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Editor. Video game/comics nerd. Largely boring.

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The inside out characters in my head

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Especially since lack of urgency has been a big weakness of this admin since day 1

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Hilariously one of the top likely candidates to replace Sunak is a Warhammer guy

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In an effort to hold on to those voters, the "mainstream" party keeps ratcheting up its own racism, dragging the Overton window with it...

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Well you'd have to be a loon to come to come up with this nonsense, am I right

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The more depressing figure is that they're at 16% of the overall vote, and REF+CON is within a percentage point of LAB

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I've been on a strict diet for three months and this morning got the medical OK to go from "no garbage" to "occasional garbage" so happy Fourth to me

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Hey Famous Men, Try Engaging in Age-Appropriate Relationships with Even Power Dynamics challenge 2k24

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I’m sorry, I don’t mean to offend, but I really deeply dislike Mastodon’s vibe. It’s like being trapped at a party with two other people: one who demands you debate them on whether Dick York or Dick Sargent was the better Darrin, and one who becomes irate that you said the word “Dick.”

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Tragically we will never see my dream of an SNP Opposition

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They don't even check links to make sure they go to the site the writer claims, Stephens has gotten caught on that a few times

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Yep. The best reading of this for him is "massive creep but not *literally* a felon"

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And his defense is that it was a *consensual* affair with a domestic employee several decades younger than him

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With this court, you'd get a 5-4 ruling that it means the Democratic party is unconstitutional

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Sadly my hope of them falling behind the SNP seems impossible

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I will only vote for a candidate who can finish the Ecco The Dolphin level "Welcome to the Machine"

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I thought it couldn't get better than "temporary forgot I had nostrils," but I was wrong

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This is true, but honestly that kind of makes it worse -- there's accountability for illegal acts when they're revocable, e.g. rulemakings that can be stayed, but not irrevocable ones.

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Also LV screens were completely worthless in both 2016 and 2020, and nobody knows how much of that was due to unique factors in those years so even if they've managed to figure out how to retroactively make the numbers work (and I'm not sure anyone has) applying those lessons to 2024 is a crapshoot.

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They absolutely did, the "next sentence" posted above does not appear in the version of the page I opened at ~1:45

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Nobody noticed the error until after hitting publish and they edited in something to at least make it look like he did in fact think about it but that's all

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So, if Jeffries etc. want to play hardball, their leverage is to withhold D support for Johnson on either the eventual compromise budget, or a subsequent motion to vacate the speakership, unless he allows the VP confirmation to advance.

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If I had to come up with a solution for Dems to get a new VP through the house, it would be exploiting GOP divisions over annual funding bills -- just like last year, there's a hard-right faction opposed to any budget deal with the Senate or Biden, even if it leads to a government shutdown.

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That was added in the last 20 minutes. The next sentence for me (on the copy of the page I loaded before writing that comment) changes topics entirely.

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One problem: He forgot the House must also confirm a new VP

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The latter is why if there is a replacement it'll absolutely be Harris; she's already a candidate for this specific campaign and could continue to use its funds/infrastructure.

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Biden makes enough prominent TV appearances where he demonstrates competence/baseline acuity to establish the debate as a one-off to likely voters, abortion ballot initiatives drive Dem turnout in battleground states, Trump's gutting of Republicans' GOTV infrastructure comes back to haunt him

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TBH if I were convinced that Biden is already too old, that he's as out of it as he appeared at the debate all (or most of) the time, I would not be pricing in Harris. In that scenario Biden is either muddling through with diminished capacity or being "guided" by aides, and would continue as such.

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That would be my approach. "I can do the job now. I do it every day, and I think the results should speak for themselves. But the American people are concerned about whether that will still be the case in two, three, four years, and I've come to accept that those concerns are valid."

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It also requires that you have an opportunity to *show* your citizenship, which is not guaranteed if they fully jettison due process for alleged illegal immigrants

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I'm referring to the practice by authoritarian governments of allowing an "opposition party" to operate only with the permission and supervision of the ruling party, to preserve the fiction of democracy without the threat of actually losing a meaningful vote

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It's not impossible they pick West to head up a managed opposition, so there is that

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I was trying to think of something that's straightforward suicide rather than refusal to protect others

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That's obviously true but they're not big on self-preservation either, e.g. drinking H5N1 milk to own the FDA

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Not at all sure about the first one given their attitudes toward guns, disease and climate change

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Dude is angry that OSHA makes it harder for SeaWorld employees to get crushed by whales Like, that is explicitly part of this opinion

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the library rules

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In the name of shielding the architect of an attempted coup from prosecution, which also feels like actual treason

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They took a Hippo shitpost and made it part of the Constitution

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Consider that if you're convinced Biden is *already* incapacitated, well, Harris isn't president now, is she? If that's your premise the natural expectation is that whichever aides etc are making decisions for him will continue to do so

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