Judges do not ratify the "will of the people." They adjudicate cases based on the law & the Constitution, even if the outcomes don't suit "the people." You can criticize decisions & appeal them. You can pass new laws. But Musk is describing a system totally alien to our own.

The JCPOA was not a solution at all. It was a temporary bandaid that financed Iranian terror operations & eventually would've allowed them to get to a bomb anyway. And if we joined Israel in bombing Iranian facilities, we'd set them back years.

@drsparwaga @BRyvkin It seems like we're the desperate ones right now.

It's currently 0° here in Colorado Springs, so I made a warming comfort dish for dinner: chicken noodle soup. It has rotisserie chicken, celery, carrots, onion, egg noodles, & plenty of herbs. Perfect for a frigid evening. #twittersupperclub

The people had a say already. Judges are appointed by elected officials who were voted in by the people. Just because the popular majority has shifted, as it always does in American politics, that doesn't mean that everything is flipped on its head. Judicial appointments that were made by the duly-elected government are valid. The political compact in a constitutional republic is not merely with the "people" of today, but with our predecessors, too.

@heslep A wrongfully arrested teacher exchanged for a cybercriminal mastermind. The names don't matter. The deal itself does. And it's a bad one.

@Chz_Burger If they're properly audited, there should be little. That's an important if. But the goals of this sort of spending are far more aligned with our foreign policy than are many of the programs they're replacing.

@BRyvkin Not to toot my own horn, but I called that war as the analog to this one way back in February 2022. Let's just hope we have a Disraeli in the White House willing to do a bit of gunboat diplomacy.

That was a pretty bogus impeachment, IMO. He did give Ukraine lethal aid during his first term, breaking with the Obama strategy of non-lethal aid only. But I agree that his current strategy seems more anti-Ukraine than it should be. I think he just wants this war over & thinks the easiest way to end it is by pushing on Ukraine to take a bad deal. It's an approach I profoundly disagree with.

I mean.....no shit? Women's sports get a tiny fraction of the viewership of men's sports, so they're obviously not going to be as highly compensated as the top male athletes out there.

Bro has some weird ass fetishes.

@purplepursuer Saying that judges made wrong decisions about constitutionality does not mean they weren't deciding those cases on what they believed the Constitution allowed. You're making a category error.

If this is true (it seems pretty hyperbolic to me), it is an indictment of our foreign aid bureaucracy. If they're waiting until the moment before expiry to distribute these drugs, their logistics are absolute shite.

@Arrekisu That's false. Lower courts rule on that, too. It's just that SCOTUS is the final arbiter.

@MikeBenzCyber Yeah, I'm not going watch anything involving that vile excuse for a human being.

@Rothamhouse And Ukrainian sovereignty is non-negotiable. Would Moscow like to affirmatively give up its designs on reducing Ukraine to vassal status? If not, why is NATO being taken off the table?

@MikeMcCroskey @heisme2010 And if they're anything like they have been historically, Democrats will do well. Americans like balanced government, even if they say they don't. That's what they vote for almost every single time.

@HoyasFan07 He likes exaggerating. Millions is also easier to say than tens or hundreds of thousands.

@philfCAL What is the job, though? Is it to do whatever is most popular at a moment in time or is it to use judgment to make the best decision given all considerations? That you think this is a distinction without a difference means you struggle to understand what a republic is.