The legal profession has a lot of cleaning up to do. So, so much damage has been done to America by unscrupulous lawyers who find it fun to try and wordsmith their way to a preferred policy outcome.Apart from the Trump musings on this the legal academy coming out and being like "well maybe if" on an incredibly clear cut issue is infuriating.
Any lawyer who pens an op ed or substack post to that effect should be welded into the hold of an old freighter that the Navy then uses for target practice.
Nah, a monarchyTrump wants to get rid of elections to be perpetual.... only to be replaced by a young dictator.
It's why I didn't apply to law school. My score on the LSAT was good enough.The legal profession has a lot of cleaning up to do. So, so much damage has been done to America by unscrupulous lawyers who find it fun to try and wordsmith their way to a preferred policy outcome.
I don't know what they said in the past but also I'm not really sure what a podcast about constitutional law would be anymore. This is not because SCOTUS makes rulings I disagree with, it's because they are very clearly making it up as they go along.Anyone know what has happened to Roman Mars and the "what Trump can teach us about Constitutional law" podcast? I was a fan of that one, but why hasn't it restarted, given the _vast_ amount of teaching material that has been generated in the last five months? Has Mars (and that Constitutional law expert academic who co-hosted it) been carted off to a camp somewhere? Or are they scared of that happening?
Actually I think that sums it up perfectly well.
'The president can kill you if he wants but he can't order your loans forgiven.'
The strategy of Trump’s handlers is to let Trump say irrational things so all the attention is on those things, while they work quietly behind the scenes to actually accomplish their goals of promoting authoritarianism and plutocracy. Trump is their idiot distraction so nobody notices all the evil things Trump’s handlers are quietly doing behind the scenes.
I don't buy the distraction argument because Trump is a genuine idiot with a bent towards doing evil. He's not playing 4D chess here. It's very clear that he just says stuff, and every now and again, something he says sticks in his brain as an imperative, no matter how stupid it is. And then he's surrounded himself with nincompoops and sycophants who have their own stupid agendas and take advantage of Trump like a phone scammer calling Grandma for more "bail" money.I don't buy the 'distraction' argument either.
IMO:
<1% of the things that Trump does have a positive effect on those who need the most help in America. The remaining things he says/does are either huge red flags for anyone actually listening, or go beyond 'red flag' content and fall into the category of reasons that if Trump got shot for, I would say it was entirely justified.
One or two huge red flags are all I would need to guarantee that I would never vote for such a person, so it hardly matters to me if he spends his time adding at least one per day for the rest of his term.
I don't buy the distraction argument because Trump is a genuine idiot
Don't need to run again if you just don't leave office.He won't run again - He just enjoys scaring the fuck out of people who don’t support him. And I’m not worried about Vance (or anyone else) running and resigning - who the fuck would resign after they were elected so a fully demented pants shitting Trump could have a third term? so subservient to an 82-year-old dementia patient that they’d put themselves through running for president, and winning, just to immediately hand it over to him? Especially not an amoral opportunist like Vance, who probably wouldn’t hesitate to have Trump thrown in Gitmo if he had the power to.
It is obvious to the average third grader that, short of an amendment, Trump is not eligible to run for a third term. Yes its possible for the rule of law to deteriorate so badly that he could run and he could get two stooges to run for president and vice president. Get a Republican House elected. Get himself named Speaker. Order the president and vice president to resign. Walk back into the White House. The strategy of Trump’s handlers is to let Trump say irrational things so all the attention is on those things, while they work quietly behind the scenes to actually accomplish their goals of promoting authoritarianism and plutocracy. Trump is their idiot distraction so nobody notices all the evil things Trump’s handlers are quietly doing behind the scenes.