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This is state-sponsored media shit. Absolutely, shocking, insane dictator overreach
Noting for the record that the @espiers.bsky.social piece on Charlie Kirk was word- and pitch-perfect. Any freedom-loving institution should have been proud to publish or fund it.
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Anti-anti-fascism—can we call it “pro-fa”?— is now the controlling ideology of the GOP, the US government, and various other major American institutions (e.g., ABC, WaPo).
Crazy. And crazy-making. Nothing that any commentator of prominence has said about Kirk compares in offensiveness to any number of things that Kirk said over many years. We’re being asked to believe not just that up is down, but that up is the wisest, kindest, most generous down that ever lived.
Stop acting like a Nazi. Stop acting like a fascist.
Thank you for playing “Easy Answers to Hard Question.“
This is an excellent point. But the relevant date range is probably something like 1865-2024.
What’s the over/under on days until pardon talk for Tyler Robinson enters this-is-legitimate mainstream political discourse?
Many Americans are busy with a second job or a sick parent or other obligations, and they encounter the news only by accident. They don't have time to read a half dozen stories, add them up, and come to the conclusion that the president of the United States, aided by the entire Republican Party and billionaire oligarchs, is overthrowing our democracy. That’s what the news industry should be saying repeatedly, and loudly. Because it’s true, and it’s a huge threat to the future of every American.
Example 2, from Mark Jacob at www.stopthepresses.news: Jacob, a former newspaperman, observes that most mainstream news media goes out of its way NOT to report the most obvious and important fact of our time.
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If you are a law professor and you are teaching your students something other than this, you are teaching nonsense. If you are telling students that the SCOTUS is a legitimate court of law, even if it does sometimes render an unfortunately partisan opinion here and there in some particularly fraught context, you are teaching nonsense, and pernicious nonsense at that. Once upon a time and a very good time it was, something like Bush v. Gore was in some ways a shocking outlier. Now, in the form of the shadow docket in particular, it is the model for contemporary SCOTUS jurisprudence, which can be summarized as, in any really important case, Donald Trump and the Republican party wins, and its opponents lose.
Example 1, from Paul Campos at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social: Campos, a law professor, points out that SCOTUS is making a mockery of the traditional approach to professing the law.
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We live in an Orwell Moment, when plain speaking about unpleasant political facts is strangely rare and uniquely valuable—when simple truths, simply told, can have a marvelous tonic effect, even many people deem them hard to swallow. (Orwellian times, of course, open space for an Orwell Moment.) 1/3
“The Republicans are insane, you can’t negotiate with them, but you have to pretend this isn’t true if you’re the Democratic leadership, …
“Now at some point this won’t make any sense any more and I suspect we’re reaching that point quite rapidly.”
Nut graf: “My point here is that politics at this moment in this country consists necessarily in part in pretending that things are still roughly “normal,” because that’s the pragmatic thing to do to a certain extent, even though it’s pretending.
There will be many breaking points before it’s all over (“it” being the Trump-MAGA regime, but like Paul Campos, I feel that we’ve reached a big in Aug-Sep 2025.
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“Politics,” Steve Bannon said, “is downstream of culture.” When he’s right, he’s right! This sharp piece delves into the meaning of the larger MAGA project, a key part of which involves using a kitsch aesthetic to eliminate every vestige of liberalism.
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All of this. Very much all of this. One way to understand MAGA is as an erasure of the Second Founding.
Allowing Trump to run for president after Jan 6 was an act of constitutional suicide.
Just thinking about how fighting the Nazis in WWII was pretty woke
Great point! And don’t forget that the Trump regime has also (illegally) dismantledUS institute of Peace.
How long before there is a mass MAGA movement to get rid of seatbelt laws, since traffic fatalities have been declining over so many years?
Those who forget immunology are condemned to learn it again the hard way.
Willful cultural amnesia explains so much of the current catastrophe. (Op. cit. John Roberts Voting Rights Act decisions.)
Ha!
Soon will come the day when Murc’s Law will be the only law that we have.
MAGA types, including DJT, are the ultimate “ bad fans”: They watch and presumably enjoy perfectly good movies without any conception of who the bad guys are. Nor, as others pointed out, do they have any conception of which side lost this particular guerrilla war.
The people who are ostensibly next in line (Dick Durbin, Katherine Clark) are hardly inspire confidence. The underlying problem: Donor-consultant capture has claimed the souls of far too many leading Dems in both chambers.
Still, replacing Schumer & Jeffries would at least send the right signal.
Brilliantly said. I totally agree with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. Sweeping out top congressional Dem leaders is a necessary step forward.
Yet it’s far from sufficient. It’s far from clear the leaders who would replace Schumer and Jeffries would be much better.
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Why we are where we are, in 10 indelible words: “You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!”
For years, the whole phenomenon of Donald Trump has flabbergasted me—because, as this great comment at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social notes, he embodies every villain trope in modern American popular culture. Again and again,I just want to scream: This guy?
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