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alexandergruchala.bsky.social@alexandergruchala.bsky.social |
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Dag.
@3fecta.bsky.social
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Used to have a dream where the "debate" would be what is the positive change that you want to see in the next 5-10 years? What is your blueprint on making those changes? What data, or historical example do you have for believing your policies will achieve those goals?
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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The French elections have showed us that we should revise the Constitution so voters get an "are you sure?" runoff before letting the far right take power
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Tristan
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The polls didn't predict a first-place finish for National Rally. For the love of god learn how other countries' electoral systems work.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Look on my low-cut toe socks and despair.
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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There’s uncertainties with every choice. My concern is the steady drip-drip of “Biden is old” stories eat up all the oxygen in the room. So low-info independents are really surprised when abortion is banned and Trump is openly soliciting bribes from the Oval Office in late January.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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See what the polling is like in a couple weeks. But also get out there in spontaneous settings and give Kamala increased prominence in the campaign. Dems cannot have 4 months of “Biden is old” coverage. Any moment not spent talking about abortion and democracy is a moment wasted.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Ah yes. The just-following-orders defense.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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We need to get out of the Biden is old story and it appears that this is not happening. It’s sucking all the oxygen out of the room. I’m increasingly leaning towards Pres Kamala and pivoting to abortion and democracy instead of this drivel.
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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“The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.” couldn’t be clearer!
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Reminder that POTUS can direct the DOJ not to prosecute the trigger puller and, failing that, pardon anyone who carries out his order and still faces federal charges. Utterly lawless.
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Umm. The poll was conducted from June 26-28. The debate was on the 28th.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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I can see the campaign ad: a vignette of the greatest hits of all the stupid shit this man say. “Do you really want to have to listen to this guy for another four years?”
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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If Joe stays in, for the love of all that is holy, you have to give Kamala tons of airtime and get Americans used to her, because there’s a good chance that Biden resigns in a second term. Americans have to be comfortable with the idea that if Biden resigns there is someone capable of doing the job.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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At first I thought the SC was crazy: “What happens if the Pres orders a goon squad to start throwing people out of helicopters and then pardons the perpetrators?” Then it hit me. The SC majority thinks that Pinochet did nothing wrong and that throwing people out of helicopters would be really cool.
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Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Traveling back in time to explain our current moment to the founding fathers, who react with horror; when I return the constitution explicitly forbids appointing Catholics to the Supreme Court
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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How far along is say marijuana reclassification or some other positive administrative process that the Biden admin has going? In a resignation scenario, Pres Harris could claim credit for those wins that were actually months or years in the making. Low-info voters wouldn’t know the difference.
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Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
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We keep talking about Trump ordering Seal Team 6 to kill his rivals. I don't that's how it'll work - too much chain of command involved. He'd rather assemble a small team of loyal military operatives assigned to the White House, who answer only to him, to take such orders. Basically a death squad.
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nog
@noghiri.bsky.social
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the usa is best understood as a latin american country with English flavoring instead of Spanish
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Brazil being a more solid democracy than the US has me pretty shook www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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Anil Dash
@anildash.com
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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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So Mexico got rid of presidential immunity—a relic of 20th authoritarianism in that country—while the US is adopting it.
www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
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There are few things in the U.S. Reports as offensive to the rule of law as John Roberts' reference to "congressional statutes." Those statutes are "the supreme Law of the Land" according to the fucking Supremacy Clause.
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Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
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It's completely ass backwards. The danger of a president committing crimes as an individual is nothing compared to him using the government for criminal ends. The very things that we should be most concerned about a corrupt president doing are the things he can't be punished for.
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Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecox.bsky.social
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Of all the things people are saying the Democrats/Biden should do to make sure he wins in November, the least controversial is to talk about abortion rights over and over and over and over... Appeals to abstract notions of democracy are great but abortion access is how we maintain democracy.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Should pull up on the TV a live feed from a Reaper drone of one of the justices. “The SC says presidents are immune for official acts. Maybe you all should come back into work tomorrow to rethink that.”
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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The EU but with a really big army.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
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Vince Mpls
@vincempls.bsky.social
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Or have Reaper drones just constantly following around SC justices live-streaming. “Oh look, the Thomases are taking a newly-gifted RV out for a spin. And looks like Mrs. Alito is raising a new flag today.”
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Fred had Alzheimer’s for the last ten years of his life. So a fickle, vain president with an enemies list who can’t remember his own name.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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It’s either President Biden or King Trump.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.
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Hannah Walser
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The Court has purported to strip us of all legal recourse for crimes committed by the most powerful person in the nation. Each and every one of us is now, effectively, at the mercy of an autocrat, who could order our death if he simply made the pretense of connecting it to his official duties.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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I think you can argue this is the single worst SCOTUS decision ever. This is a direct refutation of the American Revolution itself, propping up the president as a king in all but name.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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in a country founded directly on "no kings, fuck kings in particular" it is beyond insulting that supposed "originalist" judges are taking seriously the proposition that the President is in fact a king
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hola, mi nombre es francine pants
@robertjbennett.bsky.social
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“No kings in America” is a great slogan
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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Electoral autocracy, hybrid regime, partially free?
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Col. Boozy Badger
@boozybadger.bsky.social
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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social
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The possible rise of the Washington-Beijing-Moscow Axis. Putin will be so pleased.
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Try the Brie, it’s American Cheese Month!
@briansmith.pro
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“Pro-democracy advocates decry a decision handed down today by the country’s highest court that paves the way for the troubled nation’s recently deposed strongman to seize power and prosecute his political rivals.”
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