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Analyzing the influential network behind Supreme Court appointments, focusing on key accomplice C. Boyden Gray and his background.
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Well, one of the people that most people don't know about is Seabroiden Gray. And he was the White House counsel for George Herbert Walker Bush. He's the person who helped get Clarence Thomas installed on the court.
And by the time John Roberts was nominated to the DC Circuit and then the Supreme Court, Gray was basically orchestrating an outside
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Ok. So I study authoritarian regimes for a living. I spend most of my time thinking about how Russia's dictatorship works. But one of my personal side-projects involves looking at authoritarian theorists closer to home. The most prominent by far is Curtis Yarvin. https://t.co/LnkVPpyydL
An analysis of the political calculations and expectations surrounding John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination and confirmation.
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Supreme Court nominations of the president. Their hope was that he would essentially at worst be a Rehnquist figure.
And Rehnquist had a lot of, well, was very conservative and had a down the line conservative voting record and also came under scrutiny for some sort of some personal questions or questionable decisions in his past.
So am I getting
... See moreIn another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor... See more
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Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman:
"Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in an even number, you're in, and if it... See more
Pirate Wiresx.comElon figured out that if you control OPM (HR for the entire federal government) and the Treasury payment system (outlays for the entire federal government) you can zap any government program not explicitly authorized by statute and no one can do anything about it
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