Peter Sagal: Because as is well known, the first American Revolution was fought against the tyranny of faculty senates. (Read the transcript in the link.)

Because as is well known, the first American Revolution was fought against the tyranny of faculty senates. (Read the transcript in the link.)

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

It is remarkable to me that when they ever deign to name a specific complaint that requires them to overthrow American society (ie, a “revolution”) it’s always something like faculty senates or website DEI statements or calorie counts on menus.

John Eastman gave a long interview to the pres of Claremont College explaining why his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election were perfectly legal and when finally asked why it was necessary to do that he said something like, “Well, they’re teaching kids they can be any gender they want!”

Also, I will donate $500 to the Heritage Foundation if this historian of the early Republic ever once argued for the necessity of or even mentioned “presidential immunity” before Donald Trump made it up.

"abortion" and "privacy" aren't explicitly mentioned in the constitution, therefore they can't be rights. dumb libs! "qualified immunity," "presidential immunity," & "executive privilege" aren't mentioned either, but consider that blah blah blah anyway america can't exist without them. dumb libs!

Constitution never mentions deez nuts and yet here they are

Correct. It is not only nowhere in founding materials, denying immunity to the head of state also was a cause of the 1688 English revolution.

This probably isn't news to you, but I'm told that a bunch of hard-core conservatives have been firmly in favor of this ever since Nixon said, "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal", because they see the Watergate scandal as an unjustified attack on a noble President.

Not prosecuting Nixon for treason was a massive massive mistake.

To no one’s shock, he misapplies (lies, turns to propaganda) the federalist papers to his argument, specifically federalist 70…

Yes; Fed 70 is almost entirely about why we shouldn't have a plural presidency. I don't think that is at issue...

I thought Nixon made it up (?).

One of the (many) upsetting things I learned from the Trump admin was that apparently there's people who are still trying to avenge Nixon. I honestly thought one of the things we all had in common was an understanding that Tricky Dick was a cartoon villain. Like Hitler and Putin and the KKK

Those people have opinions about the last three, too…

Weird, huh... Makes me wonder if it's actually possible to code a character as sufficiently villainous that everybody agrees whether they're bad. Was it ever possible? What about antiheros?

Newt Gingrinch told Trump about Peter. And he said so on NPR... (I AM SHITTING YOU, NOT!!!)

Ending two and a half centuries of American democracy because dishwashers have new efficiency standards

And toilets won’t flush sufficiently.

Maybe we can start an Adulting for Conservatives™️ Facebook group. Q: my toilet doesn’t flush immediately! A: did you know you can hold the handle down for couple seconds? Try that! Q: I don’t like this book! Why is there this book? A: did you know you aren’t required to read the book? Try that!

Needs more fiber in the diet

Indeed. A diet consisting only of McDonald’s hamburgers, too well done steaks, Diet Coke, and snorted Adderall is not helping anyone’s gold toilet do its work.

Even worse, that toilets wouldn't flush sufficiently for a while after new standards were first introduced years ago. Conservatives aren't just about clinging to petty grievances, they're about clinging to outdated petty grievances forever.

See also "fuel-efficient cars are underpowered and no fun to drive," "teaching evolution is corrupting the youth," and everything in between.

The reality is worse: they’ll burn country down and target the most vulnerable populations for violence so that their donors can get a new tax break.

The good ones still do, and with only 1.3 gallons! I’m not surprised TFGs house has cheap gold plates toilets though.

...if you've filled them with government documents.

That’s an us move

What do you want them to do Peter serve on a committee!? The ONLY way to stop something you don’t like at a university is to overthrow the country.

The HORROR😬 And this, from a man who Trump told "Even you could be an attorney general" (I guess when he grew up and got to wear big boy pants)

That argument really pisses me off. People are so ignorant.

Beer commercials featuring trans people

Not even a commercial! Not even a print ad! A single custom made can, one of many, with the image of a trans influencer on it.

That was a telling episode. I was told that anti-trans issues were not about hate. They were about "legitimate issues" — women's sports; bathroom shenanigans; children seeing inappropriate content. And then they lost their shit over Dylan Mulvaney, who had nothing to do with any of those things.

"This is not some raving freakout over a phobia. This is a sober-minded, rational response to an intolerable situation. Now watch me machine-gun some boxes of beer."

I think that particular boycott came and went at least, more or less as predicted. More of a shortlived theme to thinkpieces and whiny dashcam videos than any market force. Not a cut into InBev profits but instead a subsidy for the likes of Black Rifle Coffee and College-Humor-but-conservative

It did hurt their profits, and their stock price. And it laid down a marker that the chuds have followed up on and corporations have paid attention to. Let me direct your attention to Tractor Supply Co. (gift link) wapo.st/3zoHrA7

A farm-supply chain vowed to cut DEI roles amid pressure. Outcry followed.wapo.st Tractor Supply said it would make changes to its diversity and climate programs after fielding criticism from customers.

To be fair, it’s always things like this that fascists are most interested in

"We won't kill you if you don't make us," says absolute psychopath serial abuser who will definitely kill us anyway.

Pronouns in character creation screens

Jesus mandated it. Its in writing on the back of a the ten commandments. He used invisible ink.

He has declared the Second American Revolution, has he? Does he realize that makes him an enemy combatant, not protected by our normal laws? I mean even before The Supreme Court declared Trump King.

That is because the real reason is that Jews and Blacks are given citizenship rights, and even permitted to live in this country, but they get they can't say that, so . . .

Bogeymen for the masses.

the media will consistently tell the corporate/facist story, against small groups of weirdos. And careerism scoops tons of nerds&weirdos off the pile! Like it's all verse a minority of nerds, prone to nerd shit, yelling. A few experts, more underachievers with time. Normies break right.

I'm particularly chilled by the last sentence.

Yeah

"Our takeover will be nonviolent unless you resist"

To be fair "because 8 rich men would like to take everything you have and ensure you have no way to stop it" is a hard sell, even for the absolute fools who vote republican.

They always look like they stepped right out of the Third Reich..

If you asked an LLM to paraphrase this it would say, 'unless the university profs and MSNBC anchors take up arms against us, the revolution will be bloodless. Also something about Federalist #70 arguing for a strong executive which doesn't sound to me like what the Federalists wanted. Hamilton maybe

Regardless, not a single one of the founding fathers or their interlocutors ever said, 'the president should be able to start wars then Congress will be stuck funding them.' Just the opposite. And that's what executives could already do before this decision

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