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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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I would also love to understand why the debate performance counts for so much, but nothing prior or since seems to matter at all?
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Happy to finally be here after being stuck in the bad place for so long.
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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I would also love to understand why the debate performance counts for so much, but nothing prior or since seems to matter at all?
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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This goes double for debate and interview panic and a seemingly ambivalent shrug from the administration. Biden, the Dems, whomever isn't gonna save us. Like those 12 jurors in NYC, it was always gonna be up to us, the people, to hold Trump accountable because no one else is willing to do so.
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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Alternate headline "NY Times Admits to God Complex".
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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I call it guaranfuckingteed.
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Charlotte Clymer
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
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I got a pretty bad feeling this doesn't stop with President Biden. If he were to drop out, I feel like we'd see a deluge of media criticism for Vice President Harris or Gov. Whitmer or Gov. Newsom or Sec. Buttigieg or any other Democrat while Trump gets a pass. Call it a hunch.
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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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ChatGPTom
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Why is that the story though? It's almost like people are making a conscious decision to make that the story
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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David
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the abortion stuff is a huge wildcard. it has driven huge voter turnout in local races and it is on a ton a ballots. So it could easily skew the hell out of results. And who knows if that would also have an impact in house/senate races.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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The problem is this is just a really hard election to properly model; in some profound ways it's not like any election up to 2016, and has some very important differences to 2016 or 2020 too in lots of important directions. Which isn't great for anxiety. But it does mean it's still all to play for.
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Shiv Ramdas
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pretty stunning how the billionaire class(and yes that means the legacy media) have completely turned on Biden. They'd rather have a fascist dictatorship than pay taxes and a living wage to employees. Insane power grab in front of the cameras
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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I hate living in interesting times.
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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I can't write the story that is right in front of me cos the "bigger story" is what the wannabe dictator wants it to be since we know he's a wannabe dictator.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
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Other voters can, and will either be pissed at you or will be infected with your pessimism. Either way no one is happy.
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First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
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And if you insist you’re on board and you support the candidate but every decision they and their people make is wrong? You just have to hope that YOU who’s wrong. Because you need to understand: they can’t hear you.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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Biden didn’t get up and perform athletic feats but it seems like a pretty normal interview from an old guy? This is the single greatest moment of political derangement I have ever witnessed in this country. The president gives a normal interview and everyone says… he must join Nixon and resign?
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Faine Greenwood
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
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ryan cooper
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useful piece www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...
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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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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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Did he get whisked to Walter Reed for a routine planned interim medical check up?
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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Republicans didn’t get the story they wanted out of that interview so they’re falsely claiming he had some medical emergency on Air Force One.
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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Can't wait for your next 129,785,442,905,671 articles about what might happen if Biden drops out.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Worse, he fuckin did say things about policy, repeatedly, & George basically took those things & tossed them in the garbage
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
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20 minutes of uninterrupted time with the President and not a single policy question. What a missed opportunity to actually educate people.
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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Once again, political reporters loudly insist that speaking with them is the single most important thing the president can do for informing the public and then spend all the time they get with him demonstrating why they’re completely full of shit in claiming that
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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It's all vibes, man.
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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The fact that all of the hot takes about Biden take the form of “I’m worried about the voters thinking he’s incapable” rather than “I do sincerely think he’s incapable” is perhaps the strongest evidence it’s a ratfuck.
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Ian Boudreau
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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Because Biden cannot win this game. The only desirable outcome is total capitulation to Project 2025 cos the rich want more tax cuts and less regulations and the media sites want more clicks.
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Daniel Gilmore
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Joe Biden has done 9 public events and counting since last Thursday. The Stephanopoulos interview will be 10. At a certain point the “gotta get Biden out there” ppl are just telling us that they aren’t looking and aren’t interested in looking.
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Satisfied Psychic
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I don't think a hypothetically flawless performance could end this news cycle. The NYT has decided they're going to win this or die trying. Guess we'll see if 3+ weeks of vapid headlines hurts their subscription numbers or Biden's poll numbers more.
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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I don’t think Biden is exceptional in this interview but if you don’t understand reporters are gonna do a million variations of: “are you senile and/or resigning?” Til they get bored or he does I have bad news for you.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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Nothing he does will be enough for the pundit class. Even if he did jump/get pushed out, Harris would not be good enough either, nor would (insert Dem candidate name here). This is an unwinnable game. Just get on the trail and take the message to the voters.
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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I am totally blown away by the coverage of this as a scandal. His age is not a scandal, it's a fact! We knew how old he was in 2020 and in the primary this year. He had a bad night in an unusual format and has been fine since. It's insanity.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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if we’re at “biden must” <strikethrough> give a televised speech go on the radio collapse in the polls speak at multiple rallies meet with key dems </strikethrough> do a press conference then i think it’s fair to ask what literally all of us are doing here
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@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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I would like this post until my phone died if I could.
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The Next Day
@incompetusrex.bsky.social
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Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i mean, *i* read past the headline and there’s nothing in it that made me think warner *is not* trying to do this (or at least hasn’t talked to people about doing it)
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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do i think warner could make this happen? no. do i think warner, who is extremely wealthy and has extremely wealthy donors and regularly more conservative than biden would run his mouth about doing this? yes.
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Adina M. Yoffie
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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notably, “trying to assemble” and “has assembled” are two extremely different things and if he were able to do the latter, his ratshit ass wouldn’t be leaking the former.
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@peripatetic.bsky.social
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Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why
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