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William Glennon@wfxglennon.bsky.social |
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Retired teacher of languages, mostly dead (the languages, not the teacher...)
SW Maine - pronouns hic/ille/is/αύτος
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William Glennon
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I've been told since I was a lad -- that until the mid-60's the UK Foreign Office paid their DC embassy personnel whatever the tropical hardship kick was, as if it were Kuala Lumpur or whatever. (Possibly only ben' trovato.)
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William Glennon
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"Make all the distressing noise stop" happens more swiftly, and more completely, in authoritarian states than democratic ones. It's a helluva revealed preference, though.
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William Glennon
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Reasoning this cogent cannot but compel my consent.
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William Glennon
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I never wanted Kerensky anyways.
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William Glennon
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In a time of great peril, it's imperative that we keep our focus on what really matters -- the 2020 Democratic primaries.
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William Glennon
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See Shelby County: "The part of the 15th Amendment - Section 2 - that says the Congress shall have the power to enforce this by appropriate legislation? That means Congress does not have the power to enforce this by appropriate legislation." Transcendent shamelessness.
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William Glennon
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"...an afflicted man hides away a wen or a cancer, which he dares not cut out at once, lest he bleed to death; with the promise, nevertheless, that the cutting may begin at the end of a given time. Less than this our fathers could not do; and now more they would not do." Lincoln, Peoria 1854
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That's not important right now. The 2020 primaries is what's important right now. Perspective!
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State legislature in Maine already committed to returning to en bloc EC allocation if Nebraska does, and there's the D votes to pass it.
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William Glennon
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Dick Francis calls these things 'a dead cert'.
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William Glennon
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A gay union paperworker held that seat for six election cycles.
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William Glennon
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"You're asking me to put my column, and my podcast, and my book - look for it in April!- and my Substack - my brand! - in one pan of the balance, and the good of the country in the other pan, and choose the good of my country? Pull the other leg. It's got bells on it."
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William Glennon
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He's got the vote of everyone who knows why you have to destroy the One Ring, and why Galadriel and Gandalf refuse to wield it, for good. Because you can't. That might be enough. Might not. But stories still matter.
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William Glennon
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Nobody reads "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” any more. "Hegel says somewhere that every world-historical event happens three times. What he fails to add is: the first time as tragedy, the second time as comedy, and the third time as a podcast.”
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William Glennon
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Shameless? Like this "The part of the 15th Amendment where it says 'The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation' means that the Congress does not have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." That kind of shameless? Calvinball ain't in it
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William Glennon
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You are SId Meier and I claim my £5
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William Glennon
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"Why doesn't Biden just use the Ring?"
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William Glennon
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I'm no great fan of David Frum, the father of 'the Axis of Evil', and Bush II mouthpiece. but I'll give the devil his due. In 2018 he said “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” And he was right.
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William Glennon
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Hey, hey, hey. Slow down! Let's not confuse the voice of the people with die Stimme des Volkes.
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William Glennon
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...then as a podcast.
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William Glennon
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Justice Roberts: "The part where it says 'The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation' means that the Congress does not have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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My prediction: the phrase "not a wartime consigliere" will feature prominently in reax here.
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William Glennon
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You don't understand. Only drumhead courts martial followed by summary executions can save due process and the rule of law.
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William Glennon
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Courts are mechanisms expressly designed to keep push from ever coming to shove.
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William Glennon
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They've got the courts - and now everything has to go through the courts. The popularly-elected branches are now officially a would-be-nice, not a must have. There are even, lurking in the details of today's decision, places where the court can modulate the extent to which a President is a king.
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William Glennon
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Lotta "Why won't Biden use the Ring?" out there.
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Frost v. Nixon is good law.
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William Glennon
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Which is less work? A. Figuring out how to explain why this is bad to people who get their news from listicicles and the top-of-the-hour on sports talk radio B. Jumping up and down and shouting "Old Biden must go! We need a younger God-emperor, or possibly Martin Sheen!"
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An open admission that they don't expect to control the elected branches going forward. But they've got the courts for 40 years.. Wait till the Court embraces non-delegation, and tosses 90% of the Federal Register til it's re-written as black-letter law. Which is then challenged in the courts.
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William Glennon
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We don't actually elect the president directly - it's mediated by this strange intermediate body most of whom you've never heard of. The actual choice of the President is made by the NY Times editorial board. A lot of people don't know that.
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William Glennon
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He'd still run a nuke war disad. You know he would.
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William Glennon
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Dingsbums
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William Glennon
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A Man For All Seasons 2, Electric Boogaloo: 'For clout? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for clout!'
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William Glennon
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After which place the Cambridge Springs Defense in the Queen's Gambit Declined takes its name....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%2...
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William Glennon
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We must Go to the People with more and better agitprop.
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William Glennon
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The people for whom it will always be 1968 are dying off, to be replaced by people for whom it will always be 2016. Such is the circle of life.
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William Glennon
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Anti-Popery is the OG American political conspiracy theory. The Quebec Act -- permitting the Catholic status quo to persist in Lower Canada -- made Sam Adams and others crazy. "But all those Catholics" was one of the arguments Whigs used to militate against acquiring parts of Mexico after the War
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William Glennon
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Imagine thrashing out, fractally, all the details of, say, 21 U.S. Code Chapter 15 - Egg Products Inspection - in Congress.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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William Glennon
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Having fun now? Wait till the Court embraces non-delegation. The printed version of the USC will have to be like, a mile-high solid cube of paper.
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William Glennon
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It's motte-and-bailey. They're conceding that they can't reliably hold the popularly elected offices any more; the courts are theirs for a generation, and there they will retreat.
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This will last however long it takes until the Court embraces non-delegation -- in other words, six months, tops.
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William Glennon
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"I turned it off the moment I saw enough to confirm my priors."
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William Glennon
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It's interesting watching people who would die rather than do a gender or race essentialism go right there when it comes to age. "OK, boomer."
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William Glennon
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We don't do "issues" any more. You're effectively asking "When does this come out on VHS". "Ideas" are an obsolete technology.
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William Glennon
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What if it's true in a *narrative* kind of way? Surely that has to count.
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William Glennon
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They own the lifeboat, the courts. They don't expect to be able to hold the other branches for long.
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William Glennon
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A design flaw. You form the coalition and fight the election.... Most other places, you fight the election and form the coalition. Locked in by early adoption. Too much of an installed base to do a clean-sheet-of-paper rework. 'Duopoly' complaints resolve to 'There are only two labels".
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William Glennon
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If all those Hogwarts movies taught us anything, it's that the spell doesn't work if you don't pronounce it correctly.
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William Glennon
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If you want to vote for an unpleasant person, your choice is clear. I'm not sure how many people use that a a decision rule, though.
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William Glennon
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It's not as if Trump wasn't in office for four years. I'm guessing there are.... <counts>... 618 undecided voters. Total. In the entire country.
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