"Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year."
You want to take down Trump? You can't do it with the people who are in there now.
Apparently, back in 2023, she changed her primary residence to Norfolk, Virginia.
And, apparently, New York State Law says: "When an officeholder removes his residence from the territorial limits required by statute, the office is rendered vacant."
I hear the sirens and understand why they're so tempting.
I know that they lie and Uncle Milty explained the way the world works back on PBS in "Free to Choose" and all of this was explained by Adam Smith a billion years ago.
But that's not the same thing as having my ears stuffed with beeswax.
We're a year and a half away and god only knows how bad the recession is going to be but the populist energy is still free floating around and the only people who seem to be able to attract it are Trump, Bernie, and AOC.
I'm not saying that Trump won't be able to create a bigger mess that even Democrats won't look worse than. Of course that is well within his capabilities.
So far, however, I'm mostly watching Newsom and Whitmer doing what they can to... be Newsom and Whitmer.
I do not believe that that form of argumentation will work because it assumes moral authority on your part that is not particularly legible.
They will fall back on "he shouldn't have been here in the first place and the deportation was rectifying an error".
"But he followed the rules!"
"The rules Biden twisted in order to allow millions of immigrants entry. He wouldn't have been here under the old rules that we agreed on in the first place."
"WHAT ABOUT LAW AND ORDER?!?!?"
Here is the problem with the whole appeal to the "process of law".
You will be arguing against people who believe that the starting point is that Garcia should never have been here in the first place. From there, the deportation is rectifying an error.
"But we should have a process of law!"
"The process failed by allowing him here in the first place."
It presents pretty closely to an isolated demand for rigor. Those will be received poorly by partisans and by people on the fence.
Say what you will about that insurance CEO, but his wound was not self-inflicted.
And, technically, people have already tried to assassinate Trump, though I understand that some explain that it was a set-up and the blood was something that Trump learned from his time in the WWF.
Be careful what you normalize, lest we start having more essays open with "You’d think our many many law and order supporters on OT would be up in arms about this."
"What? I thought you guys were opposed to setting mansions on fire!"
There's a bunch of people explaining that *REAL* Gucci or Hermes or whatever are made in Europe and that may be true, but the point is that China is saying "you can buy our replicas of the luxury items that cost a couple of orders of magnitude more elsewhere".
It's the 1970s all over again! Was it a liberal who hates the fact that he's kind of centrist? Was it a neo-Nazi who hates the fact that he's kind of Jewish? Was it a radical centrist who hates the fact that the liquor stores are all state-owned? You won't know until his Facebook is made public!
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From wikipedia: Preference Falsification
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Good news: David Hogg is on the case. A Top Democratic Official Plots to Take Down Party Incumbents.
"Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year."
You want to take down Trump? You can't do it with the people who are in there now.
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Newsweek is reporting that Letitia James may have a residence problem.
Apparently, back in 2023, she changed her primary residence to Norfolk, Virginia.
And, apparently, New York State Law says: "When an officeholder removes his residence from the territorial limits required by statute, the office is rendered vacant."
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I hear the sirens and understand why they're so tempting.
I know that they lie and Uncle Milty explained the way the world works back on PBS in "Free to Choose" and all of this was explained by Adam Smith a billion years ago.
But that's not the same thing as having my ears stuffed with beeswax.
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Somebody dug up that his grandmother's house was repo'ed and sold in a sheriff's auction a couple years back, after her death.
If that was his residence until eviction/sale, it could be something as simple as hating the government.
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We're a year and a half away and god only knows how bad the recession is going to be but the populist energy is still free floating around and the only people who seem to be able to attract it are Trump, Bernie, and AOC.
I'm not saying that Trump won't be able to create a bigger mess that even Democrats won't look worse than. Of course that is well within his capabilities.
So far, however, I'm mostly watching Newsom and Whitmer doing what they can to... be Newsom and Whitmer.
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It depends on how badly we want the magnets, I guess.
If we can get by with vibes, we can get by with vibes.
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I guess I can accept that reframing. It's a dry joke that comes across a lot dryer after allegedly lighting tinder.
He seems to have anarchist sympathies, but who doesn't?
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I do not believe that that form of argumentation will work because it assumes moral authority on your part that is not particularly legible.
They will fall back on "he shouldn't have been here in the first place and the deportation was rectifying an error".
"But he followed the rules!"
"The rules Biden twisted in order to allow millions of immigrants entry. He wouldn't have been here under the old rules that we agreed on in the first place."
"WHAT ABOUT LAW AND ORDER?!?!?"
"
Here is the problem with the whole appeal to the "process of law".
You will be arguing against people who believe that the starting point is that Garcia should never have been here in the first place. From there, the deportation is rectifying an error.
"But we should have a process of law!"
"The process failed by allowing him here in the first place."
It presents pretty closely to an isolated demand for rigor. Those will be received poorly by partisans and by people on the fence.
"
Say what you will about that insurance CEO, but his wound was not self-inflicted.
And, technically, people have already tried to assassinate Trump, though I understand that some explain that it was a set-up and the blood was something that Trump learned from his time in the WWF.
"
Oh, okay. Maybe it'll work itself out. Muddling through and whatnot.
"
Be careful what you normalize, lest we start having more essays open with "You’d think our many many law and order supporters on OT would be up in arms about this."
"What? I thought you guys were opposed to setting mansions on fire!"
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Now would be a pretty good time to revisit the EPA regulations on rare earth processing.
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The dems just have to hold it together until then.
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China is now doing what it can to undercut loudly rather than quietly.
There's a bunch of people explaining that *REAL* Gucci or Hermes or whatever are made in Europe and that may be true, but the point is that China is saying "you can buy our replicas of the luxury items that cost a couple of orders of magnitude more elsewhere".
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So... you... agree?
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The House should introduce some articles of impeachment.
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When the law is held in contempt, there will only be a scrambling for order.
This will end in divorce or war.
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They doxxed him *AGAIN*. Jeez louise, those guys.
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He's not only an arsonist, he's a hypocrite.
SMGDMFH.
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Let's give him to Antifa.
Then we can compare him to WWII vets.
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Searching for "Balmer" on twitter seems to indicate that he was a "registered socialist" who, apparently, hated everybody.
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He's going out of his way to not mention his party affiliation.
Republicans would *NEVER* vote for a Democrat and Dems would *NEVER* vote red.
Independent? Hell, everybody would vote for an independent!
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It's the 1970s all over again! Was it a liberal who hates the fact that he's kind of centrist? Was it a neo-Nazi who hates the fact that he's kind of Jewish? Was it a radical centrist who hates the fact that the liquor stores are all state-owned? You won't know until his Facebook is made public!