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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amid all of this sanctimonious posturing about the Kochs, please note that the left outspends the right when it comes to dark money:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/11/arabella-advisors-money-democrats/620553/

And the Twitter mob trying to cancel Shapiro should probably know that he has previously recommended other minority candidates (such as Sri Srinivasan and Janice Rodgers Brown) as prospective SC justices. His objection was to Biden's ridiculous identity politics pandering given that Biden said he would only consider a black woman as a nominee. Kind of ironic given that Biden blocked nominations of other minority candidates to federal and SC positions:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1486862347901800450?cxt=HHwWhMC4ya_bsqIpAAAA

You don't have to agree with Shapiro, but [b]cavalierly smearing someone on social media[/b] as a racist and trying to get them fired is pathetic cowardice. [/quote]

PP here. The bolded is fascinating, and maybe one of the least self-aware things I have ever read. The "Twitter mob" didn't dig up an obscure Shapiro footnote from 10 years ago - Shapiro self-published those Tweets! He thought those thoughts, then wrote them down, and hit enter. And yes, we know he likes Srinivasan, because he called him out by name and said that Srinivasan would be a better choice than a yet unnamed nominee and then made sure to emphasize that whoever is nominated will be a "lesser black woman."

How do you think the Chief Justice of the DC Court of Appeals felt about all that? How do you think Georgetown Law, who probably values the relationships they can cultivate with both the DC Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court felt?

You can delete and apologize and it's good that Shapiro did, but yeah, this might get him fired. I'm not rooting for it. [b]But if it happens, it's not going to be the Twitter mob that did it. It's Shapiro's own words and actions.[/b][/quote]

Yup. He should own up to his mistakes and take some personal accountability. 
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