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Julian Sanchez
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Add to the long list of “nice-sounding but not actually lawful misuses of the power to pull over drivers.” Giving someone a coupon is not a valid reason to compel them to stop under threat of legal penalty.
I expect people to mostly smile and pretend to be grateful out of relief, but a coupon for a $2 soda is pretty crap compensation for the stress & hassle of being pulled over.
Ok, weirdly, this station’s own story says they’re NOT going to pull people over...
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Julian Sanchez
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1) These aren’t the recommendations I get when I type this. Prager may have done so much Googling for negative stuff about themselves they’ve “biased” their own recommendations.

2) It’s, uh, not actually proof of “bias” that Google pulls up negative things about your group.
What do they actually think Google is doing, anyway? Hand-coding a bunch of unflattering statements about Prager into the autocomplete algorithm? Because... that’s not how anything works.
Anyway, I’m tickled by the idea that Prager has spent so much time obsessing about their Google results they’ve trained the algorithm to think they hate Prager. It’s either that or they just fabricated that list of results.
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Julian Sanchez
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As far as I can tell, the sum total of this man’s intelligence background is seven months on HPSCI. His primary “qualification” appears to be attacking the Mueller investigation.
Dan Coats spent much of his long Senate career on SSCI. Every prior DNI had a long history with either the IC or an intelligence role in the military. I wasn’t wild about many of them, but they at least had résumés that made sense for the job.
To be clear: It’d be great to tap someone with deep knowledge of intel whose background isn’t necessarily within the IC. But Ratcliffe has had an oversight role for less than a year. There’s zero reason anyone would consider him for this post other than rabid fealty to Trump.
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Julian Sanchez
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I think Hawley’s ridiculous attack on Berin is sort of a red herring. What he actually wants the gullible to take away is the idea that an “expert” is required at all. That there’s some controversy or disagreement among knowledgable people about 230 & neutrality.
But in fact, there is no disagreement among experts on this point. Hawley’s claims about 230 are either bald lies or represent an elementary failure to understand the law. Unfortunately, Hawley’s training really makes the former the only plausible option.
The level of contempt for his own constituency this implies is shocking. He’s effectively saying: “I know I can tell you black is white, and you dullards will swallow it as long as I pretend the uncontroversial facts are ‘what the left says’. You yokels won’t even look it up!”
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