This week’s pod, ‘Election Chaos…,” was extremely insightful and not too nerdy or geeked out! 😊 I appreciated your discussion on The Virginia Redistricting ruling. The informative explanation made me rethink it differently. Also hoping Sen Kelly’s appeal is successful.
Wow, 1 week to the release of Liar’s Kingdom- so excited for you! Also, next week, a video of MJ is pure joy! Thank you. 🙏💙
Sorry to say this, but Donald Trump lies like he breathes. He is also a self-centered malignant narcissist, who lacks the ability to empathize with anyone else. And of course he changed his mind at the last minute about the Iranian cease-fire, because he's disorganized, doesn't know what the heck he's doing, and makes it up as he goes along. And let us not forget the fact that five years ago on january 6th, Trump led an insurrection at the capitol, where many people died. There were people that, after attacking police, we're walking in the capitol building itself with confederate flags, shouting “Hang Mike Pence!” BecauseThe vice president wouldn't certify donald trump's lies about the election results. And the violence was so horrific that some people involved in defending the Capitol later committed suicide. Think about that. Then to make matters worse, trump pardons all the J6th rioters, many of which were members of right wing extremist groups like the "proud boys." Trump called them "true patriots" What a f****** joke. More presently, the fact that Pam Bondi's replacement immediately says, "let's just forget about the whole Epstein thing" shows how corrupt the entire system is. Trump has forced himself on countless women of ALL AGES throughout his life. Trump has also said, that if your famous and rich enough, "You can grab women by the p***y" He's also a pedophile, and has been mentioned in the Epstien files a record 38,000 times. Trump is a horrible human being, and he's incapable of empathy with any other human being, and only cares about himself. He's a spoiled brat, and has always used his daddy's connections to get out of the vietnam war, with his fake bone spurs b******t that he got his daddy's doctor to submit to the draft board. He and Epstein have raped countless girls aged only 11, 12, 13, and 14. Trump has cheated on every business deal he's ever made. He's cheated on every wife he's ever been married to. HE'S THE MOST IMMORAL AND WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES! Now he's started a war in the mid-east, where thousands of innocent people have been killed, including many children. The sooner he gets impeached, and/or removed from office due to health or other reasons, the better off the U.S. AND the world will be. Trump said he would keep the united states out of foreign war. He said he would lower the cost of living. What he has done is bomb Iran despite no imminent threat from them. And as one of the effects of this war, the cost of living for gasoline food, Medical care, housing and many other things continue to cost more. Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States, and the entire world. He needs to resign. The Republicans that have influence on him need to section 25, convince him to resign, and whatever, just get him the hell out of there! Sincerely David Morris, who was born one day long ago in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Once ballots are seized, seems to me they become worthless as evidence, since the admin calling for their seizure (and persons present in the process, e.g. Gabbard,) is led by someone who said at election time to a state official "Just find me the votes". Plainly they are untrustworthy to preserve evidence intact, so no future recount that partisan group do is worth anything. State elections officials may need to become more skillful and circumspect about securing and storing the ballots, and, separately, attested copies of them, so they can't be readily accessed and taken. In the time of AI perhaps soon paper ballots will be the only sort that will retain any credibility.
The John Crow Court is corrupt, activist, and extreme -- allowing Alabama to redistrict in the middle of an election, something the court has disallowed previously. Republican judges are helping MAGA rig democracy. Time to expand the court, both SCOTUS and in Virginia.
Listened to this at 6:00 am and will listen again. The recent SCOTUS Calais v Louisiana ruling has created chaos as states are rushing to gerrymander our country back to the Jim Crow era of voter suppression. How could a minority right wing racist population reek such havoc on 250 years of struggle? Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord continue to help us understand the legal challenges of the day. Right wing extremists are ignoring our laws and stomping on the beating heart of our Democracy. After their podcast today, I preordered Andrew Wiessmann’s new book “Liars Kingdom”. Can’t wait to read it.
I see a straight line from Bush v Gore to this latest disgrace from SCOTUS. Roberts can talk all he wants about not being political. Nobody is fooled. It’s obvious we need court reform and if we ever manage to get this criminal regime out of power, we must push forcefully for that and many other changes. No more pathetic Dems with their Merrick Garlands wussing out of doing what's necessary.
Tell me again, Justice Alito, why the decision in Callais was not a racial gerrymander but a partisan gerrymander as the states of the Old Confederacy sprint to redraw their congressional maps before the midterms.
I would like to leave this country because the legislative branches have given all their power to their King. I don’t want to live under the cruelty perpetrated by this regime. Our democracy, as we have known it, is gone.
I was told recently about a study revealing a defect in my humanity called “suicidal empathy.” According to the study, I have so much empathy that I’ll be killing myself or others. My accuser, believing the study, couldn’t believe my response. I, a person with too much empathy, laugh out loud when I’m told by a study that my empathy is an imminent threat to the lives of others. Something didn’t add up.
I don’t know anyone with too much empathy despite becoming aware of the “empathy is dangerous” concept almost 50 years ago. I still remember reading the words “Capitalism and Freedom” on the cover of a bright green paperback book on every desk as we walked into the first day of an introduction to economics course. I thought the book would be covered in the course, but it was never mentioned. Not once.
I didn’t read the whole book, but I read enough to explain my paradoxical response to being accused of having no empathy about having too much empathy, and I thought I’d share the explanation I gave to my surprised accuser.
“I understood your message. FYI, you’re not the first person to send that message, and I’m not the first person to disagree.
“For example, I agree (and you disagree) with Adam Smith. He described his disagreement in his book, A Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). His message was that things are bad because people don’t have enough empathy for each other, and he argued that we should. He described the benefit of having enough empathy in his next book, The Wealth of Nations (1776).
“And he was proven correct when people followed his advice and it worked. So, they gave Smith’s advice a name. They called it ‘capitalism.’
“Milton Friedman disagreed with Smith and agreed with you in his book, Capitalism and Freedom (1962). His argument was that capitalism, instead of being about the wealth of nations, should be about how fewer people get more money. I assume he was thinking that capitalism is too hard, and that it would be so much easier for him without morality.
“So, in 1776, Americans hated kings, and they solved the “king” problem by adopting capitalism. Then in 1962, Friedman sowed the seed that recreated the problem that everyone thought capitalism had solved.
“Now America is back to having the same king problem it had before the American Revolution. Well not quite the same because the king was in England back then.”
Then I reminded my accuser of something the two of us had discussed in a previous dialogue when I told him that morality is “nonpartisan” (the winner is the winner, and no cheating allowed!), and immorality is “partisan” (do as I say and not as I do).
And then I said, “Isn’t it ironic?”
I laughed out loud in an online reply to my accuser’s comment and I’m still waiting for his response.
I’m not bragging. In fact, I’m a bit embarrassed to realize that I failed to notice the same idea repeatedly expressed for the same half century every time I’ve heard Bob Marley’s voice singing, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.”
But there is some good new: in an uplifting end to a rough week, we highlight Senator Mark Kelly’s legal team’s argument before a panel of three judges in the DC Circuit. Senator Kelly won below in his case against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his participation with five Members of Congress in a video reminding military members of their duty not to obey unlawful orders. We explain how the oral argument went and why the one judge who raised doubts about his case is wrong factually.
This week’s pod, ‘Election Chaos…,” was extremely insightful and not too nerdy or geeked out! 😊 I appreciated your discussion on The Virginia Redistricting ruling. The informative explanation made me rethink it differently. Also hoping Sen Kelly’s appeal is successful.
Wow, 1 week to the release of Liar’s Kingdom- so excited for you! Also, next week, a video of MJ is pure joy! Thank you. 🙏💙
Sorry to say this, but Donald Trump lies like he breathes. He is also a self-centered malignant narcissist, who lacks the ability to empathize with anyone else. And of course he changed his mind at the last minute about the Iranian cease-fire, because he's disorganized, doesn't know what the heck he's doing, and makes it up as he goes along. And let us not forget the fact that five years ago on january 6th, Trump led an insurrection at the capitol, where many people died. There were people that, after attacking police, we're walking in the capitol building itself with confederate flags, shouting “Hang Mike Pence!” BecauseThe vice president wouldn't certify donald trump's lies about the election results. And the violence was so horrific that some people involved in defending the Capitol later committed suicide. Think about that. Then to make matters worse, trump pardons all the J6th rioters, many of which were members of right wing extremist groups like the "proud boys." Trump called them "true patriots" What a f****** joke. More presently, the fact that Pam Bondi's replacement immediately says, "let's just forget about the whole Epstein thing" shows how corrupt the entire system is. Trump has forced himself on countless women of ALL AGES throughout his life. Trump has also said, that if your famous and rich enough, "You can grab women by the p***y" He's also a pedophile, and has been mentioned in the Epstien files a record 38,000 times. Trump is a horrible human being, and he's incapable of empathy with any other human being, and only cares about himself. He's a spoiled brat, and has always used his daddy's connections to get out of the vietnam war, with his fake bone spurs b******t that he got his daddy's doctor to submit to the draft board. He and Epstein have raped countless girls aged only 11, 12, 13, and 14. Trump has cheated on every business deal he's ever made. He's cheated on every wife he's ever been married to. HE'S THE MOST IMMORAL AND WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES! Now he's started a war in the mid-east, where thousands of innocent people have been killed, including many children. The sooner he gets impeached, and/or removed from office due to health or other reasons, the better off the U.S. AND the world will be. Trump said he would keep the united states out of foreign war. He said he would lower the cost of living. What he has done is bomb Iran despite no imminent threat from them. And as one of the effects of this war, the cost of living for gasoline food, Medical care, housing and many other things continue to cost more. Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States, and the entire world. He needs to resign. The Republicans that have influence on him need to section 25, convince him to resign, and whatever, just get him the hell out of there! Sincerely David Morris, who was born one day long ago in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Don't be sorry, Trump does in fact lie like he breathes!!
Once ballots are seized, seems to me they become worthless as evidence, since the admin calling for their seizure (and persons present in the process, e.g. Gabbard,) is led by someone who said at election time to a state official "Just find me the votes". Plainly they are untrustworthy to preserve evidence intact, so no future recount that partisan group do is worth anything. State elections officials may need to become more skillful and circumspect about securing and storing the ballots, and, separately, attested copies of them, so they can't be readily accessed and taken. In the time of AI perhaps soon paper ballots will be the only sort that will retain any credibility.
The John Crow Court is corrupt, activist, and extreme -- allowing Alabama to redistrict in the middle of an election, something the court has disallowed previously. Republican judges are helping MAGA rig democracy. Time to expand the court, both SCOTUS and in Virginia.
Much luck on your latest creation. Are those AI generated videos of you on You Tube?
Listened to this at 6:00 am and will listen again. The recent SCOTUS Calais v Louisiana ruling has created chaos as states are rushing to gerrymander our country back to the Jim Crow era of voter suppression. How could a minority right wing racist population reek such havoc on 250 years of struggle? Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord continue to help us understand the legal challenges of the day. Right wing extremists are ignoring our laws and stomping on the beating heart of our Democracy. After their podcast today, I preordered Andrew Wiessmann’s new book “Liars Kingdom”. Can’t wait to read it.
I see a straight line from Bush v Gore to this latest disgrace from SCOTUS. Roberts can talk all he wants about not being political. Nobody is fooled. It’s obvious we need court reform and if we ever manage to get this criminal regime out of power, we must push forcefully for that and many other changes. No more pathetic Dems with their Merrick Garlands wussing out of doing what's necessary.
Tell me again, Justice Alito, why the decision in Callais was not a racial gerrymander but a partisan gerrymander as the states of the Old Confederacy sprint to redraw their congressional maps before the midterms.
Pre ordered thanks
I would like to leave this country because the legislative branches have given all their power to their King. I don’t want to live under the cruelty perpetrated by this regime. Our democracy, as we have known it, is gone.
Discussion re Virginia was useful, thanks. I hadn't planned to read it, but I will do so now. That is extremely different than how it has been framed.
I was told recently about a study revealing a defect in my humanity called “suicidal empathy.” According to the study, I have so much empathy that I’ll be killing myself or others. My accuser, believing the study, couldn’t believe my response. I, a person with too much empathy, laugh out loud when I’m told by a study that my empathy is an imminent threat to the lives of others. Something didn’t add up.
I don’t know anyone with too much empathy despite becoming aware of the “empathy is dangerous” concept almost 50 years ago. I still remember reading the words “Capitalism and Freedom” on the cover of a bright green paperback book on every desk as we walked into the first day of an introduction to economics course. I thought the book would be covered in the course, but it was never mentioned. Not once.
I didn’t read the whole book, but I read enough to explain my paradoxical response to being accused of having no empathy about having too much empathy, and I thought I’d share the explanation I gave to my surprised accuser.
“I understood your message. FYI, you’re not the first person to send that message, and I’m not the first person to disagree.
“For example, I agree (and you disagree) with Adam Smith. He described his disagreement in his book, A Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). His message was that things are bad because people don’t have enough empathy for each other, and he argued that we should. He described the benefit of having enough empathy in his next book, The Wealth of Nations (1776).
“And he was proven correct when people followed his advice and it worked. So, they gave Smith’s advice a name. They called it ‘capitalism.’
“Milton Friedman disagreed with Smith and agreed with you in his book, Capitalism and Freedom (1962). His argument was that capitalism, instead of being about the wealth of nations, should be about how fewer people get more money. I assume he was thinking that capitalism is too hard, and that it would be so much easier for him without morality.
“So, in 1776, Americans hated kings, and they solved the “king” problem by adopting capitalism. Then in 1962, Friedman sowed the seed that recreated the problem that everyone thought capitalism had solved.
“Now America is back to having the same king problem it had before the American Revolution. Well not quite the same because the king was in England back then.”
Then I reminded my accuser of something the two of us had discussed in a previous dialogue when I told him that morality is “nonpartisan” (the winner is the winner, and no cheating allowed!), and immorality is “partisan” (do as I say and not as I do).
And then I said, “Isn’t it ironic?”
I laughed out loud in an online reply to my accuser’s comment and I’m still waiting for his response.
I’m not bragging. In fact, I’m a bit embarrassed to realize that I failed to notice the same idea repeatedly expressed for the same half century every time I’ve heard Bob Marley’s voice singing, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.”
👏👏👏👏
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But there is some good new: in an uplifting end to a rough week, we highlight Senator Mark Kelly’s legal team’s argument before a panel of three judges in the DC Circuit. Senator Kelly won below in his case against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his participation with five Members of Congress in a video reminding military members of their duty not to obey unlawful orders. We explain how the oral argument went and why the one judge who raised doubts about his case is wrong factually.
What do you mean by ‘unpack’ used twice?