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Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social |
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Involuntarily retired.
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Ed Burmila
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Absolutely, the time to address all this and have an orderly transition was 2 years ago and as usual they convinced themselves everything would be fine and they didn't. They did their favorite thing: nothing. But we are stuck with it now and I see little point in pretending otherwise.
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Ed Burmila
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you, unsophisticated: weighting me, smart, sophisticated: bro we're *modeling*
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Ed Burmila
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1500 shut-ins we had to call 190,000 times can't be wrong and must be representative.
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Ed Burmila
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Unless they have a professional obligation to do so I am really side-eyeing anyone who still chooses to feed that site anymore.
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Ed Burmila
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Trump went on social media and published a literal list of enemies he's going to imprison after he wins.
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Ed Burmila
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"I don't remember Norah Jones doing a track called 'my good friend joe needs to step down for the good of the country'"
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Ed Burmila
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It's like deadlifting, the grip fails before the muscles.
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Ed Burmila
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Hopefully he'll announce a new streaming series.
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Ed Burmila
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You’ll forgive me for not yielding to your political acumen if you don’t understand the problem of going into January 2025with a vacant vice presidency or believe that that somehow won’t be a problem
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Ed Burmila
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Resignation is the worst option, because it puts the Democratic Party in the position of fighting the post-election battle (if they win) without a sitting VP. Unless anyone believes the House Republicans are going to confirm a new VP, now or ever.
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Ed Burmila
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On the Meta platforms every 3-4 posts is a Biden ad, for me in North Carolina.
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More Microplastic Than Man
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Elle
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases
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Ed Burmila
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"We're safe, there's precedent!" - me, maybe in 1997
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Ed Burmila
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People seriously underestimate the extent to which the qualification for giving advice to elected officials is telling them exactly what they want to hear.
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Ed Burmila
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All the fantasy football scenarios in which Biden is replaced have ignored or hand-waved all the ballot access questions. Every hostile GOP state legislature is going to pounce on it with the rule book (real and imagined) in hand.
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Ed Burmila
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By leaving the decision ambiguous it only encourages the chattering class to chatter about it more! Ruin it for them by resolving the question, which will leave them writing much lamer "This was the wrong decision" pieces.
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Ed Burmila
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At some rapidly approaching point it will be less important whether Biden carries on or steps down than it will be to simply stop the speculation. Pick one. "Final answer: I'm running / I am stepping down." The worst outcome is neither Biden nor Harris; the worst outcome is debating it for 100 days.
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Pete Fraser
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It’s been consistently true over the last fifteen years that people, relatively calmly, sounding the alarm about an incoming political or social catastrophe have been quite rudely dismissed by what you could call the Sensible Liberal Class and then immediately proven right. Few learn a lesson.
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Ed Burmila
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It’s the playbook. We hear you, we love you, we support you, oh shit some poll numbers came in, gotta go.
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Ed Burmila
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Seems risky to openly admit "OK, we were lying to the country for years when we insisted Biden was sharp as a tack, no hard feelings, here's someone else we definitely wouldn't lie to you about." Would help if he just said "Look, I'm not quitting" to end the Discourse though.
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Ed Burmila
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A problem on the left and among liberals alike is that “grifter” became an all-purpose insult for anyone they dislike and in the process everyone seems to have lost the ability to identify an actual grifter. Glem Greenwald, those “dimes square” idiots, and countless MSNBC guests, many such cases.
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Ed Burmila
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Of course they know what’s popular, it’s what 63 yahoos in a Frank Luntz focus group at an abandoned mall outside Altoona said but kind of didn’t say but maybe sort of said in a 90 minute chat
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Ed Burmila
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When your movement doesn't have ideological lines in the sand or even a coherent worldview beyond "Me and people like me should be in charge," throwing under the bus anyone whose bus-crushing might help you win is inevitable. The logical end of Popularism isn't/wasn't real hard to figure out.
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Ed Burmila
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I guarantee you the conclusion centrists and Carville-esque liberals are going to take from the recent European elections is “OK well we tried but it’s time to throw the immigrants under the bus, there’s no other way to survive.” Some of them have already landed there and the rest are en route.
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Ed Burmila
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I am almost certain this is who the OP had in mind, or at least it's the first thing I thought of. People need to get better at recognizing charlatans or "liberals" who will bolt for the right-wing grievance money at the first opportunity.
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Ed Burmila
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.
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Ed Burmila
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When all of the Proper (legal, political, and institutional) Remedies are off the table it does not take societies long to figure out what the only Remedy they have left is, and I wonder if the Court put any thought into that!
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Ed Burmila
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One thing that gave me a very small but significant thrill was shipping at least one to every continent. Including Antarctica, someone at the polar research station ordered one.
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Ed Burmila
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After ten years of washing (note: I assume you wash clothes) I am not surprised it's worn out. In fact I'm surprised that it hasn't completely disintegrated. Nice craftsmanship.
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Ed Burmila
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Certainly helped him timing-wise.
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Ed Burmila
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Trying to read this perfectly replicated the way my brain felt the first time I sat down to read Riddley Walker.
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Ed Burmila
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“Enjoy the camps I expected to be a guard in but now realize I might not be”
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Ed Burmila
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Can you even imagine how freeing it would be if one of them keeled over and we just...didn't have to care.
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Ed Burmila
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Why refuse to take advice from a guy who was sort-of right about one thing 32 years ago? You're mad!
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Ed Burmila
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The ideal size for the Supreme Court is "so big you don't know all of their names anymore." So big it has to hold oral arguments in RFK Stadium. So big that when one of them dies nobody will care.
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Ken Lowery
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Ed Burmila
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please do a book called Rich Peoples' Big Boats' Big Boats
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Ed Burmila
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me, savvy, being fed into the wood chipper: i want everyone to know how much i respect the wood chipper and my loyal friends feeding me into it
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Ed Burmila
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I wrote a thing about her resigning in 2009 lol. The five year statistical survival rate of pancreatic cancer for a woman of her age is zero. Zero! Refusing to retire with the large senate majority was simply an act of arrogance and stupidity and we will pay for it for decades.
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Ed Burmila
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me, being normal: someone else enjoys a TV show, where’s my posting hat
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Ed Burmila
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They are obsessed with coming up with ways to hypothesise that something would not work and then settling on “so it’s good that we tried nothing instead“ as if that’s a logical conclusion.
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Ed Burmila
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"No, WE failed HER!" is one of the phrases I heard a lot in 2017-2018 that convinced me that for a lot of people, politics really is just their favorite TV show. It's not a thing with outcomes that affect real people; what matters is giving your fave characters a satisfying narrative arc.
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Ed Burmila
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Damn you put a lot of hours into your Guys Spreadsheet
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Ed Burmila
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The original title of my book! Damn you, marketing people.
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Ed Burmila
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Do they have one or do they just have an intern who says "It's OK the mainstream media will do our job for us" on command
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Ed Burmila
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"We don't have to explain what happened, we can let the media do it, using whatever narrative they decide to go with!" Boy I dunno.
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Ed Burmila
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Folks we all are guilty of armchair QBing campaigns but I think it's pretty uncontroversial to assert that a statement about a SCOTUS ruling that does not talk about either the ruling or SCOTUS is not how to play this.
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Ed Burmila
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Social media is a machine that churns out Guys to argue with
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Ed Burmila
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Busting out the most scathing insult in the liberal pantheon: disappointed
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