This is a classic Trump trope, when something might drag him down "I never met the guy" in the face of photos of them bro hugging after a two hour meeting.
If we were doomed, trump would have won 2020 or won on Jan 6 or voters could have shrugged on abortion in 2022. The GOP couldnt even shut down the government or breach the debt ceiling to sabotage Biden. Declaring the president immune to the law by fiat makes the GOP look ridiculous and extremist
Anyone posting or talking like the election is over should be deeply embarrassed. Its barely summer! This isn't the time to give up, it's the time to redouble our efforts
It's completely ass backwards. The danger of a president committing crimes as an individual is nothing compared to him using the government for criminal ends. The very things that we should be most concerned about a corrupt president doing are the things he can't be punished for.
Trump lost the popular vote twice while Biden’s been on a popular vote winning ticket three times. Trump won in a fluke once but he and the trumpists have eaten shit in every election since then
accidentally gave myself a Kennedy/Nixon moment. Listening the debate in the background I thought Biden sounded weak, now watching this clip I think trump lost. Nodding along to abusing jean carroll and grinning at cheating on his wife. He’s repulsive x.com/TPM/status/1...
Teju cole has this novella where a guy visits Nigeria and it starts with him needing to bribe the guy in the passport office to get an expedited visa. Corruption gets into everything. Trump would have us have a society where you can’t even trust that the gas station pump won’t stiff you
And the only body that could have approved an art installation—the arts council—hadn’t met in years because there were no volunteers.
So some friends and I volunteered for the arts council. We give up two nights a month to sit through incredibly dull meetings and fill out forms…
Juneteenth is good because it is the only federal holiday that even obliquely acknowledges the Civil War specifically, who won it, and what changed because of it. The losers have tried to obscure all of this for 160 years so it’s a bit of a miracle Juneteenth exists officially at all.
I think the ideal movie stunt is one that is sort of grounded in reality so it feels like it could happen to you, but is just barely too dangerous or too unreal for you as a normal person to succeed -