Four years ago this week, @theAtlantic published this 11,000-word piece I had written explaining why Donald Trump, as a narcissistic psychopath, was utterly unfit to carry out the duties established for his office under the Constitution.
We still haven’t come to grips with his severe psychological disorders and what they mean for the country. And since then, two impeachments, four indictments, an attempted coup and numerous attempts to incite violence later, he’s gotten much worse.
I will have more to say about this—a lot more—during the coming months.
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I know we had pretty much gotten to the point where you could say anything on this site, but now you can *really* say anything on this site because no one will see it.
That is true genius. Thank you, Elon Musk.
Yeah, my mom and dad's interracial marriage was illegal until I was a year old and then--later--they struggled to buy a home in their Long Island community because people didn't want to sell to a Black lady. Good times!
Bill Barr on the classified documents investigation:
"This is not a case of the DOJ conducting a witch hunt...This would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents, but he jerked them around for a year and a half...There is no excuse for what he did here."
The mortgage payment needed to buy the median priced home for sale in the US has moved up to $2,520, a new all-time high. A year ago it was under $2,000 and three years ago under $1,500.
So here are the two charts you need to win any argument over whether gun laws matter.
1. America, with more guns than any other high income nation, is a wild outlier of gun violence.
2. States with stronger gun laws have much less gun crime.