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And oftentimes also at their own expense! Just less ostentatiously so!

be interested to hear them!

from an earlier era, pre-partisan polarization, with a more sincere view of The Law & the judiciary?

not worried about maintaining politically correct status going forward?

all economics and no civics

This game theoretical structure works when auction participants cannot coordinate their bids. The army works when every soldier coordinates their work toward a common standard and shared goal.

lifetime pundit tenure is an extremely harmful practice, as opposed to the more benign, and controversial, practice of tenure in universities

“some of the people all of the time” is actually the QAnon slogan

he really doesn’t seem to want to take the W

which is of course exactly what happened--the least democratic branch of government, SCOTUS, intervened to protect the insulation of another institution, the fed, which is deliberately insulated from direct/immediate democratic processes

story of the US in the 21st century, of course: The Left being right, and unheeded, about the big questions—the nature of the GOP, the Iraq invasion

but if we turn back the page to mid-20th century commentaries, your point might hold up

will no one rid me of these meddlesome courts

It's a relief, sure. But it's insane that it's a thing we need relief from, that it was 6-3, that Trump will now deliberately misinterpret other laws for the same ends, and that he can continue destroying world trade for another year until SCOTUS stops him again.

Our system isn't equipped for this.

pure amoral rational self-interest

beautiful to see zoomers embracing the concept of losing a recipe never to have it again

Federalist No. 51 just doesn’t work anymore. Substantially all Republican politicians center that identity over ideology, institution, branch, morality, etc.

when it was put to a vote, Noam damn near lost in her run for SD governor. it’s SD’ians who’ve voiced the deepest contempt for her, in my experience

say what you will about the tenets of conservatism, at least it’s an ethos. popularists believe in *nothing*

bsky.app/profile/arye...

the mclaughlin group was far more corrosive to the American polity than anything like heavy metal or gangsta rap lyrics that those guys liked to complain about

in that it appears to involve a real-life event possibly tangentially relevant to the party’s platform, it actually might be more on-point than average

sure, but think about how big Puerto Rico is, then

shouldn’t it be six separate states?

nope, not sure what you’re watching, but not that

one time I dreamt that Super Dave Osborne was playing a pretty good drum solo. then the camera kept zooming in, til all you could see was his face. he looked up at the camera, put on a wild fake grin, and did a pitch-perfect Scooby Doo laugh

YouTube video by Beat-Club The Equals - Hold Me Closer (1967)

a good Eddy Grant tune tho www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnAV...

she didn’t throw trans people under the bus and she thinks republicans are the scum of the earth and that’s good enough for me

postman posting

huh, I’d seen this quote and was horrified, but maybe I misread him—maybe he saw this as a negative, rather than a how-to: bsky.app/profile/pmce...

illustrative misuse—common among Republican and centrist pundits—of “Christian” as an unaware substitute for “white”

it still does all feel so contingent; if the GOP had been able to coalesce around one one Not-Trump, I don’t think he takes the ‘16 primaries

but he is of course a continuation of longtime GOP trends. and every GOP politician has chosen to embrace racism & incompetence at every step every day since

“waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption”