Justin Savage

Retired attorney, husband, father, truth-seeker

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Beating Ken Paxton is very important but also objectively very difficult — it would be worth swallowing a *lot* of moderation on issues to make it happen.

https://t.co/L7LObQBvJ6

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Klimt Eastwood

[Justin Savage @fiend_data]

@JMWSPT A few people listed Emily Dickinson, and I saw Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Penn Warren (although they were probably thinking of ATKM) listed as well. There’s hope

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

You should have voted to convict the scorpion in its impeachment trial, Senator Frog

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

Outrageous abuse of power.

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

McConnell bringing the heat after Blanche meeting with Senate GOP today

“So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick"

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Donald Trump keeps classified national-security documents after leaving office, refuses to return them when asked, and he walks.

Former prosecutor keeps a copy of a report on Trump's misconduct, and he gets indicted.

Trump justice.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

What an hombre, this Republican. On Ukraine, the rule of law, etc. All honor. “When there are many men who lack honor,” said José Martí, “there are always others who have within themselves the honor of many men.”

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The instant he lost his seat, Cassidy began standing up for things he’s known all along were right. Profiles in cowardice, through all the ranks of the GOP.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

What if T***p just demanded the entire US treasury in perpetuity for himself & his family? Would no one stop him —really? Why can’t someone stop him now?

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. https://t.co/nUveUBkApa

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Donald Trump has reached a settlement agreement with Donald Trump's administration to give $1.7 billion of taxpayer funds to Donald Trump and Donald Trump's allies

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey.

We male sex. We
complex. We

fake horse. We
off course. We

sail long. We
hear song. We

pig crew. We
home soon.

[Justin Savage @fiend_data]

@AmericanGwyn Favorite passage from each?

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

When you listen to Trump talk about Taiwan (or many other topics) it’s the stuff he doesn’t say that is more revealing. Asked about Taiwan he blathers on about how big and strong China is, how tiny Taiwan is, about tariffs and dumb American presidents who didn’t use them. What doesn’t he talk about?

Alliances, obligations, democracy, values, honor, etc.

Keep in mind, if you don’t care whether Trump throws Taiwan under the bus, that wouldn’t be the only betrayal involved. We’d be screwing Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia too. I’m not saying we should get into a shooting war over Taiwan. I am saying Trump shouldn’t betray our allies, our values, and our national security and national honor just because he’s got a man crush on Xi.

[Justin Stapley @JustinWStapley]

The word "treason" should never leave the President's lips when talking about anyone exercising such a fundamental freedom as freedom of the press or freedom of speech.

The basic role of the President is to be a protector of our liberties, and he betrays his oath, he betrays the mandate of his office when he throws around the word "treason" to describe an exercise of the liberty he is sworn to defend.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Ukraine is giving us cards now.

[Whit Stillman @WhitStillman]

Actress crush of early youth: Claudine Longet, an interesting woman https://t.co/Apo1hVuvqL