WatDabney

She's bludgeoningly obviously compromised. All the way through, her rulings, and the timing and circumstances of them, have not been made in the service of enforcing law, but engineered to benefit Trump.

So really the only question is whether or not justice will prevail. If this is still in any sense a nation of laws, she'll be removed (and hopefully sanctioned for her rather obvious bias and/or corruption).

But to all appearances, this is not a nation of law...

And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he'll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he's almost certainly right.

It's become obvious over time that one of Trump's primary strategies in life is assigning his failures and faults to other people. He lives in a sort of permanent fog of projection.

I wonder who he's trying to fool though. It's so constant and seemingly effortless that I suspect that it's really mostly for his own benefit - that it's not just the story he's telling other people, but the story he's telling himself.

These groups understand the Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters who will do so.

Or in other words, Democrats are more likely to actually think about their votes and find things to appreciate in multiple candidates, while Republicans are more likely to just slavishly vote for whoever has an [R] after their name and disregard everything and everyone else.

And arguably more to the point, Republican politicians count on that.

As I've said a number of times now, I'm convinced that Trump can't meaningfully recognize the difference between true and false and right and wrong. I think his mind has been so warped by his pathological and increasingly delusional narcissism that his standard for whether something is true or false or right or wrong is entirely subjective and entirely internalized - that, quite simply, if he believes it then it's true and if he doesn't believe it then it's false, and if he wants it then it's right and if he doesn't want it then it's wrong. That's it - trapped in his self-serving delusions, he has no other basis on which to judge.

So of course he's defending Loomer - she tells him things he wants to hear, so in his deranged view, she tells him the truth. And since he's visibly coming apart at the seams and on track to lose the election, she's likely one of the few who are telling him things he wants to hear, so one of the few he trusts to tell him the "truth."

And it just now struck me, mostly because that all made me think of Hitler in his final days, and I have no idea now why it took so long because it suddenly seems so terribly obvious - Trump's almost certainly a long time meth user, isn't he?

Yeah - that fits. That absolutely fits.

I think you have forums confused with microblogs.

I presume I'm supposed to care, but I dont, and I don't know why anyone would.

Yes - they will sacrifice public lands to the oil industry. And the mining industry And the lumber industry. And any other industry that pays them sufficient bribes.

And when the people can't take it anymore and finally try to stand against the wanton destruction, we're going to learn first-hand why all those Cop Cities are being built.

Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

Yellowstone is an odd and awkward combination of things.

I grew up in that part of the world and, unlike the author of the linked article (and the people he writes about), I spent a lot of my time in the outdoors. In fact, in the summer, my family spent more time traveling and camping than they did at home. I don't even remember learning about the outdoors - it's as if I've just always known how to function in it.

And from that point of view, there are two distinctive facts about Yellowstone.

First, as noted and as is obvious, it's packed full of tourists, most of whom know nothing at all about the outdoors.

The other thing though - the odd and awkward thing - is that it's unusually dangerous - not just to ignorant tourists, but to anyone. As a matter of fact, between the geysers, the terrain and the wildlife, I'm hard-pressed to think of another place in the whole of the northwest that's more immediately and inherently dangerous than Yellowstone. I mean - there are certainly places you can get to that are more dangerous - high in the mountains or deep in the deserts - but those all require significant effort. To just get out of a car and walk 50 feet into danger - nowhere else is even close to Yellowstone.

So it's just sort of ironic that it's also the place stuffed to the brim with dumb tourists.

Trump is rather obviously profoundly mentally ill, and it's long past time for that to be noted every single time he goes off on another of his delusional rants.

Exactly as noted in the article, it's not even enough to fact check him (though that should be done as a matter of course) because it's not just that so much of what he says is false. The much more significant fact is that so much of what he says is insane. It's not ideas and beliefs shaped and presented by a rational mind, but the disjointed ravings of a lunatic, and that's exactly how it should be treated.

Love the responses from the influencers. They're all silent about it until Johnson claims that he's a "victim," then there's this sudden rush of "Yeah... yeah - that's it. Me too! I'm a victim too!"

Uh huh...