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Peter Gratton@petergratton.bsky.social |
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Philosopher and the best investment guru in philosophy since Thales.
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Peter Gratton
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This is very good, not least because it might be the first reported use in the 2000s of “hat trick” in non-sport writing to understand what it is.
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Peter Gratton
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Sure ‘Merica is known for making slapping a sport and for immunizing the worst people ever, but snark like this is a national treasure.
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Peter Gratton
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The day he lost the George’s.
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Peter Gratton
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He’s only on his second heart. So many years ahead for him.
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Peter Gratton
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The problem is you didn’t fill the zone with multiple predictions each day. Take the one that’s right and your career is made.
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Peter Gratton
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Every four years, a bunch of the media act like bored third-year poli-sci majors trying to wish-cast a brokered convention. This is the worst of all of them. Why not wish-cast defeating fascism?
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Peter Gratton
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His orders are not against the law. And since his orders are beyond the law so is anyone following them. How could it be otherwise? It makes the whole branch lawless.
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Peter Gratton
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Maybe chicken or egg, but certainly an issue on the supply side—have to ramp up the anger for clicks and ratings.
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Peter Gratton
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With Ganz’s book out, it’s a good time to revisit the 1990s.
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Peter Gratton
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The other part of this is that critiques should only be head-on and dismissive. None of this, it gets this or that precedent wrong. That takes these decisions as good faith arguments, which they aren’t. They are a weapon of power, not an academic treatise on the nature of sovereignty.
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Peter Gratton
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It looks especially awful when you put the U.S.—with which earning were ahead in the early aughts—on the chart from 2007 or so. The costs of austerity.
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Peter Gratton
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Yet another major thing to hear the tech bros go on about that ends up only seeing gains among criminals (last paragraph)
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Peter Gratton
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Even Schmitt was like you have to at least decide on the exception. This is just simply without law all the time. And there is no way it doesn’t bleed into the whole executive branch—who are following an immune President. What about the Treasury and its spending?
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Peter Gratton
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I’ve checked the settings on my Bose earphones, which I did pay a pretty penny on. But do they block out the painful knowledge of what’s happening? No.
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Peter Gratton
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“…wait, let me finish—without ketchup. I wouldn’t eat a human without ketchup.”
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Peter Gratton
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What a July 4th tomorrow! Get the bbq going and then regale those assembled, as I do each year, with stories of the valor of an underdog army fighting under a Declaration of Independence calling forth a virile and energetic executive unbound by consent of the governed. Makes me misty already.
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Peter Gratton
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How about this? Go out and make the case that it's far better to have Biden, who could be replaced by Harris. Seems a lot fewer chess moves for Americans to figure out.
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Peter Gratton
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Yes, Americans are well-known to be tuning into political stuff during the height of the summer. We are slipping over the edge and this only can envision a reality show to boost the ratings summer doldrums.
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Peter Gratton
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Thank you for writing this up. I've been looking for exactly this kind of coverage on this--I saw the announcement but not what it means.
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Peter Gratton
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I am not your researcher. There's articles on Heritage gaming out their lawsuits already to block any such changes, especially in key battleground states.
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Peter Gratton
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"And donors." Quasi-redundant but ...
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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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Peter Gratton
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You are aware of state election laws linked to primary wins that Biden has won? A high court that would back Repub lawsuits to keep whoever comes next off those ballots? I can also read polls, so even though I would love to go on about the many people I would love to have over Biden, it's not there.
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Peter Gratton
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That Heritage yutz was truly scary—they are really hoping for some major bloodshed to give their lives meaning.
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Peter Gratton
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There is nothing in the constitution that says the Court has the last word on interpreting it. Indeed, their own decision relies on no one being able to question a Biden saying he simply won’t follow their interpretation. He wont do it but it’s there waiting for him to take it up.
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Peter Gratton
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I have a fact check on his bit about faculty senates meaning liberals control those institutions. “You and I have both been parts of faculties and faculty senates and understand that the left has taken over our institutions.” It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a real victory by a faculty senate.
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Peter Gratton
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I was just thinking of the (insert modern example of pearl clutching) at your Atlantic pieces on the court just a few months ago. All the wishing in the world couldn’t make it true that this wasn’t the Court we had. And now here we are—just a few months later.
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Peter Gratton
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I don’t care what it is at this point: I will concede every point about every previous election. You’re right, I accept your political wisdom, chart-with-Orange-County-voters-for-Kamala person. Now back to the fascism at hand.
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Peter Gratton
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You’re doing yeoman’s work on here with these people. My god—is this how people deal with it all instead of therapy? We’re in a real dangerous spot, our best shot is still likely Biden (or Harris), and instead of just dealing with how to f’ing win with that, people are rearguing long ago primaries.
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Peter Gratton
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She points to an absurd footnote in the majority saying maybe you can use publicity about it but first need to pass a bunch of tests that means, no, you would have already shown it wasn’t an official act anyway and so saying you can is moot.
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Peter Gratton
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The Roberts decision in Trump v. U.S.—just going off the most sickly men in the history of philosophy writing vitalist peons to power—must have been written by the most personally weak/impotent people in our government. Adjectives of force and energy throughout do the work that legal analysis can't.
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Peter Gratton
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What a time when this doesn’t even get above-the-fold treatment.
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Peter Gratton
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And plus all the language in Roberts opinion about virile, power leaders needing to be unrestrained by law. Like a chat GPT trained on the writings of Carl Schmitt.
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Peter Gratton
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An umpire is someone who says there are no rules that apply.
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Peter Gratton
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With our system of governance, we have the luxury of quickly forgetting yesterday’s crisis to deal with today’s. Meanwhile, we don’t even get to feel somewhat better by looking at Macron and saying, ok Biden would never do something as dumb as that.
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Peter Gratton
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Yes. Barrett definitely leaves a trial open and gives clear tests to use. The dissents hit home on a major tell—Roberts could think of all the things that were immune but couldn’t for anything that wasn’t immune.
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Peter Gratton
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I’ll take Congress.
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Peter Gratton
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We know some of the corruption already but rulings that say it’s hard to work while avoiding crimes and bribery doesn’t count if it’s a reward makes me realize some major thing at the court will be uncovered and it’ll duh, of course that’s why.
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Peter Gratton
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I really hate that the SC’s decisions this past week comes from a GPT trained on the texts of 18th royalists.
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Peter Gratton
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It’s also so obviously a way to immunize the whole executive branch-any time you say x Treasury person did a crime, the President says it’s part of the official acts and it’s presumptively legal. And to release this decision now moves from permission/immunity to affirmation.
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Peter Gratton
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Great piece. I can’t get over how any hearing Republicans do to stage some odd look for Presidential corruption, there is none at this point legally/presumptively. (And if it’s not about official stuff then Congress can’t have the hearings since that’s the basis of their legality.)
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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”
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Peter Gratton
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Exactly. Can stop elections but not decide if this species is a protected turtle or not.
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Peter Gratton
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Sigh we’re ruled by the votes of the undecideds who always tell pollsters they don’t like the strident one. That said, I could see using this to have a campaign where he puts it to Trump again and again about taking criminal immunity. But yes it’s weak. And it’s why we’re here.
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Peter Gratton
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My god. I remember that—total gaslighting before I knew the term.
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Peter Gratton
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Good advice. The hours go on and it reverberates out more and more the implications. Next week, I’ll still be going, the ruling means that terrible thing, too. All from a joke case meant to just cause a delay.
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Peter Gratton
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In awe of your powers sometimes. No immunity for them though.
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Peter Gratton
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In fact it’s because he’s so damn old that he’s been so relatively good—his instincts are often 70s Democrat, and so whatever neurons left firing off just instinctually go “support unions” or “tax the rich” or “building stuff is good.” Better a dead Biden than a live New Democrat.
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Peter Gratton
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I wish on here he would be called on for real complexity but most times he’s forced to point out things like presidential terms are four years or Harris didnt run the year you say she lost. I feel like we keep calling in a brain surgeon to say hitting yourself in the head hurts.
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Peter Gratton
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By definition no one who could run other than her beat Biden in that primary either. Good lord—people always think VPs are gaff-prone lightweights who can’t win elections on their own. People don’t need to drag out 20 year old AG primary races on this.
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