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Editor of Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.

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I'd penciled in J.D. Vance there

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Maya Harris, I think the script says

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Watched the movies have you not

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Ah, right, Yoda, the old guy who shriveled up and died and left his shaky understudy to beat the evil Empire alone

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All these centrist Let's Have an Emergency Pageant of Democracy takes fall apart at the slightest contact with outside reality, but this part can't even hold up on its own terms!

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Anne Applebaum here is arguing that 1. Trump is a senile gibbering idiot so therefore 2. the Democrats must distract the public from paying attention to him

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Not saying which domain's behavior flowed into which but it's striking how you used to get one All-Star ballot when you went to the ballpark and pick the players you thought were best, and now the TV crew tells viewers to stuff the online ballot box with a straight team ticket as often as you can

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To be fair they killed that one off seven and a half years ago

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Yep

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Also thank goodness Trump has never pardoned and restored rank to court martialed war criminals, I guess our worries were for nothing

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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

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Oh the next paragraph does go on to point that out

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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Also a little more subtly “SEAL Team Six” is the framework here because it was the original shockingly funny hypothetical but none of this military law stuff applies if he just sends the Marshals to kill someone—which, again, he already bragged he did

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Just even within the lines of the ruling you can't have your lawyer inquire into his motives for throwing you in jail!

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I'm pretty sure you don't know what the point is

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You’re solidly halfway to getting the point

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People hadn’t seen and heard about Hillary Clinton in 2012, got it

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What point are you trying to make about that post

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Indignity Vol. 4, No. 110, Royal Flush. In honor of the Supreme Court majority's minority's reminder that people with absolute immunity were one of big things our national forebears got fed up with 248 years ago this week, we present a very special gallery of KINGS: www.indignity.net/royal-flush/

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Feels like the approximately three-quarters of a million dollars in Times salaries on that story could have been asked to figure it out a little sooner

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Anyway back on the particular topic it sure seems like the part about how Biden got way worse all of a sudden is what I would probably scrape together if I were a team of four New York Times White House reporters trying to explain how we all got entirely blindsided by the debate

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Their MeToo stuff was full of this, reporting that like somebody had two dates that were rude and uncomfortable, said something that an underling interpreted as hostile, and oh yeah sexually assaulted someone else

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There's lots of reporting in the story that is serious and disturbing if true—what's the point of throwing in an anecdote that you acknowledge is bogus? The paper has some bizarre institutional belief that throwing weak stuff on top of strong stuff make the story stronger.

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Setting the particular topic aside for a second, this is a truly spectacular case of the Times' pathologically incompetent "Where there's fire, there's smoke" theory of writing up high-stakes investigative stories

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Given that he campaigned last time on having sent the Marshals to do a summary execution of a fugitive, I'm not sure the hypo is even properly a hypo

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Scocca and Bouie standing athwart the West Wing reboot writer's room shouting "how?"

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The world has turned, I have no idea how she'd do in the abstract, but they're not replacing Joe Biden with a 76-year-old

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Weird take on a scheme where the actual New York Times opinion writers have decided they're going to pick the president for you

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Ohio already toyed with tentative efforts to kick Biden off the ballot because the convention is after the state deadline before backing off and agreeing to a workaround.

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Another of what's probably a pretty long list of questions you'd want to answer before you declared that this plan had to happen!

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Particularly relevant to the question of whether it would actually be legal and feasible to get a candidate you pulled out of a hat in the third week of August onto all 50 state ballots

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Now try having the same slappy fit about the "people voted" part

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Based on just this thread I’m not sure I should take your word on what’s very clear in people’s posts

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When you say “Yeah. Sure.” is that because you agree with the text you’re trying to respond to or is it because you’re using a rhetorical device where the literal meaning of the words is not what the audience is meant to take away

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Maybe they just think you don’t understand how jokes work

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That would be a stupid thing to believe, now imagine how stupid you would have to be to imagine that someone else is that stupid!

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