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A Washingtonian.

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Honestly we can put our differences aside to destroy whatever this is.

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Russian bot comment

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I’m not sure the people backing Sinn Féin in droves are the kindly top o the mornin’ people we make them out to be

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You truly think the Biden Administration was merely less bad on public transit and infrastructure than Trump?

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Us, waking from this simulation: “wow, humans truly cannot govern themselves.” Robot Overlords: you don’t say.

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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I think about this line a lot these days.

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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable

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If Jefferson had just ordered Madison to kill Marbury and then pardoned him for it, then his problem would’ve been solved and the courts wouldn’t have gotten involved.

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How can a President be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors if he can’t commit crimes or misdemeanors?

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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The words in the constitution don't give the president immunity, nor was that the intention of the authors. But you must understand that the meaning of the constitutional vibes have evolved over time in a way only I can detect. Now there are penubras and emanations that tell me he is in fact immune.

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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Never forget to place this, and everything that follows, on the Senators who lacked the courage to convict Trump even as the broken glass and shit from his followers still littered the Senate Chamber.

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Have to find the humor in the Court allowing judges to disregard the scientific reasoning of federal agencies but prohibiting them from acting on a president who turns to his AG and says "I want your department to help me do crimes".

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Do not underestimate how many people saw Biden last night and concluded that he is no longer physically and mentally fit for the job.

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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The Roberts Court puts in stark reality the stakes of losing another presidential contest for Democrats still arguing this morning that Biden didn't disqualify himself last night.

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I've hated the bothsidesism of people who "just don't want to vote for either of these guys," but its a serious chunk of people and I wouldn't underestimate the power of shaking everything up.

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Just remarkable how "old person won't retire" has driven history for the last 15 years. Kennedy not resigning after brain cancer diagnosis -> Scott Brown Feinstein staying on past prime and bungling hearings -> Kavanaugh/Barrett RBG Biden

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The Electoral College's Habsburg Catholic roots aren't exactly a great argument for keeping it around IMO.

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Or if you appreciate the programming you could just pay to watch it like a normal person

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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It's a simple question of when the free rider club - the members who object to every time agreement and vote against approps and debt ceiling bills - gets too big to keep the lights on. Could easily happen next Congress.

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IOW you need to read it not just as "he's had another stupid idea", but that his basic instincts in every part of his plan for America is one centered on him, where he is the King not just of the state, but of society and the economy itself, enabling whole-of-society corruption with him at the top.

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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At least the Lochner Court era could be explained to posterity in terms of principled classism and self-interest. The Roberts Court has become internet brain nihilism in government-issued robes.

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Biden was out of place in a youth and change focused Democratic Party and his moment arrived when people craved post-Trump normalcy.

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There's something really sick about this narrative that one more charge, one more legal process, or one more election is going to stop a popular national authoritarian movement.

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Anyway good luck to jurors, the judge, court staff, and prosecutors, and all their families, with not getting murdered, and thanks to FedSoc types for bringing us to the brink of fascism so you could weaken Chevron deference

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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It's the story of old beltway Rs conflicted over following through on deeply unpopular ideas or appointing quacks. Now they and their voters exist in a sealed RW media bubble and those concerns are gone.

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It's critical to explain to your parents what those flags on their neighbors houses mean.

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there’s a powerful set of educated but out-of-touch liberals who still don’t quite grasp (1) how far the conservative base has drifted into radicalism and (2) how close most “educated” conservatives are to that base

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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Evergreen take that Jerry Ford should have let Nixon eat cottage cheese in Rikers

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Dave Weigel's avatar Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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Interesting how “let the guy get away with crimes, for unity” only applies to presidency. Nobody’s out there arguing that, like, Gretchen Whitmer should be able to commit crimes and pardon herself.

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Why do I feel like he’s asking me to join the serpent king as family and together devour the very gods?

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People are gonna be so shocked when it happens again after they’ve spent four years saying they’re gonna do it again

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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We complain about partisanship, but don’t talk enough about how it’s the foundation of public corruption. Blind loyalty and good government are incompatible.

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If I accepted all these premises, then yes. I'm not sure the reality is that simple.

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Chuck Sky's avatar Chuck Sky @charlieschuyler.bsky.social
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Let's make a list of every R+>5 district where Voltaire could win a primary.

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Straining to think of a group more advantaged than private university students with the time and means to occupy spaces with no expectation of consequence.

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For the life of my I’ve never understood why advocates advertise in rants like these that they aren’t good at getting a seat at the table

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That being said, two things can be true at the same time without a causal relationship.

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If you haven’t lived in a red state with total GOP control I don’t think you can appreciate how unused to serious media scrutiny these people are. They honestly don’t know why this doesn’t cut it.

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I don’t know what it means but when I see things like special operations hammers and tape measures, it makes me think bin Laden succeeded in irreversibly damaging the American psyche in ways few of us could have even fathomed.

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