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Computer knower. Urbanism advocater. Hobbyist law nerd. Accused fiat shill.

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the sentiment is hardly unique: "No man is an island" -John Donne "You didn't build that" -Obama "You know, we're living in a society" -George Costanza I do think Harris' specific choice of analogy is goofy, but it's really her delivery that makes it meme-ably iconic.

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the "roof rabbit" appellation in particular seems to be a conspiracy theory / conspiracy fact about dodgy meat vendors. It seems like something that could live in tall tales to a much greater extent than its actual practice. When push comes to shove though, humans are omnivores, emphasis on "omni"

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wait, I didn't intend this but like Joe Biden, it's 81 years old and still holds up

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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.

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At the moment though, I'm ready to spin up blue versions of some of those fake ass Trafalgar style pollsters to pollute the average just to drag it a little above water. Polling anxieties have definitely crossed the line recently from "fortifying" to "neuroses inducing"

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I will bet my life savings that Trump will not win the popular vote.

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How is that a "problem" and not and "opportunity" for the House?

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they would absolutely run back the Scalia seat playbook on an empty VP. That removes Dem's Senate tiebreaker vote and means their one lucky stochastic terror attack away from having a Republican in charge for Jan 6, Part Deux.

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I've some grace for folks being a bad mental place this week and processing anxieties in unhealthy ways. But there are still, like, limits to that grace.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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this is the newspaper that published tom cotton calling for us to be shot in the street, of their own free will, and without even reading his piece first, or editing it. you simply do not have to accept them as an unbiased source.

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goddamn, lol

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oh god. I skimmed and didn't see that line. Amazing. Just straight up admitting the real "problem" they're trying to solve.

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Literally already has happened under Trump. Or maybe there were just a lot of coincidental audits of his political enemies.

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[newspaper man voice]: but what if it was boring and I want a do over?

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that's... not what the polling says though. The polling says it's almost a perfect tossup.

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RIP to those others who claimed Harrenhal and were befell by its curse, but I'm built different.

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There's something almost impressive about the modern American homeostasis. Coalitions, policies, politics are all moving at rapid speeds at the moment, the ground constantly shifting. And yet federal control remains a competitive knife-edge. It's hard to say which is tail and which is dog.

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that is... an extremely polite description of them, all things told.

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Yes, when people say "Biden cannot win", I don't know what polls they are looking at. The standard appears not to be merely a candidate that could win, but one who polls so well it does not feel like Trump could win. I don't think that candidate exists this cycle, and when she did, polls were wrong

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I think she was mostly trying to judo the point to be about Trump's fitness. But also, apparently Biden hadn't called her or Jeffries until today, so she'd only been hearing from a donor class that was getting rattled by Sulzberger's ratfuck campaign.

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Whatever that weird episode was, a lid seems to have been affixed now.

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Why didn't Dems losing in 2016 lead to this muscular 3rd party you predict?

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You've got a few of the Blue Dogs now, helpfully proving why they are an almost extinct political species.

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oh, yes, they are papercuts at best. I did mean to imply the media is truly drawing blood right now, just that they are easily entertained by witnessing even the smallest drop of red stuff when it comes to this topic. Getting even on backbenching rep spooked can sustain them for a week.

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If Trump loses, they won't have any power. No control over executive, unlikely to win the legislature, and even if they did, it wouldn't be by enough to overcome a veto. They'll still be dangerous fascisct shitweasels, but they'll be iced out of commanding men with guns for another 4 years.

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This is probably not the last "Biden old" news cycle. But they do eventually get bored, even if it's like a week later than they should stop. They eventually got bored of it after the Hur report. They're drawing blood with Dem defections right now, so it'll be a while yet though.

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It's not obvious to me? "detoriate" implies he always hasn't been like this. This is from a 2019 story.

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Is that headline written from a timeline where "post debate conventional wisdom" is not "lol, debates don't matter"?

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Gerry Doyle's avatar Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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I say this while assiduously trying not to cast aspersions on any person or outlet in particular but if you beat a particular drum for months; see a particular event as vindication for doing so; write piles of panicky copy as a result; then see polling contradict you... ... maybe take a knee?

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Fitzgerald v. Nixon gave us presidential civil immunity. Clinton v Jone pared it back. It's too soon, but, the path is clear in the future for how to start undoing Trump v US: a Democratic president is gonna have to do some crimes (jaywalking or something)

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Yes, it will come back as 2029, but there is no candidate that stops republicans from existing. If you want to extinguish the republican party and the millions of americans that keep voting for them, you don't want a candidate in an election, you want a gun in a civil war.

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2025 turns on having presidential power. If they could do it now while out of office, it'd be project 2024. Just getting the ham sandwich elected will prevent 2025.

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In lieu of a trial, I'm not sure this is actually a bad thing, politics wise.

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Oh yeah, this media upset at Biden being old is going to go so much softer on a female candidate.

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