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Sandy Parker@sandyparker.bsky.social |
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Reconstructed Southerner; New Dealer; family guy; irreligious. Root for Tampa Bay Rays, New Orleans Saints, Florida Gators.
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Sandy Parker
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Do they think we’re exaggerating how awful a second Trump term would be? Do they also still think scientists are overstating the impacts of climate change?
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Sandy Parker
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I understand the idea that social media can at best be a vehicle of escape from the everyday world. At the same time, people who never ever post about the dire political situation lead me to believe they are Trump supporters or at the very least indifferent, which is almost as bad.
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Sandy Parker
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Prescient words from Edwin Edwards (of all people) after he defeated David Duke in 1991.
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sgt. FKA Otter Papa Jr FKA peezky weezky aka Pete the Killa
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Today is my favorite day to be on NextDoor
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Sandy Parker
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The crazy MAGA house on the way to the springs removed their QAnon banner since the last time I was out here, a year or so ago. It’s the small victories we have to embrace.
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Radley Balko
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🤷♂️
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Sandy Parker
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If Harris becomes the nominee, it would be a great time to call out the fact that Trump, the main Birther, exists because a black man was elected president and we can kick him off the world stage with a black woman.
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Sandy Parker
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Three NYT headlines within the past hour: “Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race” “Big Donors Turn on Biden. Quietly.” “Biden to Hold Crisis Meeting With Dem Governors...to reassure his supporters that he can still win in November.”
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Sandy Parker
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What a fucking week.
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Sandy Parker
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Looks like the "Biden step aside" movement is gaining steam. So be it. But if the replacement choice isn't Kamala Harris, we will lose. Tread carefully, self-confident Democratic Elite.
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Sandy Parker
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Would love to know who this "key ally" is. John Barron?
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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️⚧️
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One of the groups involved in creating Project 2025 is the Alliance Defending Freedom, of which Speaker Johnson is an alum
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Sandy Parker
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Whoa. Did not know that.
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Sandy Parker
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I knew about Paul Weyrich and his famous "you know, democracy ain't so great for our cause" line. I thought they were more fringe than they apparently are. Of course the GOP is all-fringe now, shoulda known they would be top influencers.
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Sandy Parker
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Did not know that, jesus.
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Sandy Parker
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Since this election will come down to a few thousand votes in a few states (set the debate's impact aside for a sec) I wonder how many of the same libertarians who booed Trump might be compelled to actually vote for Biden because of this Immunity decision? Also wonder how many there are in the wild?
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Sandy Parker
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Question was, “What is the influence of the Heritage Foundation, author of Project 2025?” Answer:
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Sandy Parker
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How influential is the Heritage Foundation? And has Trump mentioned Project 2025?
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Worth repeating: "Arguably the least originalist major SCOTUS decision in American history."
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Nobody: The Left:
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“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” THIS IS FINE
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Sandy Parker
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“I am not a church boy.” The Trump defense. He knows his constituency, the scumbag.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Sandy Parker
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*three
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The first two paragraphs of this op-ed agree with your preliminary take. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Sandy Parker
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Yes. But at the same time, voters wouldn't stand for it. Democrats are held to a different standard than Republicans because we are selling two different products: change and the status quo, respectively. Change sucks, the unknown is risky, so the agents of change are put under a greater microscope.
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Sandy Parker
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Same.
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Sandy Parker
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Screw that, sentence him and let the Supreme Court deal with it.
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Sandy Parker
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Maybe so. I feel like a lot of permission and cover was given to awful people (and states) to act awfully when Roberts gutted the Voting Rights Act by (iirc) cynically pointing to Obama’s election as proof that it was no longer necessary.
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Sandy Parker
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Ironically this court is waging war against Nixon (who no less an authority than Noam Chomsky described as the last New Deal President) in some important ways, most notably gutting the EPA’s authority.
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Sandy Parker
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Similar to Dobbs being the product of a decades’ long project to overturn Roe.
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From reading books like Evil Geniuses and Goliath, you learn that much of establishment conservatism has been an apologia for Watergate as much as an unraveling of New Deal economics. Bork was at the center of this. The immunity ruling is the cap of a decades’ project of vindicating Nixon.
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Sandy Parker
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Or maybe just something on Huey Long. That dude...
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When the Clock Broke seems to orbit that idea from what I've read so far.
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I know it's crazy, but so was that ruling. Do we need to start engaging with the idea that this court is complicit in providing legitimacy to an autocratic regime? Specifically a Trump one? Or do they think the prospect is ridiculous? Or is it a vindication of Nixon and Jamelle suggests?
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Sandy Parker
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Well said
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Yeah, I have to agree, it all goes back to Obama. That they elected (and nearly worship) the main Birther is not a coincidence. Electing a black man broke them.
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@marklemley.bsky.social Is the Trump immunity ruling the exception that proves the rule, or does it fit in to your remarkable thesis is a way that eludes this layman?
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Happy Bobby Bonilla day btw
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The Onion
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This ref
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Vicious
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Peter
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to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited
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At some point today, in the middle of this weeklong sh*tstorm of awful news, please be sure to take a moment, close your eyes, inhale deeply, and repeat this sentence: "Steve Bannon is behind bars."
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What is "it"? The idea that Biden had a terrible debate? Or the idea that Biden should step aside? Because I don't think many serious people are disputing the former. But you don't mention your friend calling for Biden to step aside in the anecdote, so I'm a bit confused.
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sigh....i guess
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The sad thing is that Trump is gonna weaponize this. You know his advisors are gaming this thing out as we speak.
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Sandy Parker
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"She's as unpopular as he is!!" Because polls are static and where you are now is where you will be tomorrow.
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Gillian Branstetter
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Must be nice to have choices
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