I breathlessly await more of this, if you do it. Fascinating stuff.
I mean, it’s the same stuff, but the armature that Smith has provided really clarifies it. You could almost argue that Roberts’ “rewriting of the Constitution” (in Marcy Wheeler’s phrase) did Smith a favor — from an, ahem, narratological standpoint — by forcing him to realign the story away from anything having to do with the “official” duties of the President.
Megadittos, as somebody now nicely dead used to say. As the lawyers I know tell me, lawyering is all storytelling with a side of footnotes. I'm convinced Robert's "immunity" is pure "how do you like those penumbras and eminations, liberals?"
Some days I wonder how long our legacy media will be able to continue to not see that the story of the century is the definitive transformation of the R Party into a subversive radical criminal conspiracy to impose de-facto permanent minority rule.
You could say they started down that road in 1995 when they made Newt Gangrene Speaker, and decided that their new House majority meant they could deny a D President the power to be President. You could say they've been drifting that way since the Confederate Faction refugees started coming from the D Party, as the late New Deal/Square Deal started to turn a little antiracist. But I think it was getting beat twice by a ni-CLANG! that really drove them over the line, after 2012.
I breathlessly await more of this, if you do it. Fascinating stuff.
I mean, it’s the same stuff, but the armature that Smith has provided really clarifies it. You could almost argue that Roberts’ “rewriting of the Constitution” (in Marcy Wheeler’s phrase) did Smith a favor — from an, ahem, narratological standpoint — by forcing him to realign the story away from anything having to do with the “official” duties of the President.
RIght, it really freshens it up.
Megadittos, as somebody now nicely dead used to say. As the lawyers I know tell me, lawyering is all storytelling with a side of footnotes. I'm convinced Robert's "immunity" is pure "how do you like those penumbras and eminations, liberals?"
Some days I wonder how long our legacy media will be able to continue to not see that the story of the century is the definitive transformation of the R Party into a subversive radical criminal conspiracy to impose de-facto permanent minority rule.
You could say they started down that road in 1995 when they made Newt Gangrene Speaker, and decided that their new House majority meant they could deny a D President the power to be President. You could say they've been drifting that way since the Confederate Faction refugees started coming from the D Party, as the late New Deal/Square Deal started to turn a little antiracist. But I think it was getting beat twice by a ni-CLANG! that really drove them over the line, after 2012.
I am truly charmed by the idea that Pennsylvania's minions were considered not miniony enough for Trump.
Would love to be in the room when the next round of minion trainings gets under way.
I think they kept complaining that they didn't want to go to jail and asking for various kinds of deniability.
Whiney minions are the worst.