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Texas Lopez⭐️@texaslopez.bsky.social |
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It's all in the name. History⌛️, democracy🗳️, and iced tea🍹
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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So the Founders in their infinite wisdom after complaining about a tyrannical king apparently imbued one person with unchecked power versus literally everyone else in the country being bound by the law and not justice from a sovereign. 🙃
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The stupidest part of this current GOP court is creating rulings for the kind of imperial Presidency that will one day be able to just ignore their own rulings with zero consequence.
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A glaring omission considering so much of GOP leadership says to take Trump seriously, and yet at the same time they gloss over the implications of what he says he wants to do.
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So she's just lazy.
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There's no taking a porn star testifying against a former President off as a lead story.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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We are so back!
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Because famously when commanders in chief have absolute power it's gone so well in the past....
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This is the most elite reporter whine, like someone saying they went to college in Cambridge, Mass and getting annoyed when the other person doesn't press them to elaborate more. Normal people do not care that much.
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Of course they do, because they're stupid. There's no good reason when every other office is a popular vote. You tell them that and they have nothing in response beyond crying about cities which they likely live in or near anyway.
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How many decades was it where wiretapping phones was justified before overturned? With this SCOTUS we're likely in for a similar timeframe.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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So basically if you think you'll be encountered switch your phone to pin only. Noted.
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One of the keys to taking heckling and criticism is to find if there is any small bit of legitimate criticism there and taking it to heart. His issue is that he actually thinks there's nothing wrong with him at all.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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Oh yeah
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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Except from his own parents who by all accounts were pricks too.
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Rich people in general are insulated from criticism if they want to be, but here he has to sit in a very official setting and have what people think of him read into the record. Fantastic.
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Something for a future clerk to chuckle at when they move over court files to a new format
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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The same goes for whining about DEI as if that was wholly at fault for natural demographic change and educational attainment in the post Civil Rights era. Or crying about diversity in media because streaming fractured audiences and so Hollywood finally took more chances on smaller creators.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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Or legislate back into existence. For example, secularism has been on the rise in the US because of Evangelical and Catholic churches own scandals and hypocrisy over the years poisoning the well apart from any government policy. Vouchers to private religious schools won't help much there.
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That's true enough as well. Partly what has made MAGA moron conservatives so rabid is that many of their gripes are things that the government simply cannot legislate away.
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Praise the sun!
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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You're making it worse by feeding into GOP paranoia about abortion. Joe Biden and Dem leadership support Roe and viability as the framework but the GOP lies and says that means no limits ever. And that's before we get to who actually supports family care policies.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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As opposed to conservatives trying to make Biblical law into general law?
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It's both apparently. The mere appearance of any gay character in media sends conservatives up the wall into the padded room.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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The head of the Secret Service answers to the Secretary of Homeland Security which is currently Mayorkas. No shot he lets Trump off the hook for this hypothetical arrest warrant/contempt charge. It would render the chain of command useless.
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Yeah, that was Kruse point. We relied too long on norms to keep political elites in line. Nixon should have gone to jail to serve as a warning to everyone coming after. Ford fucked up.
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At best in this scenario the Secret Service could request an isolated cell, but we're not some Roman Empire where guards enforce the personal will of the protectee.
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Just because a former President has never been served with a warrant for their arrest doesn't mean the Secret Service job is stop all legal processes from occurring. They'd simply escort the protectee to jail or risk themselves being relieved of duty.
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This goes to the point that started this. Everyone is more concerned with appearances than what the law and duties are. The Secret Service is employed by the federal government they aren't former Presidents personal guard employed and paid by them.
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The agents aren't meant to protect him from other law enforcement.
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It's not tough at all. It just requires some backbone from the courts. Treat him like any other defendant who would do this. By trying to seem so "neutral" to him they've actually bent over to accommodate such stupid behavior.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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Looks like a non spicy jambalaya to me
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Accurate.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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Or at the current time in the US Senate
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Same.
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This is something I've noticed in PBS and BBC coverage. It's exactly because they're more policy based that people credit them with less bias.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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What is it in the water at the NYT that makes formerly good reporters into two bit pundits with more vibes than common sense?
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He will literally just ignore it and then what? If the GOP wouldn't convict and remove in the Senate after J6 they won't do it for ignoring the Roberts Court.
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The only real advice to give the Biden campaign is to be more personal and more explicit. Trump is a selfish and petty man who uses his followers for an ego boost, and just like his Cabinet or wives will dump any of them for any reason. Fidelity.
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Biden speaking at all is less important than the message he sends when he does. Trump isn't original at all this is his "Basement Biden" 2.0 and it can be defeated just the same.
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Laying out a conventional interview strategy is not a novel idea and somehow Silver believes his specificity of the usual suspects on that list makes it better somehow.
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Texas Lopez⭐️
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And by competence I mean the very basic knowledge of how governing works which despite being in office Trump still doesn't possess when it comes to executive power, Congress, or the courts. Biden's case should be to how "disloyal" Trump is to everyone and everything. A lack of fidelity to democracy.
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Silver has lost the fastball for real. By the summer he'll shift gears to how letting Biden talk too much somehow made it all worse and only reaffirmed the issue. The simple fact is that people know Trump is stupid so he gets a pass by the media. The real issue is competence as it was in 2020.
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I sometimes wonder if it should. Yes, the patronage and spoils systems of decades past was corrupt, but functionally Republicans can vote against Democratic bills and still claim credit for the benefits of said bills.
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Do I think he's a great candidate? No. Do I think he's a decent President? Certainly. He's gotten more factions of the Democratic Party to cooperate than Obama did, and passed more legislation with his 2 year Congressional majority than Trump did with this 2 year majority.
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It doesn't matter at this point does it? Biden and Trump will be the nominees and one of them will win and be the President again. Vote accordingly or don't, but there will be a result regardless.
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Religious institutions have poisoned themselves by covering up for abuse scandals and with so many of their leaders getting actively involved in reactionary politics. Sell any young person why they should go to a church with that baggage, even before you get to the Christian faith itself.
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Civil War era "Darren" Lind writing in their diary about some of Lincoln's executive orders falling into the legal greyzone, how logistics will win the conflict, and collected stories of war refugees coming to their Union regiment on the march through Georgia.
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I never made an account there because I don't use Instagram. Another good reason to not bother.
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This is exactly why I despise when politicians invoke the Founders. It's another form of dodging by claiming a predetermined historical path where they themselves lack agency to change the course of events.
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Let's be clear why this is. Trump dyes his hair, wears makeup, and is unusually loud while Biden is just his age. So the former gets a "youthful" dumb pass for the same behavior despite the fact if he just appeared his own age he'd be called a raving lunatic by the press. Aesthetics kill journalism
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