A Trump Dictatorship Could Well Be Upon Us. Just in case you were enjoying your Sunday morning coffee. The article is long, but necessary. Please read it.
Bush V. Gore: One reason to refrain from lionizing Sandra Day O’Connor:
Yes, yes, yes, yes, & yes: a recusal, and a 4-4 decision, would have let the state court decision stand.
Yet who cast that fatal vote, a literal thumbs up but a Caesarian thumbs down for 9,810 Americans & countless thousands of Iraqis & Afghans, which allowed all those aforementioned atrocities authored from the Bush 43 West Wing?
One wanting-to-retire Supreme Court Associate Justice, visibly distraught on election eve when the networks first called the Presidency for Gore, all because she and her husband couldn’t return to Arizona, since she didn’t want a Democrat to pick her successor.
All she had to do was recuse herself.
By attending a publicized election party & openly rooting against the chances of a candidate with pressing business before SCOTUS, she placed herself in an unconscionable position, one she could have exited if she simply said “I recuse.”
She didn’t.
Despite the clear conflict, she seized her chance, and she voted.
Justice O’Connor smashed down her thumb on the scales of justice, and she slammed so hard that Lady Justice dropped them altogether, in a cacophonous clattering echoing forward through history yet unwritten.
Secret Santos Knows Who’s Been Bad Or Good: Not really, but it won’t stop him from spilling:
The fallen congressman, ax to grind firmly in hand, lobbed accusations at New York GOP Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, Nick LaLota and Mike Lawler, as well as against New Jersey Democratic Rep. Rob Menendez.
Menendez’ kid is in Congress? How did I miss that? Anyway, I want to know: Are ‘“Botox-fueled fits of rage” a thing?
Israel Strikes Yet Another Refugee Camp. I’m sorry, the ‘genocide’ word is not too strong:
Hani Mahmoud has been reporting from Khan Younis for Al Jazeera during the course of the war, and he says that the recent strike on Jabaliya refugee camp by Israel has left “tens of people killed and more buried under the rubble”.
He reports: “The number is rapidly increasing because these are very densely populated areas. It is difficult for rescuers to reach these people. They are also being targeted.”
Another Al Jazeera reporter has told the network “the scale of destruction is beyond description”, and that an entire residential block was levelled to the ground with many people inside.
Somewhere, Joe Biden mutters something totally ineffectual.
UD’s Move To ‘Big-Time Football’ Designed To Escape The Snows Of Montana? Another inevitable end to a decent season. Kevin Tresolini nails it:
For the third time in four seasons, it was clear Delaware isn’t even close to being Football Championship Subdivision title material.
Maybe there is no better time, then, to see if the Blue Hens can excel at something else, like being a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision’s Conference USA.
Delaware was overmatched from the start, just as it was in lopsided 2021 spring and 2022 playoff defeats at South Dakota State.
And Delaware may start life in Conference USA that way, too, judging by how big and fast and talented Liberty and New Mexico State appeared in Friday night’s league title game won by Liberty.
To be fair, Montana has something that Delaware doesn’t–a burgeoning dental floss industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZA9Jv3qH0
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