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24 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Apart from that, Mr. DeSantis lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/apart-…
You may not like it, but this is what peak gubernatorial performance looks like. In my new blog for Politico I will
Even aside from trivializing soaring death rates that are a direct result of DeSantis's negligence, the premise of is farcical. Leading the non-Trump alternatives in the 2024 primary field is about as impressive and meaningful as being the second-best team in the 2007 AFC East
Wow 7 points ahead of the guy Trump's supporters wanted to be lynched in January, we're truly dealing with a world-class political talent here
I naively thought that Florida would have to stop having like 40% of the country's daily COVID deaths before Politico dutifully returned to reverential DeSantis coverage, but nope

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23 Sep
If you search nytimes dot com for mentions of "John Eastman" over the last 30 days these are the only results ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/if-a-c…
WaPo has published several excellent opinion/analysis pieces but doesn't seem to consider the Eastman memo hard news, which is instructive in itself washingtonpost.com/search?query=j…
I guess for "Trump's lawyer laid out point-by-point plan to steal election the Vice President seriously considered" to be considered news Eastman would had to have forwarded it to John Podesta
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23 Sep
Liberals are waking up to what the Supreme Court is but too late for it to matter lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/the-co…
Judicial power is inherently fragile. A democratic national government could constrain the judiciary, but currently the many countermajoritarian elements of American government are all conspiring to empower the same minority faction the Court currently represents
Ultimately, the Senate and Electoral College are even bigger "countermajoritarian" problems the the Court, and indeed are the reason the a minority faction has an arrogantly commanding majority of Court in the first place
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21 Sep
"Centrists" making opposition to literally the most broadly popular item in Biden's agenda their hill to die on gives away multiple shows
"Defund the police is unpopular! Give us a winning issue!"
"Well, yes, that's why we want to run on reduced prescription prices in 2022."
"Not like that! I was thinking like a tax cut for rich professionals in Westchester County, that's how we win the heartland"
I still can't get over the fact that Biden's legislative agenda might die because a House rando let himself get baited by a reporter who was jonesing for a Dems In Disarray story
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21 Sep
The guy had a great story about a con artist sitting right there and instead turned out to be one of the marks newyorker.com/magazine/2008/…
BTW was able to watch most of the 86 Mets doc on a plane and it was EXCELLENT. I forget who made the point (Darling maybe?) but "Hernandez was the leader, Carter thought he was the leader" sums up The Kid (who I love RIP) perfectly
You have to be REALLY good and comitted to have been ultimately respected in that clubhouse while being an annoying tryhard, and Carter was every bit that good
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20 Sep
I guess this gambit might work, but I think the Narcissist Caucus is failing to grasp that the mediocre infrastructure bill ain't the ACA; it means way more to them than anyone else, and especially if JM is signaling that he won't support any reconciliation bill House might walk
People who are confident that this is a bluff seem to think that everyone in the party is as invested in the BIPARTISAN infrastructure deal as Manchin/Sinema are, and I see no actual basis for that
And so in addition to the obvious problems with CREDIBILITY theory, the Manchin/Sinema/Gottheimer gang and the reporters egging them on don't seem to have figured out that this logic now cuts both ways
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17 Sep
Venal “moderate” House Dems torpedoing Biden’s agenda lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/venal-…
It's worth noting here that the pharma lickspittles aren't even the most marginal. Peters won his last election by more than 20 points, Rice by 13. They can live without their money. They're killing the most popular part of Biden's agenda because they can -- that's it.
Also worth noting that Rice's justifications for opposing literally the most broadly popular item on Biden's agenda are almost surreally nonsensical: prospect.org/politics/how-k…
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