I know people are quick to jump on this as a sign of cognitive impairment, but could this be a form of aphasia resulting from his fall a few months ago?

I just ask because it’s possible it’s a motor issue (knows what he wants to say but can’t physically say it) rather than a cognitive issue (can’t think of something to say).

As much as I’d love for McConnell to GTFO, and certainly support age/term limits in Congress, if it is a motor issue it’d be similar to what Fetterman has dealt with since his stroke (auditory issue vs. cognitive issue).

Good riddance, though a plane crash seems like a relatively easy way to “kill” someone while they go into hiding.

Sure, as long as we also have a competency test for retirees as well.

I wonder who scores better?

There’s a significant difference between the people rising against their government and the people rising against some of the government on behalf of the rest of the government.

That’s what happened on Jan 6th. Those people were launching an assault to support their preferred representatives, they were very much pro-government. Nothing libertarian about it.

I think their words are accurate, it’s just that their allegiance isn’t to the United States of America.

I don’t think he knows how SCOTUS works…

Haven’t used my desktop in ages, has been completely replaced by my personal and work laptops.

They claimed that his statements made while President served an interest to the government. It’s wildly stupid, and really just a flimsy excuse to protect him, but that’s what they said.

I think this may just be another excuse, but part of why they’re reversing course is that he’s now made statements long after losing office, so how could you argue that his actions were driven by his service to the office?

Justice Department lawyers said they took into consideration Trump’s deposition that was played in the battery and defamation trial, as well as statements Trump made last October repeating the denials long after he left office, as an indication that he was not motivated to protect and serve the US when he first made the comments.

When the success of a media organization is bound to the rules of capitalism, it’s unsurprising that their objectives becomes capitalistic. The responsibilities of the 4th estate and the incentives of capitalism are misaligned.

The catch-22 is that the solution to this is regulation by the government. But the 4th estate is itself a check on government. So if the government is given regulatory control over the 4th estate, you open up the possibility of neutering that check.

Then again, that check has already been neutered by capitalism so…

I don’t think he “face planted”, he’s telling us exactly who he is. The good Senator from Alabama, one of the lucky 100 to make major policy decisions for all of us, is a defender of white supremacists.

But don’t worry, racism is dead and gone. SCOTUS told us so.

I feel like there’s a concerted effort to delegitimize the entire concept of whistleblowing. They’re getting more common, more partisan, and less backed by physical evidence.

I don’t think you solve one problem by introducing another problem. The solution to over-criminalization is to decriminalize things. If a person is a danger to society, charge them with a crime and let a jury of their peers decide their guilt. Hacking into someone’s property so that you can spy on them is absolutely not an alternative worth entertaining.