Add to that the utter failure of Biden's DoJ to prosecute the mountains of manifest and well documented crimes of the first Trump administration and you would be justified in any degree of skepticism that any crime by a Republican elite, no matter how grotesque, would be prosecuted by a Democrat.

Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, the torture memos, Nissour Square massacre, the Cheney Halliburton contracts, politicization of the DoJ, etc.

Nothing was prosecuted by the Obama DoJ. Obama even kept Bush's Defense Secretary rather than investigate war crimes.

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"It was almost no trick at all [..] to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor [..] brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it [..] it merely required no character."

Or perhaps they simply have no reasons for sophistry or denial.

Unlike so many others faced with the same data.

"Cats understand patriarchy and have learned to deal with it" is one of the strangest headlines I have seen in 2025.

Not exactly Napoleonic.

The only person who should ever "retreat to Ibiza" is a Russian oligarch's trust fund kid who wants to lose themselves in sex and generic, mid-beat techno or house.

Which I guess may be, well, aspirational for second-tier Manhattan real estate investor Steven Witkoff.

The United States is not currently at war with any state in the Caribbean. That means that Hegseth's orders are not war crimes comparable to those of Kapitänleutnant Eck of U-852, subject to an analysis under the laws of war.

They are simply murder.

The U-boat's commander defended his decision as "operational necessity" - the need to prevent the allies from locating his submarine.

Another German U-boat commander testified that murdering survivors unlawful in the Kriegsmarine.

The captain and 2 officers were sentenced to death by firing squad

Brutal. That's gotta' leave a mark.