In which we post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing - or neither - tweets

Interesting if true

corman made a movie called The Fast and The Furious in '54. when tf&tf '01 was in prepro part of the deal with corman to get title rights was that he reserved the right to numbered sequels. they legally couldn't make "the fast and the furious 2," so 2f2f, f&f, f5, etc https://t.co/tr3XMlZJUs

— noisedyke!! (@xheartemoji) May 17, 2024

 

https://t.co/QqVXCOQq3j pic.twitter.com/YvQzZwJoHt

— Dex User (@Jester_Th0mas) May 16, 2024

 

How can anyone pretend that the Supreme Court isn’t a judicial arm of the Republican Party, when congressional Republicans are openly celebrating the fact that it is a judicial arm of the Republican Party? https://t.co/hbRRrxsn8u

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) May 19, 2024

 

We’re so drowning in political outrage, so inured to it, that the Post's recent news scoop--Trump solicited oil tycoons for $1 billion given the gusher of tax breaks, leases & permits he'd shower on them as president--was a one-day story. My column:https://t.co/JnNbhOcLoX

— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) May 19, 2024

 

There are absolutely not enough Black people in positions of decision making power at America’s newsrooms, which is why this hateful, racist pardon is not the national news story it should be. https://t.co/RRrdzbGRl3

— Jamesetta Williams 💕 (@jalexa1218) May 18, 2024

 

If there the NYT still had a Public Editor — or if, after the paper eliminated that position, NYT editors would engage rather than wave away outside queries — reporting patterns like this, which 90% of the time break the same way, would be worth exploration. https://t.co/dOJsGt2qk3

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) May 18, 2024

 

Sure we will. The Times has almost 6 months to pretend to not know things everyone else knows.

 

looking forward to Trump v. Obama 2028.

which the Supreme Court will nullify on the grounds that a President can’t serve a third term after he already served two consecutive terms. But a third term that’s a second consecutive term, that’s cool, because of Originalism.

 

And yet the Biden negativity beat is evergreen.

 

Having mastered submarine engineering, bridge design, Russian military history, and Rawlsian political theory, I will now proceed to explain helicopter crosswind power failures and the Islamic Republic of Iran’s presidential line of succession....(1/37)

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 20, 2024

 

*tears up my pre-written story about Biden's speech being interrupted by (10) protesters*

Well, despite the lack of protesting it was still a bad day for Joe Biden... https://t.co/Y4hXI5xt3x

— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) May 20, 2024

 

Pro tip: don’t run your country in such a way that people greet reports of your death with celebratory dancing and fireworks https://t.co/jHnneUULjC

— Joshua Livestro (@JoshuaLivestro) May 20, 2024

 

The thing not to forget about all this is that Daniel Perry was tried by a jury of his peers, in which all of these issues - self-defense, open carry, etc. - were fully litigated, and the jury found him guilty of murder. Abbott is overriding that decision for political reasons.

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 17, 2024

 

The point of the pardon is to demonstrate that open-carry (and the 2nd amendment in general) applies only to white people. https://t.co/M87p2QqAGh

— Tom Hilton (@TVHilton) May 17, 2024

 

I generally don't blow up my money through fireworks, but I will probably celebrate in similar fashion when the orange baboon dies.

 

I don't drink, but I'll probably have a lot of scotch that night.

 

That day and the next few will be good days for liquor store owners and anyone who sells ammo.

 

Stock up on YOOHOO before the rush!

 

And then what?

Vote for me so I can do absolutely nothing in your lifetime about the corrupted court.

Now…if Dems (Biden chief amongst them) wanted to campaign on the fact that the court is corrupted…and because there is zero chance the Dems will ever have a senate supermajority necessary to remove said corrupt justices via impeachment/removal…that the only path forward is to expand the court (or live with it)…I’d be down for that messaging. Anything else is just pointless noise.

 

Yes, Dems should talk about expanding the court. But IMO for now that’s best left to fringier Dems. Biden and Jeffries and Schumer should be pounding home the idea that our courts don’t work. Then it can be an issue in the 2028 presidential race.

This shit takes time. It always does.

 

Just get high AF. You’ll feel much better the next day.

 

Out of my depth here, but couldn't Dems with a majority in both chambers try to make the SCOTUS adhere to the same code of conduct as the rest of the judiciary? Can't they also (under the same premise of majorities) somehow change the works of the Appeals process so there's no judge shopping with extreme cases that end up in front of SCOTUS?

Finally, what would it take for Biden to expand the court to lets say 15 judges and name all the new 6 members and create some sort of rotating panels of 5 judges so the SCOTUS becomes way more efficient in hearing cases?