Ed Burmila

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Roses are red Lenin was left wing

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this is the right wing movement we get with a little migration and inflation. what does it look like when climate change really starts to bite

Sunak losing his seat would be hilarious but also would allow him to flee the UK for his obvious trajectory of “director of ___” in Silicon Valley whereas if he wins his seat he has to stay in the UK. Too many of you are willing to sacrifice greater long-term hilarity for short-term humor rewards.

Happy 4th.

For @davidjroth.bsky.social, things of that nature

Trump went on social media and published a literal list of enemies he's going to imprison after he wins.

Meanwhile, at the top of AP News apnews.com/article/pres...

Biden vows to keep running as signs point to rapidly eroding support for him on Capitol Hillapnews.com President Joe Biden is vowing to keep running for reelection as he rejects pressure from within his Democratic Party to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readin...

Resignation is the worst option, because it puts the Democratic Party in the position of fighting the post-election battle (if they win) without a sitting VP. Unless anyone believes the House Republicans are going to confirm a new VP, now or ever.

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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

At some rapidly approaching point it will be less important whether Biden carries on or steps down than it will be to simply stop the speculation. Pick one. "Final answer: I'm running / I am stepping down." The worst outcome is neither Biden nor Harris; the worst outcome is debating it for 100 days.

sort of half convinced swapping out Harris would be a marginal increase in Dem chances, but I am extremely sure that being stuck in this discourse for the rest of the campaign would be ruinous

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It’s been consistently true over the last fifteen years that people, relatively calmly, sounding the alarm about an incoming political or social catastrophe have been quite rudely dismissed by what you could call the Sensible Liberal Class and then immediately proven right. Few learn a lesson.

Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

I guarantee you the conclusion centrists and Carville-esque liberals are going to take from the recent European elections is “OK well we tried but it’s time to throw the immigrants under the bus, there’s no other way to survive.” Some of them have already landed there and the rest are en route.

Someone who I didn't think was progressive but who I assumed was reasonable went full-on "if the right-wing takes over France it's because the ungrateful immigrants tried to destroy the country" and welp.

Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.

When all of the Proper (legal, political, and institutional) Remedies are off the table it does not take societies long to figure out what the only Remedy they have left is, and I wonder if the Court put any thought into that!

"The Republicans really have engineered a situation where the only way to be certain that constitutional democracy will endure is if certain named individuals were dead and buried." itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

The ideal size for the Supreme Court is "so big you don't know all of their names anymore." So big it has to hold oral arguments in RFK Stadium. So big that when one of them dies nobody will care.

So often see arguments against SCOTUS expansion like “but then Republicans will just add even more!” And I’m like, cool, then we come right out the gate with like 30 new Justices Make it absurdly big. I’m with Elie Mystal on this one: MORE FROGS AND DOGS AND BEARS AND CHICKENS AND WHATEVER

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Folks we all are guilty of armchair QBing campaigns but I think it's pretty uncontroversial to assert that a statement about a SCOTUS ruling that does not talk about either the ruling or SCOTUS is not how to play this.

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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court

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

On the plus side, we can stop talking about the stupid debate.

The silver lining of the complete destruction of the administrative and regulatory state is that we can once again buy Patent Medicines.

You see this at the University level constantly; they claim not to have money to fund programs that might actually help students but there’s always $100m for the absolute dumbest shit you’ve ever heard of and when it inevitably fails they’re like welp better close the classics department

six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

With respect to Ganz's book title and argument, the year I feel like we are stuck in forever every time I look at an op-ed page is 2003.

Good day to be someone who recently argued that the contested convention commentary is often driven by self-importance.

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I’m writing a book

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lmao the weeping and gnashing of teeth in this scene will be portrayed by rob reiner and jane fonda

Next debate prep: coach him to respond to everything with "That would be an ecumenical matter" like Father Jack

Have we considered the possibility that 4 months is an eternity now (quick, tell me from memory what everyone was arguing about in late February!) and if Biden looks good in a future debate the only people who will remember Thursday are people who were never, ever going to vote for him anyway.

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Who's to say why Fascists love having the power to attack people in a category whose boundaries they can redefine at will.

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But at least the media accurately covers Le Pen as “far right!” Trump practically gets covered like a moderate despite holding all of Le Pen’s nativist positions!