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Michael Tae Sweeney
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its funny that lorena gonzalez feuding with him literally might've been the thing that tipped us into the timeline that destroyed the site
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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its funny that lorena gonzalez feuding with him literally might've been the thing that tipped us into the timeline that destroyed the site
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I do think there's a particular type of servile personality that probably devolved as an evolutionary response that instinctually looks for opportunity to signal willingness to collaborate with aggression and cruelty and criminality as a survival instinct and you gotta understand royalists like that
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Merry England hobbitworld dumbass shit about how wonderful medieval yeoman peasant life was has obvious heirarchy-reinforcing purpose for booze-addled Euro reactionaries, but in America even the arch traditionalists agree our country is founded on rejection of kings.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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embracing royalism for an American audience is the politics equivalent of Flat Eartherism - a contention that is so obviously bad that it's purpose isn't to convince but to demonstrate's someone's commitment to rejecting reality and willingness to adopt a false belief.
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David Forbes
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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
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RainSurname
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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One of Trump's many favors to his Saudi paymasters
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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It was really annoying how every single time Stephanopoulos would pivot back to Biden's health even if he said something interesting about policy. Incredible message discipline
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Biden has successfully used the SPR to fuck up the Saudi's control of global oil prices. MBS was originally mad at Biden because Biden expressed disapproval of MBS murdering Jamal Kashoggi, but also just found Trump to be easy to roll and cheap to bribe!
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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hell ya
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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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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I wonder if he genuinely doesn't realize that both Netanyahu and MBS are helping Trump win the election?
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Lol he means the stupid Israeli Saudi alliance doesn't he? God help us
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I agree THE APPRENTICE was key to Trump's rise but there's also a reason no other reality show hosts became President bsky.app/profile/unti...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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People are like "there's no point in posting it doesn't make a difference to anything," 8 years after Donald Trump posted his way to the presidency of the United States
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Lmao what is this framing
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ApocalypticaNow
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If Democrats are confused about how to handle tough questions about their nominee's fitness for office, they can just look at the thousands of examples of Republicans avoiding, deflecting, and redirecting similar questions about Trump over the past 8 years.
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LillianOrlando
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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Are there different choices an audio engineer could've made knowing that Biden would be speaking so softly? Probably. Is this an issue of an incompetent setup or mixing? Almost certainly not
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Which is consistent with the "Biden has a cold" story and the way he's sounded at the debate and since. He's hoarse and having difficulty getting words out and the audio engineer was boosting his mic's level to compensate.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Fwiw I don't think that's what was going on. The reason you can hear so much of the room is that they had to boost Biden's mic a lot in order to hear him. He's whispering.
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Chris Hayes
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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.
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Aaron van Dorn
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People are wildly misrepresenting this quote. The question is: how will he feel? And of course he'll feel he left it all out on the field. The question isn't: will the country be okay. Wildly unfair framing.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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there's the larger question about why "a couple anonymous donors speaking on background says something bad about the candidate" is considered to be newsworthy enough to peg a front-page, push-notification-generating story to. Could easily do the same to Trump!
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Yes. Trump is lying and his fans are laughing at any of the members of the media gullible to repeat his lies for him.
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Daniel Feldman
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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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And ya like a lot of guys with great stuff and shaky command when he put it all together he looked awesome even in that diminished stage
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The main thing with him is that he actually didn't change that much over the years besides losing velocity. Just a mix of stuff and command that's dominant at 97-98, pretty good at 94-95 and awful at 92-93
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Marisa Kabas
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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy
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Brendel
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What’s interesting about the Biden interview is to look up Howard Dean interviews after his little happy yell and see how the media treat them pretty similarly despite Bidens age mattering and Howard Deans yell meaning nothing. All the interviews are like “…what do you tell people who saw that?”
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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what if instead of actually watching the interview you wanted to read descriptions of it intermediated by the guys who wrote all the "in this rural pennsylvania diner they still love trump" articles
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Tantalizingly close to the fabled day in which San Diego, CA will be the coldest place in the continental US
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Reagan really losing it actually improved his Presidency since it let Nancy pull off a palace coup to depose arch-conservative and Iran Contra participant Don Regan from the Chief of Staff role and replaced him with (relative) moderate Howard Baker
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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imagining Biden doing the bit from THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS where the mayor goes to meet with the mutant leader and gets his throat ripped out
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Willie Fitzgerald
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I guess you can say Americans are ignorant if they don't understand the role the Supreme Court has in our system, but like... why would they? It's neither a system that makes any sense nor a system that actually exists in the Constitution (which didn't give the courts any policy making role)
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Voters just blame whoever is President for whatever happens during their Presidency, which is a major reason why allowing the situation where the Supreme Court absurdly gets to make policy across whatever issue they want to persist is so deadly to Democrats
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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its like 100 total dudes from the /r/chapotraphouse subreddit, the problem is that for a certain type of guy on here or on Vichy Twitter, those 100 guys make up 50% of their replies so it seems like this mass movement rooting for Biden to lose to Trump
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Why are his feet so comparitively dainty
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Before putting together like 8 solid starts in the waning days of his contract, just enough to get Baltimore to take a dumb chance on him
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Even after getting crushed in a statewide referendum on the issue, Kansas Republicans have absolutely no fear about defying the people's will and trying to force abortion bans through lawsuits and unconstitutional legislation.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I mostly remember his hapless stint on the Orioles (culminating with the infamous AL Wild Card game where he gave up the winning run with Zach Britton unused in the bullpen) but also fun to remember his totally dominant stretch in Colorado
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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(Wardens viewpoint is ultimately just as absurd! It doesn't matter one way or another if the stupid bridge gets built, the audience knows the Japanese are doomed to lose the war either way and a bridge in Burma isn't gonna change that.)
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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It's great characterization, taking the Nicholson's devotion to rules following and order to a totally logical extreme of him committing literal treason
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The paradox of Zuck is that he is extremely uncool but almost tautologically cooler than anyone posting about how uncool he is
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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remembering in 2012 when they were saying how unlucky the Dems were to be saddled with Obama instead of THE MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN IN THE COUNTRY... Hillary Clinton
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