If it sticks, not a great draw for ol’ Kash.

Uhm . . . “politices”?

When I was a baby lawyer in DC, I worked at a very large law firm that sublet space to his little firm (this was late 80s). We always saw him at the building’s little street-level restaurant at lunch, and he was consistently a stumpy little rude, disheveled, dick to the staff running the place.

I’m reminded yet again how this sumbitch apparently always skipped leg day.

Absolutely. But because he’s a fool surrounded by sycophants, Trump simply assumes the inferiority of his opponent. The regime can be negotiated with - it’s been badly hurt - but it will viciously exploit, across all vectors, every one of the negotiating levers Trump has given it, and it should.

Instead of “cheese,” the cameraman said “Pappy Van Winkle.”

Of course they are. That they’re evil doesn’t mean that they’re not smart, experienced, deeply familiar with the dynamics in the region, and tougher than boot leather — none of which Trump is.

Trump’s overt desperation has given them the whip hand, and they’re going to use it. Slowly, over time.

I’m particularly interested in the allegation that The Atlantic failed to follow its own “politices.”

I’ve practiced for a very long time, and while it may seem a bit too glib, there is truth in this proposition: A lawyer who doesn’t spell check his own work is likely to be a pretty skeezy lawyer.

Given the individual, the best way to understand his remarks about Israel is that, in fact, Israel did talk him into the war.

I don’t know — if The Atlantic didn’t even follow its own politices, it might have a problem.

Absolutely. My situation — which involved an initial misalignment in low light, followed by a far too aggressive lower body overcorrection — is for my wife among the comedic highlights of our marriage.

I don’t want to hear about it. I once tweaked my knee peeing.

Yeah, I mean, people jump all over him but how would they like to put that stuff on their own credit cards?

The Iranians know Trump is an idiot who constantly communicates his desperation for a deal. They now know the one tool he truly does have - overwhelming violence - is a tool he can no longer really use. They’ll wait him out, making him suffer and look ever more the utter fool to the entire world.

Forward Guidance with Prime Minister Mark Carney During my time as Governor of the Bank of Canada, I developed a practice to assure people that no matter how challenging the situation seemed, we had a plan ...

It must be an extraordinary thing to have a leader who can actually string together a series of related sentences in service of a coherent set of linked concepts. And note the way he very clearly, and understandably, considers the US to be an overt threat.

It sounds bad when you say it that way.

Arc de L’Humiliation.

Sorry. A decade ago, I was roughly in the same political place you occupy. But after Thomas’s corruption; Alito’s sneering contempt for anything not Opus Dei; Kavanaugh Stops; Roberts’ destruction of democracy’s guardrails, culminating in Trump v. US and the devastating shadow docket, I’m out.

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

One of the most powerful critiques in this excellent piece involves Trump’s forfeiting our moral standing in favor of an execrable, barbarous regime . . . simply by being himself.

There is no more powerful indictment of this odious heel than that the world now trusts Iran more than it does us.

In our system, the SCOTUS isn’t even designed to “govern” - it resolves cases and controversies under legal constructs generally created by others.

That this SCOTUS does “govern,” but governs so badly and without regard to the way its governance affects the populace, is a measure of its failure.

I just found out about “cars.” No words.

Who among us doesn’t bungle our phrasing when the BAC starts pushing .15?

I find her unlistenable and unreadable (unlike her admirable colleague, David French). Her setting, in every instance, is this — if the Court’s conservatives ever err, it is only because they have been boxed into the error by some earlier moral and intellectual crime of the Left. Every time.

I’m second to no man in my contempt for this miserable, lying POS, but the article didn’t say he was excluded because his “erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission.” It said they kept him out of the room because his “impatience wouldn’t be helpful.” There’s a difference.

He left immediately after the show to visit the Strait of Vermouth.

The WH’s congenital mendacity is also a serious strategic problem. By saying things that are sorta/kinda true, the Iranians are able to set themselves up, in contrast to the WH’s firehose of horseshit, as the adults in all of this. It’s unearned, but Trump’s utter fucking stupidity gives it to them.

The thing is, the Iranians know this, and are actively using it to enhance their own credibility — they need only say something generally true, but in contrast to the WH’s bullshit . . . voila, the murderous, theocratic Iranian regime becomes the credible adult in all of this. Trump is such a clown.

I’m liking Ossoff a lot. He’s figured it out — people want, yes, to know that the government isn’t going to actively undermine their ability to pay for the things they need … but they also want to see crooks and liars and thieves and grifters in jail. They very much want retribution for this.

You’re going to have to have your tongue surgically removed from your cheek.