saukfish.bsky.social
Puget Sound island dweller. Tired lawyer. Increasingly entropic.
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Vladimir Putin would have too much financial integrity and concern for good government to have anything to do with this administration.
These people are fucking disgusting.
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There’s an understandable inclination to impute broader purposes and themes to Musk and his behavior - it’s natural to want to impose structure on ridiculousness - but I’m with you. This guy is ultimately just a mess, albeit a mess with, sadly, the power to externalize himself and drag us along.
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Well, you're certainly right that they deserve each other.
But does America really deserve better? We have a substantial population of imbeciles who voted for these sociopaths, knowing that they're sociopaths, and liking that that they're sociopaths. This is pretty much what America deserves.
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That man is such miserable hump.
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“A dog would just get hair on my nice sofa."
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I’m generally loathe to paint with too broad a brush, but those “turned off by the idea of taking an ethical stand” describes a category of people commonly and traditionally referred to as “cowards."
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They don’t understand tariffs. The Leader has told them every discomfort they might feel is either Biden’s or the brown peoples’ fault.
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Apart from the merits, the Court has made such a monumental hash of its emergency application jurisprudence that it is now impossible to see the decision to intervene or not as anything but purely political. It’s a total mess.
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Counterpoint: If you’re a corrupt, xenophobic, ignorant, racist, anti-democratic asshole, the trajectory is sound.
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We’re getting there. It’s not far off.
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More than we ever understood, our “constitutional order” was just a manifestation of our culture’s ability to recognize decency and promote it to positions of power.
Our culture is now terrifying indecent, and power is held by profoundly corrupt, indecent people. That’s where the breakdown lies.
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It’s already permanent.
These people have cultivated an entire segment of the American population that is now deeply anti-democratic, anti-rule law, anti-free market, deeply xenophobic, and happy to use violence.
The decent will be at war with these people for the rest of our lives.
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You’re missing the point. We are rapidly being forced out of a process-based system to one where substantive outcomes will be the only value. It will be decency versus indecency, and the decent had better grow comfortable with the use of tools they’ve never had to use before.
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Because the dumb and the vile — and so much of America is truly dumb and vile — are drawn to and find comfort in dumb, vile leadership.
Not sure how to fix it, but at the heart of it all lies . . . ignorance.
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This person is dumber than a bag of rusty fucking hammers.
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Get ready for some of the very worst people in the world to say horrible things about a good man who’s suffered another hard blow, because that’s what horrible people do.
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I mean, why are all these judges even lawyers? It just causes them to think too damn much.
I’m with Mike — what this country needs is more judges who can barely read.
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Look, I’m with Sam. These bus rides from the detention center to the plane can take as long as 15 minutes. There is no absolutely nothing stopping one of these guys from borrowing the driver’s phone during the ride to call a lawyer and have a habeas filed.
How much process can they possibly need?
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Tragically, I actually have MAGA relatives who would watch this and think to themselves: “Man, is that guy good. And funny! See what he did with the n-word there?"
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Honestly, hadn’t heard of 8647 before this kerfuffle.
Ordering one of these shirts now. Let the Streisand Effect work its magic.
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If they somehow are able to get jurisdiction in the Southern District of Florida, with an assignment to the Fort Pierce Division, they might have a shot.
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Alito and Thomas continue to reveal themselves as willing to endorse, via a laughable consumption of the Trump administration’s lies, any act by the Executive that produces an outcome they find attractive — here, the kidnapping and disappearing of poor brown people (oh, sorry — alien enemies).
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For me and all other right-thinking white Catholics, the law, with all of its procedural majesty.
For the little browns and their countless babies? The planes.
Samuel Alito.
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I’m sure it’s a gorgeous read, but this sort of thing is bittersweet to me (and, I suspect many people my age who remember men and women like Brezezinski very clearly) — we have stopped functioning as a country that produces, or, more tragically, attracts, people like Brzezinski.
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I mean, the Trail of Tears was such a massive success here, why not export it to the Middle East?
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A qualifiedly appropriate conclusion.
The qualifier — any Court of which Kavanaugh, Roberts (he of the immunity decision) and Gorsuch are members, and which allows Alito and Thomas to roam the halls in search of someone to persuade, is always a threat to do a very wrong thing.
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Poor Sam Alito. Just a voice in the wilderness, bemoaning all this due process for the nasty brown people.
I particularly appreciated the way he expressed his “hope” that the Court hasn’t come to a conclusion on the AEA’s merits - as if he fucking hasn’t already decided them in Trump’s favor.
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He’s loathsome.
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Fucking Alito. So predictably opposed to any form of process that might actually result in the dispensation of justice to someone who doesn’t think, look, and worship precisely like Samuel Alito.
For his right-thinking friends, all the process the law can envision; for others, the back of the hand.
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For the even moderately evolved, the principles underlying these two sets of rights are by no means inherently opposed to each other.
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You’re certainly correct. It would have been nice for him to have been forced to run from a prison cell, but the rot ultimately resides in our broken culture, not in the judiciary.
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I agree generally, but there is probably more going on than may be obvious abroad.
Even so, I do think that we’re suffering, as a political culture, from a bit of “it can’t happen here”’ism, which is not a thing to which Europe is now or ever has been susceptible because it has happened there.
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Yeah, and the causal lines that led to Trump NOT being gone in 2024 are too complex to easily unravel. Biden’s ego was certain a part, but I cannot forget Aileen Cannon’s grotesque performance, or the SCt’s execrable output in Anderson and in the immunity decision. Massive historical turning points.
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Fellow lawyers, just don’t do this.
Start early, grind stuff out. Read it all three times. Check for typos. Check for everything. Hate it/love it when you’re finished. It’s how it’s always been done, and is the only way it can really ever be done.
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I guarantee you that a very large percentage of Americans — and nearly all Americans who, you know, read things — also see him as massive, deeply-embarrassing, very unfunny joke.
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Yeah, sadly (even tragically), they are at the top of the list, and that’s why the title of Tapper/Thompson’s book is so on the nose. It was an act of pride/hubris/willfulness — all aspects of our original sin — that caused them to think he was somehow exempt from the decay that comes for all us.
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I was speaking the other day to a MAGA relative who still, contrary to all evidence, believes that Trump somehow has forced the world to “respect” us. It’s astonishing.
The world looks at us in sad disbelief, unable to understand why we would commit national seppuku by handing power to this bozo.
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Chip Roy may gurgle and belch now and then, but he’s MAGA fascist to his genes. He’ll never quit Trump.
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It’s all just so incredibly gross.
Putin and his goons wouldn’t have the nerve to be this open about their grift.
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Tragically, this exemplifies the type of analytical precision for which MAGA is renowned.
Trumpism in a nutshell — it can’t be a crime if nobody sees it, or, if they do see it, if they don’t have the balls to do anything about it.