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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, he's eminently punchable
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Digital nobody. GenX.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, he's eminently punchable
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Hamm's is pretty great, tho. Just classic.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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You're right, high stakes conversations with other heads of state, opposition leaders in Congress, important figures in the business world... None of those things are that important 🤷🙃🙃🙃
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Maybe having civilization in all its iterations be based around narcissism cults at the centers of power was not such a great idea after all
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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They truly hate that their job involves anything meaningful at all. Would rather it just be gossip with extreme social consequences. If Trump arrests real journalists they'll be so happy to be snide to each other how people whose work they were jealous of deserved what they got.
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Charles Johnson
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Just have to note that the black commentators I’ve seen on the Biden issue have some of the sanest takes by far.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Stephenson has always been overrated. Had a good first novel with Snowcrash, anything I've read since was frankly fairly tedious
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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File under "Underrated events" -- the Panama Papers
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Look, let's just see how he does in this interview, etc, but it really does seem like this is a where there's smoke, there's fire situation. We know the media are psychotic and untrustworthy, but the campaign needs to be able to address this and it's pretty simple to do if the man is capable...
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Like, yes, ok, the media owns some of this. But also ... if you have a campaign, literally any of those are gigaquake events to change the tide and frame what you're going to do and take that message to the voters, and how exactly is it the campaign can't capitalize on it? That's the issue
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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This week SCOTUS killed Chevron deference, gave Trump total immunity, and Trump was credibly tied to Epstein, and it seems to me if your campaign somehow seriously can't find a way to then change the topic of conversation in the newspapers or stop your party panicking, what are we doing here exactly
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Yes, and also, the man's been doing stump speeches literally his whole life. That's some near automatic pilot stuff in a lot of ways. Thinking on your feet, responding with nuance to a challenging question, those things matter. Vigorously reading off a teleprompter ain't that.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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The United States, 2024: A world where everyone's short term incentives are overwhelming, unavoidable, and deeply wrong.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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"Listen to the American people" is understood correctly here to be equivalent to saying step aside, I think. They all know what polls say about voters' concerns regarding Biden's age.
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Parker Molloy
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My latest newsletter is about how precarious content on the internet truly is. www.readtpa.com/p/i-want-my-...
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Michigan, lol. Also Boise. Folks love to blow shit up. Bombs bursting in air, indeed.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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also "if/when you lose, there's no lame duck season, the next guy arrives tomorrow at 10am" is a big UK W vs the US system, we should totes get rid of that
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Free idea for Biden: drop a court packing plan right now and that’ll change the conversation REAL quick
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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They're all perfectly fine with the Hunger Games. They're sure they'd be the ones in the Capital District doing fancy things and gossiping about how the people they used to work with pissed off President Snow and now nobody's seen them for two months. 🙃
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Tim
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Bush v. Gore was one of the many huge tipping points where Republicans realized that the "opposition party" would simply roll over and take it and that they could do so much more.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Where we're at now: Everybody go vote and hope these fascists don't overturn it on equally specious grounds.... And I keep coming back to Bush v Gore. That never should've been tolerated, but nobody had the guts to stand up to them. Seems like exhibit A in "how we got here." Such a bad scene.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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when we say a second Trump term will be the end of meaningful elections in America, we mean it
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Seems a super banal point but I think it's pretty relevant that the NYT, etc, who surely know how to create controversy, will 100% guaranteed not make a stink about this. But if, say, Dems were on the brink of passing single payer healthcare, you know they'd say it was "dangerous for America." 🙃
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upfromsumdirt
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aight. time to put in work.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Now is a great time to download and learn how to use Signal.
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Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
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I spent a summer in Beijing a couple of years after Tiananmen. Most of the people I interacted with seemed fairly happy. Also, they held a mass execution in a soccer stadium and who the hell knows if they were guilty or just pissed off the wrong people.
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Emily L. Hauser
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Had we listened to Anita Hill, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to the women sexually abused by Trump, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to Christine Blasey Ford, we wouldn't be here today.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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NARRATOR VOICE: In fact it was designed to not be survivable.
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
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with all due respect, which is none, & with a full understanding that “congress will not save us from this” may very well be right, rolling over right now is pathetic. you could try doing literally anything else unless you’re busy building your militia but leftist. get offline. do something. try.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Oh I mean, they just literally said, "The only way you can call this illegal is if it goes outside of these lines, but you're not allowed to consider anything outside these lines. It's a travesty of reasoning, the imperial presidency in a logical nutshell. The founders are retching in their graves.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Shorter Supreme Court, in all circumstances: IOKIYAR. That's the whole ducking thing.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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I honest to God think that half the reason they want Biden to drop out is so they can dogpile Kamala and really lock in the Trump win. Doesn't matter if you're talking about beltway pundits or leftier than thou "socialists." It's death cult all the way down for both of them.
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Matt Novak
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"Most of the campaign’s significant war chest would fall to Vice President Kamala Harris, Chavez Rodriguez said, according to two people familiar with the discussion. Only a smaller pool of money would be kept by the Democratic National Committee."
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Gabe
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I had a few more discussions today with people about how I plan to explicitly not vote for Biden. Lots of respectful conversations about it. Totally get how people can come to different conclusions. But there has been so much transparent lying these past 72 hours. It’s scary and sad.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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I'm dead. You got me. 🤣💀🤣
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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To be fair, a lot of people who liked Sanders' whole brand is hating Dems, so 🤷
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What the duck
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Naw, they're just rich assholes who hate democracy, who hate having #metoo and any other thing that infringes on their personal power. It's all the very wealthy and the little people. That's how it's been for a long, long time.
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Micah
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when elites have total impunity, people think the system is broken when people think the system is broken, they support more extremist groups when the extremist groups come to power, well...
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Oof. That "Yes You Can" kinda tugs at the heart strings.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Disc works fine in other machines, and other discs also fail on this one? Probably the drive motor.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Including many of those who work in said institution!
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Under Construction
@guerillawarlock.bsky.social
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More people need to internalize the shit out of the concept that the bulk of the institution that is The News is absolutely Not On Their Side and adjust expectations (and tactics) accordingly.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Replacements, plural? The only potential replacement is Kamala Harris. There is no universe, none whatsoever, where there is a sitting VP, the POTUS steps aside, and someone else becomes the nominee. Not sure what's so hard to understand about this.
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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I mean, FedSoc and SCOTUS are basically taking us back to the 19th century as written by Cormac McCarthy, but this time with AR-15's. And it's all been all visible for years, but Dems could never even name it, much less fight it. What an absolute travesty.
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Ingrid Burrington
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Dying empire summer
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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Today wasn't slow
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What the duck
@chimneyswift.bsky.social
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This is basically Puritanism.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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I do think media coverage matters and the disaster last night probably made some of it worse, but we were already in a crisis of normal people encountering journalists who openly long for Trump’s return, hate Biden, and twist their coverage to match. This is a media crisis, not a Biden crisis.
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