Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
It is remarkable to me that when they ever deign to name a specific complaint that requires them to overthrow American society (ie, a “revolution”) it’s always something like faculty senates or website DEI statements or calorie counts on menus.
John Eastman gave a long interview to the pres of Claremont College explaining why his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election were perfectly legal and when finally asked why it was necessary to do that he said something like, “Well, they’re teaching kids they can be any gender they want!”
Also, I will donate $500 to the Heritage Foundation if this historian of the early Republic ever once argued for the necessity of or even mentioned “presidential immunity” before Donald Trump made it up.
"abortion" and "privacy" aren't explicitly mentioned in the constitution, therefore they can't be rights. dumb libs!
"qualified immunity," "presidential immunity," & "executive privilege" aren't mentioned either, but consider that blah blah blah anyway america can't exist without them. dumb libs!
This probably isn't news to you, but I'm told that a bunch of hard-core conservatives have been firmly in favor of this ever since Nixon said, "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal", because they see the Watergate scandal as an unjustified attack on a noble President.
One of the (many) upsetting things I learned from the Trump admin was that apparently there's people who are still trying to avenge Nixon. I honestly thought one of the things we all had in common was an understanding that Tricky Dick was a cartoon villain. Like Hitler and Putin and the KKK
Weird, huh... Makes me wonder if it's actually possible to code a character as sufficiently villainous that everybody agrees whether they're bad. Was it ever possible? What about antiheros?
Maybe we can start an Adulting for Conservatives™️ Facebook group.
Q: my toilet doesn’t flush immediately!
A: did you know you can hold the handle down for couple seconds? Try that!
Q: I don’t like this book! Why is there this book?
A: did you know you aren’t required to read the book? Try that!
Indeed. A diet consisting only of McDonald’s hamburgers, too well done steaks, Diet Coke, and snorted Adderall is not helping anyone’s gold toilet do its work.
Even worse, that toilets wouldn't flush sufficiently for a while after new standards were first introduced years ago. Conservatives aren't just about clinging to petty grievances, they're about clinging to outdated petty grievances forever.
That was a telling episode. I was told that anti-trans issues were not about hate. They were about "legitimate issues" — women's sports; bathroom shenanigans; children seeing inappropriate content. And then they lost their shit over Dylan Mulvaney, who had nothing to do with any of those things.
"This is not some raving freakout over a phobia. This is a sober-minded, rational response to an intolerable situation. Now watch me machine-gun some boxes of beer."
I think that particular boycott came and went at least, more or less as predicted. More of a shortlived theme to thinkpieces and whiny dashcam videos than any market force. Not a cut into InBev profits but instead a subsidy for the likes of Black Rifle Coffee and College-Humor-but-conservative
It did hurt their profits, and their stock price. And it laid down a marker that the chuds have followed up on and corporations have paid attention to. Let me direct your attention to Tractor Supply Co.
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He has declared the Second American Revolution, has he? Does he realize that makes him an enemy combatant, not protected by our normal laws?
I mean even before The Supreme Court declared Trump King.
That is because the real reason is that Jews and Blacks are given citizenship rights, and even permitted to live in this country, but they get they can't say that, so . . .
the media will consistently tell the corporate/facist story, against small groups of weirdos. And careerism scoops tons of nerds&weirdos off the pile! Like it's all verse a minority of nerds, prone to nerd shit, yelling. A few experts, more underachievers with time. Normies break right.
To be fair "because 8 rich men would like to take everything you have and ensure you have no way to stop it" is a hard sell, even for the absolute fools who vote republican.
If you asked an LLM to paraphrase this it would say, 'unless the university profs and MSNBC anchors take up arms against us, the revolution will be bloodless. Also something about Federalist #70 arguing for a strong executive which doesn't sound to me like what the Federalists wanted. Hamilton maybe
Regardless, not a single one of the founding fathers or their interlocutors ever said, 'the president should be able to start wars then Congress will be stuck funding them.' Just the opposite. And that's what executives could already do before this decision