“Lock Her Up!” Shades of Nuremberg on the campaign trail

A Democracy relies on norms of behavior to work. Everything can be spelled out in laws, so at some point laws are secondary to having people who instinctually know what is good for maintaining the democracy and what is bad for it. These Trump campaign rallies are terrible for democracy, and Trump simply doesn't give a shit. He doesn't give a single fuck about democratic norms. That's terrible. But what is worse is the Republican Party going along with it. That's the bigger betrayal. There's your treason. Trump is a reckless sociopath who should be home yelling at his TV. The GOP, allowing this, is a bunch of sycophants and craven cowards. The rabid throngs being hectored and cajoled into the cattle chute of fascism, they are simply pathetic.

Keeley to Retire

Helene Keeley will not be representing the 3rd District. “This is a bittersweet moment, and one that I struggled with during the past month. I’ve always had this tradition to…

Various Degrees of Fucked Up’edness

When your Grandpa watches too much Fox News and decides to hate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and "liberals" with a white hot hatred - that's fucked up, but more or less harmless. Except at Thanksgiving, when too many drinks can combine with too little to do for explosive (but localized) mayhem. When FBI agents working out of the New York office collectively watch too much Fox News, have personal relationships with wingnut members of congress, and decide to hate Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and "liberals" with a white hot hatred - that's really fucked up. Allowing the FBI to become partisan was James Comey's biggest failure among many failures.

Brexit and the Russia connection

Russia under Putin has been openly trying to undermine and disrupt the "North Atlantic Alliance." It has done so by supporting unqualified, destabilizing idiots like Trump for office, and by…