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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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It's not. It's one kinda bad answer to the same question asked over and over and over
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy@sporkredfox.bsky.social |
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Theatre Lover. Policy Wonk Follower. Values integrity and epistemic humility. he/him
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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It's not. It's one kinda bad answer to the same question asked over and over and over
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southpaw
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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How dare democratic politicians *check notes* take policy that impacts people's lives seriously
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Did people watch that long? I dipped after like the fifth "but really, don't you think you're senile?"
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Im proud that it turns out I managed to hit a lot of the same points in my blog
One point @fleerultra.bsky.social makes well on the "biden old" (part continued mea culpa). far too much discorse but the real problem isn't performance art criticism. It's policy. Not being willing to reckon w/times
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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This feels like when pope francis was like "who?" When dreher met him. Like, yeah no one knows who that is. Berger desperately needs to touch grass
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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"But there was a debate this early and also if you point out the normies reacted more normally to the debate it's about the media coverage after...and...and...and"
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Apparently the black vote is better than the last Sienna/nyt poll and than other polls that show race dep
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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The only reasonable response to the Times poll
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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I mean, you do you lol. Polling seems pretty cooked to me
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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The crosstabs of polling right now continue to be so f-ing funny
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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ah, you haven't seen it yet
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Oh fuck yeah
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Quinta Jurecic
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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We're fucking doomed
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Also the previous line. And the lines after
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David Noll
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Saying someone is presumptively immune from prosecution then barring the introduction of evidence of their mental state is a neat trick.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Yeah, I mean I guess that's the case.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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As a non-account I still find twitter more pleasant, definitely than fb, but I genuinely am confused why medium/big accounts still take the abuse
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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I've been laughing for the last few hours post decision. Idk what happens if I stop laughing but it's starting to get a little manic aaah aaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Adam Serwer
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Helen Kennedy
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I meant this literally.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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ok, whatever, feel like we're talking past each other at this point. I'm muting this thread now.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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I guess I just don't find the argument of "don't be the unlucky bunny who gets shot by the totalitarian regime" to be particularly useful advice right now.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Yeah, i suppose that's fair.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Bold of you to assume a future fascist regime would need an excuse
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Gotcha
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Csis?
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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yeah, obviously -House would impeach -Senate would convict -any case that got to SCOTUS even without the 6 justices Jackson and Sotomayor would hold him accountable with maaaaaybe Kagan in dissent (STARE DECISIS XD)
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Or Grants Pass Loper Bright Snyder Trump case Munoz Cargill Really many of the SCOTUS decisions that went sideways
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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"Biden can fire him" in any way he wants
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Peter Sagal
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I honestly believe that a lot of conservative strategizing is based on the correct assumptions that liberals would never be as ruthless as they are.
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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If you're taking shitpost reactions to SCOTUS's decision this seriously, you're an idiot
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Hey @fivefourpod.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social can you slap down stuff like this. Im losing my mind
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Court packing is far too extreme and rests on much more shaky legal ground than *checks notes* ordering the death of political rivals
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Look, my understanding is that for seal team 6 there are 6 of them...that seems to match up
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Aaron Sojourner
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When you’re POTUS, SCOTUS lets you do it. You can do anything.
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Faine Greenwood
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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
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Eric Rauchway
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RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW
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Endless Screaming
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Tired: Biden should step down because he's old Wired: Biden should step down because he's too nice to order a drone strike on Trump and the 6 conservative justices using his official constitutional powers
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Kagan would use Stare Decisis to say it's legal
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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ironically the only thing restraining biden from drone striking the insurrectionist supreme court justices is that the justices he would appoint to replace them would hold him accountable
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Dave Levitan
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A country where a minority of voters can elect a president with king-like authority and impunity and federal agencies that lack the power to do any of the things they are meant to do if big rich companies say they don't like it. Culmination shit for the right wing project.
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John Brown stan account
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I'm mad at them for not getting in that train in 2020 when all of this was already pretty obvious and inevitable, but now we're here, staring authoritarianism in the face. If they aren't on board now, nothing will drive them to action
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John Brown stan account
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I will say this: if the Dems are not (at least privately) in favor of court packing after today's ruling, our party does not care about defending democracy
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Nathanael 🧦 Roy
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Yeah, i personally want an apology by the pundits who said this would go the other way
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RainShine
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Does this mean Biden can dispatch Seal Team Six to eliminate a political rival as long as he claims it as official business? Asking for a friend.
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Miranda Yaver
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I don't ever want to fucking hear again that Roberts is an institutionalist.
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Seth D. Michaels
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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not
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