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Will Stancil
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Honestly I think you could argue Zelensky fit this mold electorally some, although he’s not a fascist
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Will Stancil
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Honestly I think you could argue Zelensky fit this mold electorally some, although he’s not a fascist
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Will Stancil
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The Next Day
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Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.
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Will Stancil
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“there’s no point in posting. social media doesn’t affect politics. Anyway on an unrelated note, meme candidates are collapsing democracy across the western world for some reason”
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Andrew Parker
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I’m happy to say ratfuck as many times as it takes for people to recognize that expressing their opposition to Trump through the medium of constant attacks on Biden is just goddamned dumb.
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Willie Fitzgerald
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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Russ Silva
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The logic is circular. Biden's infirmity is the story. Other things can't be the story, because they're not the story. Why is Biden the story? Because he's the story. If the threat of Trump is the story, why isn't it already the story? And on and on.
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southpaw
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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Will Stancil
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We spend dozens of hours per week inside a hallucinatory bubble in which factual reality provides little or no check on how the world is depicted to us.
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Will Stancil
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This is the fundamental problem we’re facing, with Biden, with Trump, with politics. We spend many hours a day consuming media. But the content of that media is increasingly determined not by WHAT IS TRUE, but by WHAT EARNS AUDIENCE ATTENTION. Factoids are harvested and rebuilt into those stories.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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there's the larger question about why "a couple anonymous donors speaking on background says something bad about the candidate" is considered to be newsworthy enough to peg a front-page, push-notification-generating story to. Could easily do the same to Trump!
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Will Stancil
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Yes! Because the media narrative!
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Will Stancil
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The debate was bad but he’s done lots of public events since then and been basically fine. Old, but basically fine. But at this point it’s insane claims like “he can’t campaign” or “he can’t finish a sentence” he has to rebut, media-driven claims with no basis in reality.
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Aubrey Gilleran
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I mean, he's had public events and media appearances in four swing states since the debate. That's not "incapable of campaigning," whatever you think about the substance of the campaign or its talking points.
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Will Stancil
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I’m not sure I’d call turning our own incumbent president into Nixon or Eagleton a “window of opportunity!”
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EAll
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There is a large contingent of people who collectively are powerful enough to make Biden's election untenable, and that's what their efforts are directed towards. I am willing to bet their efforts likely will be successful, but they're offering an alternative that doesn't reduce risk
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snipy
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The number of jokes about sundowning on this here website that prides itself on inclusion and respect and combating ableism is, in a word, gross.
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Will Stancil
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By… what? It’s like people’s neuroses have so overwhelmed their reason that they’ve forgotten how politicians are. “The president gave a few clumsy answers in an interview, he must resign” is not a viable standard. We are absolutely destroying ourselves with this nonsense. What are we even doing
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Tom Scocca
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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Will Stancil
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It is absolutely, 100% a mass hysteria event. A complete and all-consuming loss of perspective, because all of you get all of your ideas from these internet and media narratives and refuse to admit it
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Will Stancil
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Biden didn’t get up and perform athletic feats but it seems like a pretty normal interview from an old guy? This is the single greatest moment of political derangement I have ever witnessed in this country. The president gives a normal interview and everyone says… he must join Nixon and resign?
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Will Stancil
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Step one is that progressives stop overtly trying to destroy him?? What is wrong with you, you’re setting him on fire and saying “tell me how we extinguish him”
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Will Stancil
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Biden has been the most successful progressive president in half a century and the current “progressive” line is that he should immediately resign in disgrace at the insistence of the New York Times. Can you not see how this is an insane hysteria? How social media has completely broken you
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Will Stancil
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these people are trying to elect trump and deserve the blame for what they did
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Daniel Gilmore
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Joe Biden has done 9 public events and counting since last Thursday. The Stephanopoulos interview will be 10. At a certain point the “gotta get Biden out there” ppl are just telling us that they aren’t looking and aren’t interested in looking.
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Will Stancil
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Biden really is just doing almost all the normal campaign stuff! A lot the debate right now seems to be “can reality break through or are Democrats going to be forced to react to internet memes as if they’re gospel truth”
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Will Stancil
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the current unholy alliance between the hipster left and pundit center around “why bother talking about trump when we can destroy the Dem president instead”
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Will Stancil
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The unwillingness of panicked Democrats to defend this, even as a possibility, is why we are where we are
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DeathsHead419
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Reasonable people are not asking you to forget his terrible debate performance, just to consider that it may well have been a terrible debate performance and not a sign of general mental collapse.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”
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andy™
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what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
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Peter M. Cunningham
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like, this is a story about Biden reassuring his coalition about his fitness for the job, the most prominent members of which are quoted supporting him fully. why is "biden plans to go to bed early" the fucking headline?
www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/p...
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Will Stancil
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There are many videos of Biden doing barnburner rallies from the last week!! I feel like I’m going crazy
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snipy
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would that MSNBC et al would so carefully parse every unhinged mumble out of trump's mouth as they are biden's stutter and line flubs. these things are not the same.
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Will Stancil
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The difference is that this time a bunch of Dems and leftists jumped on board with the frenzy
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L O L G O P
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I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.
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EAll
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It wasn't *that* long ago that slip-ups like this were used to argue that Obama was an empty suit whose lack of intelligence was being masked by the liberal media - a theory that had a teeny tiny bit of racist subtext if you look closely. The difference is mainstream media didn't bite on that.
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Will Stancil
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We aren’t talking enough about the Barack Obama dementia coverup
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Will Stancil
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And for quite literally that entire time “he mangles his words” has been a defining feature
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Will Stancil
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If anyone recorded me speaking extemporaneously, I’d have dementia x100: I can’t get through three sentences without mangling my words.
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Will Stancil
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Yesterday I had to record many takes for a video ad for my campaign. Working off a 15-second script, I kept messing it up, saying “I’m running to be your next civil rights attorney.” Guess I have dementia!
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utopia deferred
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in summary:
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Weird that the headlines a few weeks later were all EMAILS and not a steady drumbeat of stories expecting him to imminently drop out.
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Will Stancil
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What if the reason he’s being forced off the ticket is a bunch of lies and exaggerations being spread by pundits that are forcing down his poll numbers, what do you do then
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Will Stancil
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They’re already setting up the next overblown freakout, this time to take down Harris. Nice work everyone
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frlplk.bsky.social
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Idk how obama was fit to serve given he thinks there are 57 states and doesn’t believe people build things
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