Eh, close, but that’s still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying “everybody in Denver can’t vote but Rifle’s cool”, at which point anybody in Denver who can’t get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,

So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice

Do with that as you will

I’m going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.

I mean, that would have been an accurate description of me at age 21

Them: “Save the planet!”

Bezos: “… and redeem it for valuable prizes!”

to the voters that never hold them to account

How many of these lawmakers even had primary challengers last time they ran?

Because Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, it will be difficult for Democrats to regularly defeat judicial nominations. But a clip of, for example, Missouri district court nominee Josh Divine trying to explain why he endorsed literacy tests for voting and analogized homosexuality to bestiality is the sort of thing that, if done correctly, would have a chance to go viral enough to get Susan Collins to have second thoughts.

The bad news is that no such clips exist, because when Senate Democrats had the chance to question the nominees in person, they decided they had other things to do or other places to be. Illinois’s Dick Durbin, California’s Adam Schiff, and Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse spent more of their allotted time lauding Federalist Society judges for sometimes ruling against Trump than they did asking questions of Whitney Hermandorfer, the pending nominee to the Sixth Circuit. Incredibly, their performances were still more impactful than those of Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, and California’s Alex Padilla, who did not say anything to Hermandorfer at all.

Democratic politicians are fond of casting Trump as a threat to democracy and the rule of law, and are very aware of the power of political theater when they have new books to promote or campaign donations to solicit via lengthy, meme-laden, green-blubble text. But it is difficult for Senate Democrats to persuade voters to care about judicial confirmation battles when they, the Democrats, are so uninterested in fighting them.

Yeah, why was he answering this stupid question and not being asked about why his officers keep brutalizing protesters and journalists?

on CNN

Oh, that’s why

I worry RFK is going to use a combination of being exactly who we thought he was, moving just slowly enough for people to lose interest, and his boss’s tendency to demand all of our attention to do some truly awful stuff, and by the time we realize how awful it is it will be way too late to do anything about it

TBF, seeing Trump treat someone else like shit, empathizing with their experience, and realizing how it could happen to them is really hard for Republicans because they’re morally and intellectually defective

Yeah, I guess I was thinking of this from the top down constitutional perspective of it (and even then I probably should have said taking ICE’s side or the federal government’s side), but meanwhile on the ground the LAPD is doing the LAPD thing and the National Guard is doing the National Guard thing

I can understand people being pissed at him since every Californian cop has been taking the national guard’s side against the protesters so far

Good thing we’ve made it so easy for people to migrate /s

Avoidable climate change caused by economic activity whose gains were hoarded by a small number of rich people who do not live in Kabul

Voter turnout declined because Kamala’s campaign consultants were lazy racist dipshits who dgaf about black and hispanic voters and threw all their money at suburban whites (who didn’t turn out for them), so overall black and hispanic voting declined and the ones who did still turnout were more likely to be conservative

This article is stupid, it’s from the day after the election so all their data was still just a bunch of exit poll snapshots and individual voter interviews and random campaign consultants pointing fingers each other

I’m honestly surprised ICE didn’t promise not to retaliate, then arrest all these people anyway and say, “It’s not retaliation, we arrest all kinds of people at their court hearings these days.” Like, that probably would fly in court because our whole system is a clownshow.

Among a lot of other problems, this is a drug addled idiot and known liar saying random bullshit he thinks people will like with no substance behind it

Andrew Yang rn

Trump’s highest approval ratings can be found in his handling of immigration

a) those approval ratings drop quickly when you start asking about anything more specific than “securing the border” like family separations and arresting people at hospitals and court hearings

b) the good approval ratings on the general topic have a lot to do with the fact that the Democratic party doesn’t have a coherent and comprehensive response to Republican lies about immigration because asshole morons like Matthew Yglesias are constantly making the argument that the Dipshit administration doing things like illegally sending an innocent man to a foreign gulag without a trial and then ignoring the court order to return him is actually popular and it would hurt Dems to talk about it (like he did in the speech at a recent DC conference this whole article is about)

Partially because I believe in democracy and the right of voters / non voters to make bad choices,

Partially because I think complaining about non-voters isn’t going to change their behavior at all and might just make them more stubborn,

But mostly because I have spent my entire adult life watching asshole morons get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise Democratic candidates to do stupid shit like campaign with Liz Cheney, and then when they lose try to blame everything on trans people for existing or whoever’s the new scapegoat of the day, so I want to see all those fuckers lose their jobs and get shamed out of professional politics almost as badly as I want to see Republicans and their financiers in proson

Lol, I voted for Harris