Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

We will not go back.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Let there be snark.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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Feeding People and Providing Them Water Still Legal, For Now

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Some good news:

Jurors found humanitarian aid volunteer Scott Warren not guilty Wednesday of intentionally harboring and concealing two undocumented migrants from the Border Patrol in the remote Arizona desert.

Warren, a longtime volunteer with humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, faced up to 20 years in prison. It was his second trial stemming from his January 2018 arrest in Ajo, about 100 miles southwest of Phoenix.

The 12-person jury in Tucson took just more than two hours to reach a not guilty verdict, striking a blow to federal prosecutors who opted to retry Warren after the first trial ended in a hung jury in June.

“The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness,” Warren told supporters outside the federal courthouse.

The bad news? We live in a country to racist and afraid that we charge citizens with felonies for feeding desperate people. And try them twice, just because we fucking can.

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  2. 2.

    Donald Gisselbeck

    There was this homeless Guy a couple of millennia back who said he would send you to hell if you didn’t give water to the thirsty and take in aliens.

  7. 7.

    JaySinWA

    Hey, they tried him twice, we can review his acquittal a second time

    ETA or is that view it twice? or view and review? At any case our tax dollars at work, trying to make the world less safe.

  9. 9.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

     

    I was trying to be polite! ; p

     

    Has Cole ever mentioned what he does for a living outside of Balloon Juice?

     

    ETA:

     

    I do wonder if/when the GOP and Federalist types will call this jury decision “jury nullification”

  19. 19.

    LAO

    @Kent: I find it pretty amusing since there was a line of Republican questioning today that sought to imply that Sondland was bullied into changing his testimony by leftist protesters. Hahaha

  22. 22.

    LAO

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):   It’s late on the East Coast and I’m probably going to regret asking this, but I’m genuinely curious. If you believe jury nullification is a good thing, then why phrase the comment as so:

    I do wonder if/when the GOP and Federalist types will call this jury decision “jury nullification”

     

    (I can’t  figure out how to get the block quote to work)

  24. 24.

    Jay

    This one’s for Tony Jay and all his hard work,…..

    I’m sorry but Britain simply can’t risk Jeremy Corbyn and his radical policies like “what if Britain wasn’t a shithole run by cunts”— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) November 19, 2019

  26. 26.

    Procopius

    @Donald Gisselbeck: I don’t think he actually said he would send anybody to hell for any reason. He did say that people who refused charity and kindness couldn’t enter the Kingdom, but that’s not the same thing. Lots of people since then have tried to make the Rabbi like the Old Testament God, but even that god ordered  commanded us to be open-handed to the poor and needy (Deuteronomy 15:11) . Anger comes from fear. There is just so much fear in America.

  33. 33.

    danielx

    @Kent:

     

    They want people to walk the plank for Trump. Unfortunately for their viewpoint, people willing to go to the bitter end for Donald Trump are mighty thin upon the ground and getting thinner all the time. It doesn’t take a particularly clear intellect to note the eventual fate of everyone who’s come into Trump’s orbit. Which seems to be humiliation, ruined reputations, financial ruin and/or jail, take your pick.

  35. 35.

    Martin

    I wonder how Schiff is going to handle this.

    Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018, Parnas’  lawyer Ed MacMahon told The Daily Beast.

    …

    The travel came as Nunes, in his role on the House Intelligence Committee, was working to investigate the origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election meddling.

    Parnas testifying would be quite a sight.

  36. 36.

    ed smart

    @LAO:  Sure it was jury nullification and good for them. One of my biggest regrets as a citizen is that I didn’t try to inspire jury nullification in a case I sat on.  Homeless guy sleeping in a van.  Guilty of some form of misdemeanor if the van had moved during a certain period, and there was good evidence that it had. We did the lawful thing and found him guilty, to my lasting shame. Given that he took the thing to trial her probably did some time for it, unless the judge was smarter in sentencing, than we had been.

  37. 37.

    TupeloPhoney

    @LAO: Jury nullification is a great tool to effect justice.  The problem is when the community’s idea of “justice” involves acquitting the perpetrators of lynchings, as was common in the Jim Crow South.  I think that’s what causes some ambivalence about it for some people.

  38. 38.

    artem1s

    In other news a GOP appointed judge sentenced a homeless man to die by crucifixion for the crime of feeding and healing the poor, associating with sinners and brown people, and walking on a waterway in a federal park.

    /s

    Jeebus save us …from your believers

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