i am reading an analysis of john yoo’s work justifying unilateral presidential authority over foreign affairs when he was in the bush OLC, and i am once again struck by shoddy dishonesty of his output! he moves as close as you can to just making stuff up without fully crossing the line.
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Putin was watching from his Evil Lair.
I wouldn't want to be Trump right now..don't drink the tea and stay away from open windows.
*I’m insufferable.
"If you're a star (and provide justification for gross economic inequality), they let you do it."
Bush has been redeemed, after a fashion, by the horribleness of +rump. Yoo has not been redeemed.
But Yoo does hold a special - oh yes, (highly) honored - place in that foundational heart of the FedSoc, its essence, its raison d'etre.
hacks in robes.
But I read a book that Bush I was loved and a lot of the people that hang on to Trump came from his administration and could never forgive Bill Clinton for the elder Bush's loss.
But that seems most of the legal system here
And Clinton & Obama's reckless neoliberalism floated in between.
Take Thomas Sowell. "Sowell’s arguments are, in the main, sophomoric in construction & ideologically resistant to intervention from the real world."
https://dawsonvosburg.medium.com/whats-wrong-with-thomas-sowell-464baab5978e
WE The PEOPLE Must ARISE!
WE The PEOPLE Are NOT OBLIGATED to Abide/Respect Willful Ignorance Especially when they proven to be CORRUPT & Traitorous!
Patriotic mentality is in order! PutinsBiaatch45 is A Treasonous Traitor who deserves nothing less than the Death Penalty under US Law!!!
And we made him a law professor rather than drumming him out of the field.
Can't we just say it?
He’s down there in the gutter with whomever authored the “Let’s send all Japanese Americans to internment camps.” memo.
The banality of evil in actual lawfare.
another flimsy opinion by John Yoo, not supported by the Constitution.
Maybe presidents should not break laws while in office.
Why is Yoo's BS opinion letter given the weight of law and policy?
Because that also tracks with the subjects you cover.
(* also something you'd plausibly be reading)
Gore v. Bush was the crucible and we have never recovered.
Hubris continues to rule.
https://youtu.be/6CH5Z-0V8fE?si=YSmr18ObVRp4O8qg
The man was an actual criminal, having facilitated and manded a policy of torture in violation of the Convention against Torture (which the US has ratified).
Fascism isn't new, nor is American support for it.
So the Bush administration could justify their so-called “enhanced interrogation”
What exactly did you expect from him
There is no other escape from Life.
And the point about Mr Yoo is - to put it bluntly, the best con ever.
He is very adept at bullshit where it hurts the most - in courts.
So we noped right on out of that newspaper way back then.
Similar vibes.
But it seems the SCOTUS agrees with Yoo.
…Old Dick C. started it with George W.
“If the President does it, it can’t be illegal?!”
Passing the Patriot Act 📝
was the day the US 🇺🇸 decided to tear up the 4th Amendment in the name of National Security
It was supposed to sunset during the Obama administration
Obama reapproved it
The Patriot Act in 2002 made it legal to violate the Geneva Convention on foreign soil and violate the 4th Amendment and spy on American Citizens
They were spying on us before but, it was illegal
my college days was him being shouted down during a presentation at the Claremont Colleges. It felt nice.
The unitary executive would be essentially a monarch. Didn't we fight a revolution to get out from under that?
We are in a fact-free age.
Terrible.
Perish the thought.
Kudos to you for being so generous to someone who could be, and should have been, prosecuted as a war criminal.
To wit:
•the whole concept of “enemy combatant”
•independent state legislature theory (the text doesn’t involve state courts)
•Texas SB8 (a bounty isn’t state action)
(Also, Hitler's hubris was half of their undoing)
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/john-yoo-crushes-the-testicles-of-logic/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Disgraceful.
☎️🆘WAKE T FAK UP AMERICA THIS IS A TAKE OVER, IN REAL TIME, BY A FOREIGN MOB GOVERNMENT!
‼️RISE UP AMERICA‼️
OUR COUNTRY, OUR DEMOCRACY ARE WORTH FIGHTING 4
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1. Abraham Lincoln broke the law
2. Abraham Lincoln was a great president
3. [My president - W at the time] broke the law
4. Therefore, my president is a great president
We need checks and balances and an independent civil service. Gov't services should not be politicized!