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Matthew Triponey
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Publish my book! My mom loved it! I post like I'm famous. My opinions are not my employer's, but they should be. he/him
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Matthew Triponey
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Matthew Triponey
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the song of my people
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Willie Fitzgerald
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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Matthew Triponey
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I *still* don't remember this one. Doesn't even sound familiar.
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Matthew Triponey
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If I retroactively decide I was too harsh on somebody during an argument, I torture myself over it for like a week. I look at what your average politician manages to sleep through and it's really tough to conclude that any of them could be good people.
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Matthew Triponey
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for some reason i'm hearing this to the tune of "Compress / Repress" off the Challengers soundtrack
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Matthew Triponey
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Dawkins truly is the king of accidental drils.
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Matthew Triponey
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This guy is going to try to argue this was taken out of context, but I think this article does a good job laying out why he shouldn't be extended the benefit of the doubt on that question.
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Matthew Triponey
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Whenever I’m talking about consequences of climate change, global mass slaughter is always the first thing I mention. It’s the one that scares me most, and that seems the most inevitable.
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Faine Greenwood
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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.
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Gregory Hays
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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kilgore trout
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as a politics knower I think the democrats should simply do the thing that makes it easiest to win, but also aligns with both all my prior posts and all my most panicked recent posts. this is very simple and obvious.
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Matthew Triponey
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she's really just jumped into all this with both feet huh
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Matthew Triponey
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gonna have multiple statues of kid rock
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Matthew Triponey
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transphobes running around the countryside shouting "Would you like to talk to me about strangers' genitals and/or your friends' sexual fetishes? Oh, scared of HARD TRUTHS, are we?"
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…
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Emma Evans
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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it makes no coherent sense other than that it is designed to hamstring democratic presidents and unleash republican ones
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Sam
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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!
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Micah
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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation
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Pwnallthethings
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Radley Balko
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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Matthew Triponey
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anyway, LOVE to have a small government courtesy of The Party of Freedom
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John Pfaff
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.
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southpaw
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.
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Ed Burmila
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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.
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Ian Boudreau
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A fun thought experiment is imagining how the US press would be describing this if it was happening in another country - say, Iran for example - if the US press still bothered covering other countries
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Matthew Triponey
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Would be lovely to have a Democratic Party that understood this!
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Matthew Triponey
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Looks like we get to add a whole six seats!
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A.R. Moxon
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It is astonishing and dispiriting how many people out there are gleefully eager to demolish society for no gain other than the coddling of ignorances and satisfaction of bigotries that are their sole comforts from a world full of horrendous problems they've created.
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Scott
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and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.
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Matthew Triponey
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That said, very much should have turned the lights on at some point!
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Matthew Triponey
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I might think A Quiet Place: Day One is even better than advertised. Largely eschews being your typical disaster/horror-thriller thing and becomes this sad little movie about a terminal cancer patient doggedly trying to fulfill her bucket list while the world is ending around her. Liked it! 📽️
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Matthew Triponey
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oh. i hate this.
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Matthew Triponey
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I'm going to take this with a grain of salt until we get through his funeral without him suddenly jumping out of the audience in a trench coat. (RIP, though.)
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Matthew Triponey
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I wasn't a fan, broadly speaking, but I respect that ending for escalating so far beyond what I ever possibly could have expected.
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Ned Resnikoff
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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.
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Matthew Triponey
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Matthew Triponey
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Like I said, you never have to hand it to SCOTUS.
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Matthew Triponey
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Look, I'm saying this as a guy who's not optimistic about this election and/or the future in general: This seems like an excessive amount of panic for the first debate, taking place in June, which near as I can tell did not actually go as badly as everyone is saying.
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Matthew Triponey
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This is basically what happened to me with The Boys.
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Matthew Triponey
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Mine didn’t say it outright but did spend the whole semester teaching trickle-down economics like it was an uncontested fact.
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SlacktivistFred
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Any country, any time, any election or succession or duel of ruling factions: if one side is the “I hate immigrants and refugees” party, has it EVER been true that they were the good guys in that story? Have they ever even been the *smart* guys in that story?
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Matthew Triponey
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we need to get the nyt pitchbot guy on this site
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Matthew Triponey
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me: as a kindness to myself i will not watch the debate also me: *anxiously refreshing social media the whole time*
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