dan-mcbride.bsky.social
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Mike Lindell is on trial? In America? What the living hell!
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Quoting the 10th century Persian poet Saadi Shirazi, Mehmed reflected on the impermanence of empire:
“The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars
The owl calls the watches in the tower of Afrasiab”
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With all due respect to Senator Warren, I am exhausted with this naive framing of the acts of the current administration. No serious person, herself no doubt included, would bother to take on faith any word spoken by anyone serving in it. Why fain disappointment and betrayal?
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Everyone seems placated by the idea that if anyone tried to replace our democracy with an autocracy, the American People wouldn’t stand for it. As though in the only poll of public opinion that matters, they hadn’t already stood for it—and clapped.
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It seems like Trump's political calculations hinge on the idea that the 2026 midterm elections aren't going to happen. All of the Republicans voting for this bill better hope that he's right.
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The NYT, and Douthat in particular, have been clown-washing this guy for years now.
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Ok, so he was elected twice, and the constitution states he can’t serve a third term.
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I love this novel, and I enjoy reading these excerpts, but in the mouth of this account, it’s title starts to sound dirty.
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If you fail to condemn such an egregious misuse of the justice department to seek personal retribution for the sitting president due to your feelings about the person targeted, then yes, I believe you are getting owned.
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But in the brazen new world in which we find ourselves, why wouldn’t Bondi cash in? She’s not going to arrest herself.
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What’s she going to do, arrest herself? Why not sell the stock?
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And one error leading to a Little League homering.
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If only there was some collective, non-violent action the American electorate could have taken to prevent this tragedy.
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The JBJ vibes are strong!
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Hadn’t thought of that, but now it seems almost inevitable.
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It’s as though there wasn’t a game tonight, so they broadcast a repeat of a game from last year—with all the new players.
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Prescient
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Strong Hagia Sophia becoming a mosque again vibes.
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Madness does not beget sanity
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This is an astute political observation.
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That’s very well put.
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Call me Cassandra, but I have thought since before the election that Trump’s victory would result in Adam Schiff being sent to El Salvador. Well, admittedly, I didn’t foresee the El Salvador part.
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Economic chaos pushes societies toward autocracy—it’s part of the plan.
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when suddenly….
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Not mutually exclusive!
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It's so easy to laugh at this, but I do wonder, who is not laughing? In what universe is this not embarrassing? Do supporters of the president think that this is noble and appropriate behavior? I would have thought that such rank and cloying sycophancy is universally unseemly.
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I have been a regular reader of the NYT for thirty years, and I wish I could say I was shocked.
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I think Venezuela under Chavez is a valid historical parallel. It's economic collapse occurred despite its massive oil reserves.
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Trump tells the truth for once!
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Well an analogous situation in the US didn’t work out as you might have suspected. Glad to hear you guys fared better.
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Where the tent burns down, and everybody dies.
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An all time great album!
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She jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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Because they’re on your back.
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…and if we stood up for democracy, freedom, and the rule of law, we will be in an El Salvadoran prison.
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Yet the sleep-walk toward autocracy lumbers on.
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I don’t don’t see how a collapsed administration would look too much different than the current one does—incompetent, chaotic, lawless, etc. There will still be no mechanism to remove it.
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Rest assured that the majority of your fellow Americans are fully anesthetized.
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Oops
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”—H. L. Mencken
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In a sane society, ambitious people seek attention by performing noble deeds.
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This is a noble political act.
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We elected him. We decided already. The time of pontification is over. It is now the time of suffering what we must.
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Venezuelanize
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Only Platonists who believe in an abstract, transcendent truth can lie. Trump is just working the crowds before passing the plate.