orobharris.bsky.social
Oregon Public Defense Commissioner|small businessman | Lawyer (r) | City Council President | Dad to daughters
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I take your point. Hopefully she wasn't being catagorical
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To be fair she does say “so many democrats” not “all wealthier democrats”. Maybe there’s room for honest discussion there.
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Miller is apparently smart enough to know that there aren’t enough violent illegal immigrants to deport. He’s not smart enough to know that deporting productive immigrants isn’t what was sold to Trump voters
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Every story like this confirms Trump lied about there being millions of violent illegal criminals roaming our streets and taking over whole apartment buildings
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Was listening to someone of a podcast today- can’t recall the name- who said he was convinced people are the same as always. It’s just circumstances that change
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Good pivot by Warnock for sure, but some of us would like to know if the Dem insiders and power brokers have learned anything and made any adjustments to their nominating process. The process and structure that allows too many past expiration date electeds to hang onto their seats
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Lutnick: I’d hate to have to tell the boss you don’t have your protection money
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They’re afraid of the people is French revolution type mindset
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Maybe the better term is a regulated free market.
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The fact that ICE is doing means
1. there aren’t millions of violent immigrants ransacking our country or
2. ICE is so incompetent they can’t find millions of violent immigrants or
3. It’s safer to arrest peaceful immigrant service people or
4. Violent immigrants are taking jobs bussing tables
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Private ownership and the free market generates wealth, advances human knowledge, and discovers life improving innovations. Reasonable market regulations and assessments on profits can assure a strong safety net and build public capital assets. Improving all lives and protecting the free market
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Either the Federalist Society is liberal or the Trump administration is brazenly unlawful.
Seems like an easy call
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Not everything in life is binary
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“Western culture” grew from the enlightenment which was based on building a culture by using the process of scientific testing and truth finding. Dictating values or proclaiming infallible knowledge of “natural laws” is the opposite of enlightenment and so the opposite of preserving western culture.
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Looks like the administration is actually barring its nominees from sitting for interviews or answering ABA questionairres.
That’s more than just treating them like any other legal organization.
Also- she seems to be ignoring cause and effect in the ABAs recommendation history
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Thank you for your attention to this matter
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I don’t know much about pardons. Does a pardon also eliminate any criminal restitution or civil judgements? If so- I wonder how much all these pardons are costing victims?
And even if it only eliminates criminal and not civil judgements- a criminal restitution order is much easier to enforce
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What you said here is not what most people heard. It may be because what you hear depends on where you stand. Politically, geographically, socially and economically.
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Kennedy testimony to Congress a few days ago:
““What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant … I don’t want to seem like I’m being evasive, but I don’t think people should be taking advice, medical advice, from me.”
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When people said don’t expect the courts to save us I didn’t think it was the courts that would put the nails in the coffin of our democracy
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He’s sure thanking us a lot for our attention
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It’s depressingly clear that
A majority of Americans think “the system is rigged” and favoritism political corruption and business ripoffs are givens and not a differentiation between the parties.
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You can't stop with surveying opinion. You must address the causes that formed the opinion.
People don't care about Trumps graft? Maybe they've lost faith in the honesty of government. So stop Defending gov't all the time. Change D leadership, reform party rules and promise to tackle corruption
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Libertarians are having a real bad Trump term so far
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Trump thought process:
This is my type of crowd.
Why don’t they adore me.
This script must suck.
I’ll ad lib & insert one of my can’t miss MAGA rally stories.
Why are they still just sitting there and not howling with laughter?
He’s the boss who tells the bluest joke at the worst time
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Large anti establishment feelings in the US are attributable in large part to our two party system and election architecture (first past the post voting, plurality winners, single member districts)
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These graduates have just spent 4 years listening to and being inspired by some of the most patriotic and moral leaders in our country. Most by now know the difference between good and bad. Sane and inane. Moral and immoral. One hopes his public displays of character help
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The core meta of the GOP has always been about reversing redistribution. Everything else, culture, defense, immigration, are in service to this.
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And a lot more expensive
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It’s a clear free rider problem
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When a parent at a supermarket in a safe red district includes a kids birthday cake in their cart and uses SNAP for part of their payment it angers the loyal Republican primary voter behind them in line.
That’s the actual f****** reason
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I wonder how much graft corruption and theft Trump admin officials will engage in in 2028 as Trumpism collapses and these immoral worms who don’t have a Fox or Heritage contract realize they’ve destroyed every career opportunity most post administration officials enjoy.
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Or, The Dems could by party rule refuse to endorse or support any candidate who sought the Dem
Nomination that was of a certain age. It wouldn’t take legislation- which elected would not be likely to pass anyway
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Maybe a Dem plank should be a mandatory retirement age. the Nancy Pelosi's would still be very useful even out of office, but the elderly and infirm would no longer have incumbency, the power of the purse and party loyalty to assure themselves a seat long after they no longer deserve it
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The decision isn’t about the debt or the deficit, let’s all agree it needs to be reduced. So it’s then about benefit cuts or tax cuts and should be framed as such.
Like- in order to reduce the deficit we can either health care away from poor Americans or give billionaires yet another tax cut
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A very stable genius thing to do
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Yes but Judges are not going to like this. Smacks of bad faith by DOJ
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This point can’t be stressed enough. The strategy of the administration is to always repeat as an introduction to their argument that the deportees ARE all gang members. So demanding constitutional rights seems more reasonable
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It’s less expensive, smarter, more accessible to the audience they want to reach and faster to have the best Dem presenters incessantly going on the existing outlets (and not be hammered for it by allies)
Creating a “new Rogan” will however mean more $ for those who see themselves as the “new Rogan”
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He said “affirmative no” to your initial question.
Let’s not presume he misspoke and meant “emphatic no”.
Perhaps he’s thinking way above our level here
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Stupidity power and malice is a dangerous recipe
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We may be underestimating Ms Hanna. She was one of the only lawyers to ever get Mr Trump convicted of crimes.
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Non white GOP voters have nearly doubled - from 10% to 18%. While white GOP voters without a college degree have gone down as a % of the total. In a nearly evenly divided country that seems important