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I was never really a categorical "believe all" person. I literally cancelled my subscription to the Times because I thought the way they handled the #MeToo stuff was pretty awful. I thought the best take on the entire thing was this article by Masha Gessen in the New Yorker...

Russia actually is a hostile foreign power. I'd love to see the male/female split of his voters.

I'll be totally honest about this: I didn't closely look into Tara Reade for several weeks for a few reasons. The first is that the whole thing made me uncomfortable. I didn't really want to deal with it and preferred not to look at it directly. Straight up. The second is that there wasn't...

Honestly, I came away from reading all her blog posts about how hot Putin is with his shirt off on the side of "this lady is just a ****ing weirdo."

I got a lot more interested in the Tara Reade story when I found out she was fluent enough in Russian to translate Rumi's poems into the language.

I acknowledge they are vehement. I don't acknowledge that they are anything more than hacks. Part of the reason I linked to Lawfare is that it's a traditionally conservative national security law policy center. They actually came out with an article (which they've stated they regret) that...

1. Barr can't dismiss the charges. Emmett Sullivan has to do that. Barr has filed a motion. 2. Do you understand how plea bargains work? They can charge the perp with X number of crimes. In exchange for a guilty plea, they agree to only charge him with some of those crimes. This is a deal...

We talked about Hunter Biden/Burisma ad nauseum months ago. I presented you with tons of background information about the recent history of Ukraine, the leadership of Burisma, and timelines regarding what happened. There's nothing to investigate. You have all the information available to...

Flynn was involved in a plot to kidnap Fethallah Gulen for $15 million. This was part of his association with Turkey. This has been in the public record for more than two years. They just aren't talking about it on Fox...

You really need a better news diet Joe. The problem with this whole theory is that Flynn's calls were "masked." The process of "unmasking" is literally "we dont' know who is making that phone call, but the underlying information is troubling and we need to know who it is." By definition you...

The two-party system problem isn't really about the number of parties. It's that we don't have a mechanism for a major political party (in this case the GOP) to naturally die. In a parliamentary model with lots of parties there's no obvious reason for the white supremacists, the single issue...

Biden was actually the poorest man in Congress for decades. He had a net worth under $100k into his 60s. He really only made any money at all from book royalties and paid speaking engagements in the last 6-7 years or so. AOC might be negative net worth when you include student loans.

Somehow it only gets crazier.

I assume you are outraged about North Carolina and Wisconsin.

^^^ Exactly what I expect when I open a thread promising "rational discussion"

Frankly your post was a lot of ways of "lying with numbers" but I couldn't get over this sentence, particularly because you are speaking with such faux authoritativeness to contradict people who have studied this their whole lives. Do you believe that there are precisely 19 coronavirus strains...

It's a very weird impulse to react to everything that's happening with a reflexive defense of Donald Trump personally. Is there any real argument that this is going well, or in any comparable to another crisis in our lifetimes?

This has honestly affected me more than 9/11 did. Was supposed to go to Belarus/Ukraine next week. Obviously that's not happening. It's not clear that I'll have another opportunity to do a vacation this year. I do one big party at my home every year in May based around the Eurovision Song...

Dunning-Kruger personified.

You'll be voting for Trump then.