Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social

love me a single source anonymous story about a conversation that may or may not have happened as described

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Jon Arnesen @jonarnesen.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

The kind of stories that starts with “once upon a time in a kingdom far-far away”, and ends with “happily ever after”. When I was a little kid, I always wondered how that latter part could be possible. In my adolescence, I guessed it had something to do with suicide. Prior, I’d thought of lobotomy🤔

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

Is this the same source who told the NYT that Biden confessed he fell asleep during the debate? Or the one that assured them the DOJ found no evidence of Trump colluding with Putin? Or, you know, all the other anonymously sourced lies the Times has promulgated since forever?

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The chicken lady @chickenlady.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

Also: "He's weighing" is definitely not " he said ,if he doesn't convince people then the campaign is doomed". Ummmm. Yeah. Water is wet. That what campaigns are supposed to do This has been done to Macron and Scholz and Habeck and Baerbock . Constantly for the last 2,5yrs.

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