didn't have the ability. I actually believe Trump has confidence that Kim will follow the deal he thinks they signed. What I doubt is Trump's ability to comprehend what "the deal" really was.

Thanks. I was only banging my head on my desk hard enough to cause pain. I'll upgrade to concussion velocity.

Why install the chandelier if you're not going to show it off, amirite?

The media continues its slide back into false equivilence and chasing shiny objects. For a while they seemed to be holding Trump's feet to the fire, but in the past few months they have become a textbook case on the danger of allowing Trump to be normalized so that what he does is just one side of the political spectrum. I am referring to their near complete buy-in to Trump's SCOTUS rose ceremony. They are chasing Trump's shiny, "oh, who will he pick?!" object instead of laying out the real story. Old, white, straight man to choose one other old, white, straight man to take away women's right to bodily autonomy and gays rights to exist at all.

Trump is using long time, single use U.S. diplomatic currency like poker chips for quick political gain. Examples being moving the Israeli embassy and meeting Un with no preconditions. Now he's moving on to more tangible things like the oil reserve to maybe bump his poll numbers a couple points. This man is going to use up the country for 8 years and then leave the mess like a shafted contractor on a Trump building. I would lament that this will lead inevitably to the next Dem having to patch up these messes, to which the conservative media will blast them for their "apology tour", but that's secondary at this point to the question of whether or not we can even fix the damage we are doing. *Knock knock* Hey Canada. We're out of....wood. I don't know how to put this. Get out.

One thing that jumps out at me is that it says she was granted access in 2011. That's the same year Lil Kim took over power. Allowing her in may have been a part of his early narrative of "moderating". My guess would be that she had minders, and hers comments about everything being transactional between them was precisely on this point. NK wanted her to go places and look at carefully controlled happy stories about North Koreans doing just super. And she wanted access. So she probably wasn't doing hard hitting exposes on government corruption, but pushed where she could.

To put this in perspective, while North Korea themselves seem to be negotiating in bad faith (as always) the Trump administration is being more dishonest about the progress of the meeting than North Korea is. The Trump administration is out-propagandizing North Korea.

Absolutely, the only difference is that Trump still needs his religious minions. If Trump wins a second term, I could see him making comments like this. Probably not as extreme, but at least going more directly at moralists with whom he has forged an uneasy alliance of pretending his past doesn't exist.

The Kushner peace plan is the same as the Isreali peace plan. Methodically, inexorably grind the Palistinians out of existence.