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Not exactly related, but, I’ve worked in restaurants for a long time…

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What!

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People are like their stick figure representations. You just draw, er, put, a bloody bandage on the wounded legs and you’re done.

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I wish I were a politician so I could collect the prize money

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Folks, folks, just kill…[inaudible]…just killed a man. Just now. No joke

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Could be president again in 203 days. Now covered by a broad grant of immunity from criminal prosecution. What will he do this time?

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Senator Amidala should have taken this route—it hits harder.

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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“He’s just stayed too long in the job,” David Remnick muses between bites of Waverly Inn frittata, “and there’s a whole civilization at stake.” Anna Wintour nods thoughtfully without looking away from the fireplace. “It’s about to rain,” she says.

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It's only bribery if you do it in front of a notary, shake hands with the special bribery handshake, and recite the words "this bribe of current market value $5000 or more is for a corrupt action you otherwise would not perform" and the official responds "thank you for your bribe for my corrupt act"

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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There are some folks (I’m guessing mainly students & Internet autodidacts) who absolutely believe that intelligence & expertise consist in assembling words into credible-sounding passages. From 16 to 18.5 years, I was one of their number, so I can say this.

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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He watched that provocation for about a decade before finally speaking out, which absolutely bolsters his credibility here

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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Little, little…little bit of a shit

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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True enough, especially for those weird, right leaning, upper class nutbars. But I confess I’m probably so attached to the 2CV because of these pages from Jean Rouaud in Les Champs d’Honneur. Strangely beautiful stuff

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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My personal Frenchest is still the 2CV

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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My beef? It’s with Arthur Wellesley

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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A pretty hard lift, even though it’s probably important! It’s a challenge to depict Nazis from within their own contexts, & it’s a challenge to figure out how to talk about their incompetence without implying that there’s no great need to worry today.

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Well, that’s a new one! If more conservatives start taking that attitude, we might need to worry about free expression

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I can’t even come up with a joke about this.

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A long time ago I wrote a thing about how the speech that absolutely destroyed Charles Lindbergh, who up to that time was treated as a demigod, would scarcely register now. You read 10 worse and more vituperative expressions of the same ideas every day now. thebaffler.com/latest/back-...

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My African American, my generals, my juror, my highly classified documents

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Can the Supreme Court even “step in”? Like if they were hearing troubling rumors about a beloved film franchise endangered by a bad director?

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A bunch of us running around with hooves while others shout the n word. Never thought I’d see it

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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People will point to something and say “see voting doesn’t do anything” and it’s literally just the consequences of Republicans winning elections

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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There are…lots of Popehat posts & many, many related materials to read

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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I’ve often wondered what the wealthy, white leaders of the South were doing before the Civil War. I’ll probably never know

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How does a mother know when her baby doesn’t support marginalized people on occupied lands?

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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These interactions would make a nice scrapbook. Shutterfly makes a pretty good one

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For them, voting for left wing candidates is the real fraud.

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I’m sure some highly accomplished elder colleague looked over their glasses & intoned, “It’s time, Thomas,” while tapping the cover of a very famous memoir. He wouldn’t have been so presumptuous otherwise

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I feel like your two most important goals in life are: 1) defeating Trumpism & 2) forcing future historians & biographers to include a few lines about your dad jokes

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There was plenty of heroism, but we should remember that the “Résistants de la première heure” were depressingly few in number & that there was a mysterious surge in membership just before & especially after D-day.

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I think Candace O also appreciated the dignified, mystical style of antisemitism she could cloak herself in

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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A virtuous cycle could end up becoming a bit overbearing, with all the respect and restraint

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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There are ways of determining what a college major would be like before the first day, or before you send in the application.

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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Local Man sees “Onion” on the whiteboard in his kitchen & thinks, “You know what? You know what you motherfuckers!?!”

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I mean, I was genuinely shocked to learn that both faculty & administrators nurse the bitterest rivalries known to humankind.

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I bet Trump isn’t mad about it, though. He loves this stuff.

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Daniel Quinn 's avatar Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.bsky.social
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It’s like the existing writing but now most of it is inconsistent & false

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Really extremely sad that she thought maybe a bikini & a right wing beer can might put her life back on track.

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