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John Dellaporta@johndellaporta.bsky.social |
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Actor, nerd, played Brent Musburger on HBO’s “Winning Time”!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.
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Popehat
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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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The dopamine hit from the Cancel button is the same as from the Post button! 🤯
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John Dellaporta
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That latter bit has been keeping me (partially) sane for years. I do falter sometimes, but man, the hit from deleting it is so real.
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John Dellaporta
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I think people have underestimated how much normies like “separation of powers” and “the president is not a king”. It is our most baseline Pollyanna of tenets. It’s kind of like Roe but 250 years old.
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Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social
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If I were an optimist I would say we are at the "villain confidently starts monologuing about the success of his evil plan before it is a success" phase. I got a call from my extremely normie mom scared about the SC ruling. It is possible the crowing about blood scares a lot of ordinary folks.
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John Dellaporta
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And in a two party system, that is quite obviously the Democrats! I know there’s a smallish contingent of Bernie-Trump people out there but that’s probably more of a specific pseudo-libertarian anti-institutional thing
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John Dellaporta
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The Democrats are our most easily wielded tool to accomplish that end.
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John Dellaporta
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But in a first-across-the-post system, that means letting the GOP win. Even as the GOP schemed their own party’s reformation in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, they never outright abandoned power, or holding footholds. They started Heritage, Federalist, found abortion, Southern Strat, etc.
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John Dellaporta
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He can, however, pretend that it’s as good as already happened, which appears to be the angle here. The “Trump already won” angle.
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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Right but like, we’re organizing this party during the uncontested authoritarian regime, correct?
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John Dellaporta
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Alternative what, like another government inside the authoritarian one? Like a big metaphorical or perhaps literal dome society?
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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Vanguardism: super easy to endorse when one isn’t on the vanguard!
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John Dellaporta
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Accelerationism is 100% a belief set, just know that vulnerable populations rarely live through the collapse that precedes the rebuild.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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The party maybe, the online commentariat? Not so much.
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John Dellaporta
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Oh 100%. If/when a replacement is named for the ticket, it will NOT be a fantasy casting. The entire deal will be “someone totally fine that the party likes”. Someone for the normies, not the wonks.
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Asher Elbein
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Resist inevitability. It doesn't exist. It's an invention of people trying to convince you to shut up and go along so that they don't have to fight you, because fighting is hard and there's generally a very good possibility that they'll lose
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John Dellaporta
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He’s at his Alan Keyes number
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Dawn
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DOC JENSEN BACK
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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Good line! Both a reflection on the coming ‘62 election and a solid dig on Reagan. And now, well, a reflection on the whole damn thing.
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John Dellaporta
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It’s greatly ironic that the two major realizations of the past week are, “the most important part of the presidency is being good on TV” and “the president has the power to do literally anything he wants.”
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John Dellaporta
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I get the sense that your average person wants to vote for an asshole who will do what it takes to beat the other asshole, and then vote for a different asshole to replace the asshole who continues to act like the asshole they voted for.
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John Dellaporta
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Out of curiosity, are you still paying for the ad-free on Netflix?
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John Dellaporta
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Truly the ultimate reminder of just how far ahead in the streaming wars Netflix is. Everything else is an afterthought.
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Daniel Fienberg
@thefienprint.bsky.social
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John Dellaporta
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I beg you all, do whatever you have to, subscribe to whatever level of cringe you feel is necessary, to give yourself the sense this election is winnable. Because it needs to be.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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we don’t think it’s constitutional for a special prosecutor & all the trappings of a proper court system to look at very obvious crimes the former president committed but we do think it’s fine if you just had jsoc rendition him to gitmo
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Daniel Roberts
@drobertsimg.bsky.social
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In a weird way, SCOTUS did the Biden campaign a big favor, because everyone knows the stakes now and no one should give a flying fuck about whether Biden spaces out every now and then. The alternative has become unimaginably bad.
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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Me: "Mr President, I'd like to give you a bribe and commit some treason together." President: "Hold on, lets move this conversation to the Oval Office and bring in some White House aids so we are sure all this gets immunity."
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Debate moderator Jiminy Glick: But if ‘TWERE the case that you were sovereign of a candy kingdom, would you be a benevolent monarch or a cruel tyrant? Trump: You’ve gotta be tough. You’ve gotta be tough with the candy people or they’ll laugh at you
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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The thing about establishing standards ex ante is that they do not change in response to political whims. There is an irony to the fact that the Former President Donald Trump falls below the ethical standards to sell booze in New Jersey. I hope enough Americans vote against this moral menace.
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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I nom thee marvelous well
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the vvitch (2015)
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@Sea-level
@sea-level.bsky.social
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John Dellaporta
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I actually appreciate how the NYTEB’s take revved the Discourse all the way up to “guys it’s literally insane that THIS was the event that finally made you call for a president to stop running”
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John Dellaporta
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Maintaining “good hair day” under umbrella is impressive!
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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I remember Jon Landgraf saying something about The Bear to the effect of, “most of our other shows drop weekly, we do the The Bear as a binge because it’s so stressful people self-pace but also lose their minds if they can’t immediately resolve the tension too”
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John Dellaporta
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Enough “shoulds”, enough trying to game out other people or low-info or whatever: what would you like to see happen now?
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The Fig Economy
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I think Trump using “Palestinian” as a slur should be clarifying to people who care about Palestinian lives. I don’t say this to excuse anything happening now, but because Trump put up a blaring siren with this that things *will* be worse for Palestinians if he wins.
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John Dellaporta
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Frankly seeing very little conversation of Trump’s comments PERIOD. We’ve priced in his insanity. He’s now “doing fine” by being insane.
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter
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John Dellaporta
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Even in the 90s a “principled opposition” was a fantasy worthy of dramatizing
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John Dellaporta
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I heard him say it on PSA, but it seems like a theory of the case he’s shared a lot
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John Dellaporta
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I think “action” is an appropriate response. I have little use for unimplementable philosophy. “Make the media look at Republicans like humans who are saying insane shit, not personifications of the Twelve Labors”, feels like a reasonable ask that would help.
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John Dellaporta
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It’s about the media, and how it frames. You frame humans as criticizable and obstacles as immutable. It makes the GOP’s positions “legitimate” by default and gives them the strength of being a “side” and “tough”, to boot.
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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The Times editorial board thinks it has the standing and persuasive power to make a president drop out of his reelection race but also can't imagine Donald Trump campaigning on the message that the New York Times says Joe Biden isn't up for the job
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