In Scotties Toy Box, Scottie takes a look at the overarching Trump argument that the Senate is about to confirm, that the president can order his opponent arrested as long as he thinks it’s in the national interest. That principle lets one individual, by the end of this year, turn us into a banana republic. Turns out that person does not even have to be my president.
Those interested in the abuse of presidential power, the national interest, and the future of democracy are not alone. Andy Borowitz reports that El Chapo has been following impeachment procedings and is outraged that his trial included witnesses.
A fixed trial can be discouraging. nojo is one of the best little known political writers. So when he says it’s not hopeless, we can, as patriots, have hope. But not too much hope.
At The Moderate Voice columnist Hart Williams has a different vision of hope, even with the Senate vote in favor of obstruction as the effective end of our American experiment in republican government.
tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reports on the reluctance of Mr. Trump’s Secretary of Commerce to take a victory lap. But life is full of little trade-offs. The Honorable Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. is modestly gleeful that the new deadly caronavirus, so far having killed hundreds and infected thousands, may have the happy effect of increasing the value your portfolio.
John Scalzi at Whatever doesn’t write much about politics anymore, but maybe this once? Who do you think he might be mentioning with “ignorant, bigoted, incurious, corrupt?”
Frances Langum channels Samantha Bee. Conservatives complain that their social media comments tend not to get much attention. Are they being shaddowbanned? Perhaps the cause is not social media.
Well there are limits to free speech. PZ Myers is happy at the arrest of an individual who made it his obsessive hobby to harass the grieving families of the murdered children of Sandy Hook Elementary school, accusing those families of faking the execution style killings, publicizing their personal identifying information. Some have gone into hiding. The culprit has been arrested in Florida. Something to do with possession of stolen personal ID information.
