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Rick does Math and Stuff
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The entire media have already normalized the idea that Trump will be allowed to get away with felonies. "Isn't that interesting? What next?"
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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The W bar is about 50 stories higher than the Trump bar.
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Pretty much all six of them are clearly limited. Some more than others. Thomas's unfamiliarity with actual American jurisprudence has been well documented over the years. He just Makes Shit Up all the time. The Gorsuch and BK hearings convinced me they're just useless frat boys.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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We really need to admit they are simply being incredibly disingenuous and dishonest. The entire decision reeks of bad faith argumentation. It's tailored entirely to prevent Trump from going to prison - in any of the trials he currently faces.
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They were used to violence. Our ruling class is not. It's been 80 years since a real shooting war that included wealthy people. It's pathetic watching people be intimidated by Steve Bannon and Donald Trump. Ike would mop the floor with those guys. And the Heritage Foundation clown? 😂
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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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Betting odds are not an insight into what voters think so much as they are an insight into what rich people think voters think. They're really not worth citing as evidence of anything real.
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No. There's no reason to do this unless he's actually incapacitated.
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Labour still hasn't recovered from Blair.
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I thought they called it "Ungrateful Day" over there. 😉
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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Mel Carnahan won a Senate seat after he died. 🤷♂️
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Unfollowing. Don't need to follow anybody who insults me.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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Again, I'm baffled that somebody would use "conspiracy" as an insult. Just wake up already.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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I'm sorry, but how can I refer to the SCOTUS ruling as anything other than "legal-sounding stuff"? From a jurisprudential perspective, it's horseshit. It's without precedent, it's the opposite of all their pre-Jan 6 jurisprudence, and it's tailored exactly to maximize the benefit to Trump?
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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We're well past the point where "conspiracy" can be used as an insult. It's not a conspiracy to say that SCOTUS will use every power it has to get Trump into the White House. They invented an evidence rule out of whole cloth to protect Trump in his other criminal trials.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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The joke's on Trump's lawyers. All of the SCOTUS justices have issued statements in the past saying that the President is not above the law. People need to understand we're in uncharted ground here. There is no rule of law. We're in a realm of "legal-sounding stuff" that need not last very long.
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But apparently Missouri should be taking over.
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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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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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The purpose of this law is to enable a Trump dictatorship. At that point all bets are off. Voting rights? Gone. Gerrymandering and disenfranchisement to keep Republicans in power. People need to stop thinking power will pendulum back to Democrats. The goal is permanent, one-party minority rule.
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It's literally a criminal act since the purpose is obstruction of justice. The inclusion of an otherwise atopical clause banning evidence is the tell. That has nothing to do with the case they were hearing. It's about killing the guilty verdict in New York. And it's without legal foundation.
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"Complicit" feels insufficient. They are allies. One day after the immunity ruling that fundamentally changes how America works, and the media only want to talk about how Biden should drop out.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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Still waiting for the "Should Trump drop out?" questions. In a sane world, that would be the expectation for candidate found guilty of several felonies. Not the utter bullshit the Republicans are trying to sell the nation on. (BTW, it's not going to work.)
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But they will. It's only a question of how and when and how much chaos will happen between now and then. The only thing they know how to do is propaganda. They don't know how to run anything. It isn't an accident COVID happened on Trump's watch. (Or 9/11 on W's, for that matter.)
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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Maybe if these guys wanted to so radically rewrite the laws of this land, they should have campaigned on the changes they wanted, won elections, etc.
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Heritage Foundation announced they will rewrite Constitution willy nilly and pretend they hold power legitimately.
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Are they doing _any_ similar coverage of Trump's failing faculties? Or are they just admiring how he's cleverly dodging legal responsibility for his crimes?
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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What part of "he wants to be a dictator!" is so hard for people to understand? - openly admires Putin and defends Russia's interests over NATO - openly admires other authoritarian leaders - idly muses about dictatorial powers - wants protesters to be shot - argues that he is above the law
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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How'd that work out for Clinton, who had a much stronger resume?
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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Caving never works in the long run for Democrats. Betrayal is a bad look. Whoever told him to do this gave him bad advice.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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Looking forward to that polling. "Do you agree with the SCOTUS decision that grants Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution?" They might slip it in some point in the next 25 push polls about Biden's age.
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Of course the pundits had their reaction and ran with it. Not a surprise they're out of touch with the public. That's been true for a long time.
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You expect Merchan to ignore the implications of the SCOTUS ruling? What would that accomplish?
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He was ripping off Harry S Truman when he said that. Let's not give him too much credit.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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"Well, we tried." They never did. They ignore the problem, fail to present counter-arguments to the public, let the right-wing spew hate constantly, and then wonder why the left isn't winning. Pointing at LePen and saying "Bad person!" doesn't accomplish anything. If it were only that easy!
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Very early Harry had a better grip on relating to humans than JK seems to. Like, by S1, Ep 3.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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1 - guy was freaked out when Rowling started spouting TERF bullshit? That sounds entirely probable to me. That she failed to properly identify the source of his discomfort? Also likely. That's she's terrible at reading people? I'm not surprised.
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'The subject made him very uncomfortable.' I would be uncomfortable if I were in a conversation with a woman I had presumed to be sane and rational and she started talking about "penised lesbians". And it wouldn't be the topic. It would be the "Omigod she's bonkers" moment.
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I suspect he meant it when he said it. The problem is that Roberts, et al, are so deeply biased (and dumb) that they are giving credence to Trump's claim that the prosecutions are politically motivated and baseless. They believe their own propaganda. This is a "Save Trump!" Hail Mary.
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Obligatory leopard, getting hungry for a face to eat.
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Exactly.
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It never made any sense for Obama to immediately cave on closing Gitmo. The first thing he did when getting the White House was to signal weakness. I'm sure that timidity emboldened Republicans and was part of why they chose to blockade Merrick Garland. They correctly thought he'd do nothing.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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The Court rejected that argument and simply granted POTUS immunity.
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The structural reason it doesn't matter is because SCOTUS would write some fancy language and invent new rules to block him. SCOTUS is an active participant in national politics now.
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Lol. SCOTUS isn't going to let Biden get away with anything. Do people think this is still a nation ruled buy laws alone? We're well into Calvinball now. Republicans do what they want and SCOTUS backs them up. That's the current reality.
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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With regard to your former point: a President _violated international law_ and greenlit a torture regime and not only was he not prosecuted for doing so, there wasn't even a criminal investigation. The Presidency already had nearly imperial powers in many respects.
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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This is the choice a lot of Republicans have made in the past 8 years when they chose to let Trump say whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and they were never going to criticize him. They're just hoping he'll go away before they, personally, become targets.
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