I said to someone else the other day, this is the most insane spasm of cowardice I have seen from Democrats in my lifetime and I lived through the Reagan years. It really is like a very specific group of people had a mass hysteria event or ate moldy wheat or got a bad batch of LSD.
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You absolutely know if Biden had spent the whole speech defending his age and capacity this dude would be saying Biden is so desperate to fend off the issue that he spent all his time on it rather than taking on the real attack on Trump's own capacity and danger to the republic.
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I know, people like allusions to the original intentions of the founders, but today instead of monarch, king and monarchy can we just use the more violent and grubbier terms dictator and dictatorship? Too many love the trappings of neutered English royalty and monarchy despite our original history.
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"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the North allows it to be"
Jefferson Davis, 1861
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This can’t even achieve the some of my best friends level
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Well it eviscerates power against me, but makes power absolute against thee.
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This is a man deeply in need of a pair of ruby slippers.
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Don’t try to pawn that off on me, you need to tow the line on these things even in these times.
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Rein. Even under a massively dictatorial regime it’s still rein. That may be one of the few things we would have left.
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Biden would have such a demonstrably well justified claim on this ground as to Trump. Though he wouldn’t even have to present the rationale in court. Then there’s Ginni and Clarence, the Alitos, a bunch of Members of Congress. That’s just at the top levels of the federal government.
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Yeah why has my family attended here and donated all this money just to see people with higher grades and scores and more interesting and representative life stories get in
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If you claim to want a meritocracy end legacy admissions and then we can talk
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It is always see what you made me do
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For what it’s worth from this rando former lawyer, same
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Always just for thee
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The Lochner and Dred Scott courts had nothing on these guys. They’re dynamiting the foundations.
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Yes.
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Sorry, I’m a retired lawyer and I have to overstay on these digressions today because, you know (waving hands wildly) fuck …
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Just going to brag here that I’m old enough to have seen them at Winterland on New Year’s Eve. Twice. But was too high at the time to be able to tell you much about it now.
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Same with official and unofficial. And all untethered from any precedent or principled consistency of application.
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But the studio albums are weak
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Yeah but they have to leave some opening to say what a Dem president has done is only presumptively immune and then conclude that the presumption has been overcome so they can be prosecuted unlike the presumption for GOP presidents, which will never be overcome
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
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And she knows all about it
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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY
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Moxon TLDR
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Every morning I check the news and it's like
-SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain
-President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler
-New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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There is no world in which demanding Kamala Harris stand aside is not viewed as a racist usurpation.
It is kind of incredible to me how many refuse to see the insult that would be.
There is no world in which that does not set fire to the Democratic coalition.
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If Biden steps down, that is real "Dems in disarray" moment that will penetrate down to the most disconnected voter imaginable. It could get overwhelmed by other factors, but is clearly a negative signal about Dem leadership and most of the response I've seen about what to do about it is "Pfft."
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anyway I can’t think of any way that unceremoniously ejecting the incumbent Dem president from the ticket, four months before the election, with no agreement on a successor, no process to pick one, and most people pushing the idea assuming it WON’T be the vice presidents, could possibly backfire
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It is spoken illiteracy. I stand by this though I admire you greatly in all other matters.
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No. If you use the berry pronunciation you use it for both.
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Thoroughly enjoying one of my favourites, Mr David Tennant, being extremely relaxed about saying things which are true.
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Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.
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as much as i think that debate was bad for biden i also find myself contemptuous of the assorted libs having a full blown panic attack
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It is a certainty that they would not be
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What I wanted to hear Biden say:
“You disgust me sir. You are a liar, a cheat, a narcissist. It sickens me to share the stage with a man like you. But I am here because I am here to to ask the American people, the people who love democracy, the people who truly love this country, to stop you.”
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This election is about values, not policies. It was *always* about values and not policies. This was obvious to anyone with half a brain-cell from the first day that Trump announced he'd be running again. Every single comms person who does not get that should be given their severance and a reference
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Just going to take this opportunity to editorialize: FFS just say "I will restore Roe v. Wade." Biden's comms people are pitiful.
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Also, foreign countries don't pay tariffs, American purchasers do. Fucking CNN
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