sometimes i worry that it is our inclination to insist upon competent fascists.
the richest man on the planet understands that you may suffer some hardship.
“the governor must fill any vacancies on the state’s top courts with appointees recommended by the political party of the departing judge. That will prevent Stein from appointing Democrats to fill future openings on the state Supreme Court, where Republicans hold a majority.”
They’re just not even pretending anymore. Except when Democrats threaten to do anything similar. Then it’s Radicals Destroying The Constitutional Order.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/north-carolina-legislature-governor-elections/
via #KevinDrum
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all these takes as if Harris lost on "the issues".
her takes on the issues poll much better than his takes, my dear popularists.
she lost because he was perceived by low information, go-with-your-gut, voters as someone willing to let it hang out while she was cautious, scripted, hiding something.
@artcollisions we’ll end up just driving there.
@artcollisions I’ll give it a try!
@artcollisions (now their system just doesn’t pick up, rings and them jumps to busy.)
“If you are calling from a touch-tone phone, please dial the extension number you wish to reach, or dial zero for assistance. If you are calling from a rotary dial phone, please stay on the line for assistance. Please hold a moment. That mailbox is full. Thank you for calling. If you are calling from a touchtone phone…”
Repeats forever, whether I dial zero or some random “extension number” or just wait. Trying to reach the kid’s pediatrician.
we’re living in an 80s movie in which the bad kids occupy the principal’s office and announce over the squealing PA there will be changes. all the kids cheer! you are supposed to cheer.
sometimes you lose touch with it in the confusion of the quotidian. but then all of a sudden clear and pure the stupidity shines through, blinds you and leaves you breathless.
i wonder whether, given the publicness of bluesky’s backend, it wouldn’t be possible to define some kind of break-glass backstop, by which one could move ones history to “lifeboats” in the fediverse, capturing and reconstituting exodus-participating portions of your social graph?
“you can be ground to dust, and the echoes of your ghost will be used by your grandchildren to justify new atrocities. the death of your babies will be used to explain why someone else’s babies must die.” @phillmv http://okayfail.com/garden/theyre-going-to-build-camps.html
[new draft post] Plutocracy as a positive ideal https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/19/plutocracy-as-a-positive-ideal/index.html
“A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/trump-criminal-cases.html ht @jbouie
// well then. which truths do we hold self-evident?
@artcollisions i’m sorry about that!
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meritocracy failed, so we're trying meretrocracy.
@otfrom that’s basically its effect. more precisely it says anything the President does that takes the form of an “official act” — where that form cannot be questioned via inquiry into the President’s motives or alleged criminality of the act — is at least presumptively immune and sometimes absolutely immune from criminal prosecution.
so, as long as a President takes a bit of care to embed their criming in “official” processes and procedures, it’s effectively legalized.
i think the public remains broadly in denial about how dangerous John Roberts’ decision in Trump v United States is.