there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us
*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT
*LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES
*LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES
*FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW
"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, “Trump as fascist” remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"
"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"
Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
The executive doesn’t have the authority to interpret laws it is enforcing but it does have the authority of to do crimes is an insane theory of governance.
The idea that we are approaching the fall of American democracy or the U.S. altogether is almost reassuring (because we’d have something new to deal with) compared to the more likely outcome that we might lurch along like this for decades to come.
I unfortunately don’t think Biden has either the political talent or the ideological desire to do it, but there’s an opportunity here to turn the presidential election into a campaign against the court and build a mandate for reform after the election.
I’m developing a conspiracy theory that Biden’s people insisted on this early debate so Biden could do bad enough that they could force him out before the convention.
On a positive notes we have more political news to look forward to that will surely not be fucked up and make us depressed. On Sunday we’ll have—checks notes—French legislative elections.
CNN keeps advertising their UK election coverage on July 4. And if you spend your 4th of July watching UK election coverage the ghost of Ben Franklin should kill you.
They just keep going back to Trump like “just to remind you the last question was…” and then he just goes to go back to talk about some other nonsense.
