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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)@ericallyn.bsky.social |
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Aka Eric Bloomquist. I make jokes about metahumor. He/him, cis-male-adjacent. Devout agnostic. Black lives matter. LGBT+ lives matter. (very much including trans lives) Immigrant lives matter. Facts matter. Science matters. Hope is an axe. 🪓
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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The Republican Party has a highly-trained team with specialized equipment that can move a set of goalposts at a moment's notice. (And then there's the guy who drives the bus that carries the journalists to the new location.)
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Silly us, we thought "originalists" were supposedly referring to the US Constitution, not the divine right of kings.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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On his *best* day, Trump is less coherent than Biden was at the debate. Trump doesn't need to be coherent. Trump being incoherent is just ... Trump.
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Unfortunately, it's not bad news for the GOP, because clearly the bar is much lower for them.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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Paging Steve Martin ... (Too obscure?)
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Is the frame for that collage made out of ... tuba fours? (Sorry not sorry.)
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[snort] Any "woman problem" Biden does or doesn't have in the White House absolutely pales in comparison to the "woman problem" Trump has on the entire fucking planet. Trump's a goddamn rapist FFS. And possibly a pedophile.
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It's not a professional drawback for pundits to be wrong - even repeatedly very wrong - as long as they're wrong in the right way.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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Fuck that, I'mma make my own. Who wants some?
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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We are sufficiently humble that We permit Our subjects to address Us informally.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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I he decided that "second try at the Civil War" was a little too honest. For now.
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What a bizarre non-sequitur. "... when the stuffed squirrel is standing right there." "... when the anchovy pizza is standing right there." "... when my dirty underwear from last week is standing right there."
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I see that Cancun is getting hit by a hurricane. Poor Ted must be very worried.
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It's interesting that the low name-recognition of his opponent is mentioned in the context of it giving Republicans a chance to define him negatively ... ... with no mention of the possibility that as his name recognition grows, his support could also grow.
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Judge: "You don't have any evidence." Trump team: "Not here, no." Judge: "Is there evidence?" Trump team: "Um, there might be." Judge: "Get out of my courtroom." Trump: "The judge was clearly biased!!"
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TheirKIOK, but it's supposed to be safe, sane, and consensual.
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The Fourth Estate. "In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate." - Oscar Wilde, 1891
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Today's Republicans would cheer and applaud when Trump mocked his wheelchair. I mean, that's not exactly speculation - we've seen them do that sort of thing.
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Maybe you should change "Don't" to "Won't" to avoid awkward questions.
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Press : so there’s no other option Billionaire : none that comes to mind Press : Well, we can't think of anyone else to ask, but we're sure you must be right. Your rich white guy credentials are impeccable.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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I remember seeing Dukakis at least once as he rode the Green Line to work when he was governor. Just another workday commuter.
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Her opponent's campaign tried to position themselves as upset by the insensitivity to indigenous people ... while some of her opponent's supporters were going to her events and trying to mock her by cosplaying as bad-western-movie "indians".
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If Republicans hadn't blocked her from leading CFPB - which she led the creation of - she almost certainly wouldn't have run for senator. I like to think some of them realized what an own goal that was. Suck it, shitheads. (Ye gods, I love having a senator I can be proud of.)
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George Takei
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...or is it?
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Is there a good antonym for "fearmongering"? Methodically downplaying things that people *should* be afraid of?
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I don’t want to generalize too much but the place I see the most hope right now is from those that have been fighting the hardest for the longest time. Extended doomerism can be a luxury not afforded to those who have the most to lose.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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LOL EW
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If someone disagrees with a policy or a candidate or even the presentation of them to the public, by all means they should. But anyone who thinks that any policy or candidate change would ameliorate this kind of GOP - and media - treatment ... hasn't been paying attention. To put it kindly. 2/2
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After decades of the GOP increasingly pumping up exaggerations or outright lies about any and all Dem candidates and policies, one might think people would understand that encouraging this sort of "Dems in disarray" thing is part of why they do it. 1/x
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Maybe we should start speculating about how many high-level news media editors and owners were buddies of Epstein.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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Red states are generally speaking economically dependent on blue states. (Vice versa, too, but not as much.) To whatever extent red-staters acknowledge this, they believe they're *entitled* to it. They think of blue states as also red states, but temporarily under the control of the wrong people.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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All the proof anybody needs for this is the Republican efforts that try to prevent people from going to a different state for medical care. That's just a little taste of the kind of control they want.
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And even then, it'll be an article about "The GOP's Bold New Ads". With a paragraph near the end being dismissive of Dem's "overblown concerns".
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"signs point to rapidly eroding support" Entrails? Tea leaves? A slice of toast that looks like Richard Nixon?
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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"It can't happen here" and "It can't happen to me" may end up being major factors in it happening here, to lots of people.
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The last one in the US might've settled things more thoroughly if Northern whites hadn't surrendered Reconstruction.
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Hell, he'd admit it, though he might reframe it. Or he might not reframe it, at this point.
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When people talk about "heritage, not hate", this sort of thing is part of their "heritage".
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It's been a while since I watched it, but yes, that scene was de-specialized correctly.
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Some folks have made "de-specialized" versions of the original trilogy. Don't know if they're still out there in the interwebs, but I bet they are.
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All driving directions in Eastern Massachusetts that involve 3 or more turns must contain references to at least two different Dunkin' Donuts. I think it's a state law.
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You deserve all the cookies for that. (And by "cookies", we both mean "fresh fruits and vegetables", right? [discreetly brushes away crumbs])
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Yeah. That shit's complicated.
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#Science #Weather
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They believe it's their God-given right to live in a hierarchy of privileges.
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Ford's pardon was necessary at the time to smooth the way for the people who have dragged the country to this point. *Now* something like Ford's pardon is unnecessary.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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And then they blamed "outside troublemakers" for "forcing" them to close the pools. "Look what they made us do! They're awful!"
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Is he courting Trump voters?
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"Bloodless if the Left obeys our orders."
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I've noticed that sometimes a rightwinger will make comments that aren't just wrong but pretty clearly part of an elaborately twisted fantasy world. It's creepy.
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