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No change in the reported news, just a forced change in the lens though which we’re allowed to see the news

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Haha he is! He is bad!

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Time for Supreme Court term limits, and to show as much respect for this Court’s precedents as they’ve shown for other precedent during their time in power

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Wait, they were allowed to LIE at these????? Oh shit

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Wearing my “Ninety? I don’t mind-y!!!!” Biden ‘28 button proudly

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That’s my layman’s understanding of the unitary executive theory? That the whole thing is his toy. Hadn’t even thought of this decision in those terms, but that makes sense… (or I’m miles off the mark). What a deranged country we have at the moment

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They’ve ceded power; they aren’t interested in contesting it. I can’t explain it other than laziness or cowardice.

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Second biden debate performance is entirely verbatim quotes from Heath ledger’s joker, delivered straight to camera

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I agree. I think his “aw shucks I’m just a decent guy” schtick, even if it was a useful foil to trump in 2020, is miles away from the “hell no you won’t bend our institutions to your sick purposes” leader we need right now

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We gotta get serious about court reform. If they act like politicians they need to be regulated like politicians and the body needs to reflect that they are politicians

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“From hell’s heart, i stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee!” ❌ “I don’t much like you.” ✅

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I feel like this also may just be the “who?” effect — if one of these folks got more exposure i think they might move the needle (could do it in either direction)

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you guys on the ed board treat Trump with this odd “wink wink” “we all know he’s awful but isn’t his bluster a bit charming” wryness, like it’s distasteful to remind readers of the very dark shit he has promised to do. But when Biden screws up, you seem to actually get off on pitching a gigantic fit

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I mean i do think Biden shat the bed last night, but you’re 1000% right that there’s this weird and idiotic thing at NYT that’s like “we all know Trump is terrible here in the club but it’s boorish to talk about… but a Biden flub and it’s our **journalistic duty** to go bananas”

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Just making note of the fact that the supreme court just turned the clock back to 1900 and there's no opposition leader who is a decent orator to explain how horrifying that is.

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Why did i subject myself to Ross Douthat’s opinion and presence today? What did i think i would gain?

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I dunno i do think he may have been sick. But… Jesus, if he’s the presidential nominee of a major American political party he has to be able to power through a cold when the country is on the line

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He definitely struggled intensely and I’m furious at the Dem party right now for putting him up there… but any headline on this that doesn’t mention trump’s consistent and outrageous mendacity is a journalistic failure

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President Biden’s debate strategy, dropping dead on stage and being wheeled off in a coffin, is unconventional to say the least … but it might just pay off

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Right now I’m furious at the arrogance to run him again. I don’t know what the next move is. At this point he’d probably have to go along with any switch to avoid a real mess. But man the party failed us here. We should be wiping the floor with trump and we’re barely audible.

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In which flavor do you prefer your horrifying nightmare grandpa? Incredibly hateful evil liar? Or inaudible lost wraith?

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Time to choose, swing voters! Audible racist lies or inaudible word salad! Hooray

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Love our choices for president this year, orange hate demon or inaudible crypt nightmare

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Yeah I’m here or a few frames further. Good lord

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What a shame, i was really loving having to bother an overworked associate over the storewide intercom every time i need any item whatsoever

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BREAKING: Reports indicate that Joe Biden is taking the pill that Bradley Cooper takes in Limitless and is now able to access 100% of his brain

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Shame on Hillary, shame on the lobbyists. How disheartening

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Just gonna repeat this shit ad nauseam until you all get to write gossipy palace intrigue stories about the new Trump presidency aren’t you

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It’s so, so far from news. Just an old man shouting. Always have the impulse to bury the entire stack of these things in every walgreens i go into. Talk about cringe

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Gotta love that centrist playbook. The left questions your policy? They are helping the right!! Looks like the left might win? Undermine them even if it helps the right!!

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Also: watch your pockets in the train stations! My first time ever getting got. I was stupid, flashing cash, wallet unsecured. Just a heads up

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Saint Chappelle took my breathe away. If you’re a stained glass head definitely worth a visit, and quick too (less than an hour)

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Trump suggests biden may enter “final form” before debate and that his “HP bar is gonna go way back up halfway through”

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“Created by a school teacher” It was???? Color me intrigued….

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All due respect, i could never crack the other souls games — felt brutally punishing to die over and over again in the same hallway or whatever. ER is the first time i got into one, because when things got really bad i could always go another direction and find something else (and grow stronger)

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Never occurred to me how good the actress opposite him is here. He’s great but her reaction is equally responsible for making this iconic

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Off topic, but for such a heinous crime it’s weird that she’s serving “freeze frame: ‘So you’re probably wondering how i ended up here’”

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Truly gutter stuff. Really hoping it doesn’t work

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100%. Elevates it from kooky to chilling/gripping by sheer gravitas

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Wise to keep something like that close, lest hoopleheads turn your very fuckin agony into their beady eyed mirth

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In 9000 years archaeologists will discover these and wonder what fucked up god demanded this be built as tribute

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Me restraining my cat while accepting my pizza delivery.

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The quiz that would assign which of the quiz’s author’s terrible sons you are still is so funny to me that i weep every time i read it

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I guess they want the drama? The stakes? The juicy content… Man, we are not doing great

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