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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com |
that the whole project is at serious and maybe fatal risk if trump is imprisoned or loses in the fall and that conservatives on the court have a duty to try to prevent that any way they can, through the most motivated reasoning they can conjure.
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Marshall Plexi
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yes. i believe the majority of the electorate already basically gets this dynamic, generally, as well (and yes i know the polling numbers) trump/theocracy will lose in nov, more than biden will win
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Elisabeth
@neuroticlesbian.bsky.social
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Imagine being reliant on the Big Wet Crimes President
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The Next Day
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I’m sure they deluded themselves into believing they were being evenhanded by immunizing Joe Biden from the prosecutions Trump has promised.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i'm not really being snarky; i don't know if roberts thinks about it in terms quite as stark as that, but that's because everyone's the hero of their own story and most people try to find any way they can to rationalize and justify the choices they make, i assume this goes 100x for judges
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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there just *isn't* another republican waiting in the wings who can take up the mantle here with the same kind of public support, it's trump now or never, and panic does not encourage careful, disciplined, strategic decisions.
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The Fig Economy
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I think this is true *and yet* this is not the most careful decision of its type he could have crafted to look reasonable! I’d guess it’s the most careful one he could craft without the other five ditching him and going way further.
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