John Holbo

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Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers

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I'm reading a bunch of 19th century French politics stuff and literally the only thing that separates their rhetoric of reaction from ours is that everything bad = pantheism. It's sort of refreshing, actually.

Fahey claimed that communism was a plot to create “a world-state in which the Jewish race will be supreme” and “have control of the wealth of the nations." FWIW, Posobiec just published a new book about the danger of Communism. www.google.com/books/editio...

Unhumanswww.google.com If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals...

Whichever way is the right way - Biden gets out, Biden stays in - ideally you don't even consider the other way. You get right on with the right way, whichever way that is. Unfortunately it doesn't forestall debate to just yell this truth at the other side. Gotta have a debate.

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some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

Mike Lee has been negatively polarised against the better angels of his own nature.

Senator Mike Lee: I don't recognize these white supremacists wearing masks, but they sure do remind me of Democrats.

Also, one of the key elements of the John Roberts arc, like the Sam Stein arc, is that - although he is smart and a capable 'house wins' casino manager - he has to do that job while dealing with fallout from a whole rogues gallery of idiots, hotheads and chaos agents. It gets to be too much.

My "Casino" 3-3-3 theory of the court. Roberts (Kav + Barrett) is Sam and Alito (Thomas + Gorsuch) is Nicky. Sam to Nicky: 'This place is a license to print laws and the Dems can't touch us, and you risk that for what, drawing this heat?' Sam is a manager, a politician - but things get out of hand.

Lots of people read Edward Gorey chapbooks, but Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck lived it.

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These are terrible human beings, and they should be kept as far away from power as possible.

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.

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Boom. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | Trump’s Impact on World Affairs Could Be Even Stranger Than You Thinkwww.politico.com The dollar will decline, Europe will rise, and Asia will nuclearize.

Yes, not ok. I recommend being very cool-headed in arguing about it, like so. Biden-defenders are making the argument that it's simply too risky to switch. But the response is: Biden is on track to lose, due to his evident, age-related difficulties. Any replacement D is not likely to do worse.

*There's* the schmuck I've disliked since 1988. I don't know what the right thing to do is, but good lord is that now what this is about. The correct answer is "defeating Donald Trump is a matter of the gravest national importance. I'm the one who has done it and I believe I'm the one...

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Not to worry, it all works out in the end...

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"I've put lots of felons behind bars, this would be my first time debating one "

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Props to the AP for a headline that contains the whole story apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump denies knowing about Project 2025, his allies' sweeping plan to transform the US governmentapnews.com Former President Donald Trump is seeking to distance himself from a plan for a massive overhaul of the federal government drafted by some of his former administration officials.

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www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-robert... @theunpopulist.net

The Roberts Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Has Lost Nearly Everyone Except for the Far Rightwww.theunpopulist.net Commentators across the ideological spectrum are puzzled to dismayed at the majority’s indifference to executive accountability

Gonna be hard to make people believe how crazy the court's immunity decision is. Like, it implies the Seal Team Six thing. 'But that would never happen right?' No, because the court took the precaution of writing so unclearly. www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

‘The Dred Scott of Our Time’ | Sean Wilentzwww.nybooks.com The majority opinion in Trump v. United States, the most sweeping judicial reconstruction of the American presidency in history, secures the

Members of the military are supposed to refuse illegal orders. But are they supposed to also refuse 'immune' orders, i.e. illegal orders from a superior officer who him or herself can't be prosecuted for giving that order? Does immunity trickle down? I guess that's what pardon power is for?

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Amanda talks about how if you factually describe that the SCOTUS immunity ruling permits the President to kill his rivals if done as CinC, they accuse you of TDS. I even had Catturd do that to me!

Why read past headlines: If you wonder why Trump and his cronies say terrible things out loud that should turn off swing voters, this article explains it. But it's a high-risk/high-reward fascist strategy. With Project 2025, it may be backfiring. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

Thank goodness the US Constitution immunises such stuff so we are spared banana republic-style corruption.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

C'mon more people should laugh at MY joke.

A deck-building game: "First Past the Post: Riding or Die!"

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And if I only could I'd make a deal with Grodd and get him to swap our faces

To me it's fairly obvious that Biden should withdraw at this point. The reasoning is simple. Complaining about the D's who have turned on him since the debate is beside the point. Right or wrong, it's happened. He is now not the likeliest to beat Trump. Presidenting is a tough job. What more to say?

"I play Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney on Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale ..." "You can only play one card on one card." "Quite so." "Fine. I play Newcastle upon Tyne East upon Newcastle upon Tyne North then tap my Pudsey to turn your Ribble Valley into a rotten borough."

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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

That's ... right. But you've only got 5 votes for it. Barrett will side with the dissenting liberals.

The State of the Union is constitutionally mandated. A president could stand there and confess to crimes, call for the deaths of enemies while reading out their addresses, lay out a step by step plan to overthrow Congress. None of it would be admissible

Re-upping my argument that Trump era events are empirical evidence we are living in a simulation since clearly the programmer gods up there have a bet going about whether any Rs are in good faith. And the last 8 years has been one long rigorous experiment, to rule out any possible form of that.

Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

These people are bad actors, in both senses.

I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings 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

'Originalism' is just another word for 'revenge is a dish best served cold'.

NEW: "Richard Nixon would have had a pass": John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, stunned by Trump immunity ruling. “Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct. www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

'Richard Nixon Would Have Had A Pass': John Dean Stunned By Trump Immunity Rulingwww.huffpost.com “Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct, said Nixon’s former counsel.

I am so confused by the immunity decision. I mean: it's clearly bad. But it's also unclear.

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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they're so close

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Oh boy, $150,000!