Sasho Todorov
@sashotodorov.bsky.social
Large waist, buthisface, and a big bank.
Qualifications: Vanderbilt J.D.
Official Capacity: Just Some Guy
Admissions: only when in a contemplative mood.
Qualifications: Vanderbilt J.D.
Official Capacity: Just Some Guy
Admissions: only when in a contemplative mood.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I mean, the challenge with this is that *GRRM* tends to see less ambiguity in his POV characters than the audience does. GRRM often talks about Daenarys and Drogo's love being real. The "it's a biased POV" take tends to be the fans seeking a way out of something they dislike.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I mean, the challenge with this is that *GRRM* tends to see less ambiguity in his POV characters than the audience does. GRRM often talks about Daenarys and Drogo's love being real. The "it's a biased POV" take tends to be the fans seeking a way out of something they dislike.
Ooooh I'm dumb it's Malvern Hill.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ooooh I'm dumb it's Malvern Hill.
Fun fact: 0.25% of the profits from Phantom Menace were used to purchase surplus ex-East German mortar munitions for the LTTE.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Fun fact: 0.25% of the profits from Phantom Menace were used to purchase surplus ex-East German mortar munitions for the LTTE.
Shiloh with a really wonky depiction of Pittsburgh landing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Shiloh with a really wonky depiction of Pittsburgh landing.
I feel like the South Africans getting routed in the DRC was the nail in the coffin for any such ventures, but the opening shot has to be Nigeria backing off on intervening in Niger because its Army was incapable of doing it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I feel like the South Africans getting routed in the DRC was the nail in the coffin for any such ventures, but the opening shot has to be Nigeria backing off on intervening in Niger because its Army was incapable of doing it.
Winkler starts off with the position that Citizen's United is bad and then tries to construct history so that it best fits his position that citizen's united is bad.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Winkler starts off with the position that Citizen's United is bad and then tries to construct history so that it best fits his position that citizen's united is bad.
The latter did seem to be increasingly on the table, potentially just for CRs, potentially for wider legislation, and I think that was the primary motivator for the gang of cowards. The cowards were the dem senators most enamored with the filibuster.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The latter did seem to be increasingly on the table, potentially just for CRs, potentially for wider legislation, and I think that was the primary motivator for the gang of cowards. The cowards were the dem senators most enamored with the filibuster.
The underlying problem was that the Dems couldn't sign on to a clean CR after the GOP recissions over the summer, which basically ended any trust over clean CRs. So that ended up pushing them into the shutdown fight.
Frankly the endgame was either ACA or ending the filibuster.
Frankly the endgame was either ACA or ending the filibuster.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The underlying problem was that the Dems couldn't sign on to a clean CR after the GOP recissions over the summer, which basically ended any trust over clean CRs. So that ended up pushing them into the shutdown fight.
Frankly the endgame was either ACA or ending the filibuster.
Frankly the endgame was either ACA or ending the filibuster.
Age and being terminally senate brained.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Age and being terminally senate brained.
As much as poasters want this to be about the gang of eight cowards wanting reliable flights, the real answer is that this was the group of senators most enamored with the filibuster and most scared of it going away.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
As much as poasters want this to be about the gang of eight cowards wanting reliable flights, the real answer is that this was the group of senators most enamored with the filibuster and most scared of it going away.
The real end result was either ACA subsidies or the GOP nuking the filibuster, and we were increasingly approaching the latter.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The real end result was either ACA subsidies or the GOP nuking the filibuster, and we were increasingly approaching the latter.
Which bleeds into the whole issue that the cucked eight cavers voted to surrender primarily to preserve the filibuster, because senators hate doing their job more than they hate anything else.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Which bleeds into the whole issue that the cucked eight cavers voted to surrender primarily to preserve the filibuster, because senators hate doing their job more than they hate anything else.
Schumer isn't up until 2028 (same year as several of the cowards) and he is almost certainly not running again. Normally, these ringlead surrenders include the ringleader as the basic price of other people being willing to go along with it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Schumer isn't up until 2028 (same year as several of the cowards) and he is almost certainly not running again. Normally, these ringlead surrenders include the ringleader as the basic price of other people being willing to go along with it.
Except in March he put himself out to take the hit as well. Normally these arranged surrenders include the guy ringleading the surrender as well, as a basic bargain to give some cover to the people going along with it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Except in March he put himself out to take the hit as well. Normally these arranged surrenders include the guy ringleading the surrender as well, as a basic bargain to give some cover to the people going along with it.
There's no way in hell that an arranged surrender on this doesn't include Schumer. The cowards would not take the hit for this without requiring him to make a token signal on being in the game himself.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
There's no way in hell that an arranged surrender on this doesn't include Schumer. The cowards would not take the hit for this without requiring him to make a token signal on being in the game himself.
For once this is unfair - Schumer actually (somehow) held the line on this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
For once this is unfair - Schumer actually (somehow) held the line on this.
The roots of the equal protection clause applying to corporations lies in the fact that a corporation is a cooperative individual effort. While it gains its own personhood through juridical approval, there's no way to limit corporate personhood without imposing on individual rights.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The roots of the equal protection clause applying to corporations lies in the fact that a corporation is a cooperative individual effort. While it gains its own personhood through juridical approval, there's no way to limit corporate personhood without imposing on individual rights.
Winkler is a smart guy, but his scholarship is very blinded.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Winkler is a smart guy, but his scholarship is very blinded.
Reposted by Sasho Todorov
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
To be pithier, the problem with Mahanism is that you often eventually run out of someone else's bodies.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
To be pithier, the problem with Mahanism is that you often eventually run out of someone else's bodies.
Yeah, economics is great, but you do actually have to produce at the line of contact. All the GDP in the world didn't prevent the ruinous collapse in France in 1940.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Yeah, economics is great, but you do actually have to produce at the line of contact. All the GDP in the world didn't prevent the ruinous collapse in France in 1940.