Haven’t been for decades. The corporate news media just makes it sound like they mean it. Even they know they’re full of shit.

And he did it on the Fourth of July.

Along with the rest of the republiQan putin-suckers.

On Tuesday afternoon, the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee issued some important findings, concluding that the U.S. intelligence community was correct in its assessment: Russia attacked the U.S. elections in 2016 and did so in the hopes of putting Donald Trump in the White House.

It was right around this time that seven Republican members of Congress – six senators and one House member – were in Moscow. Making matters much worse, however, is what the GOP lawmakers had to say while they were there. The Washington Post reported:

The only thing she didn’t do to escape justice was declare presidential immunity.

well clearly you’re guilty. Hang on a second while we check the cold case files to pin something on you.

tfw I agree with Liz Cheney

Betraying the Constitution comes first though. We can prosecute them for failing the rest of the world next.

Bernard Gaetz

represent

Shocked. Yes, shocked I am that

Have no fear, citizens! The American Judicial system will adjudicate this conflict with characteristic speed and wisdom! Expect everything to be a kind of malevolent higgledy-piggledy for 30 years. After that, there’ll be some sort of tacit understanding of a gentleman’s agreement which will be used as a rule of thumb for certain non-monetized works which may be certified for limited un-scraping status. It’s win-win!

I have friends who, against better counsel, have android phones, and the group texts were forever breaking. I finally brokered a deal for us to use Signal, which has been great. So (1) Android users in a group text on iPhone is a super pain in the ass, and (2) If everyone’s using Signal, it’s cool.

Reminder that Crystal Mason is still serving five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot on advice from the poll worker while on supervised release.

Spoiler alert: Texas

The poll asked: “I wish I could go back to a time before everyone was ‘plugged in’” And people answered Strongly Agree / Agree / No Opinion / Disagree / Strongly Disagree

Other than noting it was a “Harris Poll” it said nothing about how many respondents there were, how they contacted them or anything else.

Would the world be better if everyone wasn’t face-down in an illuminated rectagle every moment they could be? Before climate change became so ridiculously notable? Before Trump? Etc? It probably would be nice. It doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be Internet, or anything else, really.

There was a point where being online meant you’d read a manual and knew a damn thing. That was nice. But hey. We’ve got an open-source federated social media platform now, so. Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to.

Anyway, I think the phrasing of the title is clickbait.

“Sir the asteroid and the alien armada will be here at roughly the same time - in about 20 minutes.”

sigh Fine, I’ll have one of those . . . coffee . . orange juice ginger things. I mean - what the hell, right?