#Venal

Most startling thing about whole Cummings Covid fiasco is the reminder of how bafflingly hopeless they all are. He's presented as some sort of shadowy mastermind but is just a

Let it be clear: Trump is a coward and a failure. He had the might, wealth and genius of America at his command. He failed to respond, failed to listen

There are several themes to Joe Biden's five-decade career: his willingness to shift positions with a change in the wind; his willingness to let his family take advantage of his

What if the people best qualified to determine their risk calculations are individuals and communities, not national experts? What if experts ought to provide us information such that we can

What's interesting about people like Amy Coney Barrett is that we're told they are brilliant and yet they cannot connect the dots that lead to the obvious conclusion that their

Duncan Hothersall

Wonderful news that @kezdugdale is now free of a relentless attempt to silence fair comment by a man who, as found by the court, subjected her to many years of

Cynthia Stephen

I'm getting responses on my Twitter timeline, "rice bag". The reference is to the fact that my ancestors three years ago allegedly converted to Christianity to get rice. I'm glad

Vote Immortan Joe for Warchief

When they run out of immigrants and refugees to toss into the abattoir, who's going to pick up the slack? The assholes complaining that they can't get their nails done?

I would like the waves of viscous dipshit propeller-head incredulity regarding Sidney Powell even now washing through the crevices of Parler and Nazi Twitter to be made into a proper

Adam H. Johnson

reason there was so much hostility to Sanders campaign was ideological but it was also not. There’s a gentlemen’s agreement of silence around the revolving door of dem politics and

Video is cringe but comments are worth reading. Lots of ethnotards & deletes attacking the Rs.https://twitter.com/imjadeja/status/1249342023062245376 A point about what he's doing (badly) though. I've seen & heard about something

Tamara Cofman Wittes

A Saudi-Israeli opening, if & when it comes, would indeed be historic. But I’ve heard many suggest opening to Israel would be a quick way for Saudi to solve its

KeepCalmAndDrawl

Despite our talk of “equality”, the reality is that societies will generally put up with having elites, and even (to a degree) the assumption of lese majeste on their part.

"China’s rulers view the West as ill-disciplined, weak and venal, and are seeking to bring it to heel, like a dog...China is increasingly sure that America is in long-term, irreversible

Guy Hamilton-Smith

Had a really fascinating conversation where the conclusion reached was that trump is not some kind of aberration. He is America’s Id basically. He is America with the volume cranked

ŒV: This whole business about white-supremacist rioters (and who knows, maybe there are four or five who want to go mingle with violent throngs of people they hate and fear)