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Dan Festa@danfesta.bsky.social |
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I've been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out
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Dan Festa
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The reason for this: they know going after Biden might yield a scalp. They know Trump is impervious to their attacks because his people don't read/believe them.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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Dan Festa
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They're worse than MAGA, in that they want MAGA policy but without having to say it out loud. Little do they seem to understand that to true MAGAs saying it out loud is the whole point.
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Don Moynihan
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote
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Dan Festa
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Corrupt leadership
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Dan Festa
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Lizard brain fear induced by perceived scarcity. "I have something good but if too many other people have it it won't be good anymore"
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Dan Festa
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But on LI taxes are high and always going higher anyway, and on the county and local gov’t level it’s usually Republicans who are the ones raising them. They may grumble while paying, but limited government isn’t their voter’s highest priority.
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Timothy Burke
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16 million more people with health care coverage Significantly lower health care expenses for seniors 700 million-some free Covid tests sent through the mail The most pro-union NLRB general counsel in history People convicted of domestic violence now banned from owning guns and so on
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Dan Festa
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You can say the admin hasn’t done an incredible job touting its accomplishments and I’d agree, but what does it say when the president has done more of the things you said you wanted than any president in three generations and it doesn’t even register? And this was just as true before Gaza.
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Dan Festa
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The character of the suburbs plays a big role too. A place like Texas still has those 70-30 GOP ‘burbs, where in other states similar places economically and demographically are much closer to even. That’s the evangelical influence.
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Dan Festa
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Long Island Republicans are the weirdest because they’re not Republicans for religious or even economic reasons really. They just love state-enforced racism.
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Max Kennerly
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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.
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Dan Festa
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Just get the people who did his SOTU earlier this year. There were no questions about his vigor after that one.
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Dan Festa
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The fear of pissing him/his true believer supporters off at some future date isn’t as strong as the fear of pissing him/his true believer supporters off today.
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Dan Festa
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Not allowed to *only* say vote. Voting by itself is not enough but no other actions are enough without voting.
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Dan Festa
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People conflating “doing the thing once, barely” with “doing the thing over and over and over and over, decisively” as if the results of both would be exactly the same.
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Micah
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we can keep them out of power and wrest this away from them, and we must
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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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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Dan Festa
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Republicans *love* celebrities, always have always will! The only reason they'd turned so viciously against Hollywood is because they were deeply hurt that there were so few famous people left who agreed with them, not because they were taking a stand against vapidity and lack of expertise, lol
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Dan Festa
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It's why no new scandal ever fazes them. They decided years ago to put their faith in this guy, because of how he makes them feel, and just tuned everything else out. Classic cult behavior, it's just the scale of it that's unusual.
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Dan Festa
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There are too many people who have followed him this far, who have had countless stops where they could have gotten of the train but didn't. If they started questioning their own judgement now it might literally kill them. They have to keep believing.
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Dan Festa
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It's this fucked up phenomenon where if a certain threshold of people like a thing, other people feel like they have to act like there must be some validity to it. It ends up reinforcing itself, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. It takes a huge amount of energy to fight it.
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Coach Finstock
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Dan Festa
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Like that clip of Larry the Cable Guy doing standup in the 90's under his real name with no fake southern accent.
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Dan Festa
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Milius claims the entire 'fighting in an octagon' concept was his!
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Dan Festa
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Their are a lot of negative insights that can be gleaned from Trump's popularity, but the one that's neutral and can be used for good is "never shutting the fuck up works at getting people to talk, or not talk, about what you want them to"
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Dan Festa
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And I'm not sure why, since that was more or less the motivation in 2020!
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Dan Festa
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Basically until and unless you've faced down the Republicans with their firehose of bullshit trained directly at you and still won, I will always assume you'd be a weaker candidate than someone who has.
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Dan Festa
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All the offbeat guys are so humorless and miserable now, it sucks.
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merritt k
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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop
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Dan Festa
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He spent so much time hanging out with conservatives in an attempt to find “common ground” that he became one, which is certainly one way to do that.
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
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Working on a crank idea that machines need to feel more like machines. When you run a car with an iPad you don't appreciate that actually it's more than a ton of metal that can kill somebody if you aren't careful.
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Dan Festa
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This is true, though the pre-2022 setup was even worse. They conceded a deep blue seat to the D's because the lines would have had to become so absurd as to accidentally put more seats in play.
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Dan Festa
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He strikes me as someone who doesn't *want* to coast on good looks alone, but right now that's all he's got and he begrudgingly accepts it.
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Dan Festa
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@davidjroth.bsky.social Holy shit I know when you’ve described Trump guys in the past there’s a lot of truth but it’s also somewhat of a caricature but fuck he’s actually real www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
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Dan Festa
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Meant to add that those institutions don't want to grapple with that because it flips too many of their priors on their head for their own comfort!
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Dan Festa
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(It's because those sincerely held beliefs are ugly as fuck and should be total dealbreakers for anyone sincerely interested in justice, economic or otherwise!)
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Dan Festa
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When I was a kid years before MAGA and was watching as much stand up on TV as I could I once saw a Black comedian who said "White guys don't like to be told what to do by anyone except older white guys" and I don't think I've ever heard a more concise summation of the movement.
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Dan Festa
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Dan Festa
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I tested negative the whole time I actually felt bad which was only a day or so, but then tested positive for multiple days after I had turned the corner (lots of snot blowing, but fine otherwise)
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Jon Green
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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.
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Dan Festa
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It was earlier this month! Fun fact, Trump, Dubya Bush, and Bill Clinton were all born within a three month span of each other in 1946.
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Dan Festa
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What's the biggest unexpected bummer (non-injury related) you fear is coming? For me it's "CJ Stroud sophomore slump"
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Dan Festa
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My view is I don't want elected officials profiteering off their involvement in politics and government but I also think the influencer/pundit barnacles on the side of our politics profiteering off it in the private sector is even worse and even more corrosive.
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Dan Festa
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Seems like they all eventually move towards the same side
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Dan Festa
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*plane, ugh
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Dan Festa
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Dan Festa
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It doesn't matter that it doesn't actually work. What matters is they feel like it *should* work, and that's enough for them.
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Dan Festa
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I think this is half-true. They do think about that--but only from the perspective of the left getting into power. Recently there was an article with an unnamed power player who claimed with a straight face that the threat of socialism under Biden was greater than the threat of fascism under Trump.
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Dan Festa
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They think Trump exists in a plain of existence beyond the normal human aging process. Like, I'm not even sure they realize he has a birthday.
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