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Raven Onthill@ravenonthill.bsky.social |
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Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
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Raven Onthill
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A lot of "realistic" characterization isn't; the range of human character is enormously greater than many writers understand. So yay Bond villains and even superheroes.
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Raven Onthill
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Yeah, but he's back-pedaling. It's not going to matter. If Trump becomes president again he'll treat Lammy like dirt just because of the color of his skin.
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Don Zeko
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Let me try to put my cards on the table and lay out where I'm at re: Biden bowing out and the race in general. #1: I am bewildered by how many different factions are hostile to Biden and how bad the polls have been. In my view, he's a pretty good president (certainly better than I expected).
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Raven Onthill
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How many more have to die for the dreams of fanatics?
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Raven Onthill
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Then you get "Finish the job" Trump. If that happens, and you have a real conscience, it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
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Raven Onthill
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But Biden is Old.
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Raven Onthill
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Do not wish for war; you may get it.
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Raven Onthill
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Yes. The ageism and ableism I'm seeing from people who I thought knew better is appalling. *And* they don't recognize the violent, energetic form of dementia that seems to have taken Trump.
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
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In a week I want every person who called Biden a drooling corpse to be apologizing. I want then to actually crawl on their bellies, weeping. This gets my blood fucking *boiling*, man. Don't shit-talk elders like this.
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Raven Onthill
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I think that Senators ox has been gored. It's so hard for me to believe how *foolish* he is, but I suppose I should not be surprised.
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Raven Onthill
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The ableism I'm seeing from some people appalls me.
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Raven Onthill
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"Who, being soulless, are free from shame, Whatever meat they may find. Nor do they defile the dead man's name -- That is reserved for his kind."
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Raven Onthill
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All these people, they're just itching to execute someone. Sooner or later, some of them are going to do it.
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Raven Onthill
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I'm not sure that they have. There were billionaires who hated him all along, of course, but beyond that we only know for certain about one person.
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Raven Onthill
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Wait until you meet "Finish the job" Trump.
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Raven Onthill
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Some smartphone cameras can do that. Might check yours out.
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Raven Onthill
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You need one of those cameras that takes a few seconds of video and lets you pick the best takes.
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Raven Onthill
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Pretty sure that the DSA, at least, has been penetrated. Damn! I hate feeling like a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.
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Raven Onthill
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Chuckle
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Raven Onthill
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It would help a lot if the media weren't strewing rakes around.
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Raven Onthill
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Raven Onthill
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The Supreme Court has just made many of his legal bills vanish.
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Raven Onthill
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Biden to (Fox?) reporter in WI: "You have been wrong about everything so far. You were wrong about 2020. You were wrong about 2022. Remember the red wave?" This was an unscripted response to a question, and in no way sounds or looks like a demented person.
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
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People on this site in 1864: "Man, I know we're in the middle of a war with the Confederacy, but Lincoln's just too wild and incoherent in his speeches! McClellan seems like a solid hand at the wheel who'll bring some stability to this country."
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Raven Onthill
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And Biden has been, exactly, successful because he is also a great coalition builder.
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Raven Onthill
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I just blocked a leftist who objected when I pointed out that electing Trump would be blamed on the left. But it will be. The anti-Biden left will have cheered on a Democratic loss and that will not be forgotten.
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Raven Onthill
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Weren't those arguments actually made at the time?
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Raven Onthill
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Sympathies.
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Raven Onthill
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There is, apparently, a significant Democratic faction for whom Biden is too liberal, and they've decided this is the time to put their views into action. "Splitters!"
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Raven Onthill
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And Gaza has earned your complicity in Trump's election?
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Raven Onthill
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Good. Primaries are the time to make protest votes. But the primaries are over. What's your plan?
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Raven Onthill
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"So, what's the plan?" "PLAN?!" Pigkiller laughs incredulously. "There ain't no plan!" I understand why you would want it, but the only remotely plausible replacement is Harris, part of the Biden administration and heir to the same policies. Most likely, though, you'd get Trump, worse in every way.
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Raven Onthill
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As opposed to what? Trump who has said that he wants Netanyahu to "finish the job."
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Raven Onthill
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The war is a result of decades of failed policy which Biden inherited. If Biden's response has been inconsistent, Trump is entirely consistent; he will wholeheartedly support Netanyahu.
www.vox.com/policy/24072...
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utopia deferred
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are Both Guilty Of The Same Original Sin: Being Registered Democrats In Power, please read my latest in the NYT!!!!
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Raven Onthill
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The problem is, he's not failing. He had one bad debate and that seems to actually be the whole story.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i’ll tell you what, man, if biden manages to survive and win another term, i hope he and his aides remember that it was mostly the ancient centrists — not the progressives and not the younger dems — who came behind up him with the knives, and that he responds in kind.
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Raven Onthill
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As @cstross.bsky.social says, www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
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Raven Onthill
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Well there is, but he looks like Joe Biden and Biden is Old.
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Raven Onthill
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What's Sulzburger's price?
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Raven Onthill
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This is just crazy. Like @stonekettle.bsky.social says, there's no way that replacing Biden, even with Harris, is likely to lead to anything but defeat.
And fergawdsakes, all the people who wouldn't support Obama because of his race, and Clinton because of her sex, won't support Harris, either.
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Raven Onthill
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Presidential immunity is mostly of value to a president who commits crimes. The rule of law cannot be restored by breaking the law. We are now operating in a space where there is no law and, assuming we win, we will have to put everything back together when we are done, a second reconstruction.
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Raven Onthill
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Most people can't. It's a skill of rhetors, and one you should study, as you are now a politician.
Over to @jenmercieca.bsky.social.
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Raven Onthill
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Thanks. For people who don't want to brave a Word file from an unknown source, a version of the essay is online at Salon.
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Raven Onthill
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"So, tell me, what's the plan? "What's the plan after we shoot the engineer and toss him over the side? "[…] “You know who wins wars? Who wins the battle? Who ends up victorious in the end? “The army with the plan, that's who.“
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Raven Onthill
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Ductless HVAC…
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Raven Onthill
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It is an analogy that has also occurred to me.
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Raven Onthill
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Same thing they did with W Bush. As @driftglass.bsky.social keeps saying, "Memory is the liberal superpower."
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DeathsHead419
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I dunno, I think if Thomas fucking Friedman tells you to do something, then that's a pretty clear hint that the opposite course of action is the one to take.
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Bennett Gilbert
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We should remember that one reason Brazil elected Bolsonaro is that his opponent, Temer, was in his 80s and appeared feeble.
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