Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,668 - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com This is the grave of David Dinkins. Born in 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey, Dinkins split his time as a child between Trenton and Harlem, as his parents divorced when he was young. He really tried to volunteer for World War II when he graduated in 1945. But he couldn’t get into the Marines because […]
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If Republican moderation on abortion doesn't exist, it must be invented - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com J.D. Vance’s misogyny and opposition to reproductive freedom are completely unambiguous: Because while we’ve heard for months that Trump wanted a vice presidential candidate who appeared moderate on abortion rights, that is most definitely not Vance—who calls abortion “the first political issue” he ever cared about. But Vance isn’t just your run-of-the-mill anti-abortion Republican: he’s a full-on trad husband, obsessed with forcing […]
Worst Sports Week of the Calendar Year Thread - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com I figured it was time for a sports thread, but there’s a problem. This week sucks. The week of the MLB All Star Game is always the worst week of the year for sports. To be fair to MLB, baseball’s ASG is a lot less embarrassing than the NBA or NFL. At least it’s still […]
Like soldiers in a winter's night with a vow to defend - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com As a follow-up to Paul’s posts about yet more polling showing Biden both losing and (where applicable) running far behind Democratic Senate candidates in swing states and against fatalism, there’s one top-level Democratic politician who doesn’t believe that they SKEWED the polls against Biden but forgot to do it for the Senate races or that […]
Peter Thiel's fake-Appalachian messenger boy is Trump's choice for vice president - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com I’m not saying that Vance speciously blaming Democrats for Saturday’s Republican-on-Republican violence is the reason he got tabbed for the ticket, but it certainly didn’t hurt. (By the way, anybody know why Trump isn’t just using the same running mate again? Worthy of investigation!) And it certainly reflects the cynical, Trumpian demagoguery he will bring […]
Aileen Cannon Finally Settled On A Way To Dismiss The Classified Document Suit Against Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The pretext is that Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed improperly (h/t Clarence Thomas). Full decision here for the lawyers to pick apart.
Michael Flynn’s Election Disinformation Operation - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Michael Flynn has played many roles for Donald Trump. His actions are so multifold that a wall full of sticky notes with yarn connecting them is necessary to start to make sense of them. He was Donald Trump’s first National Security Advisor. Before and during, he was involved in a cockamamie scheme to build an […]
Nobody knows what the political impact of the Trump assassination attempt will be - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com I’ve seen a lot of people, some on the right but some not, assert that the shots fired at Trump are the effective end of the election, sometimes buttressed with historical factoids. The thing is, to the very limited extent that small-n history is of any value at all, it does not actually support the […]
The Japanization of the American Convenience Store - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com As most of you know, I find the average food in the United States to be not good compared to many other countries and it is really at its worst as its low end. Just like any sandwich at any given train station in Europe is better than 99% of sandwiches one gets in the […]