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Connor Lynch@connorlynch.bsky.social |
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Lawyer – mostly intellectual property in my practice. Lotta political opinions (don't worry they're all good ones).
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Connor Lynch
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“If you don’t agree with my solution for Joe Biden to start executing/imprisoning political enemies, you must not care about me or people like me” is a recipe for a lot of misguided hatred. Have a good night.
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Connor Lynch
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“I must become a dictator to save the republic” didn’t work when Sulla did it and it wouldn’t work if Biden did it either.
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Ian Boudreau
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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Connor Lynch
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I think I’d start to genuinely worry about Biden’s age if I heard he’s started watching 10 hours of Fox News every day
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Connor Lynch
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Same
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Will Stancil
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Biden has been the most successful progressive president in half a century and the current “progressive” line is that he should immediately resign in disgrace at the insistence of the New York Times. Can you not see how this is an insane hysteria? How social media has completely broken you
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Connor Lynch
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The seven people who answer their phones in this country just don’t seem to have changed their minds
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Will Stancil
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Biden really is just doing almost all the normal campaign stuff! A lot the debate right now seems to be “can reality break through or are Democrats going to be forced to react to internet memes as if they’re gospel truth”
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Connor Lynch
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My view is that blinking in a crisis is *almost* always the wrong thing to do, and the public pressure campaign mostly elicits that response from me. And I think if he were mentally incapable of the job, he would have already blinked. Surviving the crisis is its own sort of proof.
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Connor Lynch
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The most likely way I currently see this playing out is that Biden says “fuck no” loudly and in public five or six more times, press realizes it ain’t gonna happen, other Ds realize it ain’t gonna happen, and he gets a modest bump for resisting a massive public pressure campaign
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Connor Lynch
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I think you’re dramatically underestimating how hard getting *other people*, and DC press in particular, to present that narrative is and will be
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Connor Lynch
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tbh I think there's a fairly good chance biden emerges looking stronger than ever merely by visibly resisting a giant public pressure campaign
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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special thanks to the drunk old dude at the sports bar shouting FASCIST! every time trump appears on the tv
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Connor Lynch
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The immediate reaction every Democrat will have is “didn’t the senate just acquit some guy who was actually *guilty*, twice?”
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Connor Lynch
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Have we started a gofundme for post-act gratuities for such a political gift
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post malone ergo propter malone
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Are you going to invoke 25A against Biden? Impeach him? Those are the mechanisms that can force him out and I don't think either has a chance in hell of working.
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Connor Lynch
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You can but you’d have had to start working on ballot access for the spoiler like a year ago
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post malone ergo propter malone
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barring Biden changing his mind this seems to me to end it. there is not a viable mechanism for getting Biden out if he doesn't want to go and he thinks he's functional.
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post malone ergo propter malone
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get back on board or get out the way.
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Mitchell Epner
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Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.
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Connor Lynch
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my own house has a similar CCR that would have prevented me and my family from living here. obviously it's now long dead-letter, but I still think this may need more context to be a useful insight into him
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Connor Lynch
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we are very likely to have a free and fair election this November, and we do, collectively, get to choose our fate without violence. (tho defending that choice may require violence again) we also might make a catastrophically wrong decision that sends the world into a few decades of darkness.
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Nicholas Grossman
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The President of the Untied States should take sides on 9/11. Foreign terrorists killing nearly 3,000 Americans is one of those things an American leader should take sides on.
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Connor Lynch
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Yeah a press strategy that would transform (but not destroy) the story would be to start attacking AG Sulzberger specifically to give many journalists a chance to do their favorite thing, write about themselves. It certainly has some drawbacks tho.
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Connor Lynch
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Minor point for clarity: they are not often earned, but when they are earned, it is often posthumously.
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Connor Lynch
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It’s a military decoration that is often earned posthumously for valor in combat. It’s also a Congressional MoH, not Presidential. There’s a presidential medal of freedom that is much closer to what you’re describing.
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Connor Lynch
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That’s not really what a Medal of Honor is
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Connor Lynch
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We don’t need a Caesar—or a Sulla.
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Connor Lynch
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I think they came up in a conservative legal movement that believed Nixon got a raw deal and this is the inevitable end point of that.
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Connor Lynch
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I just keep thinking about the David cross bit about John Ashcroft losing to the guy who’d died a few weeks earlier
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∞ Monkeys
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This thread from Matthew Chapman at the Bad Place is a good analysis of why the DC press corps are turning on Biden.
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Connor Lynch
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And like, you can do that, but you have to have a damn good reason that’s better than “the press coverage is too hard” and more like “doctors tell me I’m going to die soon.”
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Connor Lynch
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Maybe. It was def a bad debate. But we don’t get to have him resign and all our problems are solved; we would have a massive new problem of “we held a party primary and ignored the outcome.”
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Connor Lynch
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And also introducing a giant known new one, namely that you held a party primary and then just discarded the result.
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Connor Lynch
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To me on merits it appears: from other public appearances, it was a bad performance but not “this is just who he is now.” I don’t see the wisdom in trading the relatively known set of electoral vulnerabilities for a somewhat unknown set.
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Connor Lynch
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IMO the merits in favor of Biden stepping aside have to be *really strong* to do it in part b/c I’m pretty sure it will be an electoral liability to do that.
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Connor Lynch
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Right, but the thing about this sort of frenzy is that once it becomes clear there’s no scalp to be had the story moves on. The underlying merits of his oldness *might* be a reason to step aside, but “I’m scared of bad press coverage” is not.
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Connor Lynch
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It’s survivable; Biden just can’t blink, and he shows no signs of it.
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Too Big to Fail
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Three things that are true: 1) I did not support Biden in the 2020 primary 2) I thought Biden looked like a reanimated corpse at the debate 3) I have every confidence that he is fully capable of being President, and the New York Times and other outlets are fucking him to goose readership
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Connor Lynch
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“What should democrats campaign on” is a different question and I think the answer is: individual rights and freedom, climate, energy, economic opportunity, housing.
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Connor Lynch
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Yeah I think adding justices is not something you really campaign on; you just have to do it on January 21st of the term and move on. It will not, by itself, be popular; it’s just necessary to keep the rest of your agenda from getting nuked.
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Connor Lynch
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A literal landslide in both chambers? Add justices has to be the very first thing you do or the existing Trump court will tie you in knots for years.
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Connor Lynch
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Don’t agree w this. If we replace democratic primaries with “a bad news cycle picks our nominee” we’re cooked. Too old to do it and make the newspaper be nice to us are v different things
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Aaron Rupar
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Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)
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Ann M. Lipton
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yes how unimaginable
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Don Moynihan
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My NYT op-ed:
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Julia S.
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many people are saying that the NYT’s disastrous performance at writing editorials that seem lazy and out of touch reflect a newspaper not up to the challenges of its rigorous job
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Connor Lynch
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Is your dog’s name AG Sulzberger
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The "I dont vote" guy apparently voted and is a liar. Shocking!
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