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1. about 9 hours ago on Prickly City

   The Patel Paradox can be stated as follows: the only reason to nominate someone like Patel to run the FBI is to commit impeachable abuses of power.

   trump makes no secret that this is, in fact, his purpose. Patel is similarly explicit on the point. Yet the Senate might very well confirm the man once trump removes the incumbent FBI director and nominates Patel to replace him. If it actually does so, would that constitute “consent” to impeachable offenses?

   Patel wrote a book called “Gangster Government” where he lists 60 members of the government who he would prosecute. From John Brennan to Brad Raffensberger, James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Peter Stzok he will be trying to “clean house” and send every ENEMY of trump to prison.

   Patel has no qualification for FBI except animosity to the FBI. That reverse qualification is catnip for the TEA Party/MAGA crew, and it is toxic.

2. about 10 hours ago on Prickly City

   The South Korean timeline of events:

   10PM: Martial law declared

   12AM: Protestors show up

   12:10AM: Assembly votes to lift martial law

   1AM: Assembly refuses to leave

   4AM: President promises to comply

   4:15AM: President complies

   With swift action, South Koreans saved their democracy.

   Take note, America.

   Will the majority party in the US House and Senate stand up for democracy the way both major parties in South Korea did?

   Most definitely not. They already tried and failed an insurrection.

   I remember Mitt Romney’s speech on the floor of the Senate when he announced that he’d be voting to convict trump in his impeachment. I remember the long pause, because he knew his next words would end his political career. And he was right, and had to retire at the end of the term because he’d be crushed in the next election.

   There’s no one left in the con party who is willing to stand up for what’s right.

   And it’s not just the politicians’ fault – it was voters who knowingly chose trump and the traitor’s fellow loyalists.

3. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   You’d think it wasn’t possible to have single digit IQ/EQ’s, but here they are.

4. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   If we’re a country that puts Kash Patel in charge of the FBI, Pete Hegseth in charge of DoD, and Donald Trump in charge of the presidency—we are not as strong or as superior of a country as we think.

   In fact, if out of all the supremely intelligent and responsible people in this country, we elevate these quacks—something is seriously wrong with us. And it’s tough not to sense that our enemies enjoy exploiting our capacity to self-sabotage in this way.

   This isn’t about politics. It’s about demanding simple excellence. These people aren’t excellent and neither will be the United States.

5. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Russian specialist and military scholar Tom Nichols notes that the Russians talk about “power ministries,” which are “the departments that have significant legal and coercive capacity.” Nichols notes that in the U.S., those include the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community, all of which trump is attempting to destroy by placing unqualified loyalists at their head.

6. 2 days ago on Prickly City

   Here’s the reality. No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear. Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been – fundamentally and more fairly – a declination. Pardon warranted.

   Ask yourself a vastly more important question. Do you really think Kash Patel is qualified to lead the world’s preeminent law enforcement investigative organization? Obvious answer: not only no, but hell no.

   From pleading the Fifth to FBI director…

   What he demands is an FBI — an entire military and security and legal apparatus — that will go hard after his designated (perceived) enemies, regardless of law, ethics, or rational evidence, and will let flagrant crimes and national security violations by himself and his cronies (and anyone who ponies up enough cash/favors) slide by un-investigated and unpunished.

   Those are the positions he’s focused on loading up with people whose main “qualification” is loyalty and sharing trump’s corruption and revenge-instinct. IMO those are the most dangerous. (Although the health appointments are also troubling.)

7. 4 days ago on La Cucaracha

   Understood. I don’t like it either, however it needs to be addressed over and over until we drag the neanderthals into the present reality.(no disrespect to neanderthals)

8. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   They’ll both retire, being well paid by their owners. Guaranteeing a corrupt con SRCOTUS for decades.

9. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   Yes, dems need to quit playing by gentlemen’s rules when dealing w/traitors and domestic terrorists. Get rid of the stupid ‘policy’ that you can’t charge a ‘sitting’ president that protects con presidents.

   In the name of transparency, truth and reconciliation, Biden should immediately issue an executive order to de-classify, redact (to protect investigators and witnesses, not complicit criminals) and release every government investigation document related to Trumpgate: Crimes, finances and foreign and domestic asssociates, into the public domain forever. Starting today. The safe in Jeffrey Epstein’s home that held photos, videos, and documents about Trump’s sexual proclivities that disappeared after Trump’s FBI arrested the pedophile.

   Include a list of the top secret topics (not dangerous details) in the documents he took to Florida and shared with Elon Mush, Soviet Dictator Putin and others.

   Release the memos.Release the videos. Release transcripts and every audio recording, scrap of paper, interview of his staff. Don’t hold anything back or it will be destroyed. Plus the Mueller investigation — ALL readable, no blackening. All the Jack Smith reports and evidence. All other relevant evidence concerning his many crimes.

   Research, redact and release every federal criminal investigation of Donald Trump and his staff. Including any leftover material from the January 6 impeachment investigation as well as the DOJ files. Including anything that has been investigates since he was removed from the White House, kicking and rioting, in 2020.

   Order the DoJ and the Pentagon to release their internal files from investigations of any Trump Cabinet nominees: Gaetz, Hegseth, Kennedy, Gabbard. All in the interest of enabling the 2025 Senate’s Advise and Consent deliberations.

   Get all the documents about right wing militias and their connections to Russia out there. Anything you think America and historians need to know should be released. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

10. 4 days ago on La Cucaracha

    Known as "the only justified abortion is my abortion.’’