Good idea: make accusations in plain language. “Trump is corrupt and steals taxpayer money.” “Republican policies hurt Americans with jobs.” “Voting for assholes gets you shat on.”

Bad idea: make shit up. “Trump eats babies.” “Republicans summon Satan in their basements.” “Vote for me and I’ll cure your cancer tomorrow.”

House Republicans want to rape your kids too.

Some people who voted for Trump have repented and joined the movement for democracy in America.

But also, there are serious doubts about the integrity of the 2024 elections and a nontrivial possibility that Trump didn’t win the election.

It has been obvious for many years that the Trump movement aims at the downfall of America, through the promotion and exaggeration of America’s flaws and the increasingly violent suppression of its virtues.

The ruble is worth more than the penny, but it’s way down from 2008 when it was almost a nickel.

Billionaires have always turned on Trump, slightly more than underage girls.

If I recall correctly, Burke expected the French Revolution to eat itself and turn tyrannical … which, y’know, it did. He was right about that.

Reagan wasn’t good on HIV-AIDS.
George H. W. Bush wasn’t either.
But George W. Bush was.

PEPFAR was Baby Bush’s baby.

I don’t think the passage you quoted was intended to say that Reagan was good on HIV-AIDS, but rather that America ended up being good on HIV-AIDS.

This looks like a blog post. Do you have a news source for it?

The conspiracy theory was that child-molesters ran the government. To fix it, they elected child-molesters to run the government.

The Social Security Agency is abbreviated “SSA”, not “SS”.

While we’re at it, the Secret Service is abbreviated “USSS”; also not “SS”.

There are no federal elections. There are state elections for Congress and for presidential electors.

As long as the US military remains capable of projecting force abroad in defense of America’s traditional allies, the US military will be the enemy of the Trump administration.

Hurting LGBT people is fun for the Trumpies, but their overall goal is to wind down America as a world power; and specifically to hand the children of Europe over to Putin’s rape gangs.

To be clear, Putin won’t get far unless France falls to fascism first, because France has nukes and will remember how to use them for things other than offending Kiwis.

Well someone’s a scrub there …

What do they have to worry about? Their guy won!

Sure, if “to brief” is analogous with “to pants”.

What’s Greek for “persona non grata”?

So does voir dire.

Jury nullification is a real thing, but it is often misunderstood … mostly because right-wing libertarians and sovereign-citizen kooks have spent decades pushing conspiracy theory about it.

It isn’t an affirmative right of citizens to get onto juries and block the enforcement of the law. Rather, it’s a logical consequence of two important rules in our legal system:

1. Double jeopardy: if a defendant gets a “not-guilty” verdict from a jury, that defendant cannot be retried for that same crime.
2. Juror independence: the judge cannot order the jury to return a particular verdict, nor punish them for returning a verdict that seems contrary to the facts and the law.

Double jeopardy is in the US Constitution. Juror independence comes from English common law, where it was established in 1670 in an infamous case where a judge imprisoned and tortured jurors for not returning the verdict the judge wanted.

Because of these two principles, if a jury returns a “not-guilty” verdict, the defendant goes free; even if the verdict seems blatantly contrary to the facts and the law. Even if the jury is blatantly wrong, nobody in the system has any authority to do anything about it — not the judge, not the prosecutor, not the cops.

If you are summoned to be on a jury and you make it clear that you do not intend to judge the case on the facts and the law, you will be dismissed from the jury in voir dire. If you preach nullification to your fellow jurors, you might cause a mistrial: the defendant will not be freed; the court will just get a new jury, and the defendant will go back to jail in the meantime.

A mistrial does not free the defendant. A hung jury (refusing to come to a consensus) does not free the defendant. Only a not-guilty verdict frees the defendant.

Doctors can tell you how to save children’s lives. But they can’t make you want to.

On the one hand, because liberals believe in free speech and not in the suppression of rival ideas by force. On the other hand, because Reconstruction failed.