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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
a thing that pro-trump “intellectuals” have never been able to reconcile is that the guy they see as some kind of world-spirit of the american people is very unpopular, which is how you get arguments like this one (also, you’d never see these people run this play for someone like marion barry)
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Jose Marichal
@marichal.bsky.social
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So now even the gatekeepers don't have gatekeepers anymore
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John Outwater
@johnoutwater.bsky.social
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It’s all so wild to read these breathless descriptions of this fabled hero when there is so very little to the man. His garbage brain is a simple flow chart loop of pissing, moaning and whining. He’s an honest to god freak and operates at a subhuman level and people worship him!
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The Store
@mudsludge.bsky.social
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That's because Marion Barry was generous and genuinely wanted to help people and they could never get behind that.
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@trixienorton.bsky.social
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It also proves that they don't think rape is a serious crime.
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Monica Keane
@monicakeane.bsky.social
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This is just old-school fascism. They were elected and popular too.
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ice.cream.assassin
@icassassin.bsky.social
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It also sort of gives the game away that these people think that the world-spirit of the American people is being stupid and angry. I think they genuinely believe that "real America" is "being aggressively idiotic."
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Robert Black
@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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Something something some who the law protects but does not bind, mumble mumble some who the law binds but does not protect
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There is no Dana only Zuul
@smudgiesmom.bsky.social
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I remember when the NYT was a real newspaper.
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George S
@harmonygritz.bsky.social
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You may be too young for this, but in the Marion Barry era there was also Buddy Cianci up in Providence, RI. More like Rodney Dangerfield as a felon, though not to be messed with
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Hannibal Hamlin Wildlife Preservation Trust
@rustylemon.bsky.social
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What a fucking clown: "[S]tanding behind this familiar divide is a more profound division: between those who think that threats to our liberties are more likely to come from the unruly fringe and those who think such threats are more likely to emerge from the responsible-seeming center."
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paul johnson
@rhetoricpj.bsky.social
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good lord
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BS de Résistance
@bsderesistance.bsky.social
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I mean, nothing says “American Spiritual Avatar” like sucking up to a Russian strongman. bsdr.bandcamp.com/track/great-...
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Andrew Elder
@awelder.bsky.social
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Also, the arc of that character leads to their untimely death, a factor explored with Biden but strangely not considered at all with Trump
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Eryn
@erync.bsky.social
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The guy is just explicitly confirming Ganz’s mafia comparisons
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Adam Jay
@bullgooseparty.bsky.social
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He’s very popular with the Americans they count as Americans though
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Jamin
@mackray.bsky.social
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“Mr. Trump may pose a threat to our political system as it now exists, but”
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James Felix Black
@tft.io
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So much derangement can be traced directly back to the antidemocratic reality of the US colliding with the democratic self-conception of most US folks.
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James D'Emilio
@demiliopics2.bsky.social
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Every outlaw hero had their Mar-A-Lago and Billy-the-Kid tower.
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Dan Greenberg
@dangco.bsky.social
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What’s glaringly missing from the author’s thought process is that T has reversed engineered his “outlaw” persona. He was lawless before he claimed he was doing so for the sake of others.
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Roberta Ecks
@robertaecks.bsky.social
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Gads, this is depressing. The planet watched this movie already in the 1930s-40s. It sucked.
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@dbum.bsky.social
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if you swap "trump" with "calhoun" you slam full-speed into the dunning school and it's near total historical and moral credibility among america's cultural elite for over a century
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Fuzzy Mike
@fuzzymike.bsky.social
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“the outlaw hero”
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Matt Simonton
@mattsimonton.bsky.social
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ursus dykeus
@calicomart.bsky.social
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saying this about a guy who owns multiple hotels is so funny
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@docjoe1986.bsky.social
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The followers of every fascist and cult leader (too redundant?) feel that he (gendered pronoun very much intended) speaks for them. That doesn’t make the leader pro-democracy.
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Huh…
@capitalistfool.bsky.social
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Marion Barry had no malice and a great sense of humor. When the mayor was asked what his plan was for dealing with a surprise February D.C. snowstorm, Barry replied that his plan was "April." Trump is pure malice and has no sense of humor.
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Zirgar
@zirgar.bsky.social
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Thank you for putting the word “intellectuals” in quotes. That take was a steaming hot pile of stupid.
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Izzy
@izzle.bsky.social
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Of course it's a Compact guy.
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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It all makes perfect sense so long as you internalize their firm belief that the 25-30% of Americans who love this guy are the only real Americans, the authentic Volk.
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George Dubya
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In some ways Trump basically IS Marion Barry for the right wing, right? Like, if there was surveillance video of him smoking crack, his supporters would mostly vote for him anyway.
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@jeffreyboone.bsky.social
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Good exercise to read his wife’s condescending obit of Toni Morrison (TM & her admirers benighted snobs... www.firstthings.com/article/2019...) & cf the Schmitz-Yost pedigrees in their NYT wedding announcement (www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/f...)
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Justin Noormand
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Robin Hood did famously steal from the elderly to get himself out of legal trouble, so I can see why this guy makes that connection.
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Tim
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"Just a good ole boy, never meaning no harm one day the mountain bug'll get him but the law never will. YEEE HAW!"
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Jen in Motion
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They still can't believe the entire modern conservative project is very unpopular which is why they use the ugliest cases to try to sell it
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Truth Axe
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Garbage writing. Is that the spirit? Yeah, among the deluded base that's the "spirit". But when you describe it in a way that fails to acknowledge that underlying delusion - and that the "outlaw" is prob the most corrupt and hypocritical person in this country - well you're kind of missing the boat.
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Candidate for Godot
@cat-befriender.bsky.social
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"criminal persona, a persona his legal opponents have helped to thrust upon him" is breathtakingly shameless, but it does illustrate the foundational conservative view that being "a criminal" is not a function of what you *do* but the class/racial group to which you belong
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Vivalavoices
@vivalavoices.bsky.social
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caught doing, but voluntarily handed justice the evidence used against him, but because he is wealthy, he thinks he has earned being above the law and untouchable. That isn't how it works; it should be falls harder, not at all. ... 2
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Vivalavoices
@vivalavoices.bsky.social
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Trump isn't so much exposing those injustices, as he is creating them and sowing false doubt. Those poorer than him were manhandled with harsher than necessary punishment and even railroaded. He screams because he not only did the dirty deeds he got ... 1
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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“Well maybe old Stagger Lee had a point after all”
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Hemlock Autumn
@hemlockautumn.bsky.social
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I am sorry but if one Is pro-trump they are either malicious or stupid and malicious.
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Rod Mesa
@roddio.bsky.social
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Donald Tre45on is the plaster saint of white supremacy and wealth privilege. It's no small wonder why so many wypipo support him.
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Moe Juggs
@joemuggs.bsky.social
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Jesus they have gone full Nietzsche 🥶🥶🥶
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Marsh Davies
@marshdavies.bsky.social
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Which Robin Hood myth involves him raping someone in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room again? I forget. (Nice to see my old prof Stephen Knight getting a namecheck. Pretty sure he'd think the article was specious bollocks, though.)
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Ben Coccio
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My assumption is that arguments like this - along with this guy saying 4 months back that ‘trump is a moderate, actually’ - are just pure, unadulterated bullshit. And the people making them know it, but would never admit it.
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Steve Watts
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But he's popular among the REAL Americans, by which they mean the people who agree with them on tax cuts and abortion and immigration. Fake Americans (i.e. liberals) don't count. Checkmate.
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Matt
@itsmatt.bsky.social
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Well as long as it’s animated by a democratic spirit
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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Also this argument for him is pretty explicitly fascist.
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Kevin Hamel
@kevinhamel.bsky.social
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Well, it seems pretty obvious that National Enqurer has acquired both the New York Times AND The Onion, put them in a blender and selected ‘chop’. I can no longer tell if we are a-foot or on horseback. 💩
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@pershing48.bsky.social
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This would make more sense if Trump was winning the popular vote but not the election.
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Ben Grimm
@kullopodiou.bsky.social
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Have you seen a pic of the terrifying peckerwood behind this article?
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Jeremy Neely
@jeremyneely.bsky.social
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Ben Munson
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the criminal persona his opponents have thrust upon him = the consequences of his criminal behavior
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