Jo_clever_ke

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When you find common ground with people with whom you agree some of the time but not all of the time, you can prevent people with whom you agree none of the time from taking power. The left and the center have far more in common than either wants to admit.

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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optimist: the glass is half full pessimist: the glass is half empty excel: the glass is january 2nd

Casually reading up on this guy, and .... yeah

excommunicate them all, lets do this

Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicatedwww.nbcnews.com A fierce ultra-conservative, the archbishop branded the pope a “false prophet” and a “servant of Satan,” and accused him of representing an “inclusive, immigrationist, eco-sustainable, and gay-friendl...

There are two pet peeves I have when it comes to any sort of online argumentation, outside of just the normal stuff like insults or being insane, that's casually making up quotes in an attempt to "prove" a point, or just treating every statement as a chance to throw out a "joke" or "quip"

Thing is I've always felt Olivia Nuzzi wasn't a particularly good or reliable journalist even when she was saying things I "wanted to hear." She seemed to have a habit of repeatedly tying herself into the stories in odd ways, while also leaning heavily into what felt like base gossip.

If a journalist has been consistently reliable, resourceful and accurate when reporting things you want to hear, you don’t get to dismiss them when they report something you don’t. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules. nymag.com/intelligence...

The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Bidennymag.com The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.

Musk who once proclaimed that Twitter must be politically neutral, now calling for death of those who disagree with him on a political matter is very on the nose.

This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy

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With respect and patience for people who can't 24/7 news binge, so much of this is "Why won't Biden [Do Thing He Has Already Done]?"

I'm not actually so sure Trump would bother pardoning people, he mainly did so in the first term to reward silence, or to help foster cultrure of silence, he really gonna do that when he himself isn't gonna be in any legal jeopardy?

I don't understand this point. Trump can just pardon them.

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That doesn’t seem like a great result.

NYTimes publishing OpEds that are based on blatant lies and actively deceive their readers is the sort of thing to be expected when the guy in charge decides to that the paper's raison d'être needed to change from informing readers to "challenging the views" of its readers.

Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

I should probably lay out my marker on the UK elections: Intellectually I know that pretty much all the signs point to a massive Labour win, that they'll have a clear majority, but it just sort of feels like they'll still lose. They've been out of power for so long.

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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

round earther

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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I hate this court so much and even I am astonished by this case. It writes new provisions into Art 2 of the constitution that were unnecessary to decide the case at hand and that cannot be repealed by legislative action or even undone without a new case of presidential law breaking before the court

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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Bad news *if this date holds*. I am very worried that this is the first of a series of delays as these challenges filter through the courts.

My perhaps lukewarm take is that is actually very bad news for Trump - people really start paying attention to the election after Labor Day, and he'll be getting sentenced after Labor Day. There will be no time to appeal before the election. He may very well be in jail on election day.

There's no way this is going to happen before the election. I was already suspecting if Trump got any sort of confinement he'd get it delayed via appeals somehow, this just makes me more certain.

NEW: Judge Merchan postpones Trump's sentencing till September (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360)

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anyone who thinks harris is gonna get an easy walk from the nation’s newspapers and editorial boards if she were to become the nominee is absolutely lying to themselves

If the Biden Drop Out!s get their wish they’re going to regret it like three weeks later when they see how the media covers it

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Defragmenting

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Roberts once again showing his perspicacity by claiming there’s nothing to fear from a President with virtually unbounded extralegal authority the same day Trump threatens military show trials for his political opponents.

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The Framers: *literally wrote many, many passages that you would swear on your life were prophetic visions of Donald J. Trump, and how such a figure must be guarded against at all costs* John Roberts: surely what they wanted is for this uniquely lawless figure to be placed above the law

"...this opinion depends on an implicit belief that the only person who would act so brazenly is Trump, and that because the majority of the justices on the Court support Trump and want him to be president, he must be shielded from prosecution."

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They only pretended to punt it back to Chutkan to make her do the dirty work of actually gutting the case, to be done on appeal if she refuses. I wouldn’t presume to know her personal calculus, but it would be entirely justified to instead resign in protest. This merits that kind of norm-shattering.

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basically every lawyer I've talked to on or off here is stunned by how bad it is, I think most folks expected some sort of "come up with an official acts test" punt but it's about as bad as it could possibly be

So here's my assumption, assuming Biden doesn't flub anything, the media isn't going to care. He already 00did a whole campaign speech that they didn't cover. The narrative as it were is/was too juicy.

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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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Seriously! THIS is the guy you pull the trigger for! THIS is the guy you give up everything for! It's absolutely insane. They can see how he treats his subordinates and enablers -- all of them ultimately get thrown in the trash. And yet.

It's cute how Barrett pretends Bribing a politician is still against the law.

Hmmm, the majority opinion says, in response to criticism, that *of course* you can point to the president's official public acts in a trial; you just can't "admit testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing the official act itself." (Sotomayor calls this "nonsensical")

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In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again

the Supreme Court, not content to immunize only Donald Trump from prosecution, retroactively exonerates Richard Nixon for Watergate

This is horrors of the Earth stuff even with this caveat. It empowers a President to do some of the worst things imaginable as, or under the guise of, an official act. A second term Trump emboldened to do whatever he wants.

***SCOTUS rules 6–3 that Trump is immune from prosecution for "official acts" during his presidency. NOTE: This does not sink Trump's prosecution altogether, because as Justice Barrett noted during argument, Trump is being prosecuted for many *unofficial* acts www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Fuck all your doomposting. No one who has ever accomplished anything did it by giving up and whining that there was nothing to do, the bad guys won and we are all doomed. Defeatism is death.