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@AltDicta

Just law and politics and trying to be reasonable. Usually pestering (relatively) smart people making bad arguments.

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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter @Jerwi57 You can reasonably accuse Bernie of lots of things—of being unrealistic, of being a hypocrite, of whatever—but you can’t reasonably accuse him of supporting billionaire-friendly policies or attracting supporters who favor billionaire friendly policies.
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
I don't get all the crowing about 200,000 people at the No Kings rally in St. Paul. Bruce Springsteen played a free concert. Only 200,000 people showed up. That actually kind of surprises me.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter It’s also hilarious to try to spin No Kings into a billionaire-supportive thing when *Bernie Sanders* was a headline speaker.
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@annbauerwriter It’s lazy to attribute one side’s activism nothing but manipulation by billionaires and wanting to see Springsteen play a song or two.
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@annbauerwriter Funding is also such a red herring for No Kings. You need a stage, some audio equipment, a permit, and security. It does not require billionaire benefactors to produce. It’s a political rally, not the Super Bowl halftime show or a presidential campaign.
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
@AltDicta If it's true that oligarchs are funding No Kings (and if you count Springsteen himself, who is worth $1.2 billion, it certainly is), you have hordes of taxpayers struggling to make ends meet marching in support of policies that benefit billionaires. That doesn't sound serious.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter You can ridicule this type of thing, but it’s a big mistake to say it’s not about serious political analysis and beliefs to people.
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Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
Put aside Bruce fans, of which there are many (confoundingly, at least to me). It was an EVENT - Bernie Sanders, Jane Fonda. It was a celebrity thing and people love that. They go to take photos they can post. Has nothing to do with serious political analysis and beliefs.
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Solo 🥀@Trillest115·
@CaseyMattox_ Am I crazy or is Eric straight up wrong about the question presented? Does it not say mandatory LWOP for felony-murder?
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Casey Mattox@CaseyMattox_·
Merits of the decision aside, I do like it generally when state courts take their own state constitutions seriously and don't just treat them as copies of the federal constitution. Make your own mistakes so the rest of us can see how that works out.
Eric W.@EWess92

Does the Constitution prohibit life without parole? Yes--but not the constitution you are thinking of, says the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Pennsylvania's highest court agrees that LWOP is not Eighth Amendment "cruel or unusual" but violates PA's own constitutional analogue.

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Dan McLaughlin@baseballcrank·
That moment when a lawyer arguing before the Court can feel the trap door opening beneath his feet:
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@EWess92 @nytimes (1) Comey, Letitia James, the so-called seditious six, Jerome Powell, Chris Krebs, Adam Schiff, Lisa Cook, Jacob Frey, Tim Walz, and that’s off the top of my head; and (2) the defamation cases were frivolous and you know settlements do not mean they had merit.
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Eric W.@EWess92·
The @nytimes has published another calumny against President Trump. Yet the Supreme Court ends up catching strays. The Supreme Court has been "remade" by President Trump and now abandoned responsibility? No. The Court is the only bulwark against questionable lower court decisions
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens @showmeopie 1968 style chaos wasn’t inevitable, but it was a clear risk among other risks that a Kamala candidacy didn’t entail.
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Alice@AliceFromQueens·
@AltDicta @showmeopie knife fights are good. the idea that this would lead to 1968 convention chaos was just moronic
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Opie 🚂@showmeopie·
People say stuff like this but never offer up the alternative - who would have been stronger than the sitting VP? Either when Biden stepped down or if he had done so earlier? It’s not clear to me how she was weaker in comparison to Trump, an old moron she vaporized in a debate.
Alice@AliceFromQueens

@showmeopie If defeating Trump was a matter of life or death, we shouldn't have run a weak candidate, regardless of her race and sex. To do otherwise was profoundly neurotic, as I said at the time, and now you can thank your neurosis for four more years of Trump

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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens @showmeopie But getting everybody to *agree* on one is a whole different issue. Democrats would have got behind whoever got the nom ultimately, but until that point, it would have been a knife fight with no clear process to select that nominee.
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Alice@AliceFromQueens·
@showmeopie Any of the big Democrats in the mix who could handle themselves on camera and wasn't affiliated with the Biden admin would've done better. This is so obvious I can't believe anyone still argues otherwise
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@AliceFromQueens You may not have thought avoiding the friction points was worth nominating Kamala, but there was a rational, mostly non-racial case for doing so. And Biden’s preference was a huge factor. It took long enough to push him out—we didn’t have much time for more negotiation.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens I disagree that three on my list were “direct functions” of a racial neurosis. Race may have played into or enhanced some of them, but all of them would have been friction points no matter the VP.
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A.W.
A.W.@Alexand16730477·
@pjaicomo @catturd2 @RhondaHolland "Expand the United States". No actually, nobody is expanding the United States, what people with brains are pointing out is that allowing stalwart American allies to get fed to wolves isn't in US interests as a global power.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@cabsav456 @JohnPerry194624 I will add to Lauren’s comment that the Russian interference for Trump + other circumstantial evidence strongly justified an *investigation* into collusion. Collusion may not have been proven (either because it didn’t happen or because of obstruction), but it wasn’t a hoax.
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Lauren
Lauren@cabsav456·
@JohnPerry194624 You seem to not understand Russian interference vs. Russia collusion. Russia collusion was a hoax. Russian interference in the election that had a net benefit towards Trump is 100% proven fact. There's a 1,000 page Senate Intelligence Committee report about it (led by Rubio)
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Lauren@cabsav456·
I swear some right-wing accounts repeatedly try to distort reality. Robert Mueller was not appointed by Democrats. He was appointed by Trump's own Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein, who was confirmed by a Republican-led Senate. Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel just days after the FBI Director was fired by Trump while he was in the middle of a counterintelligence investigation — an investigation that the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee had already confirmed was based on real Russian interference. Everyone knows the mainstream media and the Democrats ran with the story for years to try & sink the administration, but that doesn't change the facts of how it actually started. And no, nothing justifies Trump's disgusting celebration of Robert Mueller's death. Nothing.
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke

It’s totally understandable why President Trump would feel this way after what was done to him, but I’d argue it’s even worse than that. The real crime was what Democrats and the media did in using a half-dead Robert Mueller as their figurehead, propping him up as a respected front for their evil enterprise, essentially like a mafia running in the shadow of a senile old man. And it wasn’t just Trump, but dozens of innocent people they set out to destroy, and in many cases did destroy. The real criminals remain active, and not one has been made to answer for their deeds.

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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@ilan_wurman “Some people might be doing things for unknown bad reasons, so maybe it’s better we stop expecting people to do things for good reasons and just let them openly do things for bad reasons.”
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Ilan Wurman
Ilan Wurman@ilan_wurman·
Did JP Cooney’s interest in running for Congress emerge only after he was fired, or was it a longstanding aspiration of his that he kept in the back (or forefront) of his mind as he engaged in prosecutions of his party’s political enemies? The public integrity section is important and politicians of both parties presumably commit crimes and should be held accountable in appropriate circumstances. And most prosecutors never run for office as far as I know. But can we really pretend that all political prosecutions are conducted by neutral and apolitical career folk? It may actually be better that we know that what Trump’s DOJ is doing is because he won an election and wants the thing in question done. Maybe it’s better than pretending that career prosecutors are apolitical?
J.P. Cooney@cooneycongress

I prosecuted the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, and then Donald Trump himself. One week after he took office again, he fired me. Now I’m running for Congress to defend our democracy and restore the rule of law.

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