It won't be long before complacent pundits start talking about how Republican elites don't actually want Roe to be overruled. Alas, this conspiracy has never existed -- Roe's survival was a series of contingencies and flukes and the music just stopped vox.com/2019/5/15/1862…
Complacent strategy #2 will be to assert that if Roe is overruled even sub silentio Republicans will be screwed in 2022. But there's no reason to believe that -- national elections aren't referenda on abortion and the map is skewed heavily toward Republicans
Although a bullshit-minimalist opinion pretending Roe hasn't been overruled when the Court says states can ban pre-viability abortions will make it easier to run the MARK UTERUS playbook against Dems who talk about reproductive rights too much lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/10/the-pr…
HAHAHAH remember when Mark Udall said that Republicans taking control of the Senate in 2014 would be an existential threat to Roe v. Wade what a knee-slapper that was, can't believe he would suggest that nice Cory Gardner would vote to confirm someone like Amy Coney Barrett 🤣
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Telling the truth > engaging in empirically baseless eleven-dimensional psychological chess, so the new CDC announcement is good lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/05/cdc-sa…
It is it *possible* that the announcement will cause some not vaccinated people not to wear masks indoors when they otherwise would? Yes.
But you can also tell a just-so story -- with some data in support, even -- that being told they don't have to wear masks if they get vaccinated is a powerful incentive for vaccine-reluctant Republicans: nytimes.com/2021/05/04/ups…
LOL. Although I'm glad AB & AC exists, in part because it makes clear that while the collaboration produced two absolute peaks of 21st century American popular culture, Isbell and the band ultimately needed to go their separate ways
And what the hell, if your worst album contains songs of the caliber of "Space City" and "Gravity's Gone" and "Wednesday," I guess you're "America's Greatest Rock n' Roll Band Unless Janet Comes Back to Sleater-Kinney To Make Things Interesting"
Jack Shafer has the silliest argument in the always irritating 'the enemy of your enemy on one particular point is therefore your BF' genre" I've ever seen lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/05/retwee…
Shafer's examples of "Democrats" and "liberal journalists" who allegedly now love Liz Cheney are fucking hilarious
The "liberals" who now allegedly worship Liz Cheney include a conservative talk show host, a Republican member of Congress, the Financial Times, People Magazine, and Chris Cillizza. He finally gets one actual Dem saying one nice thing in there at the end. Just pathetic stuff.
A certain Brazilian SubStack blogger who REALLY wants Ron DeSantis to be the next president of the United States has some hilariously stupid defenses of libertarian responses to COVID-19 in our comments
The my favorite is that because it has a Democratic governor he uses Michigan as a gotcha, while obviously not realizing that Michigan currently has...the same laissez-faire policies he favors, with absolutely disastrous results.
Needless to say, if you compare DeSantis and Abbott to COMPETENT Democratic governors like Brown and Inslee, the results are much worse with death rates more than twice as high, because the libertarian response is in fact bad covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
Brett Kavanaugh writes opinion holding that crimes committed by teenagers should allow them to be confined for life irrespective of their ability to be rehabilitated lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/04/brett-…
One small cheer for Clarence Thomas, who like the other Republican nominees is cruelly wrong on the merits but at least not willing to go along with the bullshit-minimalism of pretending to apply precedents you are obviously overruling