Judge Rips Trump Administration For Games Its Played In Rushed Census Case | Talking Points Memo

A federal judge didn’t hold back in recounting the Trump administration’s sketchy behavior in the case challenging its decision to rush the 2020 census.


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The Republican Party’s years long touting themselves as the party of Law and Order is dead, has been dead for a long time, and will remain dead as long as the existing jack booted thugs are anywhere near the seat of power. They are God damned liars.

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“Then Fontenot filed another submission that “tried to disavow” those remarks”

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If you’re going to concoct a story, then you need to stick to narrative, if not you’re going to have to explain why and what changed.
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Hmmm, ‘pretextual.’
That sounds familiar.
ETA: Like how Emmet Sullivan described DoJ’s rationale for terminating the Flynn prosecution.
Is this just something about this administration’s legal filings, or something?

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To be fair, let’s not get distracted: they were never the party of “law and order.” “Law and order” is and always has been nothing but a giant racist dogwhistle foghorn coming from them.

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If not for racism they’d have no policy at all.
It would be interesting to try and play out a scenario where they got their heart’s desire and all the black, brown, and yellow people were swept out of the country. Then what would be their new thing that they fight for?

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That’s my recollection as well.

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Setting women back again.

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:heart:X​:100:

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Tax policy for billionaires uber alles.

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Before 2016, the GOP Base was catered to, pre Nomination, then pivoted out of relevance when the POTUS candidate turns more to the Center.

HuffPo had a number of headlines in 2016 which said:

“There is No Pivot”

No…there never was, in 2016…not in 2020…and there never will be for this edition of the GOP.

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They are not skilled liars at all.

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Bookends…for non-$$$$$$$$ people, the GOP’s fiscal policies give them more money…and on the other end of the financial continuum, racism is 110% of the GOP’s appeal.

So, for the U.S., the S.O.P. for the GOP is Oligarch/Racist

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Well it’s a good thing that they’re not good at multi-tasking.

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Trying to pick up after these childish idiots is going to be like trying to clean up the house of a 5 star hoarder, and the only question will be how many things were screwed up through purposeful malevolence and how many were rendered inoperable through complete and total incompetence and ignorance.

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Not only can’t they shoot straight, they can’t even keep their lies straight. :man_facepalming:

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Shoot first, fabricate alibi second.

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Has anyone checked to see if Wilbur is actually alive, or just asleep?

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It would be hard to outsource fruit harvests and meat packing to Asia, but that is really what Bush the Lesser style “guest worker” programs are for.

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