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Gary Legum

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Writer. Mope. I don't know what the hell you're talking about, Lucy, and I want you to shut up.


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More like LOLnkees.

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They could just retitle it Trump Project 2025 and he'd be all in.

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Apparently that dude clerked for Roberts.

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One of the nice things about being off Twitter is that I had completely forgotten the existence of Olivia Nuzzi.

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Whoa, I can't believe these wingnuts are fleeing California for Texas, a thing literally every California wingnut constantly and loudly talks about doing to the point of derangement.

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The NYT does have good reporters, but holy hell, a story about how conservatives are resettling across America and her two big examples are Dallas and Coeur d'Alene? Are you kidding me?

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

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"What if Biden spoke these words" followed by 800 words that would embarrass Aaron Sorkin.

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LOL, good god, go outside.

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It's not that he doesn't want to vote, he wants the Times' mostly liberal readership not to.

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I'd have to double-check this, but I'm fairly sure Walther is a Catholic integralist. Which, hey, good for him, but that's kind of important information for a reader to bring to this piece, which your average reader likely won't.

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Everyone please stop losing your fucking minds.

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No wonder I've not heard about it, this apparently got examined in 2016 and the whole set-up was sketchy enough that reporters couldn't confirm it.

www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

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Jesus Christ. This has been out since at least yesterday and this is the first I've seen of it, but of course in that time I've seen 3000 ZOMG BIDEN MUST RESIGN pieces. And that's just at the NYT.

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Been saying for eight years now that I'd be thrilled to live in much less interesting times.

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This level of societal anxiety was every day of Trump's presidency for four straight years, and it says nothing good about our most prominent journalists that they are jonesing for it like heroin junkies going through withdrawal.

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"Politics would be interesting again." Yeah, half the country would be having nervous breakdowns and fighting with each other loudly and publicly for the next four months, I'm sure that will be very good for the national psyche.

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Oh, I'm with you on that one. Couldn't care less even if they ever do have regrets.

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At worst, maybe Alito is offended that people are daring to complain about it.

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I've been carrying around a level of anxiety higher than any I've felt since the day after the 2016 election.

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I mean, the "clashing views" are autocracy vs. democracy, and there is nothing wrong with flat-out saying that. Or even monarchy vs. democracy, based on the nation's history that might be the way to get the message across.

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This is an absolutely appalling headline and dek, even by the Times' very low standards.

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These people are so ridiculous, and there's so goddamn many of them.

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Get a load of Stupid Guy Fawkes over here.

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Imagine as a movement spending 50 years trying to clear Richard Nixon. And using Donald Trump to do it.

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Nah, blocked instead. I've found it's the more emotionally healthy response.

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Jesus Christ, blue dogs are so pathetic. Like, I get it, you've got a purplish district so you can't hug Commie Joe too hard, but you could at least try to not throw in the towel four months before the election.

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Christ, read a book or even half a dozen back issues of Time from like 2010, they're probably somewhere in a nearby library as long as that library isn't in Idaho or Florida.

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Saw someone who is mad at Dems because they are running more anti-choice candidates(??????) and I just ...... gllllaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh.

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Ya know, lots of people manage to have a "very rambunctious youth" without committing sexual assault or barbecuing a puppy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Oops, my bad, they sued the law reviews for discrimination, not the schools themselves.

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Harvard too, also dismissed on standing.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2019...

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Same idiots sued NYU Law for the same thing a few years ago and the 2nd Circuit ruled they didn't have standing.

www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

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"It stands to reason that if the president has full pardon power, he also can order tumbrels full of federal prisoners be guillotined on the White House lawn."

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JD VANCE: Presidents must have total immunity, starting nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn- *January 20 rolls around* -ow

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Nine years of people with the most power to do something saying "Eh, let someone else do it."

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It's true that he's never been held accountable for SNL season 11.

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It's a measure of how I spend too much time online that I looked at the background color and thought "Gotta be the Free Press." And sure enough.

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He was by no means doing a bit, he has no sense of irony, I promise. Only laugh I've had all day. Thanks, Dad. Truly. 3/3

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The man was a CPA and a bankruptcy analyst, for fuck's sake. He once owned a store that sold upscale bathroom accessories. Tonight I was having dinner with him and he said out of nowhere "That Supreme Court oughta be taken out and shot at sunrise."

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My dad will be 84 in a few weeks. He does not speak in violent terms. He does not watch violent entertainment. He once got extremely mad at the rest of the family after we dragged him to see The Professional. His favorite show is Midsomer Murder. Like, I can't overstate this. 1/

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All those Fawn Hall jokes for nothing.

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Turns out Reagan didn't need to hide his arming the contras from Congress.

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I'm assuming the conservative justices went right from the building to the airport to get out of town and I hope they are all at least going to countries with extradition treaties.

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The voters are on track to reject Trump by significant margins for a third straight election (yes, yes, Electoral College) and the pundits are ignoring that to scream about the Dems needing a new candidate.

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The irony here is that this court is in Jackson's district, where he presumably lives. So this is one time when filing in front of Kacsmaryk might not be that insane from a standing perspective. If he lived in CA, for example, different story.

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Oh for god's sake. I think I just gave myself a concussion slapping my forehead.

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Throw in requiring Manchin to live on his boat instead of moving into the Naval Observatory, and I could get on board with this.

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The problem is that way too many people are still influenced by it.

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The GOP candidate is getting sentenced for 34 felony counts of fuckery in ten days. His former campaign manager/counselor/consigliere is going to prison tomorrow. The Times is a fundamentally unserious paper in so many ways.

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I do not take on this burden lightly. Hard days are ahead. But it will be an honor to serve my country.

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