The whole family was raised in the cult. The parents are kind of inner circle.

Jesus fucking Christ. Hawaii is a modern state with mental healthcare and people who go to that healthcare. The Gabbards being in a literal cult has a lot more to do with this than “island culture”.

And their son was kicked out of his house and these rich psychopaths left him to be homeless. He’s on the same island, they could have just gone and picked him up.

Feels like the R in “republican” should have been capitalized.

You’re asking for sympathy from the man who’s gone to be applied to the harmful man that’s here. Brain damage isn’t like a regular injury. It can change the core of your personality. That’s sad, but the person we should be sad for is his prior self and his loved ones.

This new guy is a few years old and a huge asshole to people who actually deserve sympathy. Basically everyone close to him other than his wife has left. And she has reportedly been fighting with him on his rightward turn.

Old him is dead. New him sucks ass.

That’s a good point. There’s probably a realistic comparison between the danger from hijackings and the dangers of deregulation.

We as citizens are far more endangered by our for-profit healthcare system and the risk of poverty and homelessness always one market turn away than from anything the military prevents. I bet a trillion dollars a year could help make is safer from the real threats.

Let’s just make the military budget a GoFundMe. I’m sure the super patriot bomb humpers will chip in. Maybe AIPAC can redirect their lobbying money to the effort.

Surely the military, which drains massive amounts of money and has never passed an audit, will be very successful in a simple capitalist market.

That’s what they’re referencing, but the idea that you can just start and stop a war every 60 days and it’s a new clock is ridiculous and defeats any concept of congressional power over war making.

Trump is making a perverse legal move and Politico is validating it without question. They’re not even appealing to some convenient experts with a “lawyer says”. Just stating it as fact.

And these generation cutoffs are basically meaningless. The next one starts just because it would be weird for a parent and child to be in the same “generation” not because the specific birth cutoff indicates anything special. Young X’ers and old millennials have way more in common with each other than those on the other side of their generations.

President Donald Trump’s notification that the U.S. is again at war with Iran gives the administration another 60-day clock for military action.

It shouldn’t but shitty publications will try to manufacturer that consent so they don’t need to actually speak truth to power.

“ICE involved”.

It seems weird in this time when short videos and call-ins to news shows are common ways for legislators to communicate to release a hostage picture instead.

“Hi this is Mitch McConnell and I just want to thank everyone for their well wishes and express my sadness at the passing of Lindsay Graham [or some other recent event].”

Why do the least proof possible in the weirdest way possible unless you really don’t want to be speaking on video?

An evil heart and a lust for power meant even as society changed he never lived a single day of freedom. It’d be sad if he wasn’t, y’know, evil.

Don’t trust that the media is ever your friend, but if you’re at an event to record and propagate information, even for a biased political purpose, you’re media. Trying to restrict that to only validated independent media groups is both not in line with the concept of freedom of the press and not a good idea for our side. We have lots of single-person “media” attendees telling the story of oppressive government action.

71% of the party voted for progressive Platner in Maine. His politics got the most votes ever in a Democratic primary. We don’t have to worry about nationwide definitions of ‘base’ in this instance to argue about who deserves special deference from party leaders.

And I have a hard time believing this piece would EVER get promoted when people talk about “black voters are the base”, which is almost always only used to justify white centrists rather than, say, police reform. But for some reason it’s important to establish when progressives in 3% black Maine win a landslide and then ask for recognition by their own party leadership.

The reality is that party leadership has basically never represented any of these bases. The demographic that leadership represents extremely well is big money donors. Judging by leadership, that’s the real base. They’re the group that must always be catered to and whose loss they’d see as a 5 alarm fire.

Officials say. So it’s a worthless statement by known liars. Their credibility isn’t just damaged. It’s non-existent.

Almost nothing in voting is done by executive agencies so the vote stealing impact of this is going to be more indirect.

Maybe destroying this agency is to try to give a parallel fascist agency validity. Or maybe he thinks he can nominate Jared and Ivanka as Democrats. Or maybe he just doesn’t want states to get federal election aid so the system is more vulnerable.

I’ve said he’s responsible for his harms to others while drunk because even if impairment removes his self-control, drinking caused that to happen. But that’s not because I think raping (or murdering) is someone’s true self and they’re basically just stuck being a fundamentally bad person. They should pay for the consequences of their actions, dedicate themselves consciously to never reoffending, and then never get drunk enough to lose control, because that’s a consequence of drinking.

I don’t think most people exhibit personal growth (at least initially) by actually changing their fundamental impulses but by dedicating themselves to controlling those that are harmful. And maintaining that control is part of being committed to it. Maybe over time that changes the impulses themselves, but it’s curbing the impact to others that matters morally.