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20 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If you’re wondering what all of the “this verdict actually means little” takes are about after you heard endlessly about the importance of this verdict, it’s laying the ground work to justify potential riots after the verdict.
And it betrays a shocking lack of confidence in the rationalism or behavior of the people the hot take makers claim to support
Same here. Watch as the narrative suddenly unfolds
It continues. You’re now going to be told that the system that worked actually doesn’t work at all and this verdict didn’t mean much

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21 Apr
Perhaps the feds could dedicate 1/100th of the resources they've dedicated to tracking down everyone involved in the Capitol riot to preventing the next mass murder spree.
Because when it's come to (rightfully) tracking down those responsible for that violence, they've resorted to every possible avenue and technology they can find.

Meanwhile we get yet another story about how the feds knew about a mass murderer and did nothing to stop him.
February 2018: "F.B.I. Was Warned of Florida Suspect’s Desire to Kill but Did Not Act"

nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/…
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13 Dec 20
People with doctorates who the @nytimes refers to by just their names:

Newt Gingrich

Tammy Duckworth


Madeleine Albright


David Petraeus


HR McMaster


(1/?)
Ben Sasse

Kirsten Sinema


Seb Gorka


Henry Kissinger


Alan Greenspan


Condoleeza Rice


(2/?)
Two women with doctorates at the same time


Robert Gates


James R. Schlesinger



Ash Carter



Zbigniew Brzezinski



(3/?)
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13 Dec 20
Was there a popular convention of referring to HR McMaster as "Dr. McMaster"?

Dr. Ash Carter?

Dr. Ben Bernanke?

Dr. Alan Greenspan?

Dr. Tammy Duckworth?

Dr. Newt Gingrich?

Dr. David Petraeus?

Dr. Ben Sasse?
Many many people both officially in office and just in politics have had doctorates that we haven't popularly referred to as "doctor". A bit strange that now it's seen as horrible disrespect because someone with an EdD isn't called that.
Dr. Gingrich becomes Speaker Gingrich.

HR McMaster becomes General McMaster.

Dr. Bernanke becomes Chairman Bernanke.

We generally refer to people by the role they play in the government. For example, throwing a crazy one out there, Second Lady.
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24 Aug 20
You could say that he’s The One
The media hates when presidents have personality cults
The breathless fawning is just so unattractive to them
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16 Aug 20
"Note the absence of any requirement that willfulness be charged or proved"

Great. Elonis v. US, 2015:

"The Court does not regard “mere omission from a criminal enactment of any mention of criminal intent” as dispensing with such a requirement..."
Congress *can* enact strict liability statutes but "they didn't say anything about mens rea so we don't need one!" isn't okay. Defendants don't have to know their conduct is illegal but "must have knowledge of “the facts that make his conduct fit the definition of the offense.”"
"silence on this point by itself does not necessarily suggest that Congress intended to dispense with a conventional mens rea element...indication of congressional intent, express or implied, is required to dispense with mens rea as an element of a crime" Staples v. US
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11 Jun 20
Starting to think it’s not so much about dishonoring racists as destroying America’s connection with its past — a connection that has often stood in the way of the kind of radical transformation the far left has sought
America honors and remembers its past not because it was perfect but because it’s part of the American story, we took lessons from it, and it guides our future. Some elements we learned we should never return to. Others remain the ideals that ultimately conflicted with and
prevailed over the elements that we came to understand as incompatible with our notions of who we are and what we should be. Individual liberty over enslavement. Equality under the law over segregation. But all of it is part of our history. All of it must be remembered.
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