So, Tucker didn’t launch a third party last night. But he did tell us how America is doomed and there’s no solution to anything, but also America needs to be gooder at things, and also usury is bad but also here’s an ad for a mortgage lender. So, in other words, his usual melange of stupidity, semantically overloaded platitude, and pure horseshit.

This was about the time that Tucker was visiting Mar-A-Lago reportedly begging Trump to put the entire country into lockdown. I opposed lockdowns, touted the Swedish model and the Great Barrington Declaration, opposed school shutdowns, opposed mask mandates, and sued the federal government to stop vaxx mandates.

Tisha B'Av commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples, located on the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, Israel. You know, historic and current Jewish territory. Thanks for your best wishes.

See, here's the thing: I don't really care about personal drama. I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends. Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care. For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer. You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash. That’s something anyone of decency should condemn. The fact that so many are unwilling to do so is demonstrative of widespread cowardice, stupidity, wickedness...or all three.

John Adams, writing to Abigail, about the Continental Congress' vote in favor of independence on July 2, 1776: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."

So close. 5-4 decision favoring birthplace citizenship. Pres. Trump should immediately amend his EO to apply to U.S. Territories which are not auto-bound by the 14th Amendment. Trump should keep pushing the issue wherever he can and force the court to reckon with the logic of its decision. Will they overrule the insular cases next?

It turns out that college-educated young people who think “working class” equals gruff voice, fading tats and misogyny have no idea how to speak to people who actually sell their physical labor (construction workers, electricians, real oyster farmers et al.).

"Roberts is not an originalist.  There is nothing in his very short jurisprudential record to indicate that his judicial philosophy involves strict fidelity to the original meaning of the Constitution." -- Me, July 20, 2005 ("President Bush's Roberts Pick Disappoints")

The Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship is a legal abomination. But it's just more evidence that Congress and multiple presidents, in abdicating their duty on immigration for decades, have screwed America irredeemably. We're going live now: