Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Aug
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That's a great Bible verse. I like that one. I like that one a lot. You know, it's remarkable. I mean, Michelle Obama notably didn't show up at all. Apparently, she told the press that she had a scheduling conflict while she's on her extended vacation in Hawaii.
Yeah, but I mean, what Karen did there, I mean, it is pretty remarkable given the pressures in that room. I mean, obviously she knew every eye was trained on her, every camera, every photographer there. And she just sat there, which is, you know, it's a small act, but that is a major act of defiance, especially given the way her husband is.
Mike Pence jumped up, shook his hand, you know, did the, you know, I'm a sober, responsible person thing.
Yeah, there was a... A lot of interesting body language there. What was it with George Bush tapping Obama on the belly? It's sort of like, thanks for taking one for the team guy. But you know, I've read there's a lot of people upset that Barack Obama and others didn't have more of a Karen Pence type act of defiance against Trump. I am not sure what the right thing to do
Is there, I mean, are you really going to, like, stage a fight at Jimmy Carter's funeral? No.
Yeah, I kind of felt like you could see the conflict in Trump's mind in that clip that he knows being buddy-buddy is bad for his street cred, right, with the MAGA base. But this is actually what he wants. He wants to be in the president's club. He wants to be the guy that is acknowledged and respected at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
And he kind of, in some of the pictures, really looked, I mean, honestly, for the first time in a long time, it looked like he was enjoying himself. Yeah. which is weird to have that amount of enjoyment at a funeral. But I do think this speaks to what really motivates Trump.
In the second, if Obama was ever going to put himself in this position, it seems like he's taken himself out of it for the indefinite time being. If Obama started giving speeches, started supporting candidates, started becoming active in public life in a way that posed a challenge to Trump's authority and power, Trump would flip like a dime again.
But the reason why I think he can be buddy-buddy with Obama, I'm not speaking to Obama's side of it, is that Obama is no longer an obstacle to him.
It should. It should.
It's uncomfortable to see them all getting along together. I probably would have done what Michelle Obama did is just not go at all. That's probably not the right thing. The right thing is probably what Karen Pence did. I mean, what do you do? Do you ask for separate seating arrangements? Sure. You know, Obama, Bush.
Yeah. Yes.
Thou shalt sit next to all former presidents according to... Anyway, these fuckers.
Yeah, here's my read of the situation. Number one, good ruling. Number two, bad that it's only 5-4. Number three, this is helpful in going forward if I'm looking for the silver lining, and that it further draws a line between immunity for official acts, which is broad and alarming, and and personal acts, right? Like this is a new world that we're in.
The Supreme Court has ruled that Trump and any other president has immunity for official acts. What this further clarifies is that he cannot get away with everything There is a line here. You can't pay a porn star to cover up information to further your campaign. That is not an official act. Okay. So now we do have some kind of line. Again, I'm looking for silver linings here.
Yes. And so while we are all rightly concerned about the broad immunity ruling... we also should be careful to cling to what constraints we can have. And we will need to further define what can be personal acts from official acts, but things to further his campaign and further his political interests I think we can feel comfortable drawing a line there and fighting for that.
And also, we should remember that this broad immunity does not extend to other people in the White House outside of the president who may carry out official unlawful orders. Now, this is somewhat nuanced because Trump does have the pardon power, which we fully expect him to exercise in pardoning January 6th rioters coming up here, but that would be another step there.
And so as he goes into his second term with all of these plans to expand his power and stamp out independence at federal agencies, that immunity does not apply to everyone at the Department of Justice, to everyone at the Department of Homeland Security, at the Department of Defense.
And we should be very clear about that and make that distinction known to everyone who is entering that administration.
I am inclined to think and I'm saying think because I don't have enough information to fully believe this is true. And maybe it's just kind of what I'm hoping. is that recognizing the fact that these judges are political actors, are they essentially sort of hiding behind Justice Barrett and allowing her to take the hit?
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