Former Feinstein protege. What do you expect? Not surprising at all.

Most of the others are off cashing their AIPAC checks.

Until not too long ago, here in the West Country, there were also partially self-governing collections of tin-mining towns. The tin trade was subject to stannary law, made at stannary parliaments, enforced at stannary towns in Devon and Cornwall. Tin, when refined, could only be sold in the first instance in stannary towns, where it would be made into standardized coinage. Tax on tin was also collected in the stannary towns and sent to the Monarch (or in Cornwall, the Duke of Cornwall).

The City of London is a more extreme example, since its government had representatives from each of the guilds operating in the city (and now has representatives of the large corporations, as well as a much smaller number of representatives of the people who live in the City). While it’s not London, it is about one square mile within central London. It’s a remnant of the way that many English cities were run from late Saxon times until the 19th century, and is the only “city” that has been exempted from democratic reforms.

It doesn’t really function as its own state since it has no separate courts (it owns and partially runs the Old Bailey, but that’s for all of England, not just the City), no defense or foreign-policy capacity, and none of the other functions of a state. It’s a Liberty (an area with enhanced or different rights) rather than a state. These, particularly parts of cities owned and run by the church, used to be common throughout England.

Who elected Elon Musk?

And they should run for office. We need elected officials with spines.

Musk is going to walk away with billions stolen from taxpayers

That remains to be seen. Who can predict the future?

What well-adjusted person would want to become a billionaire?

3.) if you stick your neck out like Musk (and some other billionaire cabinet members do) you run the chance that people will want to cut it off.

That’s not a chance, it’s a certainty. People do want to cut it off.

To calm himself from the meltdown, I suggest he ups his dose of ketamine and then pisses blood.

Alternatively, self-immolation is always an option, and ethically correct in his situation.

It means Trump doesn’t like it. And Trump can go fuck himself with a chainsaw. Despite his delusions, his word isn’t law. It’s just a flood of lies, threats and bullshit.

I might have a pro-Russia bias

If you do, you have zero credibility.

Russia could use that time to rearm too. Don’t assume their logistics are in great shape.

because not agreeing after Ukraine already has would make him look bloodthirsty

Anyone who doesn’t already see what Putin is, is a fool or a liar.

And that is precisely the reason that I don’t let my dog have a gun.

If you don’t like my style when I’m resisting oppression, unless you’re also on the front line, please be so kind as to STFU.

Am I civil enough for you?

They’re not the men for any moment in history. They’re stuffed shirts.

Anyone expecting the Democrats to save democracy need to get their heads examined.

As you get closer to retirement, the usual strategy is to shift from a stock-heavy portfolio to something less volatile. The retirees getting burned are the ones who were too ignorant or greedy to do that.

As a very wise person once told me about acid, it doesn’t change you as much as it makes you more like yourself.

Put an A-hole down the K-hole and guess what comes out the other end?

If we had an opposition party that wasn’t comatose, it would be announcing that any debt purchased under this scheme would not be honored once Trump is out of office.

“Hey, hey, RFKJ, how many kids have you killed today?” should be his greeting whenever he appears in public.

To Agent Orange, “illegal” means “me no like.”