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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘@nemobluecrj.bsky.social |
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Texan, shiftless layabout, wearily homosexual
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Ian Boudreau
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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As hard as this is to believe these days, there was a time when Warner was arguably the most popular, most serious Dem in the country during Bush's second term. I've always thought he's stayed pissed he never got his turn ... because Obama came out of nowhere.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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This is a deep cut from old school Clinton world, but Hillary allegedly talked Warner out of his own presidential run in 2008 in exchange for VP and she gave him an early endorsement for his Senate run that cycle (because he could be the nominee for Senate and VP in Virginia).
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Warner has had it out for Biden since 2008 when he was lined up to be Hillary's VP before she was edged out by Obama. He's had an ax to grind ever since.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Don't get me wrong, Warner has done a fine job chairing the intel committee, but he is a prototypical 90s/00s Virginia Democrat through and through. Chances are he's been gunning for both Biden & Harris this whole time, and I've always sorta thought he's acted like he's got an ax to grind wrt Biden.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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If he had the power to do it, Warner would probably be among the very first Dems that would unilaterally choose to replace Biden with a very down-the-middle centrist like himself.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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To be fair, Warner himself is probably more than fine with this article (because he's known to dislike Biden and has been one of the most high profile Dem voices arguing *against* achieving more progressive goals).
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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All of this bullshit about, "Well, it's actually Biden's fault for not winning me over!" is simply a way to preemptively try to excuse your own role in helping to get us to the worst possible outcome. You have agency, dear voter. That is actually how voting works!
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Look, I think that a lot of people right now really need to be reminded *that this is literally how elections work*. If Biden wins or Trump wins, IT'S ALL ON US, THE VOTERS. That's where the aaaaaall the agency of this election lies!
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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"But Biden didn't get MY vote because I'm mad about Gaza!" Congratulations! You have successfully engaged with your own personal agency in this election! You played your part! That's literally how an election is done! IT WAS ALL ON YOU TO DO THAT!
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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For the love of god, please stop robbing the voters of all their agency. YES, IT IS LITERALLY EVERYBODY WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR REELECTING BIDEN AND DEMS, THAT'S HOW VOTING WORKS.
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Tom Scocca
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I can't remember where I read this, but allegedly the *only* person who could ever interrupt the Obamas after dinnertime was the Chief of Staff. Not even Biden or SecDef or whoever else was allowed to call upstairs and disturb their family home routines with their daughters.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Obama kinda famously kept a pretty regular 9 to 5ish schedule and was known to get upset when it was disrupted by staff.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Oh, man! Kent Menthols! My dad had a few old flyers he'd saved through the years for those things lying around when I was young. They were infamous for being one of the largest brands of cigarettes that had blue asbestos in the filter; they likely killed tens of millions of people around the world.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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This times a million. If we switch over to Harris at this late stage, effectively nothing will change—except that the never-ending media-led panic over Biden's age shifts over to Harris's inexperience and unpreparedness for the role. That would actually be quite a bit worse to weather.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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It needs to be repeated over and over and over til we're all sick of it: the *overwhelming majority* of those who vote Republican and vote for Trump are still normie voters & casual enablers. Trump's actual base, the MAGA freaks, is probably the smallest voter ID in the whole of the country.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Like, I am NAL, but I'm genuinely curious about how the fuck do you even teach this any of this at law school? There seems to be absolutely no way to instruct any of this logically or consistently because it's all so jumbled and self-conflicted that it borders on meaninglessness.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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wrt #2 specifically, there's effectively zero legal consistency in any of this madness. It's all just Calvinball masquerading as jurisprudence. All of these decisions butt up against each other in incompatible ways, and there's simply no way forward EXCEPT overturning all of it in full.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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fundamentally being in the majority on Trump v US is immediately disqualifying for a supreme court justice. it declares yourself in opposition to the foundations of the American project of democracy and limited government. all six of them must be impeached and replaced.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Assuming we all live to see such a court come around, I think that Trump v US would be overturned & Chevron would be reinstated in remarkably short order.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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They're incredibly desperate for some kind of salacious story, but they're also simultaneously incapable of seeing that the biggest story of the century, the impending collapse of the US-led Western Democratic order, is sitting right in front of them.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I've wondered this myself lately, and I think that it's a healthy combination of 1. the rousing success of Biden being a normal, unexciting POTUS and 2. the seemingly pathological denial by the media of the threat that SCOTUS & Trump both pose to this country.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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The series on Amazon is a very different but also very good take on the story. I'm kinda pissed it was canceled after one season, but it's still worth watching.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I have definitely found that the price you can scan in the Walmart app can be lower than what they charge at the register. This is exactly why I've started scanning any item priced over like $40 because nine times out of ten, they'll lower the price at the register if you make a stink about it.
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Brendel
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For me it’s not that I’m either ok or not ok with Biden as a candidate it’s that my brain cannot rationalize that the media has so uniformly freaked out about him while remaining comparatively serene about all the other far worse stuff in the past two weeks.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I am SUPER proud of House Dems for picking someone like Jeffries. He's definitely the sort of leader that this country needs a lot more of right now. Could you imagine Republicans choosing a leader with even like 10% the fortitude this dude has? Never in a million years!
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Alex Blechman
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I've always felt like Schumer has probably over-performed, but he's got about two dozen members of the caucus in very powerful positions who just won't let go of these old ideas of comradery and Senate politeness—chief among them Dick Durbin, who happens to be a very powerful chamber #2.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I actually feel a lot better after reading this piece. This is probably the first time when I've felt 100% certain that Jeffries & his leadership team are going to lead House Dems through this better than their predecessors could have. Dude is a rock.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Yeah, I think they're making a calculation atm that interacting with the media is simply going to be worse than avoiding the press, and I'm not sure they're especially wrong about this.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Yes, a huge part of this is that they're pissed that he's been avoiding mainstream media ... because of how much they suck. I mean, case in point, right? Why the fuck is he going to engage more with a press that's only going to use any future interactions as further proof he needs to quit?
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Also, he's given at least three campaign speeches since the debate that I know of, why the fuck can't anyone actually cover those??
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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IT'S BEEN FOUR AND A HALF DAYS, HE'S BUSY PRESIDENTING, THE WHITE HOUSE SCHEDULES TOWN HALLS WEEKS IN ADVANCE, WHY IS EVERYBODY ACTING LIKE NONE OF THIS MATTERS
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Andrea Junker
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The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one bad debate night than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Yeah, French & German styled potato salads are absolutely amazing, and they're so damn superior to the US styled mayo based ones. Also, they're actually salad-like?? Tons and tons of mayo is not salad-like!
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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INA'S FRENCH POTATO SALAD IS SO GOOD OMFG
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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The best history prof I had at UT (RIP) told us exactly this on the first day that we started covering the US Civil War. Told the whole damn lecture hall of like 400+ students that if there's one lesson that we all should take away from this unit, it's that we didn't go hard enough on the traitors.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I don't know how much more proof you need that Biden needs to be the one than Trump & co. saying they think someone else would be a bigger challenge. They're lying, of course, because they're literally incapable of telling the truth about everything. They *want* someone, anyone else.
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His Bark Materials🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌌
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At this point my standard response to doomers in my mentions is “fuck you, grow a spine, coward”. Because their shit is just cowardice. They’re scared and hopeless and want everyone else to be as devoid of hope and light as they are. Fuck ‘em.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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I tried horsemeat once upon a time in Italy. It was in a traditional spiced stew called pastissada, and especially in Southern Italy, it's considered very normal.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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... and you better fuckin believe that was a mistake never to be made again by the time I got off the phone with the dean's office that afternoon. I raised so much hell you could feel the heat coming from the phone.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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My mom, a teacher in her early 70s, took a continuing education/seminar course, and most of the class consisted of short essays. The woman can barely turn on her computer, but the first interaction she had with her instructor was that her "AI detector tool" said her essay had been 80% written by AI.
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The Fig Economy
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It makes me so mad! Similarly I saw somebody say if the debate makes Joe Biden lose the election then we can blame him for the downfall of American democracy, and like, no, we can blame the scumbags trying to dismantle American democracy on purpose.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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A handful of reporters got out over their skis, but Russiagate was like 95% real. Drives me totally INSANE that there's still this level of denial out there because it's all right there in plain black-and-white print if anybody wants to read about it. It was really real, and it really happened!
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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It's pathological at this point. Nobody is capable of pinning any of the blame on the folks who are actually working to destroy this country. It *always* has to be someone else's fault. There's absolutely nothing keeping Trump & co. from deciding ... to just be better men and stop it.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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Just learned that my company's COO ... is in Jamaica on vacation with his wife, and they couldn't catch a plane out yesterday. 😬
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Silly B Man
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One of the all time Twitter bangers
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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the most insufferable poasters you've ever come across are definitely going to lead us into the glorious revolution lolol
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Peter
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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies
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