Trump has stopped beating around the bush and is now explicitly asking state legislatures to disregard election results and install him as President.
You know - all you Dem voters are pretty.
Nevertheless, we get this hopelessly naĂŻve version of centrism, of the idea that if weâre nicer to the other side there will be no other side, just one big happy family. This inanity is also applied to the questions of belief and fact and principle, with some muddled cocktail of moral relativism and therapistsâ âeveryoneâs feelings are validâ applied to everything. But the truth is not some compromise halfway between the truth and the lie, the fact and the delusion, the scientists and the propagandists. And the ethical is not halfway between white supremacists and human rights activists, rapists and feminists, synagogue massacrists and Jews, xenophobes and immigrants, delusional transphobes and trans people. Who the hell wants unity with Nazis until and unless they stop being Nazis?
So we all can thank:
- Black people (especially Black women)
- Suburban white women
- Brown people of the Southwest
- Native Americans
- LGBTQ people
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White cis-het men(not you)
At what point does the USA punish people who traffic demonstrably false statements that harm the integrity of the nation? The next Republican leader can just state falsehoods with impunity? Thatâs how we roll now, in a fantasy world of lies?
McConnell has been doing quite a job alright.
Who he is truly working for is something Iâd like to know.
Having survived this 2020 election cycle:
Let us not forgetâas he seems to haveâjust what McConnell has survived and how he survived it:
And thereâs all those rumors about why and how he got discharged from the military in the middle of Vietnam after serving just a few weeks.
With prejudice.
But will his staff say he was just kidding??
When does the appeal carousel start or are all these cases unappealable? He probably thinks this just means he can go up to a higher court that he thinks he âownsâ.
I thought that was the strategy all along â lose cases quickly, then appeal appeal appeal, all the way up to the packed SCOTUS.
Theyâre not losing them. These cases are being dismissed as moot. Not appeal-able, as far as I understand it. IANAL, but thatâs how I see this playing out.
No only some aspects.Others are being outright dismissed as having no legal basis at all.
For example in the order embedded above, point 1 grants the Defendantsâ application to dismiss the claim. Everything after that is dismissed as moot because they all depend on there still being an active claim.
Once the amended complaint goes so does the original complaint so that application is dead.
Once the claim is dead, you donât have anything to amend so that application goes.
No substantive claim, no injunction.
No claim, no discovery.
But you can appeal the dismissal of the claim.
Oh gosh it sure would be a real kick in the pants if the Republicans lost their last chance of controlling the Senate because yet another GOP legislator fell prey to the predictable consequences of her reckless actions regarding COVID-19.
Hurry, Kelly, go campaign closely with Purdue!
I want that on a t-shirt!
