Thad

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• Commented on London Bridge
  Yeah, my grandmother passed in July (at 92) following a similarly rapid decline. Quick is better than slow....
• Commented on What happens now?
  I did mention the state charges, but I could have spent more time on them. As you say, NY State charges seem inevitable. I wouldn't be surprised to see charges in Georgia, either. Another thing I didn't mention regarding federal...
• Commented on What happens now?
  There are a number of fractions in the Republican Party, the most significant of which right now is between the Trump true believers (Josh Hawley, Trey Gowdy, Paul Gosar, et al) and the people who support Trump's policies but wish...
• Commented on Dead plots
  Of many problems with the recent X-Files revival, I think this one was far and away the biggest. Mulder's conspiracy theories were cute and charming in 1993. In 2016, he was waxing poetic about how 9/11 was an inside job...
• Commented on Some notes on the worst-case scenario
  I saw a good piece by Tom Pepinsky the other day titled Weak and Incompetent Leaders act like Strong Leaders. tl;dr Hanlon's Razor with a bit of polisci to back it up. It helped convince me that Trump's strongman tactics...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  Is it hopelessly optimistic to want to believe that a bunch more of them are meeting in private to discuss impeachment proceedings, but aren't going public until they've got enough folks on their team to make a credible play? Unfortunately...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  The outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the US Presidential election prove that I was wrong about that; there are more utter shits (or people gullible enough to be mislead by authoritarian shitheads and racists) than there are socially-minded liberals...