Kyle Haynes

Right??? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills over here!

Yes, you see, she “had to” do this. She had no agency in this matter whatsoever. There is no plausible scenario wherein an attorney could simply refuse to do this thing. Truly, woe is her.

No worries it’ll be super easy to put Humpty Dumpty back together. Establishing the rule of law in the first place was a notoriously smooth and guillotine-free process.

I didn’t know you could fit a judge’s robe over a hotdog suit

Strike the word “common” and it’d still hold

Lulz I was about to say it’d just be a state-level thing and MD or VA would never pass such a law but apparently they got married in fucking Nebraska so yeah it’s definitely not implausible that he’d end up nullifying own marriage.

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Overturn well-established precedent? Perish the thought.

Fortunately he only “hinted.” There’s no years-long, well-documented track record to support such a wild claim.

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Ok but Trumpism goes well beyond all that, basing its claims for unchecked authority on the need to recapture a mythical national golden age by suppressing ethnic minorities and imposing strict racial and gender hierarchies.

That’s the fascist part. Not all the bog standard authoritarian shit.

Maybe not the most absurd thing here, but if you claim your max squat is 25% higher than your max deadlift then not only have you never lifted weights, but you’ve never been in the same room as other people lifting weights.

Love the quick pivot from dropping his own gun and pointing it at bystanders to tough-guy, I hope no one got my pratfall on camera, wide stance. Perfect encapsulation of the malevolence and incompetence at the heart of this entire campaign.

Oh yeah I’d click that bait

Not impossible if you just start giving people money from the tariff shelf along with their meds. Negative prices. Boom. Eat it losers.

So the case hinges on interpreting “just kind of accepted it” after the fact as having “authorized” something. Lulz good luck with that.

This was always a big part of the concern with Trump and NATO. It’s not that NATO is the best security order imaginable, but it’s kept the peace for 80 years. As importantly, it’s the status quo. Abruptly kneecapping it creates lots of uncertainty & power vacuums that lead to lots of dangerous shit.

I agree with the sentiment but labeling the graph simply “military spending” and then measuring it as % of PPP-adjusted GDP is just wildly misleading. No, China doesn’t spend more than the US on defense. Just…no.

Also, don’t use PPP as a cross-national measure of power. Again…just don’t.

Caring about this problem also doesn’t mean the only policy response is to coddle young men. It’s perfectly fine if your considered response is that young men need to be told, loudly and consistently, to suck it the fuck up like every other demographic has had to for the past few millennia.

Lmaooooo nobody should ever ask me where anything is ever again because always and forever I will respond, simply, “check the tariff shelf”

But Kavanaugh assured us this would all be minimally disruptive for anyone here legally….

Uhhhh that’s ominous on a whole bunch of dimensions

I generally have no interest in getting into the policy world but I’d pay a lot of money to be able to laugh in this dude’s face and say lol bring it you mark ass bitch

I guess all that tariff revenue is gonna go straight to the emergency creation of a strategic tofu reserve.

Random musing, as I teach the IR proseminar: very few people have done more to impede our understanding of international politics than whoever first decided to apply Thomas Kuhn to the social sciences.

A totally unreasonable amount of money…

I would die a happy man if I never had to read the words “raising questions” in another headline again.

Good. Russia is in no position to mess w NATO (even w US absent) & its incursions are (for now) empty probes. Risk is they’ll establish a precedent for when Russia’s military has recovered. A firm response led by the Euros would bolster credibility & accelerate NATO’s shift toward greater autonomy.

So the federal govt can trample on the first amendment to enforce the (totally undefined) "civic obligations" of private entities.

Cool cool got it. That's definitely not an apologia for authoritarianism.

Homan really testing out administration policy that it’s not actionable corruption unless it involves a giant canvas bag marked with dollar signs and a notarized agreement entitled Massive Bribe

Also might want to look at some of the post-Dobbs polling on the issue before claiming that war is over…

Interesting choice to reopen the one issue where Elon Musk’s economic self-interest seems capable of outweighing his virulent racism.