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Jun 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Charlie Dent is as irrelevant to and informed about contemporary Republican politics as David Jolly. The only difference is that he still has some shreds of sanity and restraint left because he's on CNN and not MSNBC, unlike his Sunshine State counterpart.
By having the likes of Dent and Jolly as "Republican" voices, CNN and MSNBC are actively keeping their viewers in ignorance about one of the country's two major parties, and therefore, by extension, in ignorance about American politics as a whole.
Dear cable news networks: Stop passing people like this off as your "Republican" talking heads. In the year 2024, he's as much a Republican as I am a first-grader.
This nonentity speaks for exactly no constituency in contemporary American politics. Sean Trende's three guys in a cubicle is a more powerful group than whatever snake oil this guy is selling.
"Our Republican Legacy" = "The fantasy I pleasure myself to before going to bed so I can sleep better at night."
Remember when the Anonymous guy and that other ex-GOP grifter whose name I can't remember teamed up to unite their ex-GOP scam outfits? How's that working out?
Donald Trump is currently favored to win the presidency and CNN has on some nobody backbencher who's no longer in Congress or the Republican Party to talk about the GOP in 2024. And then they wonder why their ratings are shit.
It was Egg McMuffin who teamed up with Anonymous guy. LOL. They must be praying for Trump to win so badly.

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Jan 31
Everyone who observed that Disney's suit against Ron DeSantis was doomed because of In re Hubbard, take a bow. It's only cited three dozen times in an opinion that's just seventeen pages long. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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We did try to warn you.
Take a bow, @gpurcellredux. Shame your old tweets no longer exist.
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Jan 21
.@jawillick argues that SCOTUS should "punt" on the Fourteenth Amendment issue. If I'm reading him correctly, that means a holding which keeps Trump on the ballot because Section 3 isn't self-executing, though he doesn't spell it out in quite those terms. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
"If the justices affirmed the Colorado decision, they would devastate the court's standing within the GOP, which would see its voters stripped of the right to vote for their favored candidate in an unprecedented way."

Props to @jawillick for acknowledging this. He's spot on.
As I keep saying, John Roberts lacks the political capital and goodwill on the right to boot Trump. If he did that, it'd be the end of FedSoc, the conservative legal movement, the Supreme Court, even John Roberts himself. He can't go there.
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Jan 6
Does John Roberts want Republicans joining with Democrats to destroy the Supreme Court? If you think the answer to that question is "yes," then it's possible he'll boot Trump off the ballot. If you believe the answer is "no," then he won't.
This is just bone ignorant, ivory tower oxygen-starved brain idiocy. Why are so many law professors such absolute detached-from-reality morons? Image
"Sure, my kids or parents might get murdered, and Republicans will just pack the court with diehard party hacks, but it'll help the GOP in the election if Trump gets kicked off the ballot, so that's what I'll do."

Dafuq planet do these people live on?
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May 22, 2023
"Youngkin faces high-stakes state legislative races in November. So an announcement about a presidential race is likely to wait until right after that, Republican sources said."

THIS IS WHERE YOUNGKIN WAS A MONTH AGO. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAS CHANGED. THERE'S NOTHING NEW HERE.
You have to read all the way down to the ninth paragraph (or the Axios equivalent of a paragraph) to learn that Youngkin still wouldn't announce until after the November elections. Which we knew six weeks ago. And that's way too late unless the entire field implodes. Image
This the same donor-defecated manure Tara Palmeri was shoveling last month. And, again, this is why Americans hate journalists. The tweet insinuates Youngkin might be jumping in now. Click on the link, and it's literally the same info being regurgitated a twelfth time.
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May 22, 2023
"Why isn't Scott entering the race with the same stature as DeSantis despite his conservative record and political resume?"

Because his record and resume are thin in comparison and he gives off strong whiffs of the pre-2015 Republicanism the base hates. fivethirtyeight.com/features/tim-s…
"Scott has never netted more than 4 percent of the vote share. In multicandidate ballot tests not including Trump, Scott has never received more than 7 percent of the vote share. And in the past month, he’s been overtaken in polls by Ramaswamy."

I've already noted all of this.
That Ramaswampy has overtaken Haley and Scott has been evident for weeks.
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May 21, 2023
Every time I watch "Black Orchid," I think they only made that story because Peter Davison's costume as the Fifth Doctor was a cricketer's outfit.
"Black Orchid" was a rarity for "Doctor Who" - in 1982 and still today. The first pure historical since 1966/7's "The Highlanders" and the first two-parter since 1975's "The Sontaran Experiment"; and the last in the traditional 25-minute episode format.
"Black Orchid" on the surface bears a strong resemblance to the "The Unicorn and the Wasp": the Doctor and co. crash a fancy shindig on a lordly estate in early 20th-century England only to find themselves amidst murderous doings. Very murderous doings, by the body counts.
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