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Alex Bowles
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Kamala would be knives out on all three at once
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Alex Bowles
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Kamala would be knives out on all three at once
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The Neutral Ambassador
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I would bet there are cuneiform tablets with a “posting does nothing” argument on them somewhere. Probably in a British museum, if we’re being real.
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LillianOrlando
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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Alex Bowles
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It's beyond an unexcusable it's totally inexplicable
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Chris Hayes
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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.
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Chris Hayes
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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Alex Bowles
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Oh this was the least of their errors. Not crushing the (relatively) nascent anti-democracy movement when they had the chance was far bigger, as we Too Big to Jail.
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Alex Bowles
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Qualifications? There ARE NO qualifications to be president, aside from having birthright citizenship and being 35. That's it. You can be a literal felon under indictment for many more crimes, and still win the Oval Office.
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Alex Bowles
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Why? Trump would go to his grave before dropping out, and that's assuming the entire GOP wasn't in lockstep behind him which they are. In Biden's case, his condition actually makes a difference to the outcome, as Dems are capable—if not (yet) willing—to have a vote of no confidence.
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Alex Bowles
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I guess they trusted that 74 was too old to run for what could be an 8 year term. Given where we are now, that judgement was entirely correct.
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Alex Bowles
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I'm old enough to remember that part of the calculus behind Biden's VP nod was he was too old to run for president in 2016, and could therefore be relied on not to undermine Obama while Obama was still in office.
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Alex Bowles
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. It is a vote of no confidence by people who are not going to place their confidence in someone showing every sign of rapid and irreversible personal decline. Same goes for the team around him who have been grossly dishonest in concealing Biden's true condition.
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Alex Bowles
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I like it! It's like the traditional emblem of advanced age - the walking cane - but in a more robust and useful form.
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Alex Bowles
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That's your interpretation, sure. There are other interpretations, also valid, that don't imply the kind of deep personal degeneracy that you're describing here.
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Adria
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It’s Friday, have some fun! I’m opening gin shortly.
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Alex Bowles
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This cannot be real
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Alex Bowles
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Yeah, that's the cruel irony of a guy like Gov. Abbott, who proves someone can be a shockingly capable menace, regardless of physical limitations. The thing about e.g. Abbott is that his wheelchair has no connection to his stage in life. The subtext is dramatically different here.
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Jim Zub
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This photo is pure 2024.
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Alex Bowles
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and *that's* how you upstage someone holding a literal puppet
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Dr. Jarret Ruminski
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I've taken an absolutely blissful indica capsule, and it dawned on me that, as kids in the late-80s and early 90s, we consumed an astounding amount of Kool-Aid. And I don't mean metaphorically (as in cult propaganda). No, it was literally gallons of actual Kool-Aid.
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ApocalypticaNow
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Right on time
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Alex Bowles
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Yes, that is what the economist is saying here. By not directly and exclusively acknowledging Trump's catastrophic unfitness at every opportunity, they are, in fact, endorsing it. They are not endorsing it. In fact, they've been freaking out, and even moreso now that Biden is clearly no defense.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.
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Alex Bowles
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She looks like she could string two complete sentences together without trailing off and getting confused
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Alex Bowles
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They're the same story Dave.
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Alex Bowles
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Read the article, it's *absolutely* why. They are freaking tf out. So is the FT.
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Alex Bowles
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I'm sorry, but no reasonable person thinks that's what's going on here.
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Alex Bowles
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Uhhh...the President. The President is the guy. The President who is Joe Biden. That's who the story is about. Joe Biden — who is conspicuously too infirm to do the job he's in the running for.
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Alex Bowles
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Why would I hire someone who is, by his own admission, not up to the the job - while being unscrupulous enough to take people's money anyway?
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Alex Bowles
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Honestly, it depends on the person. If they're sophisticated enough to recognize the same image can have different meanings depending on the context, I'm sure they can conclude this isn't about them.
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Alex Bowles
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I don't know anyone saying they can't vote for Biden because he's old. They'll vote for a moldy sandwich if they think it'll stop Trump. The issue is that they don't believe the sandwich or Biden can do that, so they're demanding that the party put forward a candidate who can win and serve.
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Alex Bowles
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Maybe because that's not what this is about? People who are shocked by his decline aren't refusing to vote for him. They're just very pessimistic about his odds of beating Trump, while recognizing there is still (just enough) time to run an more capable alternate.
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Alex Bowles
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Uhh, this is exactly *why* they're running this story — because the one person in a position to respond to the Court's overreach is clearly not up to the job of stopping the guy who will end the Republic with the power he has just been handed.
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Alex Bowles
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This isn't about physical mobility and I think you know it
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Alex Bowles
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That's one of the reasons the country introduced term limits for Presidents
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Alex Bowles
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Congress isn't running against Trump.
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Alex Bowles
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Precisely why roles that demand mental acuity - especially in life or death situations - have mandatory retirement ages (e.g., surgeons, pilots)
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Alex Bowles
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It's not ableist to point out that the guy is fundamentally unable to do the job.
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Alex Bowles
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You not only have knowledge of their intent, you don't even have a way to infer intent, except what's clear; this is a story about a guy who has clearly aged out of his ability to do the job.
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Alex Bowles
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FDR is dead and has been for the better part of a century. I promise, he is taking no offense whatsoever.
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Alex Bowles
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Maybe ask one? Just don't make the mistake of presuming you know the answer before you've actually spoken with them.
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Alex Bowles
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Like what?
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Alex Bowles
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No.
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Alex Bowles
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Maybe it's because they understand the stakes and are freaking tf out because they know Biden isn't up to the task. Also, that opinion dropped on Monday afternoon, London time, and this is a weekly news magazine.
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Adam Bonin
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I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump posted an online video calling for a "unified reich" in the fine print. That was only 44 days ago.
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Alex Bowles
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They're easy to spot in a crowd
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geoffrey
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i mentioned this before but the last week or two has fully clarified that the rest of our lives is a drag-out fight against the supreme court that starts with priming the public to enthusiastically support — or at the very least resist decorum-based media calls against — completely rebuilding it
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Radley Balko
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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Alex Bowles
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It's just going to be booted judges, stomping on people's faces forever