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Pope Ramsey
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He looked like toast before the SC primary in 2020, so there's definitely something to this
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Reality TV professional, avid reader, semi-competent Tracer
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Pope Ramsey
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He looked like toast before the SC primary in 2020, so there's definitely something to this
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Pope Ramsey
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Oh god, are you one of those "Russia has done nothing wrong, they were provoked by NATO, all those dead Ukrainians are just western propaganda" people? If so, blink twice, and we'll have some spooks scoop you up post haste for deprogramming and reintegration into polite society
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Pope Ramsey
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I would either die or wish for death upon my return to consciousness
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Pope Ramsey
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The funny thing is that there's no need to play the Russian disinformation card (even though I'm sure that's rife in other areas). The Biden Debate Freakout is 100% homegrown and deeply stupid.
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Pope Ramsey
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Do you think the leadership of Russia has a preference between Biden and Trump? If so, do you think they will just kinda sit there and be like "whatever the American people decide, we're good we're that"?
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Pope Ramsey
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I'm "take precautionary antacids after having a couple beers and anything moderately spicy" years old
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Pope Ramsey
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This whole breakout over Biden would probably blow over if everyone did what I've been doing: swap the Bluesky and Kindle apps on my phone, so when I go to doomscroll I instead jump back into binging Dungeon Crawler Carl
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Pope Ramsey
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Columnists wanted to make the Pelosi interview into something it's not, which is funny because for all her talent as a legislator she's an appallingly bad messenger
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Pope Ramsey
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This is a fair point, but it's hard not to get the impression that a lot of this freakout is being driven by clicks. More to the point, the farther we get away from the debate, the worse people are making it out to be. It's just a completely undignified meltdown by people without real jobs
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Pope Ramsey
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Especially if those wonky solutions involve Gavin fucking Newsom in any way, shape, or form. He needs to be free to pursue his destiny: finishing sixth in Iowa in 2028 despite spending $100mil in Instagram ads
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Pope Ramsey
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Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson nearly died of Vitamin A poisoning because he had to eat his sled dogs
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Pope Ramsey
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We need to start treating these orgs like Heritage and Claremont as clear and present dangers to the safety and wellbeing of American citizens
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Pope Ramsey
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The conversation will never move forward because there is nothing on earth that motivates the nyt/politico/axios/etc types like "Dems in Disarray!" Trump really could go out and shoot someone on 5th Ave today and it would be on page A12
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Pope Ramsey
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I've been saying this for awhile, but Claremont has done more damage to this country than Al Qaeda and it's not even close
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Pope Ramsey
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Not to mention that every Online Leftist would carve "KAMALA IS A COP" into their foreheads live on Twitch
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Pope Ramsey
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One of my favorite details of Inside Out is that Anger is dressed almost exactly like Michael Douglas
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Pope Ramsey
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People can believe what they want, but framing this election as a grim chore and ignoring the many reasons why people might be enthusiastic to pull the lever for Biden is certainly a choice.
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Pope Ramsey
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One could make an argument that the first step is laying out the stakes to the vanishingly small number of people who will end up deciding the election. Yes, I would also have liked to hear a concrete plan, but I'm also not the intended audience
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Pope Ramsey
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I know it's cool to shit on the concept of "vote harder" but the elections of 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, and 2016 would like to have a word. And if you're tired of hearing elections described as being "the most important of your lifetime", it's because we lost all the above
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Pope Ramsey
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Roberts send to think that none of this will blow back on him personally, despite the fact that half the MAGA crowd think he's a squishy rino
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Greg Pak
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I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/
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Chris Hayes
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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.
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Pope Ramsey
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The number of leftists I knew in 2016 who would uncritically regurgitate Fox News talking points about Clinton, even after the convention, was illuminating
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Faine Greenwood
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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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One of the worst things about online in the last few years has been the idea of "cringe" and how its been used to crush the ideas of believing in things, wholeheartedness, hope.
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Pope Ramsey
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What's happening is that these tech billionaires legit think they're emergent post-human. They think they're gonna be Nigel Sheldon, a *fictional character* from a sci-fi series that gets inexplicably wealthy at just the right time to be able to live forever (if you're inexplicably wealthy, that is)
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Pope Ramsey
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Don't forget backing Pakistan to the tune of 250,000+ dead Bangladeshis
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Pope Ramsey
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My current most right-wing take is that, when Biden wins in November with his 2020 map (plus or minus a state), every pundit in full-dress meltdown right now should have to give up their columns and their social media accounts and go get a real fucking job
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Pope Ramsey
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Lest we forget, "bog standard" Republican presidents brought us 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the Great Recession, Abu Ghraib, Iran-Contra, the HIV pandemic, and the fact that every graph about living wages flattens out in 1981
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Pope Ramsey
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Manchin feels like a veep pick that would be supported by the nyt editorial board and literally no one else
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Pope Ramsey
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TFW you're a "constitutional scholar" but have also fallen for the wallet inspector gag on three different occasions
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Pope Ramsey
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I find it hard to believe that, say, a President Buttigieg would be remotely as pro-union and pro-worker as Biden
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Pope Ramsey
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This is probably copium but it might be better if it's a close race to the end. We spent most of September 2016 wishcasting about Blue Texas and look how that turned out
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Pope Ramsey
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It's sad how many incredibly talented people are doomers
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Pope Ramsey
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BREAKING: everyone who's been disingenuously demanding Biden step aside in favor of Generic Dem and yadda-yaddaing the insane political fallout from that happening are still screeching on social media
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Pope Ramsey
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The doomers are in full-dress meltdown, which is not unexpected but none of them seem to realize that unless they live in the suburbs of half a dozen swing states, they aren't the audience for this
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Mike Dawson
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If Biden loses in Nov, well, that’s a disaster for everybody, but not especially for Joe Biden, he’ll be okay (unless revenge indictments start flying) but if Trump loses, that’s 100% absolutely a massive catastrophic personal tragedy for him, and I really hope you all join me in making that happen
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Pope Ramsey
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That's not activism, it's tagging.
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Pope Ramsey
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Every time I see a headline like this, I can't help but think about what if the 2018 Blue Wave was just a *teensy* bit bigger
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Pope Ramsey
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It's cocaine and peloton
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Pwnallthethings
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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.
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Pope Ramsey
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Reality TV is both more and less real than people tend to think. Yes, the "reality" is often constructed by producers and editors, but there's almost always at least a kernel of actual truth that they're building around
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Pope Ramsey
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Just because he was the leader of the free world, it doesn't mean he knows how to give constructive notes on a rough cut of a documentary
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Pope Ramsey
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They managed to reforge a hammer into a scalpel, which is pretty impressive
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Pope Ramsey
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I'm reading The Road Less Traveled by Philip Zelikow right now and it's excellent, despite being depressing as hell. Worth adding to the collection
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Pope Ramsey
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In TOTK she has arguably the most well-defined clavicles in video game history
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Pope Ramsey
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Master and Commander: Just Kind of Faffing About in the English Channel
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Pope Ramsey
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Yeah I'm wondering what horrible shit Tarantino could have said or done to be in such less-than-august company
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Pope Ramsey
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You may have already read them, but the Culture books by Iain M Banks have that a similar sense of utopian possibility
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Pope Ramsey
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"Alexa, at 9:15 AM on Monday, remind me to rededicate myself to my craft"
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