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Erich DeLang@erichdelang.bsky.social |
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Just another Twitter refugee looking for what we had there once upon a time. It's not going to be Mastodon or Post.News and probably not Threads, so let's see if we can't make this our home.
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Will Stancil
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If you wanted a master narrative of Biden’s presidency, you could do a lot worse than “worker-oriented progressives and liberals achieve huge policy success, but are continually brought low by DLC centrists, Obama techy Dems, and glitzy media types, who turn everyone against the pro-worker faction”
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Wow by the "what are people talking about/what's getting clicks" standard I'm told was responsible for wall-to-wall "is Biden old" coverage, I assume tomorrow's NYT front page will be filled with Trump's Project 2025 analysis and calls for him the drop out because of it?
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Erich DeLang
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Frank Luntz will run a focus group of senior voters at The Villages who feel condescended to by ageism and unfounded accusations (Trump produced a doctor’s letter, remember) and it will become the third rail of American Politics and we’ll go back to talking about inflation and immigration.
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Erich DeLang
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Unfortunately that’s not in the table. Swap Harris in and I guarantee you it’s the last time anyone brings up age, and by “anyone” I mean both “the media” and “the Democratic Party and their candidates and surrogates.”
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Tom Scocca
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If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
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have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think
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Dave Weigel
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For Harris specifically, her worst moments as a candidate were as a primary candidate, getting wrapped around the axel on the progressive ideas she hadn't thought about and was suddenly asked to commit to. Put her on stage so she can debate Gaza with Josh Shapiro, rad idea
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Dave Weigel
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The CW like 10 minutes ago - which I think was correct - was that the best Dem scenario is a "referendum" election about Trump. Focus on his criminal behavior and record. Hard to do that when BIDEN OLD drowns you out. Putting the Dem contenders onstage now to hash out their weaknesses? Insane idea!
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Erich DeLang
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“Build public support” like the GOP has for cutting taxes on the wealthy, which is the ONLY way they’ve been able to do that every time they gain power. They got the public on board with it via savvy arguments and persistence in making the case, and were ultimately able to make it happen. Lol
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Erich DeLang
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Like the GOP built public support for overturning Roe? That’s not how this works. We need to create pub support for something popular & visceral like “hang scam robocall barons by their ankles and beat them with whiffle bats” and then you send emails on that while you do the other thing on the DL.
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Elizabeth Spiers
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The kids are alright IMO
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Will Stancil
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If the Times was in the business of calling for people to do things it would be forgivable, but to adopt a cautious approach through Trump, Thomas, Alito, etc., only to lose your mind now…
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Dave Weigel
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Just my guess: the Chevron decision will go exactly how conservatives want it, but be buried by the same-day Trump immunity decision. The justices aren't stupid. They know how news cycles work and they've done this before. You'll hear about Chevron in a John Oliver segment in a few months.
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Chris Hayes
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Cannot stress this enough: everything js a monopoly play. That’s where and why the VC money flows.
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Erich DeLang
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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Ben Horst (bluecheck.jpg)
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The real conspiracy
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Eric Blair
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Elon Musk intentionally constructed an environment where New York Times reporters see “approx 750 viral memes” about garbage, then write about the garbage in NYT, where the whole US elite reads the garbage. Please, White House staff, tell us AGAIN HOW MEDIA DOESN’T MATTER. 🙃
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Erich DeLang
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So I guess this means that the Fed *won’t* be scaling back planned rate cuts, since the only remaining persistent inflation is in housing, driven by supply shortages, driven by a lack of investment, driven by high interest rates. Right?
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AkivaMCohen
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Wait, WHAT? This is a thing they could do? Fucking do it
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Erich DeLang
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It’s why he was the chosen successor. The single most important function of the party is stasis, making sure the work and largess of politics is distributed to precisely the same non-profits, run by exactly the same people. Winning elections or governing is a distant secondary consideration.
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Erich DeLang
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There’s something to this, like the real fault line isn’t density or education level or religion or conscientiousness or openness to new experience, but fear. Fear of being in control versus fear of not being in control, or something like that.
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Adam Serwer
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Dems are going to regret it if they just sit back and let Trump surrogates fill the airwaves with accusations the trial was corrupt because it didn’t end in an acquittal
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Erich DeLang
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2. I think I’m using “wriggle” more broadly than you (and maybe OP) are. Wriggling in my view means escaping either legal or political consequences. I’d treat “Teflon” both as how was applied to Reagan and how it was applied to Gotti.
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Erich DeLang
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I understand that view, but would say two things. 1. *Being* a felon is to me more consequential that being *called* a felon. Actual 34-count felons do things like go to prison and not be President of the United States. That’s the difference between substantive and procedural due process.
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Erich DeLang
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Sure. I guess the loss of the Trump Foundation, the loss in 2020, the failure of the insurrection, the indictments, etc. are all consequences, so this isn’t even novel. But if he’s president on 1/20/25, are we really saying he didn’t wriggle out of it?
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Erich DeLang
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Fair enough.
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Erich DeLang
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Nope. We can talk again at 12:01pm on January 20, 2025. The idea that this moves us out of the danger zone actively ignores everything we’ve lived through the last eight years.
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Erich DeLang
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Missing a good one.
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Erich DeLang
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Rockford, IL
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Erich DeLang
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This, but the sound of a seatbelt unclicking and coat on seat slide from a quick opening spin to get into position. Still caused my heart to race 20 years after the fact.
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post malone ergo propter malone
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honest to goodness get @theophite.bsky.social to do it
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darth™️
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Erich DeLang
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Yeah, Josh has really been, er, wraithed by the whole Netanyahu Stockholm Syndrome deal. Had expected some reevaluation by now, honestly.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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*gestures at *who* the progressives under attack are and mumbles the same thing I always mumble under my breath about how maybe there is something additional going on here*
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Erich DeLang
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I do have questions about it in practice, though. Is the idea we hold up red state aid until they agree to not do it in the future? Wouldn’t SOP on their part be to just renege, and next time claim that whatever disaster they’re blocking aid for is a special, unique circumstance?
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Erich DeLang
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Fourteen seconds, man, and I’d have just liked yours and gone about my day.
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Erich DeLang
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Yep, exact same logic as unilateral disarmament on gerrymandering except with higher and more human stakes. That makes it suck more - it doesn’t make it less necessary.
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Erich DeLang
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Wonder how many know who Claudine Gay is. Bet it’s more than 20%!
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Erich DeLang
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Worth noting that the focus is usually on stuff like this (social welfare non-profits in places like San Francisco) but it also rings true on other fronts, like “Topeka needs a new municipal water treatment plant,” except those grifters are for profit.
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Erich DeLang
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Note that it’s not impossible to believe the drug war has been a net negative while also believing that a world swimming in legal crack would also be bad, maybe even worse.
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Erich DeLang
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Yeah, you could say the same thing about gambling and crack, and you would also be correct, but that’s a different thing than saying “the prohibition of crack and restrictions on gambling are completely ineffective and have no impact on the damage those things do to society.”
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Mark Copelovitch
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Today's reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in American politics & society is because there are never any personal, professional, or legal consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in American politics & society.
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Erich DeLang
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How its done at Fox New’s.
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Erich DeLang
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Political Correctness, Forced Busing, State’s Rights, Cutting Taxes… Someone really ought to do a version of We Didn’t Start the Fire that’s nothing but these bullshit dog whistles.
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Erich DeLang
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You've been murdered, who do you want on the case?
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Erich DeLang
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Man, sure seems like Very Serious Concerns about the fraction of the fraction of people who hold this view takes up more than 5% of the overall discourse on this subject. www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/m...
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Erich DeLang
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Yeah, they’re both a bit younger than this but I’d put Bouie and Coaston into this category based on their posting about it, and neither of them fall into that category, but both definitely seem to be hobbyist about it.
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Erich DeLang
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As opposed to how I’m normally loathe to do any “unskewing,” I’ve been skeptical of these because of how different 2020, 2022, and the off-year special elections have been from polling. This from Radley, who would run in the same circles as these kinds of voters, is a good case for caution.
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Erich DeLang
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PHENOMENAL skeet.
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Michael Hobbes
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This is a far bigger journalistic scandal than people accusing an anecdote of being fake on Twitter. Did a Senator propose invoking the Insurrection Act against peaceful protestors and the Times softened his language?
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