“See, I only get the BEST ratings!”
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Insert popcorn gif here
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everything is legal if a judge doesn’t order them to stop doing it
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And even then, as Trump’s hero Andrew Jackson apocryphally said, “ John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but this seems to be a fundamental flaw in the common law system, as opposed to the written law.
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good luck arguing about your rights while you’re in the back of the van with a bag over your head
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I rather meant that, in written law, it is (or rather: can be) defined what is illegal. That’s why I asked above if this would be legal.
Case / common law seems less clear, for someone who grew up in areas with a different legal philosophy.
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“Donald Trump knows that so long as he never corrects himself or acknowledges error, journalists will quote what he says,” Johnston told me recently. “That’s why George Lakoff, the cognitive research professor at UC Berkeley argues journalists who cover Trump should use what he calls a truth sandwich. Instead of quoting Trump and then taking it apart, you should say: ‘We’re about to tell you something Donald Trump said that is’ —depending on the appropriate word—’dubious’ or ‘a flat out lie’, etc. Then you quote him and after that, you take it apart. That way, people are psychologically set up to understand that what you’re hearing is not revealed truth.”
We’re going to need a lot of sandwiches.
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What a baby:
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i like that the headline as written doesn’t question whether trump deployed secret police, only his motivation.
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Still reeling from what the kpop stans did to him in Tulsa I see
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President Donald Trump’s administration is attempting to exclude billions of dollars meant for coronavirus testing and contact tracing from an upcoming Senate bill crafted by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other Republicans,
Now that the Red States are ramping up, Mitch needs COVID-19 in decline or at least appearing to being handled before November to avoid a wash in the Senate. Will he have the guts to propose an honest bill that the House can agree with, and get enough Democratic support in the Senate for an override?
Can he pull the trigger on Old Orangerer?
Nah! But it’ll be interesting to watch, from a safe-ish distance.
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I know this is catastrophic for America, but it’s getting harder and harder to see how it’s even supposed to benefit Trump. Of all the criticisms aimed at Trump I haven’t heard anyone from either side say “Trump really ought to be working harder to stop people from getting tested.”
Causing hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths for some small gain? Yeah, that’s totally on brand for Trump. But does he really believe that voters are going to go along with the “fewer tests means better numbers means vote Trump” logic?
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some theories offered by friends when we all discussed this:
- the plan is to stop the election at all costs, the worse things get the easier it becomes to stop the election. no need for voters
- a belief that more testing will stop the virus, and that the virus will primarily hurt his opponents ( ex. because of religion, or race, etc. )
- he’s slowly boxed himself into a corner and can’t change directions without looking weak to himself and his supporters
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