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Ed@notdred.bsky.social |
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Vaccine researcher, MD MPH, he/him
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Brendel
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Something I deeply respect about this website’s user base is that I know there’s some people on Twitter who fully believe that the head of Twitter is an open nazi and yet still find us too annoying to engage with
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.
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Ed
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I just went to the doctor yesterday, masks not required but my PCP wore one without prompting or request 🤷🏽♂️
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Ed
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Trust me that I push the button as faithfully as any Democrat alive
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Ed
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Man he was so good. Also really funny to watch him vs Palin in 2008.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Biden can’t debate well anymore because he has trouble completing an extemporaneous line of thought. He now has a pattern of trailing off and his words start meandering.
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Ed
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And he’ll beat it again in 2020!
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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He doesn’t even get the stakes!!
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the real bottom line for me is that no matter how you characterize it, the media frenzy is at a point where Biden’s only hope of quelling it would be to put on a performance that he’s just not capable of putting on
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Sorry y’all. I am fully off the Biden train after the “what matters is that I try my best” answer. Maybe switching candidates now would be a strategic disaster but this man is not up for the task of saving us.
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Jonathan M. Katz
@katzonearth.bsky.social
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Ok I just moved from “unsure” to “dump Biden”
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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Most important election of our lives but if we lose we can feel good that we tried. Participation trophy vibes for fighting authoritarianism.
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Ed
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Omg yes lol
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Ed
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Like we say in medicine, “all bleeding stops, eventually”
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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This is part of the madness, it’s just gonna grind on indefinitely
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Ed
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This interview is just gonna be treated by everyone as confirmation of their priors
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Ed
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I bet he never even has to write a single email, shit is a cakewalk
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Ed
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Mommy’s not gonna like that
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Ed
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And they still get along!
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Ed
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Gotta hand it to the UK. They have a brief campaign, they vote, the offices change immediately, and they get policy change the next business day.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Somebody watched Reacher back to back with John Wick and was like “fuck yeah I know what people want to see”
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Ed
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And even worse because we’ve seen Biden debate so many times and it was clearly a steep dropoff from what he’s done in the past
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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One pet peeve of mine is when people say “well it was just one bad debate”. Please don’t make me feel like I’ve been taking crazy pills, I’ve seen near every debate for decades now and that was the worst performance I can remember, only other one I can think of is VP debate Adm. Stockdale
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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You’re asking the wrong guy, I gave up Brooklyn right before everybody decided it was cool
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Another argument for the greatness of living in Queens
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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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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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It really does entirely boil down to “how much does this stuff sway people other than me, because I absolutely do not fucking care but other people might”
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Ed
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And from the media perspective the incentive now is to break “news” that favors the narrative that Biden is and has been failing and it’s been a secret. Nobody is looking to write a “actually he’s been fine” piece. It’s going to be pretty damn hard to break out of that feedback loop
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Ed
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Also you really traded down in terms of weather and sunlight
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I didn’t even know you had moved but yeah get the hell out of there asap
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Lmao
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Ed
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Oh I brought it alright
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Ed
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Am I remembering correctly that he was basically at one of his own golf resorts almost every week of his presidency?
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Ed
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A great picture though
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Ed
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Abigail I have some bad news for you about how much impact you are gonna have
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I have extreme certainty in the same way that I have extreme certainty when I read med malpractice cases - because my ass isn’t on the line in any meaningful way!
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Ed
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Important to realize as we try to retain civility on Bluesky that all the stuff we say to each other will have literally zero impact on whether Biden bows out or not, we’re just hanging around yapping about politics like a bunch of old Greek guys at a sidewalk cafe, no need to take it personally
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William Adler
@williamadler78.bsky.social
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Holy moly www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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literally the journalist who wrote the definitive article about biden’s stutter has said that his recent incoherence cannot be explained by his stutter www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Yeah but there’s no profit in being out on an island on this. The debate gave them cover and now they’re coming out in numbers. But the ones with 2028 interests like Newsom will actually want him to stay in so Kamala doesn’t get it. 2028 was always the prime goal
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Ed
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I feel like you are attributing very altruistic expectations on a class of people who are typically extremely self-interested
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Ed
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No real contender was going to buck the party and ruin their 2028 possibilities. He did get primaried but by scrubs who had no chance and never will
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Honestly I think he was saying he wouldn’t take sides on the various conspiracy theories, which is maybe even funnier
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Ian Miles Schlong
@tedcruznipples.com
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Looks like something useful is happening on the Nazi site - this court document about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein case is going viral This is a disgusting read
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Yeah, that and speech pattern. If a campaign is all about presenting yourself to voters, that’s the problem. It’s really hard for him to present himself the way he used to be able to.
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Ed
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Man I love him but he is way off his peak. Contrast with his destruction of Paul Ryan in 2012. But you’re right that it’s not cognitive deterioration. His cognition is fine but it’s harder for him to express himself and it looks bad.
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Ed
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It’s better than he deserves tbh
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Ed
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Ok got it. Chief Keef it is.
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elias
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i saw some folks worried that, legally, biden couldn’t be replaced on ballots - especially in crucial states like wisconsin - in time.
the heritage foundation put out a memo trying to promote this fear for example.
dave weigel reports here that it’s basically BS.
www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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