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Anthony Damiani
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Traditionally, no, we don’t actually do that. Formally it’s now Mr. Bush, Mr. Carter, Mr. Obama as an address, or ‘Former President Clinton’ as a description. Extending the full title as a courtesy has been used informally, but it’s widespread use is new and kind of contentious.
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Except for Covid. Or honestly anything at all that happened in 2020. For some reason none of that counts.
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They’re freaking out because this shouldn’t be happening. Biden’s age is almost incidental, the panic is: dear God, surely we’re not walking back into the mouth of madness? Trump should be in jail not maybe kinda sorta leading the polls, and we all know it.
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I honestly don’t think the press (especially the NYT) will accept anything less at this point. It’s ridiculous, and I have no idea if the firestorm that follows would be any better, but they are going to be pushing this every day until November if he doesn’t.
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They won’t vote for Biden because the NYT is dedicating 3/4 of its campaign coverage to portraying Biden as a walking corpse, and utterly ignoring Trump’s debacles. It’s Her Emails 2: The Revenge.
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My thought is that they used ‘but her emails’ to break Hillary, choosing an absurd minor story to fixate on obsessively instead of paying attention to Trump’s many, many flaws. The NYT has found its equivalent for this cycle and will not stop between now and November no matter what.
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They have been trying to take him down for months at a minimum.
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The race hasn’t changed; they’ve been trying to make this happen for months.
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It’s fear, shock and horror. The specter of a real second Trump term is anathema to American civics; he should have been stopped at a hundred points. It’s both awful and something that should be impossible. The panic is basically the same as seeing Cthulhu rise from the ocean.
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Do they work today as a concept? They always seemed to me like a weird blend of silver age goofiness and a continuity that is intimidating even by comic standards. Is it possible the best place for them at the moment is as a little side setting for other DC adventures?
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I was also assured they wouldn’t overturn centuries of precedent and rule that the President is above the law, retroactively legalizing Watergate and Iran Contra. Nothing in their hands can be regarded as safe merely because it is reasonable.
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If he resigns in favor of Harris, do we lose the ability to determine who presides over counting the electoral votes? They’re not going to approve a new VP before the election and the GOP seems likely to try a repeat of last time procedurally at a minimum.
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This whole conversation is bizarre, you keep projecting positions on me that I have not expressed.
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You seem to be under the impression I had been talking about the case directly, rather than the speech the President just made. If you have an issue with his depiction of the ruling (“virtually no limits on what the president can do” “king above the law” etc) then you can take it up with him.
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Anthony Damiani
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Please bear in mind that I was referring to the President’s wording specifically.
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Well, I just heard the President tell me he’d been granted the powers of a king. Under those circumstances it’s harder to justify an inability to act.
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Quite aside from today’s ruling, the thing where new rules that redefine the social and administrative fabric of this country come out far more regularity from the court than the legislature is just not how *any* of this is supposed to work.
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A whole ton of 5-4 decisions shook out however Anthony Kennedy wanted them to.
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Got to be honest “this is real bad, the fundamental pillars of our constitutional order are gone, and I will do nothing to protect you or restore them— be sure to vote!” Was really not what I wanted to hear.
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A 5-4 court gets us Barrett’s partial dissent here as the ruling.
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Yeah, that seems unsubstantiated. Guy had a bad 20 minutes doped up on cough syrup, you’re ready to pronounce him a vegetable.
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I restrict my remarks to the specific claim in question.
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This is bullshit, he’s been doing media basically constantly.
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What should that action be?
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Near as I can tell we just officially lost, and the only question left is whether the ensuing dictatorship is out to get us, or not.
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Yeah, but avoiding that just got a lot more legal.
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To be fair, the paper of record has been openly salivating for this for months, they were never going to let it go this easily.
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The last convention that wasn’t a coronation was 1968 and it cost the party an election and haunted it for decades. This isn’t a Sorkin movie. Also, you’d need to explain how Biden thinks he’s too old to be a candidate but well enough to be President. His alternative to running is resignation.
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Hey, the other guys are re-running a one-term President. Jimmy Carter is rested and ready!
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In a mechanical sense, maybe. But black women are a core Democratic constituency. We flat out can’t win without them. Passing over the highest ranking black woman in the nation’s history without a primary seems like a fantastic way to fracture the coalition.
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I can see why you’d feel that way, because you’re under sustained legal assault and things are undeniably getting worse. But the administration really has done a lot of things from repealing “right-to-discriminate” rules to undoing the ban on trans service members in the armed forces.
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You’d think. But Sulzberger has a chip on his shoulder about Biden, and large swathes of their editorial page basically hates trans folks. I think they’ve earned the label.
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Yeah, it’s going to take more than an out of context statement in a hostile rag like the Times to disregard the administration’s years of being surprisingly good on protecting trans right.
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I think the design principle here is ‘let’s not make a mechanism that encourages a coup’
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“Why does Joe Biden not simply become more powerful than we can possibly imagine?”
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“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”
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Have you gotten to the last twenty minutes? The finale reaches another level.
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From what source do you draw this reassurance?
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Surprisingly, no, it's bad there too.
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
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I think the odds he actually got convicted were a lot lower than the odds that the judge he’s been openly harassing gives him a sentence.
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I promise, just seeing it on social makes it sound like the apocalypse.
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Hey, nonzero odds Trump goes to prison in two weeks?
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It’s Techwar. All these companies are paranoid defensive actors who desperately want to avoid their competitors making them obsolete. So MS makes sure that Google’s Docs and calendar and Gmail integration are never a reason to leave them.
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No, they’ve developed this … defense mechanism where any time they watch him, and he is normal and coherent they chalk it up to drugs.
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I think that would be a fun dynamic. But I’ve seen her presented as noble/responsible, kind/compassionate, pragmatic/warlike— never as the joyful brawler. Is that there? Is this taking Trinity for granted and extrapolating backwards to find a third point of the triangle?
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Yeah. The ‘AI’ thing is hype. But Eno coined the term generative music. He’s been using semi-random shuffling as a creativity tool for decades. Extending those techniques to his biopic seems like a form/content thing for this one very specific niche rather than ‘AI should make our movies now!’
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Your point is absolutely right. In principle a documentary that reshuffles itself to create a deliberate sense of subjectivity and impermanence could be a pretty cool art project. But that’s a trick that only really works once. Not unlike the Clue movie’s (random in theaters) alternate endings.
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They Might Be Somewhat Tall-ish.
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Editorial has long had a thing where heroes aren’t allowed to be in their thirties, and they’re willing to distort their timeline to any lengths to make that true. I found that a lot more persuasive before Spiderverse-Pete, and the MCU where they were played by folks very much not in their 20s,
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Isn’t this partly the product of a market that is too fragmented and diverse to fit the retail chain? When I think of all the neat new Indy games I see, there’s no way any of my flgses— for whom RPGs are a secondary product at best— can justify carrying all of them.
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