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STRATEGY 4:
Ideologically oppose pragmatic legislation; ridicule as hypocrites pragmatists who oppose ideological legislation.
STRATEGY 5:
Conduct yourselves in extreme bad faith and mendacity, and trust the partisan process to project the same motivations onto the other side's good faith and truthful opposition
This falls into the STRATEGY 2 category
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So I just read Chief Justice Fuller's dissent, joined by Justice Harlan, in Wong Kim Ark, the 1898 case that established the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship reading we adhere to today. And I learned something.
In 1873's Slaughterhouse Cases, a 5-4 Court rejected birthright citizenship and corporate personhood. I knew Justice Field, the lead dissenter, used his 9th Circuit duties to establish corporate personhood at the appeals level, thus seeding its SCOTUS recognition in the 1890s.
Turns out Field used his 9th Circuit duties to establish birthright citizenship in the same manner he had for corporate personhood, with his eventual victory over the Slaughterhouse majority coming three decades later. Per Fuller's Wong Kim Ark dissent:
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So imagine Kavanaugh (or, in the unlikely event his nom fail and another Trump nom gets confirmed) gets on the court and now there's a conservative firewall for a generation against any law or policy coming out of unified Democratic political branches...
Say that 5-4 conservative majority starts striking down all sorts of broadly-mandated liberal legislation. We've already heard lots about court packing, court shrinking, adjustable court membership, etc.
But I'm looking past FDR's First New Deal fight and 1937's Court Packing plan and going right to the source of where we are at this very moment:
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So this paragraph from @rickhasen’s latest isn’t news, but just triggered a thought I don’t think I’ve quite articulated but have consistently implied slate.com/news-and-polit…
It’s the big difference between the Burger Court’s conservatives vis a vis Nixon and the Roberts Court’s conservatives vis a vis Trump...
The same Chief Justice who had this very familiar view...
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Nogle gange finder man det store i det små. Et sådant fund er i den følgende Tweet-beretning fra et møde jeg havde tidligere på eftermiddagen. Selve essensen i det hændte er hverken indholdsmæssigt unik eller i sin forekomst sjælden. .... 👇🏽#tråd #læsvidere #dkpol
Men henset til tidens #dkpol ånd, hvor der konstant men fejlagtigt henvises til en kronisk mangel på kontakt mellem borgergrupperne, især mellem ‘De ældre & De fremmede’, var dagens lille oplevelse alligevel værd at bruge en Tweet #tråd på. #læsvidere
Jeg har via arbejde, privatliv & via mit social- & samfundsliv dagligt kontakt til helt “almindelige” hvide etniske danskere. Og det gælder folk i alle aldre. Også de ældre. Dem synes jeg, at jeg har et meget godt ‘tag’ i. Især mændene kan jeg ofte vinde med lidt #onkelhumor😂
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The only way APC, as it presently is, can ever win elections again in Nigeria is by stirring up deep ethnic divisions as they did in 2015 but Atiku being a Muslim and Fulani like their Buhari, nullifies that plan.

Peter Obi, the Igbo, is now the scapegoat Hell-Ruffy threatens.
What Hell-Ruffy tweeted is a direct threat to the safety of PDP campaigns involving Peter Obi up in the North - and Nigerians should let it be in their minds that any violence against the man in Kaduna or elsewhere, like GEJ was attacked in 2015, Hell-Ruffy is the instigator.
Peter Obi is not the flagbearer of PDP and there is simply no way to interpret that tweet in electoral context to make it fit.

What Hell-Ruffy is doing is stoking the anti-One-Nigeria embers of his base and 2019 is a battle between a United Nigeria and the divisive APC.
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I love Elizabeth Warren and thank the stars above we have her speaking truth to power. I'm not entirely convinced this DNA test reveal was the best move on the board. Is she right? Of course, no doubt. But having an ancestor "6-10 generations ago" is begging to be misinterpreted.
And I'm not saying that's fair. Of course it's unfair. It sucks. But think of the attack ads: "Elizabeth Warren supposedly claims to be Native American with less than 1% lineage". It's going to leave her open to further mocking. But hey, I hope I'm wrong.
I just don't understand this strategy in our Era of Bad Faith. Even 10 years ago, I can see pundits unfairly dismissing this. And now? Good god, it's going to get slammed by some. I'm just not convinced this was worth it.
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Lol, American Thinker out here doing the American part without the Thinker part.
Every single right wing media site clutching pearls saying I’m calling for a violent general strike is just republishing the Far Left Watch blog, which itself is a sad reaction to all the groups tracking the far right, which is needed because only the far right kills people.
Conservativism is literally just fake news and untreated anxiety. Nobody in good faith would mistake “if these things happen would you be so angry that you’d be ok with X” or not?” for “if these things happen we must do X.”

But the right never acts in good faith.
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One of my favorites, Peter Van Buren has been permanently banned from twitter. "This followed exchanges with several mainstream journalists over their support for America’s wars and unwillingness to challenge the lies of government.
After two days of silence, Twitter sent me an auto-response saying what I wrote “harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence someone else’s voice.”
#hypocrites #censorship #twitter

antiwar.com/blog/2018/08/0…
Archive is here. You decide.
web.archive.org/web/2018080402…
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A few words about the below tweet, which opens a window into the sadness and ugliness of the gun debate.
Lauren and David Hogg, as everyone now knows, have become vocal and visible advocates in the aftermath of the slaughter at their high school.
For that advocacy, these two traumatized victims of mass murder have been targeted for virulent online abuse, including allegations that David is a paid actor. Some of that abuse gained Twitter "likes" from the son of the president of the United States.
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