Homeless Friend posted:

comedyblissoption posted:

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1787874131892957308

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/FeinbergUSA/status/1787859925193953299

Rectal Death Alert posted:

The short, real, version is this is a complicated prosecution and Jack Smith was really trying to force the trial through impossibly fast but also has such a lovely case and lack of precedent that the Judge, correctly, wants more time to consider all of the motions that are piling up. For example the immunity case with the supreme court could invalidate this one, this is a civil offense that has never been charged federally and federal agencies have very publicly admitted they will not charge other people who are definitely guilty.

Properly considering the implications of things like that takes time. Jack Smith's response has been to shriek about how biased and terrible the judge is because she isn't letting him have his way.

The people that are weirdly upset about it are the ones that were relying on this to stop Trump. This is one of the "Big Ones" like the DC/GA cases so losing it is a pretty big blow if you are obsessed with politics to that degree.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

https://x.com/demsocsean/status/1787982937125757082?s=46&t=I-gsjpvNkUNcOBofs8OOkQ

Homeless Friend posted:

Nix Panicus posted:

Its very funny to see the degree to which the judicial system is being weaponized against Trump in a desperate attempt to stop him, but also the degree to which the same people are trying to avoid charging him with anything that might complicate life for other people

Woke Mind Virus posted:

He is a member of the squad

Joementum posted:

just heard Kamala talking about ketchup packets and you know what, Joe needs to resign and give us the gift of her being president if only for a few months

Joementum posted:

https://x.com/dwdavison/status/1788053668962369846?s=46

Woke Mind Virus posted:

He is a member of the squad

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/DecolonialFeIIa/status/1787184568321355997

Excelzior posted:

Joementum posted:

https://x.com/dwdavison/status/1788053668962369846?s=46

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/transjewtalian/status/1787660170383774134

CN CREW-VESSEL posted:

It’s because, ironically in light of the Tooze thing, they refuse to connect politics to economics, since in their ideology politics is not a process that determines the allocation of resources within a society, the market does. Politics does nothing, really, it’s removed from material reality.

So differentiating “Democracy” and “Authoritarianism” can only be about aesthetics, and I suppose process - but the process of what is also waved away, since it would include material distribution. Remember in their minds you can’t, or ”shouldn’t” distribute resources democratically either. The people can vote on everything except food and shelter.

Neoliberalism killed their precious liberal capitalist democracy because on top of hollowing out all the institutions and everything, it’s just a pantomime of politics and people have no reason to participate in, or care about, it.

It’s why Biden is the perfect man of the moment because it shows that nothing matters, there is no politics, there’s no democracy, there’s not even an executive.

Jodi Dean in Comrade: An Essay in Political Belonging (2019) posted:

Carl Schmitt famously characterized liberalism as replacing politics with ethics and economics.22 Correlatively, we should note the displacement of politics specific to neoliberalism. There is individualized self-cultivation, self-management, self-reliance, self-absorption, and—at the same time—impersonal determining processes, circuits, and systems.

We have responsible individuals, individuals who are responsibilized, treated as loci of autonomous choices and decisions, and we have individuals encountering situations that are utterly determining and outside their control.

Instead of ethics and economics, neoliberalism’s displacement of politics manifests in the opposition between survivors and systems. The former struggle to persist in conditions of unlivability rather than to seize and transform these conditions. The latter are systems and “hyperobjects” determining us, often aesthetic objects or objects of a future aesthetics, things to view and diagram and predict and perhaps even mourn, but not to affect.23

gradenko_2000 posted:

the Death Squad

Lin-Manuel Turtle posted:

The other day, in response a to a slew of articles that came out about my young life, Lin Manuel Miranda and many others were gracious enough to point out the changes I have made and the humanitarian actions I have been a part of since high school. After listening to the podcast that all of this originated from, we both found the click-bait headlines misleading. It was a story about personal growth and redemption, and people twisted it into us being long-time adversaries.

We have always been very proud of each others' success, and we even joked about these articles with each other on Twitter over the weekend. To this day I’m appreciative to say that we are friends, we are both staunch supporters of immigrant rights, and we will continue the fight against bigotry in our respective ways. I guess I could've taken the humorous route and said something like “And you thought it was hard for YOU to get tickets to Hamilton.” I just thought, that without a larger context, something could be lost in all this friendly exchange. I wouldn't want my supporters to get the impression that anyone was trying to normalize childish bullying, especially coming from someone who now fights for others.

People have told me that back in high school they saw me as both a reckless antagonist and a well-meaning vigilante. I protected the people close to me from kids in school and fought hard against outside groups looking to herb kids. But I also had very little patience with many of the kids who went there, and I even took my anger out on those who were trying to help me. I rarely stopped to think about what that person was going through. I thought by showing strength and power, people would fear me and therefore respect me. As a result I’m sorry to say that I hurt some of the people I should have been protecting. I ended up exacerbating a lot of my problems. And I guess at 17 it was hard for me to see that the person I was really fighting was myself.

I want to be very clear with my supporters, I wasn’t just a bully in as a kid, I was a criminal. I lived a very violent life. I did way worse things that I don’t choose to glorify — things worse than harassing kids and put them in trash cans. I robbed, I stole, I sold drugs, I ran with gangs. I have never hidden this part of myself. In a way growing out of that, helps me relate to the kids out there, sometimes a lot more than people who never experienced these things. But I can’t excuse my behavior by simply claiming I lived in a non-gentrified NYC.

As adults we like to think that children are going to come to us with all of their problems. The sad reality is that they often don’t. I used to see violence as the answer to all my problems with someone else. The sad reality is that when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. I understand that there are some people who will never see me as anything more than the angry young person I was 20 years ago. I think that’s unfortunate, however as an adult I have to accept that and hope that at least some of them will look at my life’s work since then and understand that a real change is possible.

selec posted:

the only war Meghan McCain has ever fought is against the intrusive thoughts about what her husband really is

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I still say the funniest possible option is Biden loses and then almost immediately dies, and Kamala gets to be lame duck

loquacius posted:

Absolutely

Woke Mind Virus posted:

He is a member of the squad

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

The Squat.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

The Squat.

Death By The Blues posted:

https://twitter.com/susannecraig/status/1788162985527058703

Death By The Blues posted:

https://twitter.com/susannecraig/status/1788162985527058703

Death By The Blues posted:

https://twitter.com/susannecraig/status/1788162985527058703

Death By The Blues posted:

https://twitter.com/susannecraig/status/1788162985527058703