Nicholas Handler

I’m aware she voted No. but her party still managed to find 50 votes for rescission, which I’m sure came as a complete surprise to her.

The hot dog meme would be too generous:

I do think it’s funny how quickly Trump is proving a lot of liberal claims that were previously somewhat difficult to back up: you can’t have functioning public law without functioning civil service law, you can’t have a functioning market economy without expert regulation, etc.

I didn’t think my post was optimistic!

I’m expecting a fiery denunciation from the Washington Post, which is now extremely passionate about free markets

Also very interested to see how the media will report future jobs numbers.

We are going to do woke neoliberalism like nobody’s business after this administration. It’ll be like an AOC-Paul Volcker mashup.

Eager to hear from everyone who said Biden providing defensive weapons to Ukraine was bringing us to the brink of nuclear apocalypse, and that’s why needed to vote for Trump instead.

Appalling

A funny side effect of this is that this crowd now routinely does what it’s always accused liberals of doing, which is to just hand-wavingly say everything they don’t like is fascism.

I vaguely recall a Tooze essay from 2020 where he argued that the main reasons Trumpism wasn’t fascist were (1) it was not a youth movement, and (2) it did not have the backing of big business. Now that those two conditions are clearly satisfied, he’s shrugged and said “well, everything is fascist”

Liberalism is not hegemonic in the world, but it is hegemonic in these people’s social circles. And so it is the only thing they have any interest in arguing against.

Which was always a weak argument, even when Vermeule made it! Both GWOT and the 2008 response were legitimated by the public and all three branches of government. And executive power waned as public support waned. There was never a single leader who declared a state of exception!

One thing I think happened with this crowd is they got very negatively polarized against the Hillary camp in 2016, refused to accept that Trump was an existential threat because it played into her hands, and have simply refused to admit that they were wrong ever since. Stubborn and petty.

It’s frankly very Twitter brained. But if you know who Tooze follows on there, not surprising,

The passage quoted also falls into the very absurd claim that since law isn’t applied with perfect fairness and consistency, it’s basically fake. The references to 2008 and the responses to it sound a lot like Vermeule and Posner.

But I think when you piece this together with some of Tooze’s other positions (in particular, his strange and persistent defense of China and other authoritarian regimes) it starts to look not good. I’ve been put off of Tooze for a while for this reason.

65 cent Sneezers plates if the Packers make it to the NFC championship would be an all-time great promotion. You guys gotta start bringing this stuff back.

Would 100% make a trip for this

Wisconsinites: can you still get a Sneezer’s Big Boy plate out there?

I also don’t understand why a handful of unstable Twitter personalities gets seamlessly equated with the entire Democratic Party. I guarantee you Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t care about the Sydney Sweeney thing.

I think less of our politics should revolve around people getting mad at commercials.

Something I've changed my mind about is how much of the war on inflation that was central to the birth of neoliberalism was an actual product of mass opinion and not just elite desire for austerity and the disciplining of labor.

The grand irony of DOGE is that often the way to make government more efficient is to have it do more things, rather than fewer.

Congrats to the Washington Post on driving away all your veteran journalists so you could publish long-form Twitter posts instead.

Zaid Jilani and Glenn Greenwald have truly the mastered the art of “as someone who leans left, here’s why I agree with literally every right-wing talking point” takes.

Even putting aside the use of ChatGPT, do clerks not cite-check opinions before they’re published anymore? That was SOP when I was clerking.

some how ea-nasir returned

A classic

Admin law hive mind: there seems to be a trend in this administration of executive branch officers invoking the President’s inherent authority under Article II (in lieu of any statutory provision) when taking various actions, even when POTUS had no direct involvement. Has this issue been litigated?