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Jim Zub
@jimzub.bsky.social
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This photo is pure 2024.
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Harvey Fliester@harveyfliester.bsky.social |
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Just a guy with nonsense opinions, go follow someone interesting instead.
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Jim Zub
@jimzub.bsky.social
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This photo is pure 2024.
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In Places Deep
@inplacesdeep.bsky.social
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On this 4th of July, some wisdom from my old Latin professor: "Caesar had himself declared dictator in perpetuum. What does 'in perpetuum' mean? It means it's time to kill him!"
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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We used to live around the block from Elizabeth Warren, and I personally witnessed her giving out full-size candy bars on Halloween, I’m just saying
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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For me it’s not that I’m either ok or not ok with Biden as a candidate it’s that my brain cannot rationalize that the media has so uniformly freaked out about him while remaining comparatively serene about all the other far worse stuff in the past two weeks.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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www.instagram.com/reel/C8yfexD...
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
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Shocking scenes as a major G7 country votes decisively for the not completely shitty option
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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So hey, I know one candidate is old, but has the other guy done anything lately, like promising to imprison or kill his opponents, hold politicized military tribunals, exile people for their skin color, deny them healthcare or the right to marry? Anything like that? Sure would be nice to know!
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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the very few of trump's sentences that actually meant anything coherent were full on monstrous hitler shit and nobody cares
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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It’s weird that US political journalists don’t seem to think the President Trump being accused of multiple sex crimes against minors is worth covering as much as Joe Biden being old, right?
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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When asked by the border guard where I was coming from when crossing back to the US from Canada I once answered, "Canada."
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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I think most of the individual people in those areas are probably people who, if we divorced them from the media feeding them tales, would actually be a lot better than they appear at first glance. My main issue isn't with them. It's with the conglomerate capture.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Even if they 'prove' that he is fit, he can't have one more bad day and, well, he's going to have more bad days because that's just how getting old works. When you pile on stress the chances are you get more and more bad days.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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I wish we had literally one politician on the D side who was willing to think about something other than their ego as they aged.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Feels like there is potential upside to him dropping out and basically none to him staying in.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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Like, it's just interesting to me that Trump directs violence at his enemies, threatens people constantly, has committed multiple sexual assaults and fraud, and there is an ecosystem of judges to protect him from any fallout, and the elite of this country just cannot stop talking about Biden's age.
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POLITICO Europe
@politico.eu
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🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll.
Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Do public positions actually matter? Feels like, if they did, Rs would get about 25% of every vote.
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Harvey Fliester
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They will, they always do, but the hope is it is a less damaging narrative. This one is catastrophic.
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Harvey Fliester
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Narrative rules the world, there is no way for Biden to change this narrative so he needs to step aside.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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The.future is already here, just not evenly distributed.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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This is, very clearly, the future for America.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Yup. Even if Biden wins a clear electoral win in November, they will attempt to steal it in January, attempting to force the choice of Presidency into a Congressional state delegations vote (that Trump will win.)
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Sorry to say there's a good chance we bring the rest of you down with us.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Feels a lot like he's thinking they have won and he no longer needs to pretend he cares about anything other than power.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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You know how sometimes in war there’s the one side who has rules and thinks they know how war is fought but then they’re shocked, SHOCKED, when the other side runs out of the bushes and like, stabs their horses and shit? And that side wins? Yeah I think about that phenomenon a lot these days.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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This is true, but where is the evidence that, if elected, the Ds do anything to fix the issues? They have not even attempted to do so so far. Is the plan to win elections forever?
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Imagine thinking that unlimited power in the hands of one person will always be used only against people you don't like.
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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social
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Simply put, neither the Supreme Court nor the Presidency should exist. In a modern country, they would have a constitutional court, and a prime minister—not the king and clerics we are governed by. The American political system is outdated, corrupt, and ultimately not worth saving.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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I’m just so pleased that the court decided homeless people can be arrested for existing, the government cannot govern, and the president cannot be prosecuted for committing crimes, all in the same week. Blitzkrieg doesn’t begin to cover what has happened to the rule of law.
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Micah
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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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So, as an official act of holding insurrectionists to account as dictated by the constitution Biden can just F'n shoot Trump now, correct?
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.
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Roy Edroso
@edroso.bsky.social
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"I wasn’t trying to debate Bannon or rebut his beliefs; I wanted to understand how he sees the current moment." Bullshit. You already understand and want to *mainstream* his beliefs. Otherwise why publicize this crook? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/o...
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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It has always amazed me that there is no level of being wrong that can possibly get you ejected from the talking head circuit. You can however get ejected by being correct when everyone else is being loudly incorrect.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
@mattnegrin.bsky.social
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Three days after the debate every Sunday news shows invited an avowed election-denying fascist on the air in an overt effort to legitimize them as good-faith commentators The news media is openly pro-fascist
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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My hope is that this conversation breaks the ice in the media and gets them talking about the real reason for the freakout, Trump. The Inquirer editorial is a good start.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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You can't have society collapse for just the people you don't like.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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So much this. Turns out that people want their side to put in visible effort.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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The one person in the D party who is out there visibly advocating for things all the time... Turns out working at the politics portion of politics is important.
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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This is beyond the normalization of publications like the Times at the time. But the Times specifically was wrong on Hitler, wrong on MLK Jr, wrong on Ida B Wells, wrong on the famine in ukraine, wrong on weapons of mass destruction. Being wrong somehow isn't disqualifying.
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@shywoof.bsky.social
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Kind of wild how Republicans being in every way worse than Democrats has caused many of us to create a literal double standard where they ignore evil by Republicans, from whom they expect it, but not from Democrats, who are expected to be better, and then decide they're the same so why bother voting
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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It can join the queue.
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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It turns out that Alan Sorkin may be history's greatest villain.
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Rufus Hickok
@rufus-hickok.bsky.social
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It's very hard to make art in a society where it is deeply ingrained that the serious work of your life is making money for other people and taking care of your loved ones, and art is a slightly self-indulgent hobby for yourself.
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