Daily review 29/04/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, April 29th, 2024 - 11 comments
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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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11 comments on “Daily review 29/04/2024 ”

  1. adam 1

    Lets keep ignoring the whipped up aggression.

    Until we get a war.

    Make our leaders fear us.

    Or will get stuck with these jingoists wankers.

    Stop.

  2. adam 2

    Winnie you old bastard – be a populist for once in your life. devil

    https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/gaza_aotearoa_must_support_independent_investigation_into_mass_graves

    And what is in the rubble?

  3. joe90 4

    Principled conservatism failed to deliver the preferred outcomes.

    It had to go. (Jonathan V. Last freebie)

    1. Conservatism

    A few years ago my buddy Stuart Stevens wrote a book called It Was All a Lie.

    His thesis was that the dogma conservatives had professed for 60 years—the love of small government and free trade; the desire for robust foreign policy; the belief that character and accountability mattered—turned out not to be values but rationalizations.

    In Stuart’s view, conservatives had a bunch of groups they disfavored and then worked backwards to concoct an ideological framework to support these prejudices. No, not all conservatives. And maybe not on every single issue. But enough so that the generalization was generally fair.

    When Stuart first published his book I thought it was an interesting idea. The preponderance of evidence that has emerged since 2020 has buttressed his case.

    Yesterday the Supreme Court hinted that maybe conservative legal theory was always a lie, too.

    Donald Trump, as always, is the great revealer.

    […]

    I want to be very clear about what Justice Alito is saying here:

    • Donald Trump attempted a coup, and failed.
    • The criminal justice system is attempting to hold him accountable for this clear violation of the law.
    • But doing so might lead to some other president to attempt a coup.
    • So if someone attempts a coup they must not be prosecuted.
    • Because if you prosecute them, they might attempt another coup.

    The Alito Theory sees a coup as merely an alternate path to power, no more or less valid than an election.2 If a coup is attempted and succeeds, the couper becomes president and faces no consequences. If a coup is attempted and fails, the couper is immune to prosecution and free to attempt another coup in the next election. And perhaps even in the election after that.

    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/conservative-legal-philosophy-was

  4. observer 5

    If you had any doubt that the Philistines have now taken over the country, read this. An interview with the ACT spokesman for arts and culture (he knows or cares nothing about either).

    (Fair warning: it's quite funny if you're in the mood, it's a nightmare if you're not, except it's not a bad dream, it's true).

    Act's arts spokesman once watched a musical (newsroom.co.nz)

    • Anne 5.1

      From the comments section:

      Bruce Rogan says:

      29/04/2024 at 12:56 pm

      I have never been given to seeking divine intervention, but I can see no alternative to getting Jesus to save us from this complete boof.

      Hear, hear to that. 😮

  5. weka 6

    anyone else having problems getting twitter to load?

    • adam 6.1

      anyone else having problems getting twitter to load?

      Nah.

      mind you

      x hates me and everything I stand for.

  6. SPC 7

    A developing trend in Spanish politics – for a right wing group that claims to be exposing corruption simply making stuff up (to attack those on the left) and being published in right wing media.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68919354

    Vox (Latin for voice) Partico and its Manos Limpias (“Clean Hands” caught red handed lying again) of Miguel Bernad – the false witnessing of Franco's remnant. Birther movement trash in the old world.