US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

XPS

https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/908732c7f2651ce62a87312c64565249/3658867

When I think of the long run, its historians sifting through the ashes, Pete Postlethwaite in The Age of Stupid style. After the collapse, conservatism will be utterly discredited, at least until the next yuga.

bequeathing an utterly fucked planet to the children whose lives you so deeply cherish

on the whole, the wealthy and privileged place their trust in the ability of money to save them from most unpleasantness. he'll no doubt make certain to bequeath those kids a prep school education, social connections, and several millions in 2018 dollars, thereby fulfilling his major duty to them as he sees it.

I always assume that the self-soothing inner monologue, if any is even necessary, is along the lines of ‘my descendants tremendous wealth will enable them to buy private armies/envirodomes/orbital condos/one of the precious few flasks of antimutation serum” etc

what will their descendants watch on TV when only rich people are left? there won't be song and dance people or gladiators in those future days

jake paul reruns

There are smarter and more dignified characters on the Federalist Society rosters.

AFAICT, the main reasons Kavanaugh was selected where his opinions on US v. Nixon, that would protect Trump from indictment, and his opinion that the EPA doesn't have the authority to regulate greenhouse emissions.

His nomination means hundreds of billions for carbon emitters, and tens of millions in political contributions for those who ratified his nomination. However, he's just an outlier, like Thomas, and will never persuade any moderate justice to his positions over his presumably long future career, and like Thomas will be vilified by future generations who will be broiling and starving due to the likes of him. It's a own goal against conservatism, in the long run.

― godless hippie skank (Sanpaku), Monday, October 8, 2018 4:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fuck every motherfucker in the federalist society. None of them are "dignified."

So the supreme court can now undo any action on climate change if by some miracle the us gets its act together in 2020

Also re rich ppl being able to buy security in a broken world... that is nonsense. Money only means something in a world with a functional economy.

Treeship, refreshed after a long nap.

Agree that anyone who thinks they will be able to adequately prepare themselves for a severe climate crisis is probably delusional. No one knows how that shit will play out.

the Supreme Court’s authority is not necessarily supreme, despite the name. Anyway, the right thing to do is pack the court, preferably with women, preferably with people who went to other schools.

PR / DC statehood. four more sane senators to kick against the pricks

So, Princeton. xp

he Supreme Court’s authority is not necessarily supreme, despite the name. Anyway, the right thing to do is pack the court, preferably with women, preferably with people who went to other schools.

― El Tomboto, Monday, October 8, 2018 11:16 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do they even need to go to law school? can't we just get a rich guy to do it?

does not have to be a jurist

put me and Tombot on

im ready

(to confirm tom and morbz)

Were I in the Court, I'd do my own writing, and at the end of the year I'd rank my opinions, blog about them, and paste the link on ILX.

don't forget about twitter! (I rarely comment but I love your posts there)

*gavel strikes*
“Good mourning...”

"Counsel, please answer Justice Qualmsey's question: where are the tax returns?"

"it's not clear why Justice Sotosyn revisited Citizens United via a ranking of the Go-Betweens' albums"

"this is his tenth opinion of the term to be issued as a list"

lol

XP "...And the ninth featuring the term 'Poppy Bush Interzone'."

Justice Sotosyn has released his dissent, according to NBC News, the totality of which is below:

DON: Well, yeah.

I needed some lolz today, thx guys

Lmao

man I wish I had clerks writing the first drafts of reviews and posts.

As I look back with the clarity of hindsight, I am convinced that coded racial appeals had at least as much, if not more, to do with the electoral success of the modern GOP than all of the policy proposals crafted by well-intentioned analysts like me. https://t.co/qIvBAPVhna

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) October 9, 2018

we've clowned this guy recently right? i recognize his dumb hat photo.

"There's no 'Dark Side of American Conservatism', really. Matter of fact, it's all dark."

even in his mea culpa he's a fucking dumbass

Most Republicans in Congress voted in 1964 and 1965 for landmark civil rights legislation, but not Goldwater. In his 1960 bestseller “The Conscience of a Conservative,” Goldwater wrote that “the federal Constitution does not require the states to maintain racially mixed schools.” Goldwater was not personally a racist — he had integrated the Arizona Air National Guard — but, like his GOP successors, he was happy to make common cause with racists in order to wrest the South from the Democrats.

Goldwater was just as extreme when it came to foreign affairs. He suggested that Americans needed to overcome their “craven fear of death.” If the Soviets intervened to crush another uprising in Eastern Europe, like the one in Hungary in 1956, he wanted “to move a highly mobile task force equipped with appropriate nuclear weapons to the scene of the revolt.” I used to think Goldwater’s reputation as an extremist was a liberal libel. Reading his actual words — something I had not done before — reveals that he really was an extremist.

"Ryan’s retirement signals the final repudiation of an optimistic, inclusive brand of Reaganesque conservatism focused on enhancing economic opportunity at home and promoting democracy and free trade abroad."

lol "Reading his actual words - something I had not done before"

this guy should have a blog where every week he reads the actual words of some conservative icon he's been praising to the skies, and then is shocked, shocked to discover right-wing extremism and racist dog-whistling going on here.

shameful admissions they fly @ u face xp

Lmao

The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven’t gotten their checks - in other words, they weren’t paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious - less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2018

good point, where the hell is my god damn check Soros

Shelling out good money on protestors seems like an investment with a pretty poor rate of return but I suppose President Deals understand business better than I.

uh it's an incredibly good deal if you just stiff 'em which President Deals knows a lot about

Is he getting this idea just from their responding "No, we aren't paid"?

Well u see, from inside the mind of a Donald Trump where Donald Trump exists at the world's center, it is unthinkable that anyone might legitimately and openly despise Donald Trump, and the only explanation for such expressions is that some evil zillionaire has slipped a cool hundo into the pockets of staunch Trumpists and forced them very against their will to bite their lips and choke back tears as they spout seditious credos which run counter to their deep and abiding love for the Donald. It is the only explanation.

Soros bided his time and waited until the American public was truly exhausted from their streak of unabated winning, one might even say altogether sick of it, and then he pounced.

The president is watching Fox News again.

Left, Fox & Friends, 7:47 am

Asra Nomani: "People have sent me lots of messages that they are waiting for their checks."

Right, Trump, 8:32 am pic.twitter.com/MUIwA6RYjt

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 9, 2018

I figure a lot of protesters who get an offer from Soros call up Trump to see if they can get a counter-offer. The top talent really has all the leverage in the fake protest/crisis acting biz.

nikki haley out

Axios having had such a good track record on this front lately.

xp even knowing its origin Trump's tweet is still unintelligible