"Just to be clear, under Michigan law the board has no discretion at all in this matter, but of course that means nothing in the context of Trumpism, which is every bit as lawless as Stalinism" lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/darkne…
A useful typology of Trump supporter. First, the ordinary marks:
Second, the cynical opportunists:
And third, the people who believe that while Trump's specific charges about election fraud might be false, they are true to the greater principle that Republicans are permanently entitled to govern
One thing I'll add that has become obvious in the nearly five years since Donald Trump became the embodiment of the Republican Party is that #2 is an inherently unstable category. Most people, including party elites, eventually migrate to some mixture of #1 and #3
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This, or anything remotely like this, has never been the standard for the Hall of Fame for any sport and nobody would be interested in them if they were. Manning isn't less great because Brady and Brees were also great.
*None* of Brady/Manning/Brees would qualify under this standard! Indeed, I think you would be hard-pressed to name a single QB since the merger who was "indisputably the best" in the league for "an extended period of time."
Manning, as part of his long, exceptional, and uncannily consistent career, led the NFL in ANY/A by nearly two yards a throw in 2004. The fact that a few other QBs started to reach this level of performance is, to state the obvious, irrelevant to whether he's a Hall of Famer.
Ron Johnson held hearings devoted to his belief in the
hydroxychloroquine conspiracy theory -- months after Trump himself has abandoned it: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/high-o…
The idea the Trump was some kind of outlier in the Republican Party has always been delusional. The line between grifter and griftee has been erased; most Republican elites get their news from the same sources Trump does
The same year Shelby County came out, Revered Intellectual Antonin Scalia proudly proclaimed that he generally got his news from wingnut talk radio: nymag.com/news/features/…
I still don't understand why every piece about Murphy feels compelled to qualify the completely unambiguous evidence that she's a hack Trump boot polisher severely damaging the country with colleagues insisting based on nothing that she isn't
"She's not a bona fide Trump person and doesn't like people saying that, she just believes that she owes loyalty to Trump above loyalty to the country" uh OK
"But if I don't betray my public office by refusing to collaborate in Trump's election theft scheme I might lose my job 8 weeks before I lose it anyway" is not actually a real moral dilemma, unless you're the slavering lickspittle of an authoritarian president
Anyone who normalizes what Trump is doing is an active collaborator, and that definitely includes "but ACTUALLY Clinton did it too" bullshit lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/the-fa…
Clinton conceded before noon the day after Election Day and Obama fully cooperated with the transition. For a six-figure pundit to argue that there's any comparison is an object illustration of why we are where we are
Emily Murphy is still refusing to allow the transition to proceed. During a deadly pandemic. She is quite literally getting people killed to support Daddy Trump's election theft scheme. Do you know who Obama's GSA head even was? npr.org/sections/biden…
It's worth noting here that critical to Trump election theft scheme is the fact that three critical swing states are gerrymandered into permanent GOP control. If WI, MI and PA held democratic legislative elections this would all be moot.
And AFICT no Republican of any influence has any problem with this. And in one of the worst decisions ever issues by the United States Supreme Court the five most elite Republican lawyers said states not holding democratic elections is fine. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
The piece repeatedly juxtaposes Murphy engaging in objectively indefensible conduct that is doing considerable damage to the public interest while quoting people who testify to her Great Personal Integritude