Isaac Demme

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@conorjrogers https://t.co/Jk1jHdaCQG still holds up

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@benzostraydogs Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (an attempt to cash in on Bruce Lee mania by people who clearly hated him and every martial arts movie ever)

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Periodic reminder that virtually every major elected official claims, or tries to claim, that they are an outsider, a rebel, a maverick taking on “the establishment.” The President, Vice President, and speaker of the House talk that way. So did Barack Obama. Ted Cruz. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Jim Jordan do it, when their party is in power and out. When they are committee chairs or ranking members etc. Even partisan media does it. Everyone wants to be “the resistance” to some nebulous establishment no one claims membership in.

You can’t run a stable, serious, government when the people in power refuse to accept responsibility for being in power. None of them are “outsiders” taking on “elites.” They are all insiders and elites blaming other elites for their collective failure to do their jobs.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@ZaxxonGalaxian @eesavka A third of all SCOTUS rulings are unanimous and another third are some combination that can't be predicted by partisanship. You are both focusing on media narratives rather than the actual record.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@Arrrghonaut @ZeldaZealot It does!

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@ANiculitcheff @ZeldaZealot Wait until you read about the Scandinavian Biker Wars

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@HistoryBoomer Why would I stop celebrating the divinely granted victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg every November?
#reasonfortheseason

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@Harvinatortnxt @mike_frags @EWErickson It's like the perfect example of the radical disconnect between the SCOTUS of progressive media (6 corrupt Trump-enablers + 3 principled judges), the SCOTUS of conservative media (3 activist liberals, 2 principled conservatives, and 4 corrupt squishes) and the real SCOTUS.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@Harvinatortnxt @mike_frags @EWErickson Hilarious that you use that example when the "Kavanaugh stops" (suspicion justified only by race) are something the real Kavanaugh called unconstitutional in a bland upholding precedent opinion.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Periodic reminder that “You didn’t tweet about what I think you should have tweeted about” is one of the lowest forms of Twitter replies. Relatedly: “You didn’t tweet what I wanted you to tweet about on my timetable” is also very dumb. Your expectations are not my obligations.

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

Bad guys often agree with your politics.

We need more people voting in primaries who think a person’s qualifications to hold a position of public trust include more than angry vitriol directed at our political opponents.

Character matters. Vote like it.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

A perk of being politically tribeless is being able to declare that Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, and Graham Platner are all personally unfit for office without having to twist myself into a pretzel trying to explain some hackish partisan double standard. Principles over party.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss And, based on the method of virus delivery, it seems the aliens were running MacOS

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@frischa @ArmandoNDK Checking his concurrence, Kavanaugh acknowledges the same phrasing in 8 USC 1401 but argues that the principles of interpretation for statutes are different for the principles of interpretation for the Constitution (a point he has argued in other cases, rightly or wrongly)

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@frischa @ArmandoNDK My apologies I confused two different issues.
A) The distinction between the 1866 Civil Rights Bill and the 14th Amendment (which do have different text).
B) The distinction between the 14th and 8 USC 1401 (adopted in 1940 intentionally using the same wording).

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@JohnAllenPaulos It wasn't anywhere near close.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@kewhittington Zero justices agreed with the administration's position. Zero.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@dilanesper I thought the same when I saw the lineup, but after reading the opinions, only Alito goes full MAGA. Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all have reasonable and nuanced opinions with strong arguments.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@JoshRos83402777 @PamLappin @whignewtons Only Alito claims that.

[Isaac Demme @IsaacDemme]

@PamLappin @whignewtons Only Alito seems to think it's totally OK.
Kavanaugh thinks the EO is definitely unlawful but it's an open question whether it's unconstitutional.
Thomas and Gorsuch think part of it was constitutional but the rest was maybe (Thomas) or definitely (Gorsuch) unconstitutional.