Epic douchebag, but yeah - the Drumpfsterfire would be worse than what went on during his watch, which is kinda mind-blowing.
Wow, thatâs daming when a douche bag like that puts you on the âunacceptableâ list.
Next Trump talking point: Some people say Iâm equal to Thomas Jefferson!
Were they also âtwitter-aholicsâ too?
I never thought Iâd say this, butâŚ
Thank you for your opinion, guy who should be twitching on the end of a rope!
The enemy of my enemy is, well, still the enemy of everything good and decent, but potentially useful.
âThe enemy of my enemy is useful.â
I have a feeling this phrase will be exhausted (yet still true) well before November.
Shouldnât every mention of him be preceded by the phrase âwar criminalâ?
For example: War criminal John Yoo thinks Donald Trump is bad.
â#flamingturdâ has me giggling uncontrollably. Please go deposit this gem in the <a href=âhttps://bbs.boingboing.net/t/a-thread-for-png-jpg-and-that-kind-of-riffraff/67513"target=â_blank">jpgâŚriffraff bank.
What about Andrew âthe court made a ruling against my genocidal campaign, let them enforce itâ Jackson?
It sounds like more of a stylistic disagreement over evil, rather than a matter of even-evil-has-standards.
Yoo is practically a poster boy for lawful evil: His actual position ended up boiling down to âthe president can do whatever he wants if he deems it to be in the interests of the American empire as he defines themâ, which is functionally equivalent to abandoning rule of law entirely and just going full despot; but he retains a strong love of legal form and ritual: thatâs why we got things like the torture memos: the customs of legality had to be observed with precision, regardless of the results, so while the law wasnât allowed to actually place any serious constraints on what was going on, it was necessary for everyone to go through the motions of respecting the law, obtaining legal advice(made to order; but very official looking), and so on.
Trump is more of a neutral evil type: he is equally interested in doing what he wants; but has no sentimental attachment to legal formalities, so heâs willing to just propose doing illegal things or overturning legal institutions that seem inconvenient. Itâs not clear that Yoo would be unwilling to write up a bunch of nonsense asserting Trumpâs commander-in-chief-inherent-right-unitary-executive-whatever power to do whatever he wants to do; but the fact that Trump doesnât care enough to ask is a total culture clash.
Reading the whole article, I had missed it when Trump basically threatened a judge who was presiding over a law suit against him saying: Weâll see what happens to you when Iâm president.
Yeah, fuck Yoo. Heâs angry that Trump is crass.
yeah I read the complaint as basically - I donât think this guy would ever hire me.
Or maybe: If Donald Trump wants to do all these terrible things he should hire me to write him memos saying they are legal, otherwise they wonât be.
Thatâs the way it read to me. Yoo, like Kristol, wants to maintain opportunities to stroll through the revolving door one more time, and likes the safety that prestige brings. Trump wonât give him either.
Iâve never forgotten that men like Pinochet and Milosevic werenât nailed in international courts until their warlord heydays had passed. The younger enablers of the Bush era can see that too. Cheney will be dead before the political winds shift. Yoo, probably not. Any major paradigm shift is a threat to him.
Christ what a late-stage hypocrasshole
Fuck him! And fuck Yoo too!
