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Derrell Durrett

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Ex physics. Software. Life-long observer of the public morality. Devoté of Poe's Law. Potentially voluble.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar 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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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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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I mean, Trump is an insane felon rapist and a lot of people still voted for him. There’s no rule that says we have to honorably give a shit about if our candidate comes off as slightly addled, especially when we’ve got a perfectly good VP who can take over as soon as he makes it past the post.

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Jeff Lazarus's avatar Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social
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Exactly. “Ability to be reelected” is directly linked to what everyone is saying about the risks of him staying in the race. Perception is creating reality.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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I'm writing a piece about Rashida Tlaib and the censure against her last November, and I remembered that Josh Gottheimer said that his Muslim colleagues "should feel guilty" for Hamas' offensive into Israel last October and he never received any reprimand.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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I assume Brits are about as racist as people everywhere else, so I'm surprised more people aren't drawing a connection between "Tories have a non-white PM" and "Tory electoral coalition fractures as racists flee to Farange's party?"

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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That's what I mean though! A party dependent on the nation's most racist and bigoted voters elevates non-whites into leadership and then sees the bigots flee to a far-right party instead (despite the fact the non-white leaders are hardliners) bsky.app/profile/prin...

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Angus Johnston's avatar Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social
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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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“Some folks need killing, It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!” the republicans are attempting to goad their followers to terrorism against their perceived enemies. This is what fascism looks like.

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Derrell Durrett 's avatar Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social
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Which isn't relevant, because only they will meet his "do it my way or get fired" test for serving, at which point he'll have other grifts to care about while they do these things anyway. It's all so tedious. Trump was and will be bad for America. Much worse than Dems have been since Wilson.

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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They'll change the name to Trump 2025 and won't make any edits to the policies and he'll be right back on board and the public will think it's different because the NYT will then run a huge story about how it's good for America and totally different than Project 2025.

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Derrell Durrett 's avatar Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social
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Which means he's not willing to negotiate leaving Ukraine without being able to impose the government and terms of his choice.

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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The Christian right has spent the past 8 years claiming Trump was "the most pro-life" and "the most pro-religious liberty" president ever. That was because of SCOTUS/Dobbs, and because of their personnel/policy flexes inside his administration. Now they're incensed he's "moderating." But is he? 8/x

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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Perkins has been talking about this for weeks, including on his radio show, and has been urging followers to pressure their RNC delegates. Trump's RNC has now blocked media from the platform committee meetings, something Perkins called "un-American." Yes, I know, leopard eating face, etc. 5/x

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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The piece pretends (i.e., gives Trump a giant benefit of the doubt) that Trump has settled on abortion policy that conflicts with his base. Trump, according to the piece, wants to "leave it to the states" and the Christian right/anti-abortion groups want national ban + personhood amendment. 2/x

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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But it's extra wild when the likely pivot would just be to swap in Harris, who would continue to have the exact same policies as Biden but without the burden of being a million years old.

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Drezner questions whether Kevin Roberts is stupid or craven. I wish I believed he was just stupid but more likely he believes his followers are lazy and stupid. Most won't read Hamilton and those that do read it won't comprehend it.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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This is a dumb article, but also isn't the author's first rodeo, and his other writing shows the real reason he doesn't vote

"But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself." theweek.com/articles/802...

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, this is not just the abstract manifesto of a feverish mind. It comes with concrete plans and a detailed strategy of how to take over and transform government into an autocratic revenge machine that can impose a reactionary vision against the will of the majority. /end

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Leah McElrath's avatar Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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Anyway, as I wrote in October of 2016, Donald Trump is a psychopath.

But the threat is bigger than Trump.

Trump is a tool who has been enabled by—and now twice selected by—the Republican Party to enact a psychopathic fascistic agenda.

www.salon.com/2016/11/06/w...

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Jeramy Neugin 's avatar Jeramy Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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Mannie Bothans's avatar Mannie Bothans @oddman.bsky.social
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And they should be preparing NOW to head off the Heritage Foundation. Even if Biden doesn't step aside, they should have people working on this issue now just in case. Waiting until the last minute and then shouting "this is not normal!" etc. is what they shouldn't do.

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Ian Elliott (he/they)🤘🌈🎲's avatar Ian Elliott (he/they)🤘🌈🎲 @thatianeliott.bsky.social
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We ignore them at great peril. After all of the news lately, I'm not willing to stake my life on what used to be understand as legal or normal.

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Alex A. Pagliuca's avatar Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social
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Terry McCauliffe after Unite the Right, “No one could have known,” after thousands of pages of Discord logs were being published, for months, showing fascists planning for violence and improvised weapons.

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