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Andy Pearlman

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Faculty at School of Visual Arts, Painter. Teach Photoshop for Coloring - comics & illustrators. He/him. Likes puns. andypearlman.com/paintings.html


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ice cream factory sued them into oblivion right? for deserting desert dairy desserts?

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people doing cocaine sent to prism, right?

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5/5 If Biden decides to withdraw, he should just say something like, "Being president is a full-time job. Campaigning for the presidency is a full-time job. I'm too old to work two jobs, so I'm going to focus on the one I was elected to do. Vote Harris in November!"

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RW is steeped in evangelicalism. Which involves believing in a religion about a refugee. And yet.

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Kirk: "if years felt like decades..."

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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Well, if Trump gets elected, at least there will be the small karmic consolation that he will be one of the first to experience the new rules.

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It makes it much harder for a court to even ask the question of him.

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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this is of course ignoring that the President can assassinate or imprison any judge that dares ask the question in a court of law.

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president goes to olc, which has now been stacked with "yes this is official act" lawyers such as john yoo types. "please stamp this order to assassinate my political rival an official act." "official act boss!" president: "i was told this was an official act before i did it."

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Court: "Ok, this court is in session..." Government: "Judge, you're under arrest by order of POTUS"

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President: "Judge, are you planning to hear this case?" Judge: "Yes and I..." President to corrupt government employee: "Put this judge with the person whose case he was going to hear."

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Trump is dreaming of doing what MBS did. A couple extra judges in the Ritz will quickly convince other judges not to even think about it.

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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ai: im sorry darth, im afraid i cant do that

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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plus, a possible outcome is Biden: "I wanted to talk about how Harris is going to play a larger role in our 2025 administration. Like a Dick Cheney!"

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just such a look of hopeless longing

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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"I'm willing to point out the Emperor has no clothes when no one else is. Joe Biden is old!"

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I suspect the NYT doesn't actually know what they are going for because AG Sulzberger is a lightweight who has no idea what he's doing. Like this is probably him thinking he's being hard-hitting.

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Right. It is "either go for complete chaos or pick the thing where we pummel you endlessly for months"

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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Which of course means because Biden picked Harris, they'll have a similar personal issue with Harris.

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Wouldn't one just potentially go straight to the Office of Legal Counsel, ask for them to declare X to be an official act, then do it. And then of course, because you control the OLC as POTUS, you staff the OLC with people who will say yes, obviously official act.

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her left hand is very weirdly flat too

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i have a sinking feeling here

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I suspect the best answer is going to be Schrodinger's Biden. Promise Harris will have a Cheney-like role in 2024-2028 as VP.

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And Italy of the 1970s, too.

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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Really, they had to arrest people in 2021, charge some of them with treason, and let things work themselves from there.

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i dunno, is the former wh doctor ronny johnson or jackson, so unclear

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Isn't he sitting for an interview with ABC for release Friday/Sunday? Yes, could obviously be faster, but presumably it is being shot before Friday. And if I were their team, incompetent or not, I'd probably want to see whether polling collapsed, yes or no before doing to show numbers.

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SCOTUS: "the president only has immunity if they kill all lawyers. in nj"

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Absolutely no way she should only win by 6% in NY after Dobbs no less!

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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I think they thought there was 20-30% chance Hochul would lose.

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I mean, tbf, Biden needing to visit Westchester on a Sunday beforehand because Hochul, Adams, NYS Ds had screwed up that badly... Biden spends that extra time in Wisconsin, maybe pushes him over.

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just avoiding accidental destruction

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Andy Pearlman's avatar Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social
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that artwork, it isn't finished, is it? (Just joking obviously)

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Yeah, it was a "biden's my guy. if not him because he chooses to step down, going to be harris."

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Right. It could have been a trainwreck in the DNC. Instead she told her delegates that they were going to cheer Obama and they either did that or didn't boo. Because her staff had picked actual people who understood they were there to support what HRC wanted, not what they might want.

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Particularly in the sense that everything they described the DNC doing to Bernie was actually done to HRC in 2008 — DNC literally cancelling votes even. Except HRC looked at how Obama was gathering support and went, he's the better candidate, I'll swing my support to him instead.

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jon, what's that splotch spreading up your arm from where it touched your hand?

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If the ranked choice voting worked in the same way that Alaska's did, I'm almost certain one of the top women would have been picked. And the next D governor is almost certainly a black woman unless Hochul somehow recovers from what she's done.

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also had a bad habit for a politician in she'd clearly do quiet good deeds, at least once at potential risk to her life, and someone in campaign staff would find out, and she wouldn't want them publicized.

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uniquely terrible ranked choice voting method that encourages outcomes where people who most certainly would support both the top 2 and top 3 candidates if they knew in advance it would mean not Adams, but did not know that when they voted.

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i mean, despite not actually being a good businessman, in fact a horrifically bad one, he was on the tv being treated as if he was the best, strongest, most dominant businessman in the entire world. people are still giving him credit for that

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some kid did a report on what judaism was and misspelled jewish on the front cover of the report was something that stood out. when he showed it to me out of nowhere to see what i thought.

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yeah, if sentencing was happening before the RNC, there's an argument where "campaigning, as an example, the RNC!" vs "campaigning, which as the judge may remember the multiple times i claimed i was doing one thing, but did something else"

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i was, wait, why do all the other kids keep asking me what judaism is, like i don't even talk about it.

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someone should really go through the list of grievances that the colonists had against the king and see which ones the president can now legally do and not be charged with a crime.

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