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This is EXACTLY my journey. Every previous time people said he was gonna look old and doddering he was good, better than that even. I assumed it was gonna be exactly the same, but it wasn't just bad, it was worse than my lowest expectations. it felt like a knife I didn't see it coming.

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In retrospect, building all of my online communities and news around politics left me unprepared to take a break for the worst era of politics I’ve ever lived through.

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Team Biden asked us to help change the narrative with a Friday afternoon podcast dump, so here's a troopriffic Hallmark movie featuring people from 90210, Nashville/The OC, American Idol and a hermetic Christian kingdom in Asia rescuing a choir.
Spotify: spoti.fi/3L4qbm1

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I really appreciate this. I mean it. I've been miserable all day and I can't read any news site without almost crying and I just want to listen to something weird and silly. Thanks.

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fair enough! I had genuinely forgotten that he had threatened to stab him to be honest. I just was curious.

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Can I just ask: Why is the cornpop thing so funny? Like, he was a real guy, it was confirmed in reporting. Why does cornpop come up so often for people? I'm genuinely not trying to start a fight I just kind of don't get why this style of joke always shows up.

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You aren't wrong. I'm just really mad. Like, if Biden was this bad in private, someone in a position to should have intervened. And I wish we could dump him because fuck man, he's kind of fucked me. But he's the nominee, there isn't much to do about it.

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I kind of think it's too bad that people don't see this as a success story for an independent fed. When they raised the rates, a lot of people on the left said the fed targets were crazy,but it's basically done everything they wanted. Inflation is way down,unemployment ticked up a half a percent.

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Thank you for your crucial support for Howler the Yeti who is in every conceivable way superior to shit-ass Bernie

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This would actually be a good character bit in a TV show. Like how What We do in the Shadows has that guy who's favorite movie is Oceans 12.

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I am vibrating right now man lmao. Is he free to return to mar-a-lago or does he have to be in the state while he awaits sentencing?

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I still kind of think he's gonna get a not guilty. Like what juror is gonna stick their neck out for law and order when this guy can just call for people to be attacked with impunity?

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I often think of this Atlantic Article where they interviewed a bunch of doctor's about if a CEO should continue to work and every doctor said no and then when they reveal it's dick Cheney's medical records they backpedal:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Big Sean: I give it up to God and he always reply Control your hoes You let her talk to you crazy Me, incredulous: I don’t think God said that to you, Big Sean.

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He's generally right though. My wife's mother literally served plain chicken breast and canned green beans warmed up in a microwave for dinners. My son gets pork bulgogi with sigeumchi namul.

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Being an intellectual used to mean you read a lot of philosophy or science. Then it got defined down to you read a lot of news. Now it just kind of means you like A24 films.

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My key assessments of my kids at any given time is which one will watch a cronenberg movie with me when they’re 16.

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There's a stop on the metro in my city that is literally one of the longest escalators in the world and every time I stand on it all I picture is falling down it and breaking every bone in my body.

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His friend is, of course, an Asian foreign exchange student. His grasp of English? Questionable.

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RE: Ads that ruined songs, whenever I hear It ain't me by Credence I exclusivly think of this dumb as shit wrangler commercial where they play the "Some folks are born made to wave the flag" part and cut out the "it ain't me" part.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPT...

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When I first heard the oral arguments for this case I thought the deal was gonna be that the liberals would sign up for whatever the majority was going to say and then stay out of the J6 trial. Boy did I misread the fucking situation.

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Wouldn't selling the property for a bond basically be a fire sale? Like who's paying the market price on something being sold by someone this desperate.

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I've never heard of anyone snapping in approval except for beetnicks in the 70s. Is this guy older or younger than 50?

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Something about having kids, particularly in the winter, is you are sometimes DESPERATE to take them somewhere. You keep an eye out for new exhibits at museums or winter festivals. I don't think I would have fallen for this specifically but I can see how a parent might if they weren't careful.

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lol, I live in the Netherlands at present! And I agree with you. This feels to me about how new housing got stalled because of funding/nitrogen emissions/worker shortages and people blamed immigrants moving to their neighborhoods for rising rents.

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Yeah it's one of those things where you see more immigrants in your neighborhood and see rents skyrocketing and connect them in your head even though they're not actually related to one another.

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I had a conversation with a relative recently who is opposed to immigration because high cost of housing. That immigrants are taking up all the places to live basically. Caught me off guard at the time, but I wonder how widespread this is, since rents have never been higher.

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Deep catalog of stuff to watch Tubi. Although it was quite jarring to watch Videodrome and have a commercial break for Downy in the middle of government goons shoving a video tape into James Wood's belly.

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Michael said democrats are cross-pressured on this issue and they are. That’s all I’m arguing. Genocide is unpopular generally and Israel is very popular with people older than like 45.

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Ok but like…a LOT of people are one generation older than me lol

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People one generation older than me think of Israel exclusively in the context of the Holocaust and the war with the Arab League. In that context there is little Israel can do wrong.

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Something that I do like about moving here is it allowed me to cut down a lot of meanspiritedness that was clogging my twitter feed. There are a lot of leftists that are deeply unpleasant and cynical, almost nihilistic. They seem to revel in the worst people winning because they get to be right.

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I hadn't realized this about traditional texas chili. Is it's flavor more like carne adovada then?

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Lmao I wish I could read this article but when I click into it I get a Sinclair modal that then redirects to a mystery file from …eBay??

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It’s funny because these convoys are the most replicated internationally and it’s a huge success sometimes (Dutch farmers did this shit then started a party and got 20% of the vote) and in America it wasn’t just unsuccessful but you actively got dumber by hearing about it.

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There are a LOT of "Delivery Kits" these days that are selling very fancy Swanson TV Dinners.

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I used to listen to a state specific politics podcast and before the primary they had a very serious talk about how maybe Hillary won't even be on the ballot after she gets arrested.

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The Prince of Persia ads are extremely funny to me because it is always referred to as "A Ubisoft Original". Which part is "Original" in to a side scrolling metroidvania named Prince of Persia?

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I get that Dutch is a silly language but I need people to stop posting Geert Wilders into my timeline. I already have to see his horrible gurning face enough as it is.

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If Jefferson stepped out of a Time Machine he’d mostly be mad that so many Catholics are on the Supreme Court now.

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It’s basically the mob doing a bust out right? You buy something, sell off all the valuable parts, squeeze the content side of it dry , load it with debt then send it to restructuring after you’ve gotten a bonus?

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