Jonathan Hassid

Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

Also, the Court will interpret anything a Democratic president does that they dislike as an "unofficial act" and therefore subject to criminal prosecution.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:13 UTC

"In cases where the linear passage of time is inconvenient for the President's defense against multiple, public felonies, we deem that the arrow of time be reversed." -Upcoming Roberts opinion for a 6-3 Court next week

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:09 UTC

And they were able to decide that case quickly, unlike waiting until the literal last day of term.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:34 UTC

Originalism™ means making sure the executive head of government is above the law, just as King George III intended.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:08 UTC

I'd call the six people who wrote this opinion clowns, but clowns have a sense of honor and rules

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Absolutely. Also, fuck the US Supreme Court.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

Even Xi Jinping has to abide by the pretense of official restraint. The US president no longer does. SCOTUS has made the US President less subject to the rule of law than the Chinese dictator currently is.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

(Note: presidential immunity applies only to GOP presidents)

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

The problem is that "official acts" will become whatever the right wing majority on the Supreme Court likes. Anything they dislike will suddenly become "unofficial acts."

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

Time for Biden to uncork some "official acts"

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

"Official acts" are policies and activities the reactionary majority on SCOTUS likes. "Unofficial acts" are policies and activities they dislike.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Is it time for Biden to use his new powers and have Trump arrested without trial or assassinated?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:33 UTC

The entire US is going to be run out of Matthew Kacsmaryk's Amarillo courtroom

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

I look forward to having new pharmaceuticals and nuclear power plant regulations be crafted by a joint Congressional committee consisting of Lauren Boebert, Tommy Tuberville and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

Will it happen? No. Should it happen? Perhaps!

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

The Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project found that Congress may bar supporting the legitimate activities of certain foreign terrorist organizations through speech made to, under the direction of, or in coordination with those groups. Claremont supports terrorists overseas (Hungary)

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

Certainly the DoJ can't and shouldn't act lawlessly. But Claremont is now promoting, inciting and even funding violent actors who are committed to dismantling the US federal republic. There might be some existing laws that apply to this kind of behavior. Time to look.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

I miss some of the food. And my friends and family. And pretty much nothing else.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

I left Tennessee at 17 and I try hard not to return.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

The US already has laws against promoting and funding terrorism. Perhaps it is time to start looking at the Claremont Institute the same way we look at Shining Path or Hamas?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

Perhaps the only wonderful things about fascists is that they are (almost) always both incompetent and prone to self-sabotage. Any MAGA party, in other words, will inevitably descend to Drake/Kendrick Lamar levels of infighting within an arbitrarily short time. It's a real silver lining!

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Indeed. This after the Court showed it *can* act quickly in a Constitutional case against Trump (Colorado's application of the clear words of the 14th Amendment). Here, it just doesn't want to...

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Here is an equally surprising quote from Cornish-Dale from back in 2013 that is likely to get him in heaps of trouble with his fascist buddies:

"Care is a fundamental aspect of human relationships and of societies more generally"

www.cam.ac.uk/research/dis...

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Flag shopping

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

And yet they were oddly able to move quickly (so quickly!) to determine that the clear text of the 14th Amendment barring insurrectionists from office doesn't apply to Donald Trump. Golly gee, I wonder what can explain this disparity?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

Bannon now entering the "find out" phase of his FAFO life

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 12:44 UTC

True, but many (most? all?) of his heirs will hate Musk and want to destroy everything he stood for, so it might be a net win.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

The prohibition against murder* seems to be the only Commandment still holding these days inside the GOP. (*unless one murders the "correct" person. See Perry, Daniel)

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

It's always the ones you most suspect

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

Martha-Ann wonders how the slogan will fit on a flag

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

Impressive how the Court was able to move so quickly to stop Colorado from applying the clear language of the 14th Amendment to stop insurrectionists from taking office yet moves so slowly when it comes to declaring that Trump is not an emperor. Golly, I wonder what can explain this disparity?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

Originalism™ means ignoring BOTH the clear language of the Second Amendment's "well regulated" militia clause AND the clear language of the Fourteenth Amendment's clause about banning insurrectionists from political office. Just like the Founders intended!

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

Nice to see that Originalism™ protects personal ownership of machine guns, just like the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote about well-regulated militias on a lengthy piece of parchment.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:19 UTC

The world is fortunate that fascists are almost always really terrible at actually running organizations

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 15:49 UTC

It will be fun when these people discover the existence of Elagabalus

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

I, for one, would prefer not to have new pharmaceutical approvals or nuclear power plant regulations decided by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tommy Tuberville. But maybe that's just me?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

In a functioning democracy, when the electorate rejects a party's positions, the party changes its positions over time. In the US, when the electorate rejects its positions, the GOP works to change its electorate.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

"I have never met a more honest man!" -Mark Paoletta, in a few hours

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

That is extremely charitable of you. The thing that makes her feel important, however, is something that is profoundly dangerous to her community and the entire country. Perhaps instead of spreading easily-disprovable lies, she could just get a pet?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:30 UTC

Donald Trump installed for sixth term

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

If breathing and blood circulation required the involvement of the prefrontal cortex, these people would be in serious medical jeopardy

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

It's surprising that people this divorced from reality can actually manage ordinary tasks like driving or holding down a job

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

The fundamental problem is a GOP base that absolutely *insists* on being deceived.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

Fair enough.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

Of course the law can be -- and often is -- weaponized against marginalized people. This is not an argument against prosecuting a career criminal who happens to be the GOP nominee. Will Republicans retaliate? Almost certainly! But they were going to do that *anyway*.

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 15:59 UTC

Well, what do you suggest?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

Is the "happy, happy, happy" guy still around?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

And what is your proposed solution? Not prosecuting the career criminal currently heading the GOP for his many crimes?

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

I once saw a man shaving his forehead with a *straight razor* on a moving AC Transit bus heading down Shattuck

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Jonathan Hassid @jonathanhassid.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

It is important to put "Christian" in quotation marks, especially in a place like Russia

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