Joel Mathis

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"Americans with power and influence are preparing — gleefully in some cases — for violence. It’s going to be a long and dangerous year." open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...

America moved a little bit closer to civil war this weekopen.substack.com Suddenly, it's no big thing to talk violently.

Dog whistle that's just a whistle.

sort of confused as to why they’re even bothering with this. might as well have just drawn it all up in secret

Real life doesn’t feel real anymore.

When high school friends you haven’t spoken to in decades pop up in your Substack subscriptions.

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"If the media would just stop--" The media will not stop. Nor will his opponents, nor will the doubts of the 72% of voters who express them in polls, nor will the aging process. Some of it is unfair, some is not, but it's all real. And anyone who supported him in 2020 knew this crisis might come.

I wonder if SCOTUS contemplated the possibility it’s immunity ruling might edge us a bit closer to civil war?

Lotta people angry about NYT under-covering Project 2025, which a lot of us learned about from ... the New York Times.

I think it’s time for Biden to step aside, but: I think we all should sleep more and work less at night. No shame in that.

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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

Watching Star Trek Voyager's "Year of Hell" on Pluto, in which an old man leads the effort to Make the Krennem Imperium Great Again and ends up wiping out entire planets and his own species as a result.

From 1840 to 1974, sitting vice presidents became presidents through death or resignation about once a generation. Now it hasn’t happened in a half-century, a remarkable run of stability. Just something that occurred to me.

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I wouldn't want to generalize this particular line of thinking, but it seems awfully darkly appropriate that the case was literally "Trump vs United States" and that the conservative majority chose its side.

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"Notice, by the way, how the Republicans claim Joe Biden is a tyrant and a dictator, yet they explicitly grant him dictatorial powers, confident that he will not use them!" 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...

Couple of things: * This is not the media’s fault. It’s not. Voters already hated the choices, already thought Biden too old. He confirmed it. The rest is literally commentary. 1/2

“If Tom Nichols and Nate Silver AND the Pod Save America boys all believe something strongly enough, can they generate enough media panic to override a Democratic primary and force out a sitting president”

I think the growing number of calls for Biden to resign the presidency are probably sincere, but they also have the cumulative effect of making *merely* backing out of the campaign a kind of middle ground. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed Forwww.newyorker.com If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.

I dunno. Maybe we've been headed this way the whole time.

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Now up: my thoughts on Trump v. U.S. In my view the Court majority went much too far in creating a zone of formal and practical presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "This is not what the Framers wanted. It is not what we should want either." www.cato.org/blog/court-w...

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the resilience of our forebears since the pandemic. It’s not something a lot of us in America have often needed in recent generations. We need it now.

Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1

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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally

I actually think the two are connected. My fear of the think tank being empowered in its revolution is the reason I'm concerned about Biden's ability to stand in the way. YMMV.

IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.

I wrote recently about Missouri AG Andrew Bailey's tendency to fight Trump's fight on the public dime while at the same time also working to keep innocent people in prison. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

Well, the Missouri Attorney General is also opposing a local prosecutor's motion to vacate a death sentence based on DNA evidence that excludes the defendant. So he's that kind of lawyer. apnews.com/article/miss...

I think he overestimates his leeway.

Breaking News: President Biden told a key ally his campaign may be unsalvageable if he can’t convince the public he’s up for the job. The conversation is the first public indication that Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover after the debate. nyti.ms/4cHJgGu

I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...

Anyway. I've been writing. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Replacing Biden isn't 'antidemocratic'substack.com The voters haven't really spoken

Hi there. I'm back. I went away for awhile.

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