The worst people
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Andrew Gelman alerted me to this unbelievable — this is a rhetorical phrase; nothing is unbelievable in America 2024 — group of legal arguments, being put forth by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is asserting simultaneously that Americans have a sacred constitutional right to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president, AND that basic principles of Justice and Equity require that Kennedy’s name be removed from the presidential ballot in any state where its presence might harm the candidacy of one Donald J. Trump:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking increasingly bizarre and contradictory positions in his ongoing crusade to inject pandemonium into the 2024 election. Right now the former third-party candidate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to restore his name to the ballot in New York, asserting a constitutional right to run for president in the state. At the same time, he is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to remove his name from the ballot in that state, asserting a constitutional right not to run there. Moreover, because it is too late to print new ballots in Wisconsin, Kennedy is demanding that clerks manually place stickers over his name on some 4 million existing ballots. Election officials say this untested improvisation could jam up voting tabulators, making it impossible to scan ballots in a key swing state on Election Day and requiring a drawn-out hand count instead.
That may well be the point: Kennedy’s tactics reflect an evident desire to sabotage the efficient administration of the election and undermine trust in its outcome. He appears eager to aid Republican candidate Donald Trump by acting not as a surrogate but as a chaos agent, sowing confusion and doubt at every turn.
At this point, RFK Jr. is running Schrödinger’s campaign, simultaneously seeking and disavowing the presidency in different states. After striving to get his name on the ballot in as many places as possible, Kennedy suspended his third-party run last month, endorsing Trump over Kamala Harris. The former candidate is now trying to take his name off the ballot in battleground states for fear that he might siphon off votes from Trump. Yet he is still fighting to keep his name on the ballot in other states, including New York. It is not entirely clear why Kennedy cares about staying on the ballot anywhere; his overall strategy, however, reflects an intent to destabilize the election and abridge the early voting period, as he did in North Carolina.
Kennedy was booted off the ballot in New York in August after a judge found that he had falsely claimed residence in the state on his nominating petition. (Smoking-gun evidence proved that he lied about living as a tenant at the listed address.) Every lower court affirmed that decision, agreeing that the false residence invalidated his candidacy. Yet Kennedy is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to restore his name to the ballot in an emergency order. New York has already begun printing and mailing ballots, so this eleventh-hour change would massively disrupt early voting—but again, as in North Carolina, that seems to be the point. Kennedy’s lead counsel,
Guess, gentle reader, what name comes next in this sentence.
Oh never mind: The answer is Mr. Amy Chua, alias Jed Rubenfeld, wayward husband of the woman who is 73% responsible for inflicting JD Vance upon the world, by getting My Oxy Romance, aka Hillbilly Elegy, published by a tony imprint, and then reviewed by credulous liberals voyeuristically peering into the heart of the Appalachian darkness.
Hey let’s check out what else Jed has been up to recently, for valuable consideration as they say in Contracts:
More recently, Rubenfeld has become one of the country’s leading scholars on the constitutional implications of social media censorship, arguing that government pressure combined with behind-the-scenes communications and concerted action can turn social media censorship into a First Amendment violation.[14][15][16][17] He has argued this theory in federal court, representing Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit organization that publishes about supposed harms associated with vaccines, in a lawsuit against Facebook.[18][19]
Crank magnetism is closely related to grifter magnetism, which is why all these people eventually make their slow, sneaking way, step by step, mile by mile, south, down at last to the land of Donald.