@ashlee_leeee @kkondik yeah they were so hysterical to think trump's nominees would lead to them losing an important right
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a special twitter account with that optimism right out in front. with that fine, fine optimism totally predominant
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@kkondik “His first-term appointments were all judges any R president could/would've nominated.”
Appreciate the acknowledgement that Dems lost their gd minds over totally normal appointees. Remember the sit ins? The Handsmaids Tales costumes? The 50,000 FBI tips called in on Kavanaugh?
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in re: hypothetical SCOTUS vacancy, another wild card is whether Trump makes an absolutely off-the-wall nomination. His first-term appointments were all judges any R president could/would've nominated. As we have seen in many other ways, this term is... different
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@handsomocity @CoreyWriting she's not using it in the colloquial sense, she's temporarily humoring the government's attempt to use it as some kind of term of art in their attempt to squirm out of the way of the 14th's plain text. if it sounds stupid that's because the argument they're making is very stupid
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@CoreyWriting Testing might show something in the short term, like a great LSAT score might predict success in law school to a certain extent, but it won't hold over the long run of a legal career. There no allegiance to Japan if you're there to steal wallets. That's a huge wtf moment.
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A.) I doubt KBJ really cares what internet IQ obsessives think of her.
B.) This is "Obama should release his birth certificate" all over again. Even if she got a 178 on the LSAT, people would claim its fake and still call her dumb.
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman
Ketanji Jackson has taken multiple IQ tests in her life (SAT, LSAT, etc). It would be easy for Ketanji to disprove her hates by releasing her scores.
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@tarkinness @AFpost she knows what 'jurisdiction' means and you don't
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I don’t feel any obligation to even entertain that possibility, considering the fact that she accomplished all that she accomplished while the United States of America was handing out DEI jobs like M&Ms; handing out scholarships to ethnic minorities like M&Ms, etc.
Biden merely threw the most radically leftist judge he could find into the Supreme Court to counterbalance what was a large conservative majority.
If you think she’s there because she deserves it, then you are an idiot.
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@_carlbeijer @MattBruenig Why do they “have” to do that? Because you, Matt, and 10 other people who dont watch the sport either way are whining about it. The players know the fights are possible ahead of time, why do they need your permission to make millions of dollars?
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@tarkinness @AFpost she's definitely much smarter than you
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@AFpost That fact that is it even possible for someone so stupid to be a Supreme Court Justice implies how flawed our system is.
Dangerous and naive.
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@ibrahim14706 @mattyglesias the plan was "don't do it"
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I have a question: How is that the US military (the strongest and the best in the world) did not have 'good' plans and contingency plans for the execution of this war of choice/aggression? How is it that our military did not account for the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and never came up with plans to reopen it?
Do you know the answer?
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Now that Trump has given up on regime change as a goal and also given up on negotiating a reopening of Hormuz why not just stop bombing?
His big political asset is that nobody in conservative media or advocacy will hit him from the right for TACOing.
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@gearboxphilly @jkimballcook and the english civil war also crucial context, the desire to avoid sectratarian miliitias
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@gearboxphilly @jkimballcook imo you're not even a little wrong. you ever read 2nd amend equivelent in the george mason VA state constutution?
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I'm probably one of a very small number who thinks Heller was right that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, not a collective right, but wrong to hold that "a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" has no substantive meaning
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@mr_ooptimistic @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital Glad to see a leftist agree that the SCOTUS can get it wrong. Don’t worry… next time they rule against you though, you will claim we need to pack the courts and that these are all “Trump’s judges” like the pathetic sack of useless shit you are 🤷♂️
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It might come down to Amy Coney Barrett…
She’s going to decide the future of America’s sovereignty in the modern world.
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@KingBob_______ @Is_Not_Brian the first spanish colony on the american mainland encountered sophisticated agricultural chiefdoms with a population possibly as high as 2 million, and, after ten years, wiped them out so completely that their wikipedia page has 55 words in it
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@mr_ooptimistic @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital Ok. I didn’t read this when I realized you didn’t actually have a point
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@AdamT_Brown @jkimballcook all you have to do is compare and contrast it to the 1776 VA Constitution it was ineptly copy-pasted from. here the structure and operative clauses are straightforward compared to the jumble of the 2nd. there's a reason it took 224 years to decide it!
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@jkimballcook @mr_ooptimistic Agreed — not incoherent. The question is simply whether the first half is meant to carry any legal weight, or whether it’s irrelevant dicta.
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it's a little different, because the conservative approach to the second amendment was to substantively read that phrase out of the amendment altogether, while the traditional view of the 14th amendment is that "subject to the jurisdiction" actually does have substantive meaning
Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D.@neoavatara
The constitutional phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is the right wing's equivalent of the Left's use of "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." to try to twist the original meaning of the Constitution.
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@AdamT_Brown @jkimballcook the difference is the 2nd amendment doesn't have a plain meaning, its grammatically incoherent. very easy to make the case for erring on the side of caution because its in the bill of rights but if that's your principle the 14th of course becomes even easier
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@jkimballcook Think you generally supported the original point — of picking and choosing when the plain meaning of the words actually matters.
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@ncslumdawg @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital your level of legal reasoning isn't just bad, not even just pathetic or embarrassing, but debased, degenerate. you're the legal equivalent of a pervert flashing his unusually small dick at some women, who in turn are not frightened or outraged but merely amused
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@mr_ooptimistic @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital If you’d like, please feel free to look up John Bingham, the main author of the 14th amendment. He specifically discusses how section one was outlined to supersede southern “black codes”. It is painfully obvious nobody meant anchor babies lol
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@ncslumdawg @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital your case hinges on one dodgy comma in a congressional record, mine hinges on what the definition of jurisdiction has literally always been until you clowns tried to dream up a new definition
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@mr_ooptimistic @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital Funny enough yes! He references exactly what he meant by “persons” and “subject to its jurisdiction” means since all of the constitutional docs have well documented texts written by the people who wrote them clarifying meanings. But you knew that since you’re “so smart” 😀
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@ncslumdawg @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital oh are there papers? are they the papers the actual law is written on?
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@libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital There’s literally papers by the man who wrote this amendments stating that birthright citizenship is clearly not the intention but okay I guess. If you mean 9-0 in favor
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@RishiRamaraju @ettingermentum the maga base will follow trump's endorsement if he's alive and incumbency if he isn't
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@ettingermentum This is like the inverse of the Kamala argument I keep making. If Vance runs, he is almost certainly going to win the nomination. People need to stop kidding themselves by talking about Rubio, the MAGA base doesn’t want him.
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Back when we were a real country people with these numbers just wouldn’t be allowed to run. It would have been a complete nonstarter. They would’ve tried recruiting one of the people on Shark Tank instead.
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@LinusFairing @MargBarAmerica "it was a great plan sir but it relied on the element of surprise and somehow it got leaked to the washington post so now its not gonna work very sad"
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@MargBarAmerica someone must have finally explained to him that there’a no reality in which a special forces ground incursion results in anything but massive American casualties. and an actual ground invasion would require a draft & 8 months of logistical prep time.
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trump said nothing tonight but i think he did admit he’d give up on the strait and let iran toll it. the rest of the world is not fighting for it. makes me think the ground invasion may not happen on a meaningful scale either. he just sounds kinda bored and annoyed about markets.
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The best case scenario for a European is to be too incompetent & lazy to do real imperialism. Like Spain & Italy. I bet they're all much happier than the average German or Dutch.
Vane!@VaneDeCol
La carrera de los santos es lo mejor de la Semana Santa y no lo voy a discutir con absolutamente nadie.
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@KingBob_______ @Is_Not_Brian also contextualizes it as almost a direct continuation of the reconquesta--similar tactics, carried out by a novel class of petty nobles created by/for the campaigns against the muslims
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@KingBob_______ @Is_Not_Brian reading a biography of hernando de soto and time and again spanish colonial politics of the time ends up in two poles, one based on setting up relatively stable quasi feudal slave societies and the other more interested in immediately working or torturing people to death
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