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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I’m a bit confused. And you seem a bit unspooled.
I’m not spewing Trumpian anything. I’m telling you what Trump and his followers will do. You want to argue with me about whether Berman made a tactical error. That’s a fair argument. But when you try to defend Berman and I actually agree that what she said is not unusual in a typical judicial setting, but was unwise here, in a unique situation, you lose your mind.
The playing field is different now. Trump plays differently. Berman is an adult. If she cared to trump Trump, she’d have avoided saying what she said. But perhaps like you, she thinks the institutions still control as they did.
The rules you think apply no longer apply. And they might not ever apply again the way you think they ought to apply. Adjust yourself, or have nothing to say.
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No, you're not telling me what Trump and his followers will do. You have internalized what they will say as if it's persuasive to anyone else, which it is not, and you are regurgitating it as if it is the way the rest of us think. When you say Judge Berman was "supposed to" to act to avoid Trump attacking her, you're not describing Trump at all. You're repeating his attacks on her and saying that you believe them.
Whenever you say something like this and get challenged on it, you backtrack and pretend that you're just relating "the rules," "the playing field." That's bullshit. Trump will attack anyone and everyone who doesn't accept his dominance. He attacked Judge Curiel, who did not say anything like what Judge Berman Jackson did. When you suggest that Judge Berman Jackson brought Trump's attacks on herself by doing her job as a job, you are being naive at best. Yes, Trump's attacks are absolutely predictable. That's not an objective reality, it's a choice that Trump and his supporters are making. For some reason, their agency never enters into your thinking -- they are just a fact of nature and you spend your time lecturing the Judge Berman Jackson's of the world about how they ought to behave instead.
If, for just a second, you started from the assumption that Trump and his supporters and their decisions are the problem, then you might have different thoughts about what to do about them, and whether what Judge Berman Jackson should do as a federal judge to uphold the rule of law. You literally seem incapable of thinking those thoughts. Trump's dominance politics resonate deeply with you.
I'm sure Judge Berman Jackson was not surprised that Trump supporters attacked her. She absolutely invited attacks with her decision to say what she said. It does not even seem to have occurred to you that she knew what Stone did, she knew what she was saying, she knew that she would be attacked, and that she thought it was worth it.
