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Perpetual learner, never Trumper, passionate cook, believer in democracy, lover of black raspberry ice cream.

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You're f-ing kidding, right? Honest to god.

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This is part of the reason I've grown highly suspect of these accounts being bots. I get that there are people who, for good reasons or otherwise, are passionate about one issue. But to simply turn a blind eye to everything else? That's not the act of a thinking human being.

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This, 1,000X

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I don't have a link to the video (other than one to the Twitter account that shared it) but here he is at the steps of Air Force One this afternoon is Wisconsin. x.com/RiegerReport...

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What gets me is the total disregard for millions upon millions of others. These are people (assuming that's not just a bot) who would rather get nothing if they can't have the single thing they want. Compromise is a dirt word to them.

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😭😭😭

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I'll almost afraid to ask. I walked into the kitchen a few minutes ago and all of a sudden I couldn't remember what I went there for. Is there any hope for me?

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Oh my god! What a disaster!!! (for the media and the narrative they've been pushing non stop) x.com/RiegerReport...

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As an ancient* centrist I endorse this wholeheartedly. It's like it's baked into their DNA to try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The whole thing is nuts. *I'll accept "ancient" if only to emphasize that there are some ancient centrists who think the ones who are doing this are idiots.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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I wrote a thing: "this is getting fucking ridiculous" — for the future of our democracy, this game of gotcha has got to end. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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Did you see him on Friday in NC? Did you see him today in WI? (I don't necessarily mean you personally.) A tiny fraction of voters saw the debate. What is driving the narrative is the feedback loop of coverage, leading to concern, leading to more coverage, leading to more concern. At least IMO.

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How soon before "drugs" pops up in the mainstream media? 🙄

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They are going to keep churning this story for as long as they think it will generate clicks. Biden just said an hour ago that he's staying in. I'd wager that Warner disavows the story before Biden drops out.

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Hey, I get it. Your butt hurt because you reside in a place on the left where they won't listen to you. You know why they won't listen to you (aside from the fact you're a fucking asshole)? Because you represent a minority view and this is a democracy. It's only news because you want it to be.

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Go....and I mean this with all of the sincerity I can muster...fuck yourself.

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Fucking drop it already. Biden is literally giving a speech right now tackling the question head on saying unequivocally he's staying in. Find some goddamn news to report.

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It's sort of a reverse/perversion of what lawyers call "fruit of the poisonous tree." When a search warrant is based on illegal grounds, the product the warrant is excluded from evidence. Here the warrant was based on probable cause of a (newly) legal act and therefore is unsupportable.

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I think her reasoning will go like this: as to the counts based on possessing the documents she will say "official act" and his motive can't be questioned; as to the obstruction counts she will say that because he was entitled to possess them the search warrant was invalid.*

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I want what's happening in Gaza to stop but you're right. Whether one likes it or not elected officials are going to make difficult choices and some people aren't going to like them. And those folks are free to criticize those choices in part because they have the luxury of not needing to make them.

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Ok, well you're entitled to your opinion. I think it's unrealistic and if it represented anywhere close to a majority view the campaign would take heed of it.

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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I'm not sure which presidential campaign you've been following, but I'm seeing VP Harris and many cabinet secretaries, particularly Buttigieg, touting the administration's accomplishments.

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Just because the protesters are loud, have a big presence on social media, generate a lot of press coverage, doesn't mean their political weight automatically is greater than any and all other groups.

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I have a question for you. It's one I have been meaning to ask for a while. Do you think that the Biden campaign, a campaign that was successful four years ago, staffed with people who have spent their lives in politics, figured out it would lose more support if it cut off aid to Israel?

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The sad scary part has been to watch NYT degenerate into parody.

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This is 2016 redux. It's reprehensible what nyt is doing. You know who does this kind of shit? Propagandists masquerading as legit media organizations in places like Hungary and russia

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Oh, you mean like attending meetings for field organizers on Monday at 5:30 like I did? Or marching in a local 4th of July parade as dozens of us did yesterday? Or canvassing tomorrow beginning at 10 AM like I'll be doing along with a dozen+ others? But thanks for the lecture.

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I'm loving this. And by all means, let the Trump campaign "Streisand" all the way by denying, denying, denying.

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Actually, I was thinking Robert Reich but same vibe. 😁

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BTW the right is reveling in the fact that y'all are having this debate. I'm sure they especially love people like you "carefully and thoughtfully" driving a wedge into the anti-Trump coalition. It worked in 2016. They probably can't believe it's working again. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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Spot on. Straight up demonization.

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I'm a First Amendment absolutist. But...yes! 😁

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Right? Like, "I'm a life-long Red Sox fan and take immense glee when the Yankees lose, but I wish them luck." (I was trying to think of a soccer analogy...Liverpool and Man United maybe? 😁)

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Let's start with the fact he obviously didn't write this. The grammar, the spelling, the punctuation...all of it correct. That's always the first giveaway. Then add to that we all "know" that they're over there winking and nodding, thinking this will calm the rubes down.

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Thank you for the work that you and other researchers are doing, especially in the face of attacks like this.

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Wow. Were you at St. A's when we voted on delegates for the DNC? Because I was. A lot of people were in fact. It was a Saturday and I'm trying to find it on my calendar. I'll update when I can. I think folks in the 2nd CD met in Concord, so maybe you were there. Oh, and did you write in Biden?

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The gloves are off folks. They are feeling increasingly emboldened to say what had been the quiet part out loud. They are planning for an armed take over of the US. And make no doubt, the longer we spend in a circular firing squad over the debate, etc. the bolder they'll become.

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The gloves are off folks. They are feeling increasingly emboldened to say what had been the quiet part out loud. They are planning for an armed take over of the US. And make no doubt, the longer we spend in a circular firing squad over the debate, etc. the bolder they'll become.

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Right? And we're supposed to believe that in Washington, the place where politics is a blood sport, no one...not one member of Congress, not one White House staffer, not one insider opposed to his Israel policy...no one has ever said anything until now. Bullshit.

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It's also a major part of the authoritarian agenda. It's a form of surrender in advance. Get people to give up, to throw up their hands and say "I'm screwed no matter what."

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I cannot believe people are falling for it again. It's 2016 all over. "Her emails" getting all of the coverage while the MSM stays essentially silent on Trump's blatant, out loud plans to harm millions and (this time) bring an end to American democracy. How dumb are we?

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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...

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The gloves are off folks. They are feeling increasingly emboldened to say what had been the quiet part out loud. They are planning for an armed take over of the US. And make no doubt, the longer we spend in a circular firing squad over the debate, etc. the bolder they'll become.

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