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Sep 9, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
It's absolutely appropriate that Joe Biden not pre-announce a short list of SCOTUS nominees, if only to not look like a dangerous radical like Donald Trump, who just short-listed Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz on his own list. 1/ Image
Tom Cotton's first comment after the mention by Trump, by the way. 2/

I mean, honestly, the idea that Trump will get to name at least 1 new SCOTUS justice in a second term is sufficient reason to vote him out. Proposing Cotton or Cruz should have folk literally throwing money at the Biden campaign. 3/ Image
That said, these kind of pre-announcements are only a positive if they rile up a goodly portion of the base. Because, as demonstrated, they are just as likely to rile up a goodly portion of the opposition. 4/ Image
And that assumes this is even a quasi-honest suggestion by Trump, vs. a whim, a transactional favor, or simply a means of distraction. 5/ Image
I mean, it's not like Trump wouldn't love a serious distraction. Like the drum beat of tell-all books and new scandals and accusations toward Trump coming out daily. Or, of course, 190K people dead of #COVID19 under Trump's denialist watch. 6/ Image
One thing I will say in favor of Trump's recommendations: I think it's high time that we had some high-ranking politicians on SCOTUS again. Senators, Governors, etc., used to be part of the mix there, and they arguably brought a pragmatic perspective to cases. 7/
But *not* Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton. God, no. 8/8

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Sep 24, 2020
Just to be clear, Donald Trump has decided his lie that mail-in ballots are, on the face of it, fraudulent, means he can challenge them in Republican-controlled state legislatures and in federal courts stuffed with his appointees, including the Supreme Court. 1/
He has long asserted that he will clearly, obviously, massively win any election, even the last one he was in. Thus, if he loses, it's because his opponents are cheating, and so he should be made President, anyway. 2/
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Pretty sure Churchill didn't declare the Luftwaffe a Liberal hoax, insist he had shut them down before they could enter England, or demand Londoners bring their kids *back* from the countryside as bombs were falling. 1/
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Also, pretty sure Donald never spoke -- publicly -- about any need for "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" to defeat the enemy. Or insist the nation would fight *as a whole* against the their enemy.

Meanwhile, Churchill didn't blame UK cities for being bombed. Or go golfing.

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So the story here appears to be that (1) there are insufficient Catholic priests in the Chaplain Corps, (2) the Navy has in the past spent money to contract for additional Catholic priests, but (3) they have decided not to do so any more for US bases. 1/

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When a political opponent has been a vet, has that ever softened his vitriolic attacks? Has he ever granted any credit to *their* service, before sorrowfully, but respectfully, differing from their opinion? 3/
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