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In the short few months I put my thoughts down in part 4 the Supreme Court has stepped forward as an activist and hard right court with no respect for precedent. It goes far beyond precedent though, with the court inventing things like the “major questions doctrine” and out lying
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The GOP has been fighting to control the Supreme Court for decades. Mitch McConnell’s shameless power plays to install Kavanaugh and Barrett were just the latest machinations to co-opt the court. When you consider the gutting of voting rights, the recent shadow docket rulings, and process Thomas’s silence
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In this post back in September 2021 I predicted that you get to 1M deaths in time for the midterms, and the GOP would make it a political cudgel. I got the math right. According to this site we’re over 1M as of today. Daily deaths are declining but
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More an more information is spilling out on TFG’s failed coup attempt on Jan 6th. The latest being a PowerPoint plan for the coup, that was shared with as yet unknown GOP senators. While all of this is going down the media has been covering the level of threats
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Most people recognize that there are two justice systems in America. One that is more lenient or forgiving if you are white, or better rich and white, and the other unfair and punitive if you are black, or worse, black and poor. The only surprising part about the Texas realtor
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No survey to back this up, just a general sense of foreboding. John Eastman, a member of TFG’s (The Former Guy) legal team wrote a memo on how to overturn the election and install TFG, subverting democracy. The biggest political event in the history of the U.S. since
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Somewhere right now some GOP operatives are doing the math. The US is approaching 700K dead from CV19. The mid-terms are in November ’22. If the US averages around 1K dead per day you get to one million dead just in time for the elections. One million dead they can
Culture
As someone named Donald I often get asked do I go by Don, or Donald. For the last four years I’ve provided my usual answer, that I am easy. Don, Donald, Brady; all work. With many people I also mentioned that I would be glad when I got my
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The latest survey from PRRI really doesn’t bode well. Fully 28% of R’s believe “American Patriots” (that’s some leading language right there) may have to resort to violence in order to “save our country”. Quick bit of math, 70M Trump cult members * 28% = 19.6M. Assuming 90%
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This article from MIT Technology Review provides not only a bleak prognostication for Gen-Z as a generation, but interesting facts on the figure heads for various economic models and their beliefs. I have not read Keynes, god forbid Milton Friedman, or Marx but I found the article very interesting. Keynes
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This is an excellent article that talks about the predictions from a 30 year old model used to determine a country’s vulnerability to political crisis. Based on demographics and structural inputs it predicted that the US would enter the turbulent 20’s. The model uses the historical behavior of
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This isn’t good news. Facebook’s non-binding advisory board described Trump’s indefinite suspension as “not appropriate,” and its members instructed Facebook to complete a six-month review to determine whether to restore the former president’s account. (from The Guardian). They’re kicking the can down the road to