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wildcat09

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  1. Read this. Especially this part: And this part: A second Trump presidency will be much worse than the first. He never expected to win the first time and hadn't assembled a cabinet or staff that would be loyal to him. He had to appoint career Republicans who'd been in Washington for decades to many posts. He won't do that again. He's not smart, but he's smart enough to have learned his lesson. He's assembling a cabinet and staff that will not care about Washington norms. They will gin up phony criminal investigations and prosecutions for anyone who doesn't do what they want, be they FBI officials or military generals. They have a concrete plan to reshape federal law enforcement and the military in their image. And they will absolutely encourage their supporters to escalate violence against us. And some percentage of their supporters will do so, because it won't be private individual Donald Trump posting veiled incitement on a shitty social media app nobody uses, it will be the President of the United States of America calling on them to protect America from its domestic enemies, after he's overcome everything they could throw at him with all their fake prosecutions. I'm not as down on Biden's chances to win next year as that piece is, but it's 100% right on the danger Trump poses if he's reelected. Your obstinate insistence that his supporters won't do anything has already proven wrong once before (ignoring all of the fucking mass shootings his "lone wolf" supporters routinely carry out). I'm sure just denying that you might possibly be in any danger is psychologically comforting, but it won't stop them from dragging you off to a death camp if he wins.
  2. *taps the sign* You guys have got to at least make Poe work harder.
  3. Plus, in a world in which Trump does win re-election in 2024, he will be completely unrestrained and his fans will be frenzied. The worry isn't today. The worry is what if it seriously looks to a Fox News audience (which includes the Republican justices) like he will win.
  4. Someone owes Robert Evans (the podcaster/journalist, not the dead producer) a check.
  5. Yes. Some of you really need to get past the "it can't happen here" roadblock you've still got in your heads.
  6. I'm not going to lie, that shit sucks but I chuckled at "Israel U A Bitch!"
  7. This isn't quite right. They spent the entire year leading up to the election making a series of rulings in voting and election cases to help him win. They just refused to come to his rescue when he failed to take advantage of the help they'd given him. And while I agree with you're take that they have their own agenda and aren't particularly invested in his personal agenda, I think you're discounting their fear of him and his supporters if they cross him and he wins anyway. I would bet right now that they think he'll win next November, and that will absolutely be impacting how they decide this case.
  8. I've never thought Republicans wanted to "solve" immigration, because a broken immigration system benefits them politically. I figured the overwhelming majority of elected Republicans were just fine letting plenty of illegal immigrants in for cheap labor and just pretending they cared about limiting immigration. But that thinking changed when they began rallying behind efforts to slash legal immigration too. Now, I'm starting to think that their racism and fascism has metastasized to the point that many, if not a majority of them, will pretty soon be making serious efforts to deputize freaks like Icono to go to the border to shoot immigrants. This would have the bonus (in their mind) of serving as training for their brownshirts to violently suppress internal dissent as well. And they don't even really have to deputize anyone. There's plenty of other ways they could achieve the same thing and I'm only not going further into that because Icono and his friends read this board and I don't want to give them any ideas.
  9. Even for Roberts on a voting rights case, this is pretty brazen.
  10. Brisket I swear to God I will pull this car over.
  11. I saw that. It's pretty telling that it's editorials only and not the news desk.
  12. Think of all of the shit that has happened in this country in the past few years that was completely unimaginable in 2015. The idea that there's anything too extreme for modern society for them to try to implement is simply wrong. This was Iran in the 1970s: Afghanistan: A similar transformation happened in Pakistan after 1979 too, and a similar transformation is happening right now in Turkey. Hell, while it was never as progressive as those others, Saudi Arabia used to be more liberal before wahhabist Islam came to power there. The new fundamentalist Islam that grew as a response to modern society in those countries was even more conservative and more regressive than it had ever been in the past. Those changes weren't unique to Islam. Our religious fundamentalists want the same thing here. They don't simply want to return to the days of the 1950s, they want to reshape America into something that makes America in the 1950s look downright communist.
  13. I sure hope so. But the Times played a really outsized role in driving Hillary email coverage back in 2016. What they prioritize and how they frame shit matters.
  14. The fury over shit like this is entirely grassroots. There's a shitload Democrats could be doing to make this (and that 10 year old rape victim from Indiana who had to flee the state for an abortion, and other similar stories) a much bigger story, but they're either too scared to look too "pro-abortion" or they just really don't understand modern messaging at all. Meanwhile GOP messaging recently resulted in a NY Times front page yesterday that had four fucking different stories about campus speech.
  15. Sorry man, but this is an all-timer forest from the trees post right here. It's not fucking obvious at all that she was free to get an abortion in Texas without judicial clearance! There's three fucking intentionally ambiguous laws against it!
  16. I wonder how many more days it will take for Dems to realize they should be making this a big fucking story.
  17. We're going to have to become a lot more comfortable with the fact that we're going to need to physically confront people like that in our own lives.
  18. God damnit people, stop engaging with sheeeit. Don't you even recognize the long-time trolls that've been here forever?
  19. Right. If anything, to Roberts' mind Trump makes it harder by drawing attention to what he's doing. If Roberts helps Trump, it will be because he thinks it's beneficial to the longer-term project of Republican political control, but he'll only help to the extent he thinks he can maintain his pretense as a neutral umpire while doing so.
  20. Roberts would also very much prefer Trump not yell "HEY I SUPPORT JOHN ROBERTS ELIMINATING BLACK PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO VOTE BECAUSE THEY'RE ANIMALS NOT PEOPLE!" on truth social while he's eliminating what remains of the VRA.
  21. You know what the Congressional vote was on the law Shelby v. Holder overturned (without stating what provision of the Constitution the legislation supposedly violated)?
  22. On the grounds that it infringes on other people's religious practice. That's fucking easy. More importantly, you don't need to have a deep knowledge of the law to understand that the "on what grounds" question is the wrong question, because they have the power to say what the law is. The law is not magic. Its words are not incantations that prevent Republicans from carrying out their most heinous plans. It's just words printed on paper. The only actual restraint on what they will do is social pressure: Kavanaugh's fear that his wife's friends will sneer at him, or Roberts' fear that enough liberals will be around to write history and it won't look kindly on him if he drops his pretenses. And at its furthest point, every Republican judge's fear that if they go too far and that an angry mob will burn their house down with them in it (though there are a few of them that really don't seem to give a shit).
  23. It's almost 2024 and there's still people thinking "the GOP won't go THAT far." For fuck's sake.
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