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heelinhell
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I have a Carrboro, Paris of the Piedmont tee shirt. I bought it 50 years ago and wear it only a couple times a year on very special occasions
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Mulberry Heel
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Fascism is indeed here, folks. Scott Pelley was right in his commencement address when he spoke of successful right-wing attempts to suppress free speech and other rights in the Bill of Rights. The only reason Trumpers yelled so loud in response was because he was telling the truth and they knew it.
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From what I’ve read, this could be another turn of the screw in having Mexico fully embrace being a narcostate … but we’ll have to see. The judiciary was already widely seen as corrupt and this is supposed to be a reform. This includes electing/replacing their Supreme Court.
“… Following a controversial constitutional change that the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, rammed through Congress in September, Mexicans are expected to go to the polls on Sunday and deliver an unprecedented vote to replace half the federal bench — 881 federal judges in all, including the nine justices on the Supreme Court — plus hundreds more in state courts. The other half of the judiciary will be replaced in a second round of voting in 2027.
The process is being sold as a mechanism to clean out an intensely corrupt justice system and bring more democracy to Mexico. But given the ruling Morena party’s overwhelming popularity among Mexican voters, the election will serve mostly to bring the judiciary in line with Morena’s interests.
Most of the roughly 3,400 candidates for federal judgeships were chosen by Morena — including about a third of those vying for positions on the new Judicial Discipline Tribunal, which will have the power to remove judges at all levels. Befuddled voters facing ballots with hundreds of names will probably take their cues from candidates’ known allegiances. Morena is already mobilizing its political machine to elect friendly judges. Members of the party have posted lists of preferred candidates on the internet — to help voters make up their minds.…”
superrific
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I know nothing about this. Could you unpack this statement? Are you saying that these elections are going to push Mexico into narco-stateness or that it will combat that. I'm not sure what "turn of the screw" means in this context.
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Turnout is expected to be low and actively suppressed in areas suffering the violence of the Sinola Cartel civil war — in the areas that are effectively controlled by cartels, the fear is that only cartel-backed judicial candidates will have a chance to win, while on the broader scale the governing party in Mexico is likely to capture most of the judiciary, replacing corrupt judges with probably equally corrupt judges who will work with the party. So this could undermine any checks on the governing party which has significant alleged ties to organized crime in Mexico.
Electing judges is seen as anti-democratic outside the United States because politics overwhelms qualifications in judicial elections and undermines blind justice.
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He may consider it, but I doubt even Trump is dumb enough to do it.
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BlooVooDoo
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Sounds like his supervisor in Moscow is trying to get a bit more productivity out of him.
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What evidence is there that the judges with Morena backing are “corrupt?”
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Don’t want to move past the piece on the Mexican judicial reform.
Nycfan seems to have fallen victim to the NYT and WaPo laundering flimsy claims of “corruption” that have been leveled at AMLO and Morena. There is an impulse among elite American liberals to fear left populism in Latin America. This fear is grounded in the fact that left populist governments destabilize American economic hegemony in the region. More explicitly, the domination of American capital.
But it’s a quicker way to the liberal American heart to cloak these fears in the veil of “authoritarianism” and “democracy.” Ignore the fact that Morena has gotten here by winning multiple elections in a row with huge majorities of working people. Ignore the fact that the judiciary is currently packed full of appointments from previous corrupt administrations. Ignore the fact that we elect judges ourselves in the U.S.
This is just democracy in action. It’s the kind of constitutional reform that is desperately needed here. This is handing power back to the Mexican people. AMLO or Sheinbaum could’ve easily just replaced the judges themselves under review without the judicial reform. They didn’t. Because they are actually concerned with pursuing a democratic and sovereign Mexico.
Nycfan seems to have fallen victim to the NYT and WaPo laundering flimsy claims of “corruption” that have been leveled at AMLO and Morena. There is an impulse among elite American liberals to fear left populism in Latin America. This fear is grounded in the fact that left populist governments destabilize American economic hegemony in the region. More explicitly, the domination of American capital.
But it’s a quicker way to the liberal American heart to cloak these fears in the veil of “authoritarianism” and “democracy.” Ignore the fact that Morena has gotten here by winning multiple elections in a row with huge majorities of working people. Ignore the fact that the judiciary is currently packed full of appointments from previous corrupt administrations. Ignore the fact that we elect judges ourselves in the U.S.
This is just democracy in action. It’s the kind of constitutional reform that is desperately needed here. This is handing power back to the Mexican people. AMLO or Sheinbaum could’ve easily just replaced the judges themselves under review without the judicial reform. They didn’t. Because they are actually concerned with pursuing a democratic and sovereign Mexico.
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Seems like an inflammatory way of expressing the idea.
Paine
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Perhaps, but it’s the truth. Those papers have always engaged in that kind of activity re: Latin America. I’m not particularly concerned with sounding inflammatory on this issue when it has been a parade of inflammatory rhetoric from the interests of capital ever since AMLO’s election. Their disdain for working and poor Mexicans is gross. They can govern themselves.
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I learned long long ago to never bet against Trump being too stupid.
superrific
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I was more referring to the idea that nycfan has "fallen victim to it." In my experience with her, she's pretty savvy and doesn't fall victim to much. I should also add that a person who easily falls victim to propaganda would not be a very good transactional attorney. Literally her job is to make sure her clients don't fall victim to optimism, flim-flam, misrepresentations, etc.
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This is the one who needs to win but this is crazy early:
Despite the absolutely minimal projected margin of victory in the exit poll, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski declares himself the winner.
“We’ve won!”, he starts his speech in Warsaw.
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Savvy educated liberals aren’t immune to propaganda. The liberal papers of record traffic in their own forms of propaganda that are tailored towards liberal professionals, especially when it comes to foreign policy in Latin America.