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Don Zeko
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In my defense, I'm in an airbnb with a sick toddler and have basically nothing to do during said toddler's naps besides doomscrolling.
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Don Zeko@donzeko.bsky.social |
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Public defender in the South, politics obsessive, nerd stuff enthusiast. Also a new dad, although I'm trying to respect the baby's privacy.
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Don Zeko
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In my defense, I'm in an airbnb with a sick toddler and have basically nothing to do during said toddler's naps besides doomscrolling.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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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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Don Zeko
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#7: the press's fixation on this, to the exclusion of necessary coverage of Trump's looming fascism, make me so angry I have to go lie down.
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Don Zeko
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#6: so anyway that adds up to thinking that we need to keep Biden and power through, but I am less confident of that than I was a week ago. I am also more confused by the dynamics at play.
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Don Zeko
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#5: Harris is the only plausible nominee if it's not Biden. I do not have good vibes about how the press will treat Harris
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Don Zeko
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#4: my instinct is that dumping your nominee, especially if your nominee is an incumbent president, has enormous political costs that outweigh whatever advantage you might get from a different candidate. I don't actually know if this is right and neither does anyone else.
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Don Zeko
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#3: I am starting to worry that the media feeding frenzy on this has its own momentum and reasons to exist and will persist even in the absence of any supporting facts.
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Don Zeko
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#2: I do worry about how well he'll be able to do the job by the end of his term if he wins. 86 is old. That said, he seems to have been doing the job without serious problems from his age up til now.
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Don Zeko
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So given that I think Biden is producing better results than Obama was in 2012, why is there this momentum to get rid of him? I don't understand.
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Don Zeko
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This isn't meant as an unskew the polls thing, it's to say that my general instincts about how politics works are missing something (or maybe the polls are, idk)
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Don Zeko
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He's also an incumbent president running against somebody who has been extremely unpopular for his entire political career and who is currently a convicted felon. I don't understand how Biden is trailing.
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Don Zeko
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The economy is pretty good, albeit with some large asterisks, the crime spike is receding, inflation is receding, things are vastly better re COVID, and he's accomplished some awesome stuff re: climate and labor.
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Don Zeko
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Let me try to put my cards on the table and lay out where I'm at re: Biden bowing out and the race in general. #1: I am bewildered by how many different factions are hostile to Biden and how bad the polls have been. In my view, he's a pretty good president (certainly better than I expected).
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Biden passed the most aggressive climate package in US history and probably ever again and I feel like the environmental beat is the only place we’re covering it
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Don Zeko
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You don't need very sophisticated logic to see that sometimes everyone is just mad at you because you're being a dipshit, not because you're telling hard truths
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Popehat
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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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Don Zeko
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Don Zeko
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If so, the nine dimensional chess is out of hand. "we have to give the Dem nominee a bunch of bad press and ignore the Republican nominees weaknesses so that the Republican nominee will lose." Wtf?
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Don Zeko
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A coincidence seems more likely, but I wonder if this line came from some weirdo staffer who stole it from the 19th century anti-immigrant radicals
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Don Zeko
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The dude has agency. He can make better choices. Because he's making bad ones and doesn't want to feel responsible for their results, he claims otherwise.
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Don Zeko
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Both from a standpoint of informing the public, reporting the truth, and simple self-preservation, their refusal to adequately cover Trump's radicalism and the immunity decision is inexcusable
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Don Zeko
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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps
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Don Zeko
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I'd say very little chance of success in NY courts, but a very serious chance that SCOTUS goes the other way when the appeal reaches them. They've made it crystal clear that they want to save Trump's bacon.
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Faine Greenwood
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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Faine Greenwood
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We’ve all watched the GOP drag rapists, criminals, florid wackos, and brain-dead white supremacists to electoral victory over and over again. Perhaps the Democrats can summon up some of that energy to save our democracy and our lives.
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Don Zeko
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*ratfucking
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Don Zeko
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I mean, yes. I also think the dump Biden movement includes a bunch of insane behavior and/or deliberate trafficking.
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Don Zeko
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That's the one part of all this where there's a plausible logic to it: he could be fine now but unlikely to be fine four years from now
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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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Don Zeko
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And I doubt that many other jurisdictions actually vary in this point
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Don Zeko
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Other jurisdictions may vary, but there's a word for "I was only trying to shoot him in the legs; I didn't mean to kill him" here: murder.
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Convolver
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The Biden stuff is worrying no matter which side of the topic you’re on, but you should be terrified by Trump successfully presenting himself to the media as a reasonable centrist figure set against the violent radicalism of (checks notes) the people who are explicitly defining his governing agenda.
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Don Zeko
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I hope that this bloodthirsty maniac's nomination will let us break the state GOP's gerrymander, but it is also possible the bloodthirsty maniac becomes governor and my family is forced to flee the state.
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Don Zeko
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Zeke, why do you think accelerationism is bad? Well it's funny you should ask
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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one of the most cowardly arguments i keep seeing from columnists is that nothing breaks through with trump supporters, so it’s a waste of time reporting on what he believes. this should be seen as a critically damning failure on behalf of the fourth estate. this means you failed. it’s not a pass.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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2 of the top 3 candidates for the US presidency have shown a repeated willingness to believe any conspiracy dangled in front of them like a set of keys, including wildly anti-american ones, which are straightforward cognitive deficiencies for what we should demand in a president. neither are biden.
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Michael
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co-sign but i will add: i don't know the best path but i do know the worst path, and that's replacing him with anyone other than kamala, via any process whatsoever.
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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David Noll
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The Tories could still win if King Charles has courage.
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Anthonius van ʘo!o
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The NYT editorial everyone’s talking about today
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Radley Balko
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Today we celebrate the day the Founders declared independence by publishing a list of things King George had done that, apparently, were cuckish insufficiently authoritarian.
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Don Zeko
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Don Zeko
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I usually translate it as "the Democrats should have allowed a minority faction to win the nomination like the GOP did in 2016"
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Coffee Porter Jr.
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this is perhaps the funniest possible “Dems are already doing something like this” www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...
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John Brown stan account
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Joe Biden has been an excellent president, and I highly doubt he lost his marbles in the last few months
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Don Moynihan
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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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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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law
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Don Zeko
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Yes. They are 100% going to make it impossible for any of the cases against him to proceed. The only way Trump doesn't skate is if Dems win the election by a big enough margin that they pack the court by june 2025.
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