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the difference is that no one wanted Trump to do anything official. everyone was happy to have him asleep on the toilet.
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Writer. Teacher. Scholar of rhetoric, media and democracy.
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Michael Kaplan
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the difference is that no one wanted Trump to do anything official. everyone was happy to have him asleep on the toilet.
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Michael Kaplan
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the MSM: Biden must step down because he's senile also the MSM: Harris can't hack being the nominee
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I feel fortunate that I have never been cool (though often well ahead of the curve)
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this is a woman who said Blasey Ford misremembered her rapist. and wrote a book arguing that women should pay more heed to the needs of men. gross.
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Michael Kaplan
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Kroos should have been sent off or replaced in the first half. that would have changed the game.
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😮
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Michael Kaplan
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"appears" to endorse. from the people who refer to "alleged" crimes of which people have been convicted
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Michael Kaplan
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unrest outside the Democratic convention in Chicago? that always works out great
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This just in: the reason Harris is not ready for the role of democratic nominee is…Biden evidently it was his job to get her ready.
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Michael Kaplan
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I mean even Jim Crow wasn’t about a return to monarchy
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people forget that oath has zero legal force.
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ding ding ding! you've found the correct response to your own bullshit. support the DSA all you want (I do!) but admit they won't solve any problems better than Biden has.
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Michael Kaplan
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Should we stay up past midnight to greet the final year of the American republic?
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S2 is pretty lame thus far
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Seems to me Elaine Kamarck is hopelessly out of touch if she thinks an open convention would be appealing to democratic voters
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an increasingly fanciful proposition, isn't it?
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my hero
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It’s not dumb; it’s part of the deliberate effort to kill off the American ideal of self-government in favor of authoritarianism
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Michael Kaplan
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Counterrevolutions don’t usually take two centuries to occur, but here we are
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www.thecut.com/article/why-...
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Doomscrolling per usual
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Is that from 1924?
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Not good
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Am I going to have to abandon The Atlantic now?
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millions will watch!
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Applebaum is hardly a horserace journalist. She may be wrong, but that's not the reason.
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If Trump wins, there’s no 2028.
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more gossip
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Biden
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why homeowners specifically? kids tend to resemble their parents more generally, and I'm afraid the biggest reason is also the most unappealing one—genetics.
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see, if we don't vote to keep our hands/souls clean and camp out in public parks to enact the world we want to see, those in power will give up and go away
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Mizrahi and other non-European Jews are much more likely to be IDF troops involved in the most violent missions in Gaza, e.g.,
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who do you think votes for them?
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sorry to tell you this, but North African, Yemeni, Iraqi, and Persian Israelis comprise the bulk of the right wing coalition. I know it's inconvenient, but it's a fact.
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you definitely won't be complicit if you let other people make political decisions for you
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fyi, 40% of Israelis are brown people.
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confession: I voted for Nader in 2000. I lived in Chicago, and I knew Gore would easily carry Illinois, so it would be a purely symbolic vote. but damn!
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What we all said four years ago
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www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...
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Cosign. Otoh, when I came here it was fair to think I was getting more freedom and dignity than I had before. Now? Not so much
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That’s what happens when you read the NYT in the morning
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Literal gossip
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Today, no amount of voting can overcome the obstacles erected by the right. Unless the right itself concedes.
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We voted and still ended up with Trump’s court making all the decisions. With impunity
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Did we though?
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Is Trump still in the race?
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