https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1274341980319805440?s=21
So we could have two glorious ironies
Bolton book is released but all profits are confiscated and awarded as Damages to the government
Trump himself has to fire Berman may succeed but assuming Berman fights it that court battle will drag well past the election. Essentially he can run out the clock on trump/Barr If Trump loses the election.
I’m on the lifeboat out with you if Trump is re-elected, but I’m not sure we’re not in your 2nd group if you phrase it as ignore consequences instead of ignore politics.
Barr is a nut right? Like a reject second Vatican Council Catholic or some such nut. Speculation aside, he’s obviously a fascist.
Apparently so. I guess I didn’t know much about him but was tricked into thinking he wasn’t a full on insane deplorable until trump.
AG Walter Shaub would be a good Twitter follow imo.
If they could model this with graphics and/or superimpose a visual representation of the transmission of the virus through the arena in a digitally created cloud of aerosolized covid-19, I’d watch that shit.
I suspect this speech will get some coverage because it’s sort of like the kick-off to campaign season, plus it’s of significance because of the Tulsa/Juneteenth thing, plus he was supposed to make a lolunifying speech on race and this is the first speech he’s given since…
Of course he’ll be 50% more racist than ever before, and probably make fun of George Floyd, which they’ll then cover in depth.
Just amazing. What a great world where the man who helped orchestrate the murder of a million people will only (possibly) get his comeuppance because he published a book calling a demented game show host a stinky dodo-head.
I’m not so sure we should be assuming those reasons don’t need to be stated. In fact, I’m pretty fucking sure they need to be stated loudly and clearly. Maybe Judge Royce Lamberth should take out some billboard ads or something.
By the way, Judge Royce Lamberth looks about the way you’d expect a Judge Royce Lamberth to look, and was nominated by exactly who you would expect a judge Royce Lamberth to be nominated by.
Old white guy, Reagan.
I wonder what I should talk about for my next podcast.
Doesn’t seem like the right wing fascist countries ever forbade the privileged classes from leaving. I’m not saying why I don’t get that JT is leaving. He doesn’t want his kids growing up in this atmosphere. And his wife is foreign born and not white, his kids are mixed race, and he’s not a citizen. For most of us though, what’s the urgency? Get out before? They start killing Latinos? Leaving doesn’t prevent that.
(Some people, like PocketChads, are certainly at risk for being so conspicuously radical.)
I understand leaving to have a better life sure. And that’s 100% fine by me. But, it’s not like most of us are Jews in 1936 Germany.
Barr was a bully as a kid so he’s a bully now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/09/so-this-is-why-bill-barr-is-such-bully/
I don’t know, I mean I’m a non-poor 34 year old white male. Maybe I’ve put too many anti-Trump views out into the world to be safe if/when the shit goes down, but I’ve known doing so put me at risk if/when that happened and I’ve known it was the path we were on. I could have STFU two years ago and cashed in on my white male privilege to ignore all of this and go about my life just voting.
I assume the same applies to a lot of us. I don’t mean to make myself sound like a hero, there are people who I love or care a great deal about who are way more threatened than I am, and living in a world where they are in constant danger, not allowed here, or worse, is just a few steps short of my own imprisonment or death. So at least some part of me caring is selfish, but also there’s the empathy factor.
We care about people we’ve never met, the people on the right don’t. That’s a big part of it too.
But the least glamorous reason, the least selfless reason, is that the rage becomes addictive. I think we’re intellectual and introspective enough around here to admit it. I’m sure most of us have been endlessly scrolling IG or FB for those dopamine hits and realized what we’re doing and why, right? We know it’s an addiction and unhealthy. Well this is the same, to the other end of the spectrum. I’ve hate-watched stuff, I’ve hate-read tweets, I’ve watched hours of cable news waiting for the next little hit of outrage. I don’t know if the chemistry is the same, is it causing dopamine? But I know the end result is the same.
I don’t know if any of it gets to be a defense mechanism, because I don’t know that it’s the type of thing that can trigger a lizard brain defense mechanism. It has to be more intellectual, I don’t think we’ve evolved enough as humans to recognize authoritarianism as a fight or flight type of situation to trigger some natural defense mechanism. It’s interesting to think about, though… and ultimately I think you meant it more on an intellectual but slightly subconscious level.
Oh, and I know the white male privilege doesn’t apply to everyone here obviously, but I would also say that most, but not all of us could probably do what you’re planning JT, and GTFO, regardless of race/privilege. It then just becomes a matter of how bad of a situation they’re willing to throw themselves into in the next place to get out of the bad situation in this one. Obviously COVID complicates that, though.
Trumpers: How is saying he will drop bombs on him a threat to kill him?
Yeah if he gets re-elected I’m going to do a lot of thinking about wiping my social media and maybe even (puke) making a “We’ve all got to give him a chance, the people have spoken, I think his second term will be much better now that he’s an experienced president. Good luck, Mr. President, sir, we’re all rooting for you sir as people who love the United States of America just as much as you do, sir!” post.
I don’t know if I can bring myself to do it, but I also feel like I’m going to be a sitting duck just waiting to be rounded up in year 2 or 3 of the second term.
You’re not going to make the cut of people rounded up.
My instinct is to say that if I’m going down, I’m taking as many of them as I can with me. Your options aren’t limited to going into hiding or waiting for them to come for you.
Woman with a ticket to the rally being arrested for “trespassing” due to wearing an I Can’t Breathe shirt I guess?
Your instincts will be different when they come for you…
Yeah that’s not for me.
I hope not. I wouldn’t be surprised if the process is just Kushner searching for Facebook posts that are mean to the fuhrer and making a list, though. Their evil is only matched by their stupidity.
But I also probably can’t just sit and do nothing, so when I start underground railroading people to Toronto or something, I become one of the people who can get rounded up.