Irony is dead
Trying to restart this account. Focus will be history, law, and politics. Midwestern guy living in the desert. Love good food, history, politics, musical theater, and baseball. I’m married, we have two dogs. Lawyer by day.
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Irony is dead
It really does feel backwards, doesn’t it?
I guess it makes him the perfect person to if Harvard is weak in fighting antisemitism. He got away with it.
Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future
That was my read of this as well. It’s interesting to see others read this as siding with Kennedy over the drug companies.
Is he questioning gave effectiveness or starting to realize RFK Jr. is a quack and looking for the evidence to shut him down?
Trump is legacy shopping. He ran away from Warp Speed, which should have been seen as his greatest success, because he was afraid of the conspiracists in his base. Now, as he flounders in his second term, he may see it as his one chance at redemption. It may be too late to even redeem that part.
The “don’t comply in advance” crowd often fails to see that court challenges are the most effective way to achieve non-compliance.
It is the most maddening thing I see in response to every legal expert I follow on this site. The “none of it matters” anyway response to even the slightest positive news is exhausting. This administration public statements are contemptuous and they push limits. In the end, they comply.
I’d argue that one sign of a successful political movement is the ability to make people feel they are part of a spontaneous response. 2/2
I’m not sure that Shatz would disagree that those reactions were organized. However, the organized messaging was so strong (in particular in the COVID example) that most who hold those views would not acknowledge they were led there by organized resistance. In the end, the impact is the same. 1/2
I don’t understand people who follow legal experts only to argue with their analysis, especially when it’s merely an issue of describing why something could happen.
This is a ridiculous argument.
Benign (harmless) vs. malignant (willing to hurt or take advantage of others). These aren’t formal distinctions, but a mental health provider may tell you about them to help you understand your condition. 2/2
Just because it isn’t an official diagnosis, does not mean it isn’t real. The Cleveland Clinic explains it this way: The DSM-5-TR…doesn’t describe different types of narcissism or NPD. But experts often still organize narcissism based on traits or behaviors…1/2
Do you how else children are not supposed to look? With mitochondrial material sprayed all over their classmates.
"Which side was the killer on?" The side of killing. Now ask which "side" wants everyone in America to have easy access to guns.
"Not how children are supposed to look," says the desiccated leprechaun with the worm in his brain, the whale head on his roof, the bear cub in his trunk, and millions in his pocket from killing children with antivax propaganda.
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
No one is saying this except Trump.
That’s much easier than, oh say, providing things that would improve their lives like: -guaranteed health care from cradle to grave (including mental health) - free preschool and day care - free k - 12 education - free trade schools or colleges - paid family leave - a guaranteed living wage Etc.
That’s incredibly disappointing. “The leaders and best” indeed.
Good lord. “I’m going to ‘help’ [read ‘occupy’] you whether you want it or not. But it would be nice if you asked” is just pure authoritarian speak. It’s especially so when you say you have the power to do it whether someone wants it or not.
FWIW, my take is this: it’s perfectly valid to not trust him, and to not support him as he ramps up to a presidential race. That doesn’t mean you can’t admire and support his tactics against Trump. He doesn’t own that approach; he’s illustrating an effective way of attacking Trump for others to use.
Almost literally “tilting a windmills”.
You can’t even change your own headlamps without nearly disassembling the whole car. Removing the radio? Please.
That’s an expansion of the SW Universe I was not aware of.
What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?
It was an early lesson that people’s lived experiences can vary greatly even when dealing with the same problems. 2/2
It’s hard to pinpoint, but there was a film-related assignment in college that fits. In a class called Social Problems, we watched “Parenthood” and “Boyz n the Hood”. One assignment was to compare how the characters in those movies dealt with similar issues (Divorce, Teen Pregnancy, etc.). 1/2
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The talking points obviously went out. JD Vance said the same thing about authenticity.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Wow! Let me help you out. Illegal! Illegal is the word you were looking for here.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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To be fair, you can add “sparking ire among some online” to even the most innocuous story and probably be correct. But this is something really stupid to be upset about.
Oops, that’s days over 110, not 100.
Here’s an update for you @jeffsharlet.bsky.social This was yesterday, you can add one more day for today (114 degrees) and another night with a low above 90 for last night. That puts this summer in 4th place for days above 100 so far.
Sometimes a logo is just a logo. I guess if this is where they want to spend their energy, okay.
Wow, what a brave man he is. It’s SO dangerous. No other president would have dared go out into such a hellscape.
Texas Republicans are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump. The response by Democrats in California to counter-balance is being triggered by a blatant GOP plot to steal the 2026 midterms. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.
From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:
Even pre-pandemic, hand sanitizer was always appreciated.
Yes. “Well, we have all these camps and all these employees and all of this funding, but let’s just shut them down.” Said no authoritarian government ever.
If you go into manage subscription, changing to the original 365 is not an option, but if you try to cancel they offer it as an alternative. (This may have changed since I did it a few months ago. I didn’t go back to check.)
I opted out of the co-pilot version after it was automatically added to Office 365 (with a price increase). They make it hard to do, but it is possible. 1/2
There’s nothing in the museums about the future is particularly ironic.
And when people say Trump is a Russian asset, this is what we mean. It’s not that he is a spy or taking direct orders from Putin. it’s that he is easily manipulated by Putin. (Of course, he is easily manipulated by just anyone who gets in a room with him, but Putin is particularly good at it.)
need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive
Before you have the reflexive American reaction of “haha, the president has no power over this, it’s A Distraction”, consider that the goal here is not to change anything, but rather to prepare the terrain to declare any election loss as having been rigged.
This is wrong and dangerous. It’s also another example of Trump siding with whomever he was last in the room. That’s bad enough when it comes to domestic policy; it’s deadly when it is applied to matters of war and peace.
You’re the expert, and I respect that, but my worry is that there may be growing financial incentives in mass detentions. That’s a bigger threat with privatization, I think.
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
I bet he'd hate if this side-by-side went viral.
Will they argue that “through the mayor” doesn’t really mean what it says? It sounds similar to the CA national guard case.
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
Hmm? I seem to remember a relevant amendment that cleared that up. But what do I know was anymore.
Can we have ONE good old-fashioned Slow News Friday sometime this summer?
What possible legitimate reason would they have for this? It looks like a pure attempt at intimidation.
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
It’s definitely an awful position to be in, but if the end result is the same, either way, I’d fall down on the side of do the right thing and stand up to him. Of course that’s easy for me to say because I’m not the one in that position.
Yes. I understand the history of this. I was just referring to the current situation in DC, which I fear is only going to get uglier as the administration doubles down in the abuses.
I know I’m naive but I guess I still find it weird that the entirety of congressional republicans are cool with presiding over a descent into military autocracy
I hate the outright nihilism in response to every piece of legal news. Are things bad? Absolutely. Is there a reason to fear outright noncompliance? Sure. Does that mean nothing matters? No way. It still matters, and pretending it doesn’t is the same as giving up completely.
That was my first question. Have we moved to “random” stops?
The irony here, which would be lost on a vapid Klan influencer like Benny, is that racist urban renewal practices immediately preceded and probably helped precipitate the massive 20th century urban crime wave.
I hate the outright nihilism in response to every piece of legal news. Are things bad? Absolutely. Is there a reason to fear outright noncompliance? Sure. Does that mean nothing matters? No way. It still matters, and pretending it doesn’t is the same as giving up completely.
I have this same thought all the time. It’s incredibly depressing.
Don’t get in her way with facts. It’s the vibes that matter, the vibes!
You’d think the streets of DC are like a scene from Mad Max
It’s also good to keep in mind that not every line of questioning will have some gotcha moment. The attorney is building facts that, when taken all together, support legal arguments to be made later. So an individual line of questions might not make sense on their own.
It’s also good to keep in mind that not every line of questioning will have some gotcha moment. The attorney is building facts that, when taken all together, support legal arguments to be made later. So an individual line of questions might not make sense on their own.
My guess: If he made the request for support, why would he not know what was done to respond to that request? The implication is the federal troops didn’t care what the scope of the requests were.
I encourage everyone to cling to what brings them happiness right now. Times are tough. Find joy anywhere you can.
The misrepresentation of what this case is about is absolutely atrocious.
I like this. It is accurate and uses one of Trump’s favorite words.
Restoring representational balance is what we are doing, but that sounds dry and bureaucratic. It definitely needs a better phrase.
Doing something stupid out in the open actually backfired. There’s a glimmer of hope there.
I’d love to see what 2003 Kristol would say someone was able to send him this.
One of each of them and one of both.
I see it has been restored.
It’s somehow both worse than and stupider than Watergate. They do everything out in the open and it makes it somehow easier to get away with all of it.
It’s probably true this was a coding error or some other tech issue. The problem is that it’s completely possible and believable that it was something more nefarious.
Honestly, it was great all the way through, but the last line was so perfect for the topic.
If downward revisions were truly a sign that the numbers had been falsified there would be an incentive to revise them. (Except maybe in the first quarter of a new administration.)
When they take the next step and automate this a husband and wife could have a whole argument about him being late and neither of them will know. Ignorance is wedded bliss.
And just in case someone doesn’t get the reference: www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/11/j...
Was Willie Nelson in town?
The Olympics and World Cup should pull out now. It’s an amazing opportunity just those, but they are doomed to failure at this point.