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Michael Ditto
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Nope.
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Musician. Entrepreneur. Pornstar. *not intended to be a factual statement
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Michael Ditto
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Nope.
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Michael Ditto
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We can attribute weak parties in part to our own dogooding. McCain-Feingold outlawed soft money and in its place sprang up dark money. The center of power is now on the dark money side, sometimes lovingly referred to as the VLWC (vast left-wing conspiracy).
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Michael Ditto
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An acquaintance of mine was one of his committee chiefs of staff and she says there’s no one more decent than Biden, but he had an absolutely unmatched ego.
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Hunter Walker
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A high level Dem strategist tells me: "Biden has put Dems in a no-win position. They don’t want to go out there and tank him, but no one can credibly tell their constituents that he should be president for another 4 1/2 years."
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Michael Ditto
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Pop stars are great for election week GOTV rallies. Not for much more than that, unfortunately. Your opinion is correct based on my 20 years of campaign experience, so I’d upgrade it from opinion to truth.
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Amanda Marcotte
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I've been in this business a long time and find that when people go into "shut up shut up shut up" mode, it's rarely because they think silencing people will actually achieve the stated goal. It's usually because they don't have a good rebuttal and so they blame the person bringing up the points.
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Michael Ditto
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I watched it in real time and said on here in real time that he needed some L-dopa stat. It was a horrifying display of confusion and aphasia for 90 minutes and I am not imagining that. I adore Joe Biden and it is very upsetting, but I refuse to be gaslit about what I saw with my own eyes.
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Michael Ditto
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Stupidschnitzel?
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Michael Ditto
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I appreciate the context. Links are good. Also, the number of page views the NYT gets from Twitter is minuscule. The number of clicks they get from Bsky is a tiny fraction of minuscule. It just doesn’t matter. There are far more important things to obsess about.
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Michael Ditto
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My mom would have said, no, walking around on the table is silly. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE CLEANING YOIR ROOM
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Phil Lewis
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Supreme Court strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering the state's right to abortion access.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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Michael Ditto
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Telomeres down to zero. This is not a figment of Arthur Sulzberger’s imagination. The extreme denial and militancy of some democrats is appalling. This is a five alarm fire and y’all think *I* want Trump to win.
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Michael Ditto
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Republicans didn't do this shit, Joe Biden did this shit. He should have complete a week-long whistle stop tour to undo the damage but he has yet to hold a press conference. What is the press supposed to do? Joe Biden has a PR department and it ain't the New York Times.
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Michael Ditto
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Of course the problem was that then-Rep. Udall knew little about the Supreme Court and figured a Democrat from his state would automatically be praiseworthy in his US Senate primary versus my high school history teacher who knew better. Oops.
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Michael Ditto
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Ahh yess, Whizzer White, everyone’s favorite football justice and anti-abortion extremist whose hate for teh gay was only matched by Antonin Scalia and Sam Alito. My old boss Mark Udall once had to walk back a claim that Whizzer White (D-Colo) was his favorite SCOTUS justice.
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Michael Ditto
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One debate where he demonstrated conclusively that he is not capable of doing the job for four more years. I care more about the country than what the media thinks. Sorry, I’m patriotic like that. Happy fourth.
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Michael Ditto
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No, it’s your opinion based on nothing but your feelings.
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Michael Ditto
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Yeah there not how aging works. He’ll be much worse if not dead in four years than he will be in four months.
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Mike Sager
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Update: “I don’t vote” guy lied. He votes.
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Michael Ditto
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He very well might not be fit to be president right now, but evidence suggests otherwise and the election is in four months and his successor would take office in six months so who cares?
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Stephen Wolf
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The New York Times found it appropriate to publish this drivel on Independence Day just one week after the Supreme Court ruled that Republican presidents are above the law.
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Michael Ditto
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I think the best of bad options is Biden drops, Kamala stays and keeps the money and uses the money to polish her fairly unknown public image as a low-profile vice president while bringing in a well-known VP nominee from a swing state. Biden is losing and it’s getting worse, not better.
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Michael Ditto
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Whoa I did Nazi that coming.
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Michael Ditto
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Leftists won’t vote for her? Preposterous. You think they’ll vote for Genocide Joe but not Kamala the Kop? Maybe pandering to leftists isn’t in the party or country’s best interest.
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Michael Ditto
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The constitution does say what happens. The vice president becomes president, and then the president nominates a vice president, and then the Republican House and (almost certainly) Republican senate will confirm NO ONE, and Mike Johnson will be second in the line of succession.
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Michael Ditto
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Seems like it might be a bit of a production when a simple drone strike would do the trick
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Michael Ditto
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I’m not a leftist. I love Joe Biden. I do not believe he has the capacity to do the job for four more years even if he wins re-election which right now seems doubtful. The actuarial tables say he’d almost certainly die in office, sparking a constitutional crisis. I’d cheerfully support VP Harris.
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kilgore trout
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as a politics knower I think the democrats should simply do the thing that makes it easiest to win, but also aligns with both all my prior posts and all my most panicked recent posts. this is very simple and obvious.
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Michael Ditto
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Much more humility is necessary in this moment. Every self-styled political expert should stop insisting they know what’s going to happen in every possible hypothetical. This is uncharted territory.
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Michael Ditto
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I don’t have any certainty about anything except that I’m damned sick and tired of people on any side of this debate expressing certainty about who will definitely win or lose. Nobody knows a thing and everybody should be asking questions, not beating people over the head with fake confidence.
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Michael Ditto
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Things I wish a zillion substackers would realize. Everyone needs an editor. Even the best editors need editors.
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Michael Ditto
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Not really I think. The court said Trump couldn’t be prosecuted for seizing their billions, but a court could definitely give them their billions back. With a few extra billion for damages.
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Michael Ditto
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Whoever wins the nomination at the party convention gets to be on the ballot, and anybody who claims otherwise is lying.
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Michael Ditto
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You should probably view the entire quote and not the very selectively snipped version
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Michael Ditto
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Repeat after me: Zenni Optical makes absolute garbage at any price, and then they will blame your eye doctor, and turns out their no-questions-asked return policy involves all kinds of questions and hoop jumping, and at this point I’m going to have my bank reverse the charges.
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Michael Ditto
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Two states are currently trying to enforce their laws, one of which has already found him guilty. There will be no state exemption from absolute immunity.
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Michael Ditto
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You know who doesn’t have absolute immunity? Javanka
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Michael Ditto
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You live in a fantasy land and are utterly incapable of facing the current moment. The conversation ended before it started.
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Michael Ditto
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No, sweetheart, there’s an election in November. He has not won. He’ll face no legal repercussions for anything he’s ever done, but he has not won. If he does win, you’re dead. I’m dead. We’re all dead.
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Michael Ditto
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ROFL You think you have freedoms to bet? If Trump wins, it’s over. You have no freedoms. If Trump wins, Trump gets immunity. It has no fucking thing to do with whether I want to bet my anything on anything.
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Michael Ditto
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It’s sweet that you think this decision applies to democrats because norms say it should. Only Trump gets to be king. Only Trump gets immunity. A 2/3 Republican majority on the Supreme Court means the law only benefits Republicans.
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Michael Ditto
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Here’s a German (!) civil liberties lawyer who says if anything bad comes of the decision it’s because liberals are interpreting it to say what it says. bsky.app/profile/bija...
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David Kurtz
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With its immunity decision, SCOTUS took a sledgehammer to the constitutional foundation of American democracy and eviscerated the rule of law. It will go down in the annals of wretched decisions alongside Dred Scott, Plessy, and Korematsu.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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David Sacerdote
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This is the climate policy we get with a court system invested in a dictatorship of Republicans: the President has total immunity and absolute power...unless he's a Democrat & does something good for the country.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/c...
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Michael Ditto
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Sorry, you don’t get to blame liberals. Liberals didn’t write that decision. Liberals wrote the dissent, which the conservative majority did not attempt to refute.
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Michael Ditto
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Of course not? That’s an awful lot of confidence with no masks in reality. The Republican Supreme Court is making this up as it goes along. The law is what they say the law is, not what you or the constitution say it is.
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Michael Ditto
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Unless it’s a Democrat in the White House. You know none of this new power is reserved for use by a Democrat. Democrats have no core functions. Only Trump gets to be king.
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Michael Ditto
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Sadly, you don’t get to decide what constitutes a core function of the executive. Only the judiciary can do that.
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Peter Sagal
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One of the very disorienting aspects of our current moment is that a very smart man like @adamserwer.bsky.social can sound like a fire-breathing radical as he simply tells the truth.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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