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Joel Mathis@joelmathis.bsky.social |
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Opinion at Kansas City Star/Wichita Eagle
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Mark Harris
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"If the media would just stop--" The media will not stop. Nor will his opponents, nor will the doubts of the 72% of voters who express them in polls, nor will the aging process. Some of it is unfair, some is not, but it's all real. And anyone who supported him in 2020 knew this crisis might come.
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Joel Mathis
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Its. Autocorrect.
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Joel Mathis
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I wonder if SCOTUS contemplated the possibility it’s immunity ruling might edge us a bit closer to civil war?
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Joel Mathis
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Fair. But you know where he got it, right?
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Joel Mathis
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Lotta people angry about NYT under-covering Project 2025, which a lot of us learned about from ... the New York Times.
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Joel Mathis
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My son is a HUGE 12 Angry Men fan. Wanted to show it to his buddies for his birthday. They were ... less enthused.
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Joel Mathis
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I saw ARLINGTON ROAD in the theater. It was great! Weirdly something I've never re-watched.
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Joel Mathis
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The Old English really makes the joke work.
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Joel Mathis
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I think it’s time for Biden to step aside, but: I think we all should sleep more and work less at night. No shame in that.
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Al Petterson
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.
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Joel Mathis
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Watching Star Trek Voyager's "Year of Hell" on Pluto, in which an old man leads the effort to Make the Krennem Imperium Great Again and ends up wiping out entire planets and his own species as a result.
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Joel Mathis
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From 1840 to 1974, sitting vice presidents became presidents through death or resignation about once a generation. Now it hasn’t happened in a half-century, a remarkable run of stability. Just something that occurred to me.
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Jacob T. Levy
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I wouldn't want to generalize this particular line of thinking, but it seems awfully darkly appropriate that the case was literally "Trump vs United States" and that the conservative majority chose its side.
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ryan cooper
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"Notice, by the way, how the Republicans claim Joe Biden is a tyrant and a dictator, yet they explicitly grant him dictatorial powers, confident that he will not use them!" itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...
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Joel Mathis
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Second:
* The Democratic primary represents, really, what a few voters in early states decided. It’s not a democratic end-all be-all and we shouldn’t treat it as such.
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Joel Mathis
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Couple of things: * This is not the media’s fault. It’s not. Voters already hated the choices, already thought Biden too old. He confirmed it. The rest is literally commentary. 1/2
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Joel Mathis
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I think the growing number of calls for Biden to resign the presidency are probably sincere, but they also have the cumulative effect of making *merely* backing out of the campaign a kind of middle ground. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...
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Joel Mathis
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I dunno. Maybe we've been headed this way the whole time.
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Walter Olson
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Now up: my thoughts on Trump v. U.S. In my view the Court majority went much too far in creating a zone of formal and practical presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "This is not what the Framers wanted. It is not what we should want either." www.cato.org/blog/court-w...
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Joel Mathis
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the resilience of our forebears since the pandemic. It’s not something a lot of us in America have often needed in recent generations. We need it now.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally
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Joel Mathis
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I actually think the two are connected. My fear of the think tank being empowered in its revolution is the reason I'm concerned about Biden's ability to stand in the way. YMMV.
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Joel Mathis
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I wrote recently about Missouri AG Andrew Bailey's tendency to fight Trump's fight on the public dime while at the same time also working to keep innocent people in prison. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
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Joel Mathis
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I think he overestimates his leeway.
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Joel Mathis
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Starting completely fresh, naturally.
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Joel Mathis
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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...
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Joel Mathis
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Anyway. I've been writing. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Joel Mathis
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Hi there. I'm back. I went away for awhile.
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