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Great Britain is a republic, with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king, -The Knoxville Journal, 1896 While cheeky, there's some truth to the quote, the President of the United States acts far more like a King, including traditional kingly powers...

I think you lost my chain of logic there. If Defamation carries a life sentence, then claiming the Clintons have a trail of dead bodies would give said claimant a life sentence. If Truth was a perfect defense against defamation charges, there would have to be sufficient proof in the courts to...

If it was "truthful" (in the only sense the legal system cares about) the Clintons would be in prison for it.

Who wouldn't want to live in a world where every person who said there were suspicious deaths connected to the Clintons got life in prison?

It's worse than we thought. Jan 6 was the biggest attack on democracy since the civil war. Worse than BLM, worse than the Oklahoma City Bombing, worse than 9/11, worse than Pearl Harbor or both world wars. It was the worst.

I was under the impression Trump was outside giving a speech when this all went down.

I'm more of a big picture ribcage and don't sweat those minor details.

I suspect the response will be that the FBI didn't entrap anybody, but of course they had agents to keep an eye on them, which was clearly good and necessary since the insurrectionists tried to overthrow the government on 1/6.

Naw, I'm pretty much "A pox on both your houses" as far as US politics goes, I don't care a lot for the right either and they're managing to screw up just as much.

Indeed. You can rule as long as you give the citizens their Bread And Circuses. Too many leaders have started thinking the circus would be more fun if they didn't have to share it with all those proles, and they can save money by cutting down bread rations. That never ends well.

Yeah... hence my comment on securing some authority to compel an inspection rather than wandering in like tourists, because if there's shady stuff to be found of course the warden won't let them in to see it just because they asked nicely.

I gotta confess the entire prison visit deal seems really suspicious to me. These representatives just show up randomly and ask for access? Why didn't their staff call ahead and make arrangements instead of them wandering into the lobby like a gaggle of tourists? If they wanted a surprise...

We once had herds of bison roaming the continent so large you could see nothing but bison from horizon to horizon, many such herds covering the entire midwest. Their farts (it's actually burps but farts are more amusing, I know) did not cause global warming in the past. Somehow much tinier...

Yup, Farmers don't get much of the actual value of their produce. For each dollar it costs you at the grocery store, the farmer gets about 14-15 cents*. Increasing the cost even slightly at the farmer/rancher level thus dramatically increases cost at the checkout line. The situation is made...

This seems relevant. Liz Cheney: The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.