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T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social |
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In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy." Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist. (@greg_doucette on the bird app)
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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5/5 If Biden decides to withdraw, he should just say something like, "Being president is a full-time job. Campaigning for the presidency is a full-time job. I'm too old to work two jobs, so I'm going to focus on the one I was elected to do. Vote Harris in November!"
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Josh Chafetz
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4/ Add in the fact that Harris would be the first woman president and only second president of color and it gets scarier. Add in that her replacement would be from the other party and it starts to look like an invitation to assassination attempts.
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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3/ We are in a moment of high and rising political violence. ~ 9% of all US presidents have been assassinated, and ~ 13% have been either killed or wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Josh Chafetz
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2/ ... confirming a new VP requires majority votes in the House and the Senate. If there is no VP, then Mike Johnson is next in line to the presidency. I think there's a very good argument that the House would not confirm anyone Harris nominated as VP.
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Josh Chafetz
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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...
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Don Moynihan
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Popehat
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/6 My grandparents didn’t whine about it. Nor, for that matter, did my college classmate who survived as a child in 1970s Cambodia by hiding in a pile of his neighbor’s bodies. So, keep calm and fight.
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Popehat
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/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
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Popehat
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/4 (Grandpa’s parents had a car, but grandma had a flair for drama, I think.) He did well and went off to be the supply officer on a ship in the Pacific. Went with absolutely no guarantee of coming back. That’s what people did.
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Popehat
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/3 I think about Grandma taking a taxi to the hospital to have my mom, forbidding my grandpa’s parents from calling him to let him know — he was on base studying for the supply officer test the next day, and doing well would determine where he was assigned, and maybe whether he’d live or die.
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Popehat
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/2 There were absolutely no guarantees that everything would be all right. Terrible things were happening and more terrible things were a distinct possibility. But they got through it, relying on the fundamental things they cared about.
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Popehat
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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1
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Kevin Collins
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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More Microplastic Than Man
@monsterisland.bsky.social
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”
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kilgore trout
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basically I’m fine voting for three pinwheeling clown shoes mounted to motorized broomsticks that come to my house every morning and kick me in the nuts when I open the front door, but I’m not oblivious to the fact that biden isn’t demonstrating any control of the narrative right now
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kilgore trout
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just might want to hit yourself in the face with a jewelers hammer ten or twenty times a day because the same gormless slugs are gonna feed the word “likability” into the nyt a billion times a day until you want to reverse your own literacy
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kilgore trout
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prefacing this by saying my philosophy of quit whining & nut up still applies, but if the biden team can’t hold down the fort with the gormless little weasel brigade of rando dem advisors & backbenchers & media toadies then it’s better to cut bait & kick it to harris because they just love this shit
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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This is what I mean earlier when I said the GOP elite are unimaginably stupid. The young guys have marinated their entire lives in echo chambers. They are not gonna succeed in abolishing the 20th century. If they try, *actual conservatives* will be against them. IVF is the most obvious example.
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Pwnallthethings
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Gonna have to reform the curricula a bit. Conlaw is now part of American History. Soviet studies is run by the law school. Journalism is now a minor in sport studies. Computer science is run by the business school, contains no programming, and business majors are dualed with "creative fiction"
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Mx. D.E. Anderson
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i'm stuck on the "bloodless if the left allows it to be" phrasing like "we won't kill you if you just let us do what we want" is what terrorists say
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T. Greg Doucette
@gregdoucette.bsky.social
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The only two permutations of this that work are: 1) Biden stays in 2) Biden steps aside for Harris but remains in office Everything other permutation of this idea is either a fantasy or propaganda whose discussion is designed to get the Dems to lose the election and usher Trump into power.
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National Security Counselors 🕵
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Now, that being said, don't go saying "so we have Nixon or Clinton to blame for this because if they'd tried and lost then we'd have direct precedent" because seriously what has given anyone the impression that this Court cares about previous SCOTUS decisions.
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National Security Counselors 🕵
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The current ruling is 100% a product of this particular SCOTUS.
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National Security Counselors 🕵
@natlseccnslrs.bsky.social
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I think it's important to clarify that it is not at all safe to say that Nixon's or Clinton's stories would've turned out differently if they'd made the full court press on presidential immunity. There is every reason to believe that the SCOTUSes of their times would've laughed them out of court.
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ryan cooper
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies
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Katie Mack
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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth
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John Brown stan account
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All in all, not a fan of doing something wholly unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics because a bunch of smart boys with anxiety disorders decided it was our only choice 30 minutes into a debate in *June*
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John Brown stan account
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People are just being way too flippant about this idea overall. It's especially maddening given that we have exactly zero hard evidence that the race has changed. Just a bunch of freaking out
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out
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AkivaMCohen
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I get why people are eager to find the silver lining here by going "well, can't Biden use this too?" No. He can't. This is literally only useful to help a President get away with committing crimes. What crime do you think it would be helpful for Biden to commit right now?
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AkivaMCohen
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Immunity doesn't mean that the courts will actually treat the action as valid. Just that Biden wouldn't be prosecuted. A court can turn around and say no, the student debt remains owing It can't unshoot a protester
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Faine Greenwood
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People who push the idea that vaccinating pets against rabies is a scam should be hunted down like the monstrous vermin they are.
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Vikram Bath
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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
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Max is saying better than I do a similar point to one I often make: that lawyers are professionally the living embodiment of Lawful Neutral. All our training is to uphold the system and its rules. Individual human lawyers come in all flavors, but our professional spot on the alignment chart is here.
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Max Kennerly
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It's a particular type of Lawyer Brain, the Wine Party Lawyer Brain. If your job and/or identity is being Mr. Smarty Pants who comes up with abstractions to explain away current events as fitting some principled form only you can see, then you'll just keep making up those forms no matter what.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Increasingly convinced Lawyer Brain is what paves the path to ruin more so than any other category of Brain
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/3 5 or 6 SCOTUS judges, who normally love harmless error like a 15-year-old-boy loves a tube sock, will find that it doesn’t apply to introduction of evidence of Presidentially-immune acts, and that the NY court didn’t analyze official acts doctrine right and remand for more proceedings.
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Popehat
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/2 ….will reject the argument based on finding that those conversations were not official acts and that including it was harmless error. Trump will appeal from NY’s highest court to SCOTUS.
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Popehat
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Prediction: Trump will argue that his NY conviction must be overturned because the court admitted evidence of conversations he had with his staff while President in order to prove knowledge and intent. He will argue those conversations were “official acts.” Judge Merchan and higher NY courts …./1
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Lupita Nihongo
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We gotta redirect funds from the carceral state back to the people man. Ain’t no way they should be able to afford a Trap Music Proofreader.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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one candidate is old, the other is slightly younger and a raging fascist psychopath, in this bangor diner, voters don’t know who to choose
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kilgore trout
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I have never seen a better example of the bored punditry pretending two ideas cannot exist in people’s heads at the same time than “biden is too old to run” and “I don’t care that biden is too old to run if that’s all you’re gonna offer me”
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☀️ Starshine
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers
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