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and who notably does not seem to have made the same anti-voting pitch to the readers of any of the multiple conservative publications he writes for.

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"Why I, a fellow housefly, fly into spider webs" -by Arachno McNotaspider

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When the heritage foundation says they want a second revolution, what they mean is they want a counter-revolution. A counter-revolution against the enlightenment ideals of the founders and a counter-revolution against the 250 years of progress towards making those ideals a reality.

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Drone Cusack's avatar Drone Cusack @herodedalus.bsky.social
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And then their various political groups hammered home that inflation was Biden's fault to pave the way for a regulatory environment more favorable to their aims.

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Still, the debate has shaken the public's confidence in Biden's cognitive abilities to the point where I do think a Kamala Harris campaign is marginally the better option. I say that as someone who considers Biden the best president in my lifetime (which started in the Clinton administration)

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The rasp in his voice also makes me believe the explanation that he had some form of cold further hampering his performance. That's still bad for a president, but it is workable. I still think a Biden candidacy and presidency could work.

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The debate performance was awful, but I don't buy the characterization that Biden was so far gone he literally didn't know where he was. What I do think is that his age has caused his speech to slow and that it sometimes takes him a few seconds to come up with the right words.

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I definitely think there's still a path forward to the white house for Biden if he stays in, but it will be an even steeper uphill battle than it already was. And I think he could still be a pretty good president.

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my take on Biden and the debate is that he should probably step down and let Harris take over. If he does step down Harris seems by far the safest replacement. That being said, I do think it's worth taking a couple of weeks to see if Biden can convince the country that the debate was a fluke...

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I'm waiting for the NYT headline, "The case for Mitt Rommney as the Democratic Nominee"

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Judicial appointments are why I will crawl over broken glass to vote *against* Republicans in November and every election. Doesn't matter to me how the Dem candidate performs in a "debate 🙄."

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Biden in NC today: "I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to ... [but] I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job ... I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up!"

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if Biden decided to humor them and take a drug test. would a single republican change their mind one iota on this issue when the results came back negative? Of course not. every single republican now calling for a drug test would immediately and categorically dismiss it as fake.

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Notice how the exonerative tense typically applied to domestic police violence stories directly translates to a televised (and presumably right-wing) military coup in a foreign country. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/w...

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Next President gonna pick this shithead's replacement. I think we can all agree it would be awesome to fill this guy's seat with someone who wants to give women bodily autonomy and make it easier for everyone to vote and marry whom they love

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a sad day for people who want to beat their wives then buy a gun. and for the people who want people who beat their wives to buy guns (which is a shockingly high amount of people)

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I'm pretty sure the right wing had been calling both Bill and Melinda Gates "woke globalists" for years before they divorced

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what I find to be a notable parallel here is that Musk has publicly and repeatedly said that it was wrong of Twitter to censor early reports of and leaks from Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell".

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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Republicans have effectively criminalized studying how information moves on the internet at the request of a handful of billionaires and racists. I was writing a book about this, but went and did some other thing. If someone wants my notes or wants to talk to me about who to talk to, let me know.

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sure, legally speaking, they can basically hold their children prisoner for the first 18 years of their life, but kids eventually grow up. when they do they'll see there's a whole world outside of the hateful, repressive bubble that they've been trapped in.

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the economy's the worst and it's all joe biden's fault and the economy's the best and it's all because of trump.

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look at the corrupt justice system, locking up Jeffrey Dahmer just for enjoying a few meals....

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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There is a spectrum to humanity, and the Federalist is at one end while Dolly is way, way off to the other. These small-minded bigots don't deserve a single molecule of air, while Dolly deserves the highest praise we can possibly heap upon her.

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"UN declares World peace, inflation down to 0, Unemployment rate somehow into negatives, and Trump wets and soils himself on stage...here's why this might be bad news for Biden"

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I should also clarify that the hotel owners and staffers absolutely do not deserve the waves of harrassment and threats that will almost certainly be coming their way now that LoTT has put them on blast.

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fair enough, I would agree that this isn't gonna traumatize anyone. Just, if I were planning this event, I would probably say , "it seems a little risque to be out in front like that, lets bring it in the convention room"

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are any kids actually going to be traumatized by seeing a Teddy Bear in bondage gear? probably not, but it seems inappropriate to me for it to be displayed out front like that. I get that the whole world shouldn't be expected to be g-rated, but this slightly steps over a line for me.

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I'm actually slightly torn on this. If I'm finding the right hotel, it's actually about a mile away from disney springs, not in it, like the tweet says, but it's still a hotel that advertises its proximity to disney world, meaning a lot of families with children will probably be going there...(1/?)

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a lot of people think that, because something happened when they were too young to pay attention to politics, that it must have been apolitical and somehow just organically sprang into existence .

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still, the legal maneuvering they did to elevate it to a felony, thereby skirting the statute of limitations and increasing the severity of the charges, seem really sketchy and don't sit right with me.

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I'm just venting here to get my take on the trump verdict off my chest. I think the whole affair with Stormy Daniels and hush money payments are incredibly sleazy and immoral. I also think they have him pretty dead-to-rights on illegally falsifying documents to cover up the hush money payments...

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I get whiplash from how quickly the "tough on crime" crowd changes its rhetoric when someone they like commits a crime.

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