zaphod beeblebrox IV

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it; good and hard.” HL Mencken

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@CroesusApprent1 @DavidAFrench If a family member was given top secret clearance by the president after the folks that give clearance said no, and they became part of his administration and then got multiple billions from foreign governments, that would be bad.

But that’s Jared Kushner, not Hunter Biden.

[Faiz @fshakir]

Bernie has addressed this many times, including in one of my all-time favorite Bernie moments during a 2017 CNN debate with Ted Cruz.

WATCH: Bernie takes on a Denmark-born economist from the conservative Peterson Institute. The economist starts by attacking Bernie's approach. See what happens next...

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@herprettybones For the record, the article is very deferential. His point is that die hard Buffalo fans have suffered longer than anyone and he feels uncomfortable bandwagoning without Buffalo fan permission (even surveying fans at the end the article).

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@DelReid @Katie_Falls I just made a couple of 10:1 bets the Sabres wouldn’t make the playoffs and now I most likely owe $20 dollars total. If I’d known that was all it takes, I’d have done it a decade ago.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“Every just view that can be taken of this subject, admonishes the public, of the necessity of a rigid adherence to the simple, the received and the fundamental doctrine of the constitution, that the power to declare war including the power of judging of the causes of war is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature: that the executive has no right, in any case to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war: that the right of convening and informing Congress, whenever such a question seems to call for a decision, is all the right which the constitution has deemed requisite or proper: and that for such more than for any other contingency, this right was specially given to the executive.

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objection to such a mixture of heterogeneous powers: the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man: not such as nature may offer as the prodigy of many centuries, but such as may be expected in the ordinary successions of magistracy. War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

“Hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war: hence it is the practice of all states, in proportion as they are free, to disarm this propensity of its influence.”

—James Madison

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

The Detroit-Windsor crossing handles over 25% of U.S.-Canada trade—and today that crossing is controlled by one billionaire family running a century-old bridge.

That billionaire calls Trump’s Commerce Secretary, and hours later Trump attacks the new publicly-owned Gordie Howe bridge and threatens to block it from opening?

It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.

Trump is selling out Michigan jobs for the same elites he claims to fight, and Mike Rogers is cheering him on—calling it 'the right thing' to block a bridge built by thousands of union workers and owned by the people of Michigan.

If you didn't know who Rogers works for before, you do now.

He works for Trump, not Michigan. And he has no business in the Senate.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

This is an outrageous abuse of power by Donald Trump and his lackies. It wasn’t enough for Pete Hegseth to censure me and threaten to demote me, now it appears they tried to have me charged with a crime — all because of something I said that they didn’t like. That’s not the way things work in America.

Donald Trump wants every American to be too scared to speak out against him. The most patriotic thing any of us can do is not back down.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

Apparently running headfirst into a brick wall is the new fell out a window.

[Steve Peoples @sppeoples]

ICE agents initially claimed Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man’s 31-year-old’s brain. ... A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain.

Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents. Minnesota incorporation filings show he founded a company called Castaneda Construction the following year with an address listed in St. Paul. He appears to have no criminal record.
https://t.co/IpO4pBmATe

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MASSIVE BREAKING: A witness swore under penalty of perjury that Donald Trump threatened a young girl, telling her she could “disappear like another 12-year-old female,” and then threatened to kill her entire family, according to Epstein-related court records.
This allegation appears in Dataset 9 of Epstein File EFTA01250883.pdf.

This is sworn testimony.

If the witness fabricated this account, they would face multiple years in federal prison for perjury.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@ConsumersBeer @maydayhockey Mike Ramsey

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@Filmwatchers1 Twice last season the Bills handed the ball to a running back four straight times and turned it over on downs.

Brady employs good tactics, but has no overall strategic thinking.

He is demonstrably not good as an OC, we have every right to be concerned about him as a HC.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

They told us Democrats would turn America into a show-your-papers society.

They told us Democrats would strip away the Second Amendment.

They told us Democrats would jail us for what we say.

They told us Democrats would drag us into more foreign wars.

They told us Democrats would cover up a child sex trafficking ring.

And then Republicans took power and decided to do all of it themselves.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@Bulldogwgr I would very much like to do that in April and see an “X” next to the Sabres instead of the seemingly inevitable every year “e”.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@WGR550 Points off turnovers is the dumbest stat in football. Two turnovers in field goal range. 6 points weren’t the defense. The other 24 they own.

24 points allowed is a mediocre day at best.

[Draft Jon Stewart 2028 @Stewart_2028]

He's always so freaking right.

Jon Stewart 2028.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@Matt38616082851 @CMDeDominicis Compared to Bryson? No.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@CMDeDominicis Yeah, that’d be great. Coach has to coach what he has now.

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

@CMDeDominicis Ruff does that how?

[zaphod beeblebrox IV @ZBIV42]

Your dad would’ve shot that, Doan!

#sabres