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Jeff Yang

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TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: bit.ly/listen2TCUB; CNNOpinion (not staff); Threads/Insta: @originalspin

Author: RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America; pic: @gregpak


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John Cho in: What if Siri, but evil
(More evil, I mean)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE5Q...

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Having an Asian woman potentially pairing up with an Asian man on unscripted TV is apparently not a big part of what ABC considers to be “reality”

#TheBachelorette

www.glamour.com/story/jenn-t...?

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HEY NETANYAHU EVEN YOUR GENERALS WANT A FREAKING CEASEFIRE

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/w...

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Every political candidate has “considered dropping out” of their campaigns at one or another point, other than narcissistic sociopaths who believe they deserve the presidency to the point of fomenting violent insurrection when they aren’t democratically elected

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Sadly 101 level Chinese gets you musical tones the way 101 level oboe gets you musical tones Source: me, my tones suck

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It’s only a fucking “public indication” because you published an anonymous, alleged, private statement, NYTimes

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Me with Chinese, all the time, except with bonus Chinese face

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Me with Chinese, all the time, except with bonus Chinese face

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At least one of them is likely picking out which festive celebratory flag to fly

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I just gave $10 to go.tupac.org because President Obama told me to am I doing this right

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Those who came (or whose parents came) to the US from under authoritarian rule would point out that commentary is not pointless, but vital. The first thing that authoritarian governments do is restrict any form of critique. Yes, we must do as well as say. But we can’t stop saying either.

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how do we know this? because their many representatives go out in public and are recorded saying hello there! as a true american patriot I want to burn this country to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy! And put a deranged sociopath in charge!

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fuck man, I don't even know what to say anymore. One political party wants to burn everything to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy. I think this is bad, just one man's opinion.

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I wonder if they’ll let Steve Bannon layer four different prison uniforms

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Fair but you know, pretty much six of one half dozen of another

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Please note that in this case POTUS stands for “Pornstar Ogler Too Ugly for Sex,” by which standard Trump has always been “in office”

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Please note that in this case POTUS stands for “Pornstar Ogler Too Ugly for Sex,” by which standard Trump has always been “in office”

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I kept correcting this to “primarily an assclown” but some joker kept changing it back

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I kept correcting this to “primarily an assclown” but some joker kept changing it back

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The Supremes ruled that a POTUS has immunity for actions directly related to his office, but not personal actions (without defining what those are) so Trump is trying to erase his felony convictions by claiming that paying porn stars hush money for sex is “official POTUS business,” as expected

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My original post was about the inexplicability of Arabs supporting Trump. Which is…not the same as not voting for Biden

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Yes well bad comms is not quite the same as actual malicious intent

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But of the two, which is more likely to use that leverage vs levering in the opposite direction

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He’s shielding Palestinians in the US from deportation, and is expanding acceptance of Palestinian refugees in America despite GOP attacks. I’d say Biden is doing not near enough. But Trump would do the opposite of not enough—he’d do everything he could to make things worse.

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I don’t put a lot of stock in public statements, but it’s not true he has totally ignored Palestinian suffering. And I think he genuinely despises Netanyahu (and should). And there are things he’s doing that Trump absolutely wouldn’t.

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Your mileage may vary but to me at the end of the day, if you line up Biden, Sinwar, Netanyahu and Trump, it seems pretty obvious that Biden is the least bloodthirsty of the four

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Biden is actively talking to both sides to broker peace and trying to get Hamas and Bibi to accept the UN proposed ceasefire. Trump wants to withdraw America from the UN and would have no interest in a ceasefire. I think it’s functionally false that their positions are equivalent.

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Like Biden may be a hypocrite and feckless on the Palestine issue but I don’t think he lacks basic moral standards and can be pushed from the left to do better. Trump would cheerlead total Palestinian extermination and his son in law is already musing about building resorts on the Gaza Strip

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Seems like a pretty self destructive impulse

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It’s just so hard for me to reconcile polls saying 60% of Arabs/Muslims/N.Africans in swing states intend to vote for Trump with the fact that the racist orange jackass is a Bibi fan and massive Islamophobe who uses Palestinian as a slur and tried to instate a ban on Muslim entry into America

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Better that than this

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Biden reportedly has a cold. They should’ve canceled this debate. He wasn’t ready for this.

#PresidentialDebate

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Trump’s final statement is blathering bullshit but delivered with strength and energy and a clear voice.

That’s all many Americans want to hear.

#PresidentialDebate

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Biden attack on Trump’s proposal of a 10% tax on everyone was a clean line that could’ve been a returning clarion call throughout this debate but it wasn’t. His final statement didn’t land the plane and it felt stumbling and underwhelming.

#PresidentialDebate

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CNN accepting this format was the most rank malpractice in the history of debate malpractices

#presidentialdebate

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The question was will you accept the results of the election

Trump: if it is fair and equal, absolutely

(So, “only if I win”)

#PresidentialDebate

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Both of the candidates are saying they’re ONLY on the stage and running because the other guy is running

I see a way out of this folks

#presidentialdebate

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Why are they debating golf skills and handicaps holy shit

How does the world not see us as an utter carnival clown show (with nuclear weapons)

#PresidentialDebate

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Biden keeps on finishing with time left. That’s a problem. He runs out of steam and stops when he has plenty on the clock.

#PresidentialDebate

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What does fentanyl have to do with Putin’s hostage Evan Gershkovich?

The fact that moderators can’t do follow up in this format is a fucking travesty

#PresidentialDebate

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Trump: “He gets paid by China, he’s a Manchurian candidate”

Just straight out making that allegation

#PresidentialDebate

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Trump: “He wants to raise everybody’s taxes by four times”

Factcheckers are all just dead from exhaustion now

#PresidentialDebate

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I think Biden’s hope here is that maybe people just realize Trump is just firehosing bullshit out there and at least the damage from this debate is reduced

#PresidentialDebate

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“Our country is being destroyed, he’s the worst president in the history of our country

He wants our country destroyed or he wants to pick up those migrants as voters”

#PresidentialDebate

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He sort of did. But not with the clear declarative statements that Trump is making.

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Biden starts strong on Social Security: I’ll make the very wealthy pay their fair share

And then he starts stumbling. Ugh.

#PresidentialDebate

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Trump could shoot newborn babies on Madison Avenue and his supporters would still love him

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Trump: We had immaculate clean water and clean air! We had H2O, the best numbers ever

I had the best environmental numbers ever

Does he mean the highest average temperatures? I have no idea what he’s talking about

#PresidentialDebate

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Finally Biden pushes back on the “you created inflation!” attack from Trump with the faces: “You had no inflation because the economy was in the toilet!”

Accurate but he should’ve said it sooner

#PresidentialDebate

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Trump: Immigrants! They’re taking Black jobs!

Let’s drive that race war wedge deeper Don, it’s how you won last time

#PresidentialDebate

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