BehoId, The Underminer!

Heh. I’m loving the scramble on the R to hide from ruling. also, surely someone has made this observation: so weird that Thomas didn’t mention loving v Virginia in bad substantive due process cases. So odd.

it's like driving a new car off the lot. that gold lost a lot of value the second it was shaped into an aggie ring.

haha. that would be awesomely farcical, if we get another version of the 'it's election year, so no scotus but yes scotus but no scotus' rule.

Thomas in Dobbs: For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U. S. ___, ___ (2020) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment) (slip op., at 7), we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents, Gamble v. United States, 587 U. S. ___, ___ (2019) (THOMAS, J., concurring) (slip op., at 9). After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated. For example, we could consider whether any of the rights announced in this Court’s substantive due process cases are “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Amdt. 14, §1; see McDonald, 561 U. S., at 806 (opinion of THOMAS, J.). To answer that question, we would need to decide important antecedent questions, including whether the Privileges or Immunities Clause protects any rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution and, if so, how to identify those rights. See id., at 854. That said, even if the Clause does protect unenumerated rights, the Court conclusively demonstrates that abortion is not one of them under any plausible interpretive approach. See ante, at 15, n. 22.

1 week since i sold my whole position at $4.14, HTOO is $1.64.

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Private company just landed something on the moon. Transmitting data back now. Hadn’t heard about this. 1st in 50 years. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/22/science/nasa-moon-landing-odysseus

i do think there is a rage against the machine aspect to trump's popularity. people are just unhappy and that favors the bomb thrower. people feel the below. the further down in percentile you are, the worse you are getting it, and the more unhappy you are. and it matches up with who is supporting the bomb thrower.

goddam republicans fucking crazy idiots in that party you know what, it'd be impolite not to listen to what they have to say.

He and JFK are similar in that they have high ratings on unifying aspirational sort of stuff more than accomplishments.

read commentary elsewhere that said something about some book coming out about him that makes a good argument that the corruption of his cabinet was just yellow journalism of the time that had been unfairly coloring his reputation and that it isn't really founded.

the generic 'you.' for the specific 'you,' i'm a goddammed magician. i have red arrows on 9 of my 11 holdings today.

Oh, and I commented on this when someone else posted this: if you look at the chart on page 2 the gap between Trump at last place and Buchanon is second only to the gap between T Roosevelt and Washington. So he's not just in last place, he way in last place.

Evaluating right after the president is gone is good. I think looking at guys at different times is interesting. LBJ being the best example. Vietnam was the forefront of everyone's mind so the country was all 'It's just this war and that lying sonofabitch Johnson.' Looking back now, 50 years later, Vietnam actually shrinks and the racial fight is the biggest thing. I like having both perspectives and it is interesting seeing short term value of president versus long term. Obama is a good example otherwise. We were kumbaya looking at him immediately after. Now we are like 'why didn't he do something about this obvious festering disease that was underlying the discourse?' Related, I received a framed copy of this for Christmas. It's in my office. LBJ, despite tricking the one UT grad to leave SCOTUS, is awesome.

same. my imagination says that his heart is in staying and is giving the rangers every opportunity before signing elsewhere.

this is kindergarten stuff. the country isn't voting in the 2020 election. they're voting in the 2024 election this time for the next four year period. i feel like arguing this just getting engaged in trolling techniques, so i won't any more.

an 81 year old male has a median of 7 years left.

i'll see your guilty, and raise you a not guilty -- sounds very michael scott.

and for the exact reason that hearsay isn't allowed. it's subject to not just outright fabrication, but optimistic swaying. his "signaling to his aides" are the aides' interpretations of the words (or, in my personal belief here, intentionally seeding news stories with innuendo that they think will help them win in november but not solid enough that they can't pivot if that is the choice later).

i challenge you to find a quote from him that is along those lines.

as i recall, everyone was like "this is the deal, right? one term it is, right?" and the campaign just sort of allowed that idea to fester and not address it so that people could believe what they wanted.

i was very tuned out of politics at the time. thought it was funny that one party was in such chaos that trump somehow got the nomination. so i was getting lulz about him being in it too. never even occurred to me that he could win. i know that just says how small my circle was, given 60MM voted for him, but i never came across folks that liked him. i had a lawyer in my firm saying he was going to vote for him. i was recall thinking "well, i've always tagged him as the dumbest guy here, so this scans."

lulz on strip mall legal team, which is absolutely true.

he does look old but i'll say that his funny hasn't dropped as much as a lot of comedians when they get old. i've always though folks like jim carrey whose humor depends so much on being outrageous and physical goes from funny to embarrassing once they get long in the tooth. jon has a lot of that with his over-the-top reactions, but has avoided the downturn.

re: secret republicans. they might be, but it seems to be an anecdotal version of all the polls were are seeing, which is trump +5 versus this time in 2020 where they were biden +5 or so. of course, we are all desperately seeking any reason to not believe polls, and those reasons aren't hard to come up with. 2020 was the worst polling in 40 years. the problem, of course, is they were worst in the wrong direction that we hope they would be this time. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-biden-was-worst-presidential-polling-miss-in-40-years-panel-says-11620909178