the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.

The world needs to know Trump’s US is a country which will watch two stranded men fight for life on a camera feed for an hour, only to dispatch a $100k anti-armor missile to turn their bodies to pulp, and then laughingly describe it as military necessity. Show the world how we’re killing for sport.

Batya might herself be perfectly willing to outsource all of her moral convictions to an alcoholic Crusades enthusiast. But most of us deserve a public justification for these decisions that aren’t exclusively made by someone who is sexually stimulated by the word “lethality.”

In my lifetime every time we’ve had a GOP president we have had an economic slump. Reagan-Bush, Bush II, Trump. And every time we have had a Democrat it’s been economic recovery: Clinton, Obama, Biden.

Every. Time.