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25 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
How Republicans learned to stop worrying and go full MAGA lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/arsoni…
Pure cynical opportunism is hard to sustain over the long haul. A lot of elite Republicans were either going to just to full Trump or see Trumpism as a higher truth that justifies anything irrespective of whether particular claims are factual lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/darkne…
Lindsey Graham's conduct after securing another term isn't the behavior of someone putting on a performance, it's the behavior of someone who has fully convinced himself that Trump's racist conspiracy theories are true in some sense because the cognitive dissonance was too much
"One problem with cynical Machiavellianism is that very few people are cynical enough to not gradually become what they pretend to be"

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26 Nov
For the COVID Barrett Court, there is only one material question: will the libs be owned? lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/person…
To be clear, nobody is claiming that a public health emergency suspends the free exercise clause. Cuomo's order is constitutional because orders that treat religious institutions *more favorably* than comparable secular ones very obviously do not violate the First Amendment. Image
The claim that Andrew Cuomo's public health orders were motivated by anti-Catholic animus is too stupid to receive even a minute's consideration and yet got five votes from the Supreme Court of the United States
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As Sotomayor says, the majority's argument that places of worship are being singled out for unfair treatment requires treating highly dissimilar things as similar. Image
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Yes, the obvious problem with the argument that national Democrats should emphasize gun control because liberal voters expect them to show leadership is that Obama came out forcefully for gun control in 2012 -- and Democrats responding by sitting out the 2014 midterms
A successful gun control law might have been more motivating, but any gun control measures were doomed to fail -- nothing was getting 60 votes in the Senate and nothing was passing a Republican House even if you could.
And the Dem non-turnout in 2014 led directly to a Republican hammerlock on the Supreme Court that means any remotely effective gun control measure is doomed anyway.
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24 Nov
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. Image
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"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: Image
Second, the cynical opportunists: Image
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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/…
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