Doc McDoom

Doc McDoom

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I have very well meaning, impressively educated liberal friends who think justices are abundantly principled and that laws are real, as opposed to what the blatantly obvious truth is which is: “a lawyer is someone who you can ask to get you somewhere, and they can find out a way to do it…”

These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

Michael Tae Sweeney

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. nets get tangled in a gulf oil rig. Subsequent lawsuits related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill shutter the company.

Charles Johnson

Cops can shoot you dead & stay out of prison (Justin Rapp, many others) Vigilantes can shoot you dead & get out of prison (Daniel Perry, Rittenhouse) John Roberts annointed Presidents as de facto unquestionable executioners It's hard to say we are free when my life can be snuffed without justice.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

The New York Times

"Rapist. Is it time we take a second look at the stigma of rapists?" -NYT by August

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Look I don’t care if it’s in-network or not, if I’m seriously ill take me here.

It makes the, "But her emails" seem quaint

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

Time is getting real fucking short.

I am very happy to have a podcast with these 2 and sad that it isn't 4 hours.

She will try. But could one possible fallout be that it'd end up in a less friendly court?

The only trusted source for UK politics and baseball is Dick Nixon.

Been re-reading Dorothy Thompson's 1941 "Who Goes Nazi?" piece about once a week lately. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I don't know if I fully agree with her, it seems a bit preposterous, but she was there in Germany and I was not. But I agree with that last sentence.

Non-zero chance the Republican Convention wraps ups with balloons falling on a crowd chanting, "Lead! Lead! Lead! Lead!"

Is this is about the liberal minority, or are they smashing two clauses that are demonstrable lies together in that headline?

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Happy fourth

Absolutely fucking not, but thank you.

Trump is going to pardon every single January 6th insurrectionist and the math for,what Milton Mayer calls these "little men" changes.

The best thing we have going for us at this moment are American brownshirts are brainrot car dealers and real estate agents and the Carlsons and Rufos and not a generation of men totally broken in the WWI trenches. On the other hand, all of these new guys have access to full-blown machine guns.

If she was running, she'd have a full schedule of public events and rallies that make her more accessible than at any other time. I think Biden is still dispositioned to finish his term and none of his advisors are going to advise him step down and leave them on the street.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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yep, it’s the obvious next move

There is also every reason to think that this court will expand Trump v. U.S in his second term to extend immunity to those doing his bidding. I.e., “Our holding in Trump v. U.S. demands that government officials be able to enact the will of the executive without fear of criminal proceedings.”

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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

It's from a March 1990 Playboy interview months after the Chinese government killed hundreds and possibly over a thousand pro-democracy students. A real sociopath that John Roberts wants to hand the gatling gun from PREDATOR to.

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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop

He loves that shit.

Democracy’s on the Ballot

He's taking a nap, jack.

Rapidly losing my patience with these people.

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is