jpanzer

jpanzer, 2 days ago to random

This whole story confirms all by suspicions about Elon. He’s a chaos agent. If the Board fired him it would do nothing but good for the company. (It won’t, it’s in his pocket.)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

jpanzer, 7 days ago to random

Paul Manafort, poised to rejoin Trump world, aided Chinese media deal

Here we go again https://wapo.st/4dt0KYB

jpanzer, 11 days ago to random

Just incredible watching this (are Fox viewers really as gullible as Noem and Waters clearly think they are?)
https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/112397204277873583

jpanzer, 20 days ago to random

If SCOTUS remands the J6 case back to Chutkin to figure out what acts were official vs personal based on whatever Bizarro logic they come up with, she should just turned around and schedule a VERY in depth fact finding trial on that point, going into excruciating detail on exactly what Trump did and when and why. This fall. Very fucking publicly.

jpanzer, 22 days ago to random

I mean, what?

“the newspaper carries its own singular obsession with the president, aggrieved over his refusal to give the paper a sit-down interview that Publisher AG Sulzberger and other top editors believe to be its birthright”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-times-biden-white-house-00154219

jpanzer, 22 days ago to random

This is awesome(look at the whole thread).
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/112315302296409475

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

“We are one election away from becoming a Christian nationalist state, losing our democracy as we know it, and putting the fate of our country in the hands of a corrupt madman filled with fever dreams of retribution. And yet political journalists seem to think this is just fine. Fun, even.”
https://presswatchers.org/2024/04/the-washington-press-corps-doesnt-have-a-freaking-clue/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Are you fucking kidding me.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-judge-rules-that-republican-brian-k-pritchard-voted-illegally/M4A27QQNQJDW7MTI66MRF5B4EQ/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Ended today: Fucking Around
Beginning tomorrow: Finding Out
https://mastodon.world/@bkm/112118907867098962

jpanzer, 2 months ago to random

Listening to this is like watching someone piss on the American flag and then demand everybody applaud.

(The fuck I will.)
https://mstdn.social/@DrJackBrown/112108633138699246

jpanzer, 2 months ago to random

The Supreme Court (majority of 5) is wrong. The Court has no authority to erase the plain meaning of the Constitution. But there is no institution to appeal to - other than the voters. Voters can choose to follow the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment and determine for themselves that someone is not qualified to hold office. And then vote for the other guy.

It’s suboptimal. It’s messy. Blame the radical right wing 5 for screwing up. And vote accordingly. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/opinion/supreme-court-trump-colorado-constitution.html

jpanzer, 2 months ago to random

Today has been an absolutely craptastic day for the rule of law.

Saying that there has to be a uniform rule for applying 14.3 for federal offices would be one thing. It’s not a terrible principle, just one not present in the text, so it would save Trump while showing how bankrupt the so-called “originalist” framework is. Ok.

jpanzer, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

What reason will SCOTUS come up with to keep an insurrectionist on the CO ballot today?

jpanzer, 2 months ago to random

Today SCOTUS began interfering in the election -- by putting an unnecessary delay getting key information to voters that is important to their voting decisions.

You think that we know all the evidence Jack Smith has? We do not. We're only going to find out during trial.

And we're only going to see how that evidence holds up, or doesn't, at trial.

That's WHY WE HAVE TRIALS. Voters deserve to have the question about whether a candidate is an insurrectionist heard before the election.

jpanzer, 2 months ago to random

This man is one of nine people who controls the understanding of all of the laws in the United States.

Thanks, I hate it.

jpanzer, 2 months ago to random

“65% South Carolina GOP Primary voters said they would consider Donald Trump fit to be president if he was convicted of a crime”

Well, there it is. He’s not losing any of his base when he’s convicted. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/nbc-news-exit-poll-majority-of-s-c-gop-primary-voters-say-trump-would-be-fit-to-be-president-if-convicted-204866629718

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

This seems like a real problem for the GOP, which is trying to use this as a basis to impeach Biden. But since they are utterly disconnected from reality, I am guessing they just double down and keep going.

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

While the Supreme Court is pondering whether one part of the 14th Amendment (Section 3) is more like what you might call guidelines than actual law, it may be worth reviewing New Jersey's early tradition of enfranchising women and others to vote, and why how that right was stripped from them in 1807:

https://www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibits/when-women-lost-the-vote-a-revolutionary-story/pages/how-did-women-lose-the-vote-the-backlash

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

Wanted: An SC to investigate SC Weiss.

“What David Weiss discovered — if he didn’t already know about it — is that he was part of an effort to frame Joe Biden in 2020, an effort that involved the Attorney General of the United States.”

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/16/david-weiss-is-a-direct-witness-to-the-crimes-on-which-he-indicted-alexander-smirnov/

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

Dear God.

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

Several historians have dropped a giant mic on the subject of the 14th Amendment.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/298999/20240129110006501_23-719%20bsac%20American%20Historians%20Final.pdf

jpanzer, 3 months ago to random

😢

@timbray writes a requiem for Google-that-was and he’s right: That company is gone.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

jpanzer, 4 months ago to random

Cult. No other way to describe this insanity.

jpanzer, 4 months ago to random

I’m starting a new cycle of vote center lead training for the primaries today. Can’t think of a better way to spend MLK day.