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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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The GOP has no role in who the DNC nominates.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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The GOP has no role in who the DNC nominates.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I know exactly none of the procedural steps, but I do know that for each of the procedural steps the GOP can’t do jack shit because the steps are all controlled by the DNC. The party decides.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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There are two New York Democrats who could do something about this embarrassing situation besides begging for money. Ridiculous. C’mon Schumer and Jeffries. Why don’t you deal with the root issue here?
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I hope for the same. I already see the general election in those terms. I hope others will get there. But for some, unfortunately, their post-debate reservations go beyond who they think would be the stronger candidate.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I’ve already had this conversation with others on here. I’m not in the business of dictating to survivors of an atrocity to set aside their reservations and vote. I do think the rest of us all owe a duty to those remaining in Gaza to prevent a Trump presidency, which would be dramatically worse.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Because I believe we each have a duty, as voters, to prevent a fascist takeover of our country.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I personally think it is indefensible to contemplate not voting for Biden if he’s the nominee, but we have to reckon with that. One person said he had dementia in his family, which was why he said he couldn’t do it.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I’m totally on board with this too. But there’s not absolute parity with supporters of the 2 alternatives. I’ve personally spoken to 2 Democrats who now say they *cannot* support Biden in the general, and heard second-hand about a third who is now planning to vote third-party. I wish it weren’t so.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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“Imagine a world in which a prominent person publicly criticizes Donald Trump, and he declines to respond with juvenile insults …” “Imagine a world in which Donald Trump appreciates the fact that jacking up tariffs will cause prices to soar …”
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Paul Krugman
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So, I said what I thought needed saying about Biden, hating every minute as I did. One thing I won’t do, however, is snipe at him if he chooses to stay in. Anyone who does that is in effect campaigning for Trump — and doing so out of sheer pettiness.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Plus, because Trump is running from it, it gives the press something to chase and hound him about
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I love Project 2025 as a constellation of issues to run against. - The name sounds sinister (Area 51) - It evokes an effectiveness at carrying things out in contrast to “the system held” circa 2017 - Trump’s absurd attempt to distance himself from it makes it seem more sinister
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Or Trump v New York for that matter (evidence in NY trial involved official acts).
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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If either the DC case or the Florida documents case keep at their current pace and Trump is convicted, then his appeal based on presidential immunity could come back to to a reformed Court. Trump II.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Instead the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause *limit* states power. Under the GOP theory, the 14th would limit state’s power to define homicides as only applying to born humans, not also fertilized eggs.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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It’s a big wink to using the Equal Protection Clause via rightwing courts. The tell is that the Due Process Clause doesn’t empower state legislators to do anything. They already have that power.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Yes. And they’ll sue under Equal Protection, which is conspicuously missing from the platform language. That’s the provision the Alabama Supreme Court highlighted as a potential alternative basis to ban IVF.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Equal Protection for zygotes was the Easter egg the Alabama Supreme Court left in their statutory interpretation decision that outlawed IVF. That’s the sleeper provision to send doctors and others to death row. Bitter irony of it.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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It’s a sleight of hand. Equal Protection comes right after Due Process. Why leave it out? States don’t need to be empowered by any part of the Constitution to legislate on a subject, so that’s a red herring (or a vestige of a draft where they claim Congress would be empowered by 14A).
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I thought it was telling that the platform left out mention of the Equal Protection Clause even though it would presumably apply just as forcefully to the unborn. Under Equal Protection theory, there’s no need to enact a new abortion-murder law; it’d be required by the Constitution.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Wish I could enjoy the internecine fighting within the GOP like I did in the halcyon pre-debate days.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Read: They consider abortion murder, which would be first-degree murder in every jurisdiction. Doctors, other medical support staff, payers, pregnant person who consents all equally guilty.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Maybe so. But I think if you can’t make machine learning anticipate the font, paragraph style, etc. that you always use, then why should anyone trust your AI to do anything useful?
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Microsoft invests heavily in AI presumably to handle actual challenging problems, and yet Microsoft Word does this sort of thing all the time.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Imagine being angry that the president *doesn’t* tweet.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I think this is a good example of how Democrats who come to different conclusions about how bad the debate was for Biden still have solid, common ground about the danger Trump poses and the need to push back against blasé framing of those risks from the NY Times.
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Taniel
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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Taniel
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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Trump has been able to tamp down interest in his batshit ideas and behavior by doing so much out in the open, normalizing it. Project 2025 seemed to be another example of that. But now that he’s disingenuously disavowing P 2025, I wonder if that’ll increase interest in his plans. Hope so.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Wonder if that type of response is a key to effective persuasion on climate crisis: Support solar, emissions standards, etc. so you can maintain your way of life (of course doesn’t work if someone truly refuses to acknowledge reality).
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Jonathan Ladd
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I'd be shocked if data came back showing a new desire for Biden to step down is a top down phenomenon. Every relatively normal (non political junkie) Dem I talk to, every one, thinks the debate showed Biden needs to step aside. NY Times coverage is annoying, but the debate created this.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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What Democrats have wanted to see post-debate is whether Biden has the chops to be the nominee. In that context, it is especially disappointing that his campaign pre-approved the questions for his interviews on Black radio.
whyy.org/articles/bid...
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Agree. Also, if you’re talking in a public-facing way specifically about “34 felonies” you sound too online and like you’re talking to an informed, strong-Democratic audience. Pointless verging on counterproductive in my book.
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Andy Craig
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I get that this is a bad piece and give 'em all their lumps for it. But I do think the strength of "convicted felon" as a talking point has been generally overestimated. The term you should use, that's more specific and packs more of a punch, is to call him a convicted fraud. That's the crime here.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Setting aside performance, his whole strategy for the debate was completely out-of-wack. As Politico reported and Biden discussed on ABC, he crammed his head full of info as if he’d rack up points for the number of true facts he stated and then seemed surprised by Trump’s lying.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Flip it around, and I’d ask you what would it take to cause you to think Biden should step aside? A literal self-immolation on stage?
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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And to your question: Kamala Harris is the only viable candidate. If it isn’t her, then I prefer Biden as the nominee.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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That said, we ignore the general public’s concerns about Biden’s age at our peril. It was all the worse because it played into his biggest and most unavoidable weakness. I also do not think it would be an act of weakness to shift candidates at this stage, but courage. It would be bold.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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That sounds like hand-waving and straw men. What I think you fail to appreciate is that many of us had been looking forward to the debate to invigorate the Biden campaign and set the tone for the summer. The debate was not a vindication of my position. It changed my position.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Because the alternative—that people from various walks of life and ideologies who are all part of the Biden coalition watched his objectively bad performance and realized we have to do better—is a much more straightforward explanation.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Can you describe the causal relationship between the position (step aside) various media we were all consuming pre-debate? It seems… tangential at best
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I’m having trouble understanding where you think we all got the idea? Are you saying we’ve all been warped from our pre-debate, various media diets, or are you saying that we were all buying in online to this idea from the post-debate media discussion?
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William Withers
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That’s my problem. It was a better performance than the debate, but considering it was under the best possible circumstances it wasn’t better enough to convince anyone that the debate was an outlier.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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If Biden steps aside this summer, I will be eternally grateful for all he has done. If Biden remains in the race and wins, I will be relieved but also anxious for him to pass the torch. If Biden loses, I will *never* forgive him or those others responsible for remaining in office. Never.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Biden seemed most cogent and fluid on the questions about Democrats asking him to step aside, which of course he’s been consumed with in recent days, but on the bigger campaign questions he seemed wooden, offering only a quick-and-dirty rehash of anti-Trump arguments.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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I’m as dug-in that Biden should step aside after that interview. On the one hand, he didn’t level with us, and on the other his dodging and parrying didn’t seem very effective. There were moments—I’d have to rewatch to pinpoint—where he seemed to lose the thread just a little.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Ok I just moved from “unsure” to “dump Biden”
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Chase Bank playing hardball and determined to keep soaking its customers one way out another. Chase customers should be aware that credit unions and community banks often have very favorable terms, and be lack of branches doesn’t much matter in Venmo era.
www.businessinsider.com/chase-warns-...
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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They claim the moral high ground, but in practice it is moral depravity to cast those who have survived the atrocities to the wolves of a second Trump presidency.
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Peter Navarro, Esq.
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Is it comradeship to poison the wells when you don’t get everything you wanted?
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