Sharon Kuruvilla

I guess I'm a weird case because I do think there's a strong case to make that Harris is the better car. But people who say their only concern is beating Donald Trump haven't made that case and have instead made arguments that would be *fatal.*

yes and it's driving me insane

I think it’s pretty clear that the worst-case scenario for a lot of them is President Harris

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utopia deferred

again, the guy is old as shit and im not demanding you bat for him, i am merely asking you to not regurgitate the talking points handed down by the NYT management, the same management that has been openly feuding with the admin because the admin won’t give them exclusive media access ://///

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Sharon Kuruvilla

when i say “don’t eat up the elite hysteria that is, in large part, driven by a resentment that he doesn’t treat them like Trump and Obama did” this is quite literally what I mean

Step down for the birthday boys

clearly evident that a part of the democratic class thinks that this is just business as usual Donors, on the other hand, want a new centrist white man vehicle after Biden no longer can serve that role to the public (which is why they're backstabbing Kamala)

something that irritates me about the discourse is the amount of Dems talking as though 2028 will be a democratic election which is why they're engaging in election drama now

this is apparently a type of guy in the UK

trying to understand the mind of a gay Catholic voting for Reform UK

hoping everyone else takes the Waldron pill on judicial review at some point, especially left-liberals

"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

American Government-by-Lawsuit Is a Disasterprospect.org Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.

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American Government-by-Lawsuit Is a Disasterprospect.org Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.

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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

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Sharon Kuruvilla

The old world is dying, the new one is struggling to be born and try your best to ignore the monsters. This is what twitter is like rn!

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Under Trump v. United States Biden has more constitutional authority to order the DoJ to maliciously prosecute corporations that use noncompetes than to bar noncompetes through notice and comment administrative rulemaking.

"The president is above the law, and the trial court judges of the Fifth Circuit are above the president" is an odd constitutional structure. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

US judge blocks Biden administration ban on worker noncompete agreementswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday partially blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers' rivals or launch competing businesses.

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Sharon Kuruvilla

I get why he’s invited to stuff here in Asia - he’s fairly representative of a Trump II administration’s thinking on the region and govts & experts here will need to build connections - but there’s no damn excuse for US outlets to cover him uncritically

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

“if there is no confirmed vice-president, who certifies the electoral votes?” is not a question that i want to learn the answer to in november, though if anyone has an answer for it now, i’d love to hear it

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“chaos in the house as the house of representatives refuses to confirm president harris’ vice-president nominee for the 17th time before the august recess” is not a headline that unilaterally harms republicans

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there’s a sort of absolutist logic to the idea that if he’s unfit to campaign now, he’s unfit to serve now, and that means now, right now, that i can (sort of) begrudgingly respect, but if the purpose of that is fidelity and duty to the country, you simply cannot handwave away the chaos that follows

yeah we've already got enough chaos with just a candidate swap, trying to also have Kamala immediately become the President is a whole other level of chaos and room for ratfuckery also "Biden can't do the job four more years" and "Biden can't do the job four more months" are different things

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SEMI-IRONIC KAMALA BONAPARTISM! YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO BE CONVINCED SHE SHOULD SIT AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET! THIS IS NOT 2008, BUT THE 2008 OF OUR IRONY POISONED AND POLITICAL EXTREMISM-TOLERANT PRESENT IS SEMI-IRONIC KAMALA BONAPARTISM!

this whole thing is becoming a non-event, a giant simulacrum that everyone is rapid dumping their anxieties into, and what is genuinely hilarious is that this is sufficient to bootstrap a real crisis. I love modern news/social media and the machinations of its management wrt electoral democracy lol.

[to the tune of "Jammin" by Bob Marley] "i'm doomin"

A lot of what bugs me is the smug certainty

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A lot of what bugs me is the smug certainty

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Fuck it, I wasn't planning on making any donations to any top-of-the-ballot races this cycle, but the way the media has been acting lately has forced my hand:

we're living in the Baudrillard timeline now

democrats need democratic centralism

it honestly rules that everyone left of center right in this country just guzzles right wing talking points and regurgitates them on demand in addition to the total and complete inability to not frame everything as they have been framed by the right wing extended cinematic universe media ecosystem

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

something i do genuinely not understand is the people who think that harris can just drop out if Biden does too - do they just let all the funds collected for B-H 2024 go into the abyss?

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Take The Coconut-pill 🥥🌴

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Taking the Biden/Harris ticket and turning it into a Harris/Biden ticket would probably be the funniest end to this whole debacle