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Former small city journalist, recovering lawyer, & history buff. Fond of whisky and wristwatches.
@pbump This poll seems kind of meaningless, leading to an almost absurd case of bothsidesism. There is overwhelming evidence that Trump's election would pose a threat to democracy, and absolutely none that Biden's reelection poses such a threat. The poll might as well have asked if Republicans fear that Klingons pose a threat to American democracy. Indulging people's paranoid delusions and then printing them in a paper doesn't make them credible.
He doesn’t have the faintest idea of what a House speaker does or how to do it.
@pbump “is a liar” is a lot shorter and catchier than “says untrue things on TV.” If you added “pathological” it would still be shorter.
@EarlDGray There ought to be a rule that if you say stuff as stupid as Hewitt, Eastman and Giuliani have regularly said, your law school gets to repossess your law degree.
@RollingStone Elon Musk reminds me of MODOK
@pbump He was a political appointee pursuing a transparently political investigation demanded by a sitting president and ordered by a hyper-partisan attorney general who was himself hired because he wrote a thesis asserting that GOP presidents, particularly the aforementioned sitting one, could do no wrong. He gave us what everyone expected: A stern lecture unsupported by any facts.
@RollingStone Our national firearms fetish is by far our most deadly mental health issue.
@SarahOestreich @emptywheel @KlasfeldReports “Your honor, it’s inherently prejudicial to defendant that the Plaintiff has proved herself smarter than defense counsel.”
News from the #EJeanCarroll suit: Joe Tacopina has filed for a mistrial. It revolves around the Trump lawyer initially not recognizing, then not understanding a classic piece of satirical #literature. From @emptywheel with an appearance by @KlasfeldReports https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/05/01/joe-tacopina-complains-about-woke-jonathan-swift/
Joe Tacopina Complains about Woke Jonathan Swift - emptywheel

Given Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina's complaint that he's not in on the shared joke of Swift's A Modest Proposal, I hope some nice mother in Florida with a sense of humor will make the Modest Proposal that Swift be banned under Ron DeSantis' anti-woke censorship laws for being -- as a canonical work of English culture -- too woke.

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@mattblaze Is it an “infusion of cash” if it just replaces revenue lost when every Trump leaning election district in the country cancels their contracts with Dominion?