Anyone surprised by the SCOTUS hearings consumed too much "catnip"

[WarGamer]

"Catnip" is the phrase for news stories created for and directed to a specific audience to provide pleasure to the reader, watcher or listener... so they can roll around in the aroma and feel good.

Don't forget, ALL media, digital, TV, social... all is trying to make a dollar off of you.

Your favorite attorney or former federal prosecutor or former Congressman on TV? Content creators hired by the media to make palatable stories to make the corporation money.

Content creators. No different than the guy on Youtube who buys new iphones and comes up with creative ways to destroy them for clicks... to generate ad revenue.

Colorado is going down 9-0, IMHO. I said so months ago despite what the content creators we saying.

[jimfields33]

1. I think 9-0 as well

The explanations by those who write them will be fascinating.

[Sympthsical]

2. Agree

People were wishcasting instead of forecasting.

There were always major problems with this, and when the liberal justices are piling on about them, it's over.

[WarGamer]

17. +100 nt

[tritsofme]

3. This has been my thought for weeks, many people just weren't willing to hear it.

It was almost as if some folks thought if they could speak with enough confidence, they could manifest their desired result, it was pretty strange honestly.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. even thoug i aint listening to the hearing. from what u all are saying ,

reminds me of the comentary of the winter olympic game sports . esp ice skating . id wish the comentator would shut up during the performance and then analyze the performance after .

[WarGamer]

7. Isn't that the worst? You want to mute it but the music is so important to hear while watching.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. true and good point there .most eggscllent.

[Joinfortmill]

5. I listened. I'm not hopeful that Colorado will win this one. Disturbing how rude some Justices were.

But, a lot of it was over my head.

[Ocelot II]

6. It was always a loser, and not for political reasons.

While the theory advanced by Luttig et al. is pretty persuasive, the big problems are in its application. It will be interesting to see how the various justices view it, but I don't see any pro-Trump bias. Actually, I think the conservative justices would be happy to be rid of him because he's destroying the GOP, but there are too many sticky spots in this case to uphold it - including the possibility that a state controlled by rabid GOPers could turn it against a Democratic candidate on the flimsiest possible claims of "insurrection." And we know they would. Of course 1/6 was a for-real insurrection and that TFG instigated and encouraged it, but they're not going to decide the case by rejecting those facts.

[WarGamer]

8. +100 nt

[FalloutShelter]

9. Goes your loins, kids.

We have to bury this walking corpse and his zombie followers on Election Day!
All of our energy from here on out needs to go to that end.

[WarGamer]

10. GOTV. Did it once, do it again.

[RockRaven]

12. DU is saturated with the stuff...

Tweets, YouTube videos, etc with ALLCAPS words in the title; quotes or clips from bobbleheads on MSNBC saying something could or should happen being celebrated as if it were a fait accompli; predictions by "expert" pundits being touted based on their CVs while their track record of failed predictions is ignored.

[WarGamer]

13. Post. Of. The. Day.

[onenote]

15. +1

Maybe, but probably not, people will be a bit more cautious is assuming that the statements of some "expert" -- including some that seem to be infatuated with making appearances on cable news channels -- can be taken to the bank. This case was never the slam dunk in favor of Colorado that some experts claimed it was -- if anything, it more likely was going to be a slam dunk against Colorado.

Even during the argument, some posters were spiking the football when Trump's counsel was being questioned hard by some of the justices, only to find themselves whipsawed when some of the same justices took apart Colorado's lawyer.

[TwilightZone]

14. Wishful thinking

DU is great for what it is, but I also think it tends to lead many, perhaps all of us at one time or another, to develop false expectations in situations like this. When there's a constant barrage of "expert" opinions about how this should be a slam dunk, it's human nature to feel that maybe the outlook is better than it really is.

I went in with tempered expectations, basically assuming that it would be defeated, though from the sound of it, even those tempered expectations were a bit lofty.

[Cheezoholic]

16. I was with you from the beginning of this case just on the simple fact that

you can't let one state deprive citizens from other states a vote (removal from the ballot in one state deprives voters in other states for that candidate with a vote IMO). Besides it would be a cluster from hell moving forward. I mean if your to young to run obviously self executing, serving more than 2 terms obviously self executing but insurrection isnt so clear on the how, who committed an insurrection therby its self executing is foggy and needs to be decided through other legal means IMO.
I want him on the ballot if the idiots at the RNC want him and I want, can't wait, to see Joe land the final punch in him politically. Biden deserves it. And as we watch Joe in his "Trump goes down, Trump goes down" moment we can further and gleefully watch as the NY case bleeds his company to dust and possibly Capone his ass with tax evasion, watch Alvin Bragg get him for fraud and even voter intimidation, relish in Smith convicting him of all of those federal charges, Fani nailing him and his cohorts for whats being argued here, and finally, watch him get convicted in Fl. in the espionage case for treason.

This case brings up valid arguments in some grey areas from within the Constitution concerning the executive that should be addressed legislatively moving forward, but if the court denies Colorado here (probably will) The other sides going to scream and yell and shoot of fireworks, this was the smallest case against him. The real shit storm is coming his way!