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Uncle Dude

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The Dude abides. Fútbol is Life! Lawyer but not a *lawyer* lawyer. Smartass. Interests are varied. Ex-Quaker, now atheist. Lib. FC Cincy/Liverpool He/Him/Dude


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Lordkeynes does the monster mash's avatar Lordkeynes does the monster mash @lordkeynes42.bsky.social
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I remember thinking this was the most north korea shit possible.

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ManhattanJuryAppreciator 's avatar ManhattanJuryAppreciator @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
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Hey look, the Times is starting to realize what game they’re about to play!

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John Brown stan account's avatar John Brown stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social
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Joe Biden has been an excellent president, and I highly doubt he lost his marbles in the last few months

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The Achiever formerly known as Karl's avatar The Achiever formerly known as Karl @urban-achiever.bsky.social
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fuck yeah this--and i mean this in all sincerity--is what they want to take from us.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Four months ago, the Economist thought the country was being run pretty well.

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Not an OG Just a G's avatar Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social
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Also intentional Islamophobic framing of the "right/correct" religious lineage.

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This is the tradcath weirdo whom the @nytimes.com is publishing to tell you not to vote.

You should not listen to him. Instead, you should shove his ass into a locker and burn the entire campus containing said locker to the ground. (The campus is Hillsdale)

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Daniel Gilmore's avatar Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social
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Listen to the Biden interview. Its 15ish minutes of Biden talking extemporaneously perfectly well. But like several other public events over the last several days, this is getting brushed aside because the narrative that political news media wants to go with is set.

civicmedia.us/shows/specia...

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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Which I think is why the opeds also get outsized importance in the discourse despite being flaming dog shit.

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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You're going to outlive Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito which means you'll get to celebrate their death and piss on their graves if you want

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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I don’t think it’s just their oped page that’s suspect, though it clearly is. Their editorial decisionmaking should also be treated with skepticism.

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The default presumption for anyone being serious right now should be to take anything printed in the NYT as extremely dubious, including NYT/Siena polls.

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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The NYT, the most influential paper in the country, just ran an Op Ed called 'Why I Don't Vote' by a guy who votes. It's that simple. The NYT is a farce. You cannot trust anything they print.

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Cersei Transnister's avatar Cersei Transnister @khatunjessicabeki.org
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Your vote is what Trump and the Supreme Court is most afraid of. They're afraid that you will say "fuck you" to them and vote. They want you to stay home. They want you to give up. So they can do what they want. Don't let them win.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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The distinction isn’t paying attention or not, it’s knowing when you should fall for an obvious op designed to get you worked up and scared and when you should actively resist that.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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And those people, those brand new Americans, are just as American as anyone whose family has been here for generations. They’re as American as anyone of those revolting nativists with “heritage American” in their bios. I’m thankful they’re here and you should be too!

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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The New York Times ratfucking operation in favor of Trump is so incredibly blatant that it’s beyond parody. If you saw ratfucking like this coming from a newspaper in a movie, you’d probably think it was a bit over the top.

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Elad Nehorai's avatar Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
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I feel like an under-discussed thing right now is how the vast majority of people paid to be smart are not smart.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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Keep rolling your eyes. They’ll give up eventually.

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady's avatar Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social
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Change in Headline

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Coffee Porter Jr.'s avatar Coffee Porter Jr. @unlox.bsky.social
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Roy Cooper has now met with Biden twice in five days and there’s no hint of him being discouraged despite a pretty distinct drumbeat of “goddamnit Cal” from him in October 2020

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Dr. SkySkull's avatar Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social
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So… the documents are legit, it appears. And I have no reason, based on what I’ve seen, to think that they’re false.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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Still seems pretty relevant given he’s still wanting to be President.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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The presumptive Republican nominee is raping pre-teens and there won’t be a fraction of the attention paid to it. That’s fucked.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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Trump has to drop out. What are we even doing here?

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Disappointed in Adam Serwer. Really thought he was better than that.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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everyone keeps saying this, but if you don’t have a column, and you watched the debate in full, and you’ve watched the rallies after, you’re not the one going insane, you’re being gaslit by the people who do.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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Like the Epstein docs that just got released. Trump was getting massages from children. But Biden old I guess.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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I dunno maybe if you’re gonna beclown yourself giving in to a manufactured panic, you could simply write something else interesting instead?

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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forgetting that the house has to weigh in on this (and adding it as a one-off after the fact without noting it) is a pretty fucking critical omission, man, it is not a small thing, it changes the entire scope of outcomes.

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Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)'s avatar Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!) @egall.bsky.social
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Fuck it, I wasn't planning on making any donations to any top-of-the-ballot races this cycle, but the way the media has been acting lately has forced my hand:

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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.

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Blue Heron Farm's avatar Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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Seriously. He's so clearly more mentally fit than Trump. I say this as someone dealing with a parent with advanced dementia. Trump seems like he's got dementia, Biden seems like he's slowing down a normal amount for his age. You can argue they're both too old. They are! But those are the choices.

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post malone ergo propter malone's avatar post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social
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this is not happening! a bunch of people are intimating that there’s about to be a cavalcade of leaks, both of this sort and of the dish-the-dirt sort, and maybe there will be but this is not where we are right now

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Aubrey Gilleran's avatar Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social
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“Joe had a bad night, but he’s still our guy, now let’s talk about Trump’s fascism” should have been the unified message, repeated constantly, and that kind of coordination needed to come from the campaign within hours. Instead, we were left with scattered statements, some ambiguous.

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Daniel Gilmore's avatar Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social
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Again, five public appearances since Thursday. But they're not the ~~~right~~~ kinds of public appearances for these sorts of people, so they dont count. Its a game of shifting goal posts where whatever Biden does it ultimately wont be enough to permanently quiet their attacks.

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Daniel Gilmore's avatar Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social
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Exactly to this point, I just saw Binyamin Appelbaum say on Twitter that if Biden wanted to "dispel concerns" he'd...do a press conf. Nevermind the five public appearances since Thursday. If Biden wanted to placate the press, he'd stand there & let them ask "Are you dead yet" 50 times in a row.

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Uncle Dude 's avatar Uncle Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social
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A special kind of freak who can't be bothered to vote but they can be bothered to pick up an unknown number and then not hang up when it's a survey and then answer all the substantive questions and complete the demo questions.

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