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Matthew Downhour

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Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis

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C.” Support Our Poops” Andrysiak's avatar C.” Support Our Poops” Andrysiak @cadencecivet.bsky.social
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“You just wanna go back to brunch” *beat* “Why do you say we have to keep voting as if our lives depend on it?”

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I’ve said before they Musk has floated that we need a Sulla because he knows he is Crassus in that scenario

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RFK was killed on June 6, which reveals a bit of why the analogy doesn’t make sense

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If your entire argument implodes like a cheap submersible at the simple question “and then what happened?”, don’t make it!

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Gonna start referring to anyone calling for an open convention as “a Bill-Maher-type.”

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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The ole Republican two step. Senators argue you shouldn't impeach but should use the courts, SCOTUS says you can't use the courts.

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An extremely bad decision but one that gives additional fodder for Biden’s campaign “President Obama and I appointed justices who want to hold us accountable; Trump appointed candidates who think he should be immune from prosecution. The choice is easy folks”

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i guess the advantage i have over everyone else is that i was already planning to spend the day reading about Richard Nixon.

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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I don’t want to hear Catholics or Latter Day Saints grumble about Biden’s age when they both believe that God’s personal representative on earth, the most important human on the planet, is someone even (in the LDS case, considerably) older

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Every right wing pro-Israel party in the world (except in Israel itself) is basically this

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Sanders is not necessarily an out of touch white guy, but white states were the ones he won, hence, the ones of which he was the 'president'. Biden was the president for Black churches and the elderly, and as it turns out those two groups dominate Dem primaries

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Tomatoes are *cultural Marxists*. And if anyone doubts it you tell them they have to go read Gramsci and Adorno to understand that this is all a long march through (culinary) institutions

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It's not being brought up enough how bad a Le Pen win would be for Palestine. She's all in on the Orban strategy of papering over antisemitism in the party with a strong pro-Israel stance, whereas Macron has been one of the best major Euro leaders lately on the question of Palestine

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Frankly if the USSR had actually been ruled by experts it would probably still be around

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There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Republicans say they hate communism but have no idea what the salient bad things about communist regimes actually were

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Men weren't expected to be sensitive, but even Bingley and Colonel Fitzwilliam seems to think Darcy's behavior is unsocial

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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One needn't be a racist to primarily win very white states

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Lol working on the garage so I’m storing a lot of stuff outside lately, and have found myself needing to buy more. Pretty great invention when you think about it

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It was extremely nice tonight at the northern end

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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This sounds about right. Fascinating (I’m using a lot of tarps lately so it’s a subject of interest to me!)

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Interesting - I’d never thought it through but it makes his character & decision making make more sense

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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I’ve never read the book! And he’s just opening up now about how he struggles to catch the appropriate tone of conversations etc

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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I know I’ve seen brown/green light duty ones, which are designed simply to be less visibly obnoxious

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Wait is Mr Darcy on the autism spectrum? I’m sure this has been discoursed extensively but I’m just now seeing it

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Also, that’s why in a skinny family (my wife’s) you need one heftier uncle (me) to play with the kids in the water, a duty I gladly took on

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I can now testify, having swum in Flathead Lake at several points of my life, that an extra 15 pounds of fat on your body makes a huge difference for how you perceive cold. Never enjoyed the lake so much as a skinny kid or a fit young man, but the last few years…

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Okay I’ve worked with silver tarps but I had no idea that meant something!

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Whaaaat?! Tarps are color coded by how heavy duty they are? I never knew!

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Last night the Israeli Stasi... eh police, again brutally attacked anti government protesters. In one of the videos an officer can heard yelling at a protester "I will rape your mother", when he's on the ground, while another officer kicks him.

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Random question - how did blue become the official color for tarps? Like yeah you see them in brown and green and some other colors but blue predominates. Why is that?

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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FWIW they should have their family doctor and some specialists there, too. If he needs to step down, find a good medical excuse (I'm sure they could find something that could be spun that way); if he is staying on, release a medical report on his continued good health!

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I just don’t think AG Sulzberger is one of those people

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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They couldn’t impeach her, it’s not against the law <Ray Liotta laughing meme>

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Hamas is offering corpses at least partly because Netanyahu is openly saying he won’t give the guarantee - that’s the impasse

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Well - the War Cabinet did. So it really seems down to one guy on the Israel side

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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In that stage there shouldn’t be any hostages. That’s the impasse - Netanyahu wants all the hostages back w/o any guarantee that he won’t invade again

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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But I mean it turned out Arizona was pretty key and in Arizona Biden won more votes than Sanders & Warren combined, even with Bloomberg taking 3rd

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I mean one stage of the ceasefire is “Israel doesn’t invade again”, so Netanyahu saying “we intend to invade again when we feel like it” is a bit of a roadblock too

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Sure, the primary should be in Georgia instead of South Carolina, I’ll agree.

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I’m just dreaming here. Harris is basically the same as Biden except better on I/P and less electable. Might as well get some pros with our cons

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And while we’re dreaming, Harris should take office and on day one call up both Netanyahu and Gallant and tell them that if there is no ceasefire in three weeks she is going to endorse the ICCs decision to indict them

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Remind me the demographics of Iowa and New Hampshire?

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