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Patrick Fessenbecker
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The law of bluesky: any post criticizing Joe Biden's mental acuity will itself contain a typo.
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Teaching writing and ethics at the College of Engineering at UW-Madison, writing a book on George Eliot.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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The law of bluesky: any post criticizing Joe Biden's mental acuity will itself contain a typo.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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On the one hand, Warner crossed a pretty big Rubicon today, and any senator who's offended at a backlash this light is not being realistic. On the other hand, yeah, Warner 2020 was not a thing.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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B. “Mark is a good man. I respect him. He also tried to win the nomination” is an A+ deflection from someone leading Warner’s party but also being challenged by him. But the interview as a whole wasn’t up to that standard.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I mean he seemed coherent, but he seemed old and slow, too.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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And it’s a very good line from someone who’s leading a party.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing, really
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I guess people want him to say something like, “well, it’ll show that I was wrong and I’ll owe them a huge apology?” But that’s obviously shitty campaigning.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I don’t know what Joe Biden was supposed to say, the man clearly believes he’s the best person to beat Trump, and if he loses it’ll be because no one could beat him.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Biden throwing back those short answers and using silence works for him.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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“I’ve seen it from the press” is pretty good too.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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“Mark is a good man. I respect him. He also tried to get the nomination” is a pretty savage line, imo.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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EV smart cars, who says no
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I'm telling you guys, this is the party talking to itself. Hakeem Jeffries called him up and asked him to make the case.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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100% possible—not that it's relevant to current events, obviously, but very sharp and informed people can have the occasional mental flub.
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Patrick Iber
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Look, I was there, he corrected himself quickly and fluidly. He does have a speech impediment: the issue at hand is his mental acuity, and if anything this showed me that he recognized a mistake and fixed it
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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It's so deeply and so obviously flawed that I think he can't have meant it seriously (like neither he nor the Atlantic looked that up before publishing?). That's a source in the party communicating to the Biden team "listen, it's not just the NYT, we're panicking out here."
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Yup. That's the existential terror all us normal people are confronting.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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in other words that piece didn't really mean "resign now," it meant "you have got to reassure the party."
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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That was an awful, gaping flaw, one that I honestly didn't think Serwer was capable of or sincerely believed in. It's actually part of why I think he has dem party sources who were urging him to write the piece.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I would think Biden could get 80% of this effect by firing everybody and announcing a "I'm old, deal with it" campaign reset.
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John Smith Of the Smiths of Smithtown by the village smithy
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I'm at least open to considering a new country consisting solely of California, Wisconsin, and the city of Baltimore.
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Ed
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Important to realize as we try to retain civility on Bluesky that all the stuff we say to each other will have literally zero impact on whether Biden bows out or not, we’re just hanging around yapping about politics like a bunch of old Greek guys at a sidewalk cafe, no need to take it personally
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Like fine, you've got some concerns to work out, the debate was bad, the president's team isn't responsive, you communicate to them through the media, okay. But there was a democratic process and this nonsense very much isn't.
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András Forgács W
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it's the plot of the death of stalin except stalin is still alive but everybody acts like an idiot trying to bury him
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Okay, so I appreciate Warner not doing this anonymously, and I also think the Biden comms team needs to be more open - but - At some point, we need to stop talking about "dems in disarray" and "bedwetters" and start talking about an attempted coup against a democratically elected nominee.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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In that Nuzzi story, the only concrete detail was him politely asking her name.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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That's the only way I'd experienced it, where it was both v. funny and v. odd, so I appreciate this revelation that it's completely normal and in fact banal.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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As always I'm into the moral pscyhology here: imo this is the villain convincing themselves it's a good thing combined with their delight in getting away with it. That incoherence (why is it surprising you got away with a good thing?) generates and requires the speech. Tyrants can't shut up.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I'm suddenly more confident that Northern Ireland will stay in the UK than that California will stay in the US.
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Dave Levitan
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SHOTS FIRED
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Mostly we need someone to appoint the right people and then get out of the way.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Also I just gotta say...no? I'm not convinced we do need a very active president? Random but this reminds me of when people were bashing Evan Bayh for not really living in Indiana. Who cares where the dude lives, if he's going to vote the way you want?
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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You're not wrong but also my daughter and I had the most charming conversation when I asked her if she thought her brain worked like Riley's does (yes, in her opinion; she has a lot of joy.)
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Big Worker
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It sneaks up on you
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Olivia Stone
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The monologuing and grandstanding is specifically the point. They need to feel superior to everyone else. They need to feel like the shining heroes of their own story, so they made up a story and forced a conflict. If they don't do the monologue, then it was all for nothing.
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Faine Greenwood
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turns out the villain monologue is actually incredibly realistic
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Everyone watching any Bond movie: this is utterly unrealistic, no one would stand there and say exactly how they were going to do some awful thing, the Incredibles even made a joke about monologuing. Everyone experiencing reality: Oh. Oh, I see.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Maybe. I appreciate that he's willing to put his name behind it instead of more anonymous rumor-mongering. Definitely raises the stakes, though.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I had to google it too and thought, is this some kind of metaphor about decompressing? Anyway makes more sense that it's actually accelerationist nonsense.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I'm getting more and more sympathetic to the Bidens' extremely guarded media strategy the more I realize how much mainstream media uses any content at all to riff. This quote couldn't have been clearer if it had a #teambluenomatterwho hashtag.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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The Serwer piece was what convinced me of that. Here's someone who's very clearly on the team, with a very nuanced sense of the discourse and deep journalistic ethics; if his sources are pushing him to do this, then the Bidens must be stonewalling.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Dunningkrügerlesen, glaube ich
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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But in fact this article recycles a media narrative from people who really wanted Biden to make this promise, when the campaign was apparently actually quite straightforward that it wouldn't. So now I'm pretty disappointed in the Atlantic, and if I were Biden I'd be wary too. /end
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I even googled — did Joe Biden promise to be a one termer? — before posting, which led me to this article, so I figured, yeah, okay, there aren't any crucial facts I'm missing.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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So that's the thinking I had in posting this. Obviously I'm still going to vote for him — best president of my lifetime — but it increasingly seemed like a fuckup.
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Obviously thought it's a commitment that makes more sense if he knew he was getting older and maybe losing a step, and conversely a greater failure: why decide to run for reelection if you know you're losing it *and* you've committed to be a one-termer? /3
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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This wasn't a commitment I personally cared about particularly; in fact I thought a Democrat who put together a winning coalition was more or less obligated to try to run it back. So when Biden said he was running for reelection, that seemed basically fine to me. /2
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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I wanted to follow up on a correction I got in conversation on here the other night, one that made me more sympathetic to Biden's communications strategy and more frustrated with elite media. I finished the election in 2020 with the sense that Joe Biden had committed to being a one term president./1
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Maybe I'm naive here, but it also seems like a lot of what one would want from a left third party is addressed by having a robust and active primary system. A lot of third party energy surely gets defused because people like AOC can get elected within the left coalition.
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