wildcat09

This defense of SCOTUS is bullshit, man.

July 2nd, man. Them holding it for as long as possible was obvious from the moment they took the appeal.

It’s like their claim that if you tax rich people more they’ll just stop working. Beyond fucking stupid.

Well that’s a word I was unfamiliar with.

Oh no, however would the fascists live without the people they hate?

I don't believe her act for one second. If she had a problem with their bullshit historicism she wouldn't have joined them in Dobbs and Bruen.

Those of you who still think "it can't happen here" really need to start grappling with the fact that it has happened in plenty of other places that all had the same or at least very similar reasons why many people thought it couldn't happen there, until it did. Businesses will absolutely go along with violent and disruptive reactionary political changes, even changes that hurt their bottom line. That's because they tend to be run by people who are ideologically aligned with the reactionary politicians pushing those changes, and those few that aren't are scared of publicly opposing the fascist tide.

Oh look: You mean to tell me a verified account was actually a bot?! Surely this couldn’t happen on Elon’s platform!

Pedocon theory remains undefeated.

It's so funny to read this, which I agree with, and then read some of the other posts in this thread by posters who are just now figuring something out about this show.

We're basically down to NBA memes as the only redeeming content left on twitter.

Commander is clearly trying to tell everyone which secret service agents are secret Trump supporters and we should encourage him to attack those guys more.

Buddy, my post that you quoted said there will still be elections. And the Republican party has already purged their state parties of those who aren't sufficiently loyal to ensure their failure to rig 2020 won't happen again.

No, there will still be elections after 2024 if he wins. They'll just actually be rigged by the true believer Republicans that will almost certainly have won in all the swing states if Trump manages to win the electoral college. We'll see Saddam/Putin like vote totals for Trump to remain in office and SCOTUS will be like "well yeah there's this whole amendment saying he can't serve more than 2 terms, but he got 94% of the vote and who are we to oppose what the people want?"

Of all his dumb trolling, pronghorn pretending he's not a Trumper is the most offensive.

Has Maureen Dowd had a good political take in her entire life?

I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $1,000 Alex.

It’s hard not to notice that in all his bloviating he still hasn’t engaged at all with the text of the statute.

You don’t get it though. That doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is some gun fetish “it’s not a clip it’s a magazine!” type pedantry that doesn’t actually matter in interpreting the law.

You can suck my dick, buddy.

Also this. It's much more likely that they just think people should be able to buy bump stocks than that the majority was really just reading the statute neutrally and thought their reading was the best.

The relevant statutory language is: "[t]he term "machinegun" means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include...any part designed and intended...for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun..." You can read this the way Thomas does, as requiring one depression of the trigger to fire more than one shot to qualify, or you can read this the way the dissent does, reading "function" as the human operation of the trigger. Both readings are reasonable. However, given the additional language also capturing parts that would convert a non-machinegun into a machinegun, it seems pretty clear to me that Congress wanted to capture things like bumpstocks that might allow a weapon to operate in effect as a machinegun. This is why hypertechnical readings of laws are fucking stupid. Does anyone seriously consider it likely, had they been able to predict the invention of bump stocks, that Congress would've intended to exempt them when they originally drafed 26 U.S.C. §5845?

He wants white people to pump out kids because he believes in the great replacement conspiracy theory.

They can subpoena anyone they want to so long as they have a valid legislative purpose, which is typically interpreted very broadly. Given their oversight responsibilities, the Senate judiciary committee could definitely subpoena justices. Those would likely be ignored, in which case a referral could be made to DOJ to prosecute any justice that ignored a subpoena for contempt of Congress. Nobody knows how that would ultimately play out, given the justices' roles at the top of the judicial branch. We'd have a "Constitutional crisis" and that's why Dick Durbin is too chickenshit to do it. This all ignores, of course, that we've had multiple ongoing Constitutional crises basically since Scalia died.