on top of everything else, the current discourse has me craving pasta

i'm basically with you on this. the optics are bad, the power dynamic is bad, but it's bad either way. the problems go much deeper than "caving" - primarying people is fun but not a structural solution to having elected a party that doesn't want to live in a society or a republic

Andy's book is a good place to start (as are other post-Watergate reform books maybe), but I'm with you on this and would love to chat further at some point if you're interested, even just to share resources and look at disconnections between IR and American

what is the gig where one doesn't get criticized? i am tempted to send kavanaugh my teaching evals every semester

I believe @rudalev.bsky.social addresses it as a post-Watergate reform in The New Imperial Presidency. Just tooling around finding examples for class I found an EO from Bush invoking it as part of the war on terror.

i saw that take from someone on here and really liked it

i've been feeling an IEEPA rabbit hole coming on for a bit - maybe IPE folks deal with it more, but I feel like it doesn't come up much in presidency/American circles and it should.

in ways that would sound good and make promises he would never, ever even try to pull off

i will also never be over how much he lied in the debate where we all proceeded to have a meltdown about Biden's age. Yes, Biden was old. Yes, a second term would have been rough, possibly finished by Harris, almost certainly cringe, etc. but Trump just used the opportunity to lie

The man who eats $200 steaks, has his meals delivered by servants on gold plates, says he doesn’t want to hear anymore about affordability. The political ads write themselves
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

amazing (my friends and i argued for 5 years about the definition of a salad, culminating in a truly trolling snickers salad at Friendsgiving)

but aren't exams the bread and butter of law school courses?

Youngkin wins, the press goes on and on and on about how Biden's presidency is over. One train derailment and the press goes apoplectic over Buttigieg. This whatever the fuck is going on with the plane crashes and the shellacking in the election. NYT: Maybe women are a problem in the workforce 🤪

thanks! it was a turning point of sorts. we are an awesome and gender-balanced department now, though a work in progress on other diversity fronts.

oh! i i did not realize that. Your mother in law is the real hero here, and I hope she is doing well.

(you might think i'm being sarcastic but actually i was the second woman when i joined my current department, and i'm pretty sure it was the final straw for one of my colleagues to leave. i took his office.)

you can still analyze elections, using data to eliminate sweeping claims, look at patterns etc.