Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

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  2. 2.

    prob50

    Isn’t it amazing how a nasty little scumbag like Assange has managed to garner so much attention and so much commentary and speculation. Sign of the times, I guess.

    He acts like he’s hot sh*t on a log, but he’s really only cold piss on a tooth[pick.

  3. 3.

    Plato

    Heh Assange fanbois. This is for you and your misplaced poutrage.

    I was on State’s China desk when these cables were released. I worked feverishly to determine which Chinese human rights activists’ lives might be in danger by the public disclosure of their contact with US officials. Assange is no friend of human rights. https://t.co/yXtqbuRevM— Laura Rosenberger (@rosenbergerlm) April 11, 2019

    When the Guardian editors told him they would redact the names of Afghans mentioned in the cables whose lives would be otherwise endangered, Assange said: “Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it.” https://t.co/9OWzYWFV0H https://t.co/Kx1xPBQLzf— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) April 11, 2019

    Fuck him and his ilk.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Reserving more substantial potential charges until Assange was arrested and extradited

    Any such further charges for any offense committed prior to extradition are specifically prohibited by the U.S.-U.K. treaty of extraditon’s Article 18 unless completely agreed to by the U.K. pdf file

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @NotMax: Once they have their hands on him, do you think little things like laws or treaties are going to stop them from doing whatever they want?

  8. 8.

    Nelle

    He fled investigation for rape. That focuses my attention. Slime pretending to be the great hero.

  9. 9.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @NotMax: Pompeo flounders on why annexation is good for the Golan but not for Crimea

    Under intense questioning about why the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights was good but the Russian seizure of Crimea was bad, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, told senators that there was an “international law doctrine” which would be explained to them later.

    It turned out there was no doctrine. The state department’s clarification of Pompeo’s remarks contained no reference to one, and experts on international law said that none exists.

    Donald Trump’s decision last month to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, captured from Syria in 1967, took the state department by surprise, and it has been struggling to catch up since.

    Pompeo has provided several justifications for the move, from ancient Jewish roots on the plateau, to the justness of the Israeli cause in the “six-day war”, and the blunt force of “facts on the ground”.

    On Tuesday, bombarded by senators’ questions on the distinction between the Golan and the Crimean cases, he suggested there was a body of international law underpinning Trump’s move, that would soon be revealed.

    “There is international law doctrine on this very point. We don’t have time to go through it today. But [I’m] happy to have a team go over and walk you through that element of international law,” Pompeo told a Senate appropriations subcommittee.

    Asked for clarification about the “doctrine” the state department issued a statement that made several arguments but no legal ones.

    They don’t believe laws apply to them. They don’t believe they are bound by treaties.

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    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Indeed the Dolt 45 badministration’s track record builds a case for the U.K. to deny extradition, which it has done before involving requests by the U.S.

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    Joe Falco

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    They don’t believe laws apply to them. They don’t believe they are bound by treaties

    If it was a country other than the US, it would be called a “rogue state” and their leaders shunned from having anything to do with the rest of the world. F the Republicans and all the people who put them in power, foreign or domestic.

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    StringOnAStick

    @moonbat: I’m not sure about that, but there are big differences between the Swedish law system and our own so this case keeps getting muddled reporting. What he fled from was the questioning that precedes laying of charges, meaning they wanted to talk to him (after having talked to his 2 accusers) to see if a case needed to be pursued. Once he fled to the embassy in London, this step couldn’t be pursued so the case went on hold/dropped. My understanding is that at least one of the victims wants to open the case again. Maybe we should let Julian head to Sweden first to answer those charges.

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