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- The Law Dork rightly notes: Justice Thomas has used this “hideous place” to amass the power he now exploits.
- Via NJ.com. I am amazed (among other things) that people say things like this: GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’.
- Via WaPo: Tom Selleck is 79 and, whew, just look at this magnificent specimen. I feel like there is a contemporary politics joke in there somewhere.
- Via RawStory: RNC co-chair Lara Trump: ‘You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over’. The ongoing campaign to sew seeds of confusion and distrust in elections continues.
- On the same story, I agree with WaPo‘s Philip Bump, Railing about post-election vote-counting is silly … and nefarious. “It is silly to say that you can’t count ballots after an election is over. But it also is an argument presented in service of a nefarious intention.”
- Via The Hill: More than half of voters think Trump has committed crimes: Poll.
- Via The Hill: Trump confirms he wanted to go to Capitol on Jan. 6.
- Via the AJC: Geoff Duncan: Why I’m voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too. Duncan is the former Republican Lt. Governor.
- In contrast, via WaPo: Bill Barr doesn’t mind a little autocracy if your politics are right.
“I think Trump would do less damage than Biden,” Barr told Collins. “I think all this stuff about a threat to democracy, I think the real threat to democracy is the progressive movement and the Biden administration.”
He explained his thinking by claiming that “the threat to freedom and democracy has always been on the left. It’s the collectivist socialist agenda.” He outlined how he saw these threats manifesting at the moment: “Parents are losing the freedom to control their children’s education. And people can’t speak their mind without losing their jobs, and things like that. This is worse than the McCarthy era.”
“We’re not enforcing our borders, we have open borders,” he continued a bit later. “We have lawlessness in our cities. We have regulations coming fast and furious. So, telling people what kind of stoves they can use, and what kinds of cars they have to drive, and eliminating cars and so forth. Yes, those are the threats to democracy.”
This is patter straight out of the right-wing media bubble.
Emphasis mine.
The news about Nadine Menendez’s specific diagnosis and the details about the FBI raid made for a kind of split screen on Thursday. Her actions will figure prominently in the senator’s case, with a defense attorney telling the jury in opening statements that she had kept her husband in the dark about her personal finances and about where she obtained gold bars and other luxury items that the FBI seized.
Call me crazy, but if my wife brought home some gold bars, I wouldn’t be keen on being kept in the dark (especially, you know, if I was a US Senator). And while the breast cancer diagnosis is awful on a human level, I have to admit my reaction is that it all seems cartoonish and matches the following.
