gehart.bsky.social
Lifelong democrat, attorney, former legislative staffer, book hoarder, dad of 3 wonderful young adults.
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Close seconds are Humphrey to Agnew and Gore to Quayle.
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I think many of the tiny fraction of BS users who feel compelled to post about religion have had a traumatic experience with it. I doubt that is true for most BS users generally. FWIW, I’m a liberal Episcopalian who is fascinated by demographics and politics, and subscribes to your Substack.
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I tried to read this and got through the first ten or so responses, but I just can’t process this much horseshit without my head exploding.
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And the net outmigration from California started in 1989 when Deukmejian was governor and continued throughout both the Wilson and Schwarzenegger administrations. Those three Republican administrations comprise about one half of the last 42 years.
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I read the article. My comment after reading it is that it is a hot mess. Trying to tie way too many disparate factors and phenomena together, supported by a few cherry-picked factoids.
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There’s an old joke about a politician responding to criticism about going on a junket: “I did not go on that trip, and I paid my own way.”
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Exactly.
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Fair enough.
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He has no clue what is involved in establishing a new federal agency.
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I’m in the same boat. I still like this place but I get way less engagement than I did on Threads and have about the same number of followers.
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Source? This adds up to 57 people. There are only 15 official cabinet positions. Maybe a dozen more senior positions are arguably cabinet level.
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Im not a Carrie Underwood fan, and am anti Trump. But when I saw her live on Ryan Secrest’s New Years Eve show two weeks ago, I thought she looked like like a normal, attractive 41 year old celebrity. No 41 year old’s photos compare well with their 21 year old photos (when she was first on Idol).
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I like the sentiment here. But eye contact from strangers is often perceived as hostile, and returned with a nasty “Don’t eyeball me.”
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This is indeed the question. If these countries are so critical to national security, why did Trump (or any other candidate or proxy) never mention them in the campaign? Why suddenly make them a Day One type top priority? No one has tried to explain this.
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Come on, let’s focus on important stuff, not manufactured controversies. The fires aren’t in any of these republicans’ districts. And apparently they were discussing restoring the deduction for state and local taxes, which is an important issue for all Californians.
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You asked for opinions that might disagree with you and I am giving you mine. I just can’t fault Obama for having a casual conversation with the President elect when they are sitting next to each other at a funeral. The other option would have been interpreted as shunning Trump and become a thing.
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Love your lists!
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This post seems to assume “crusader” is a positive term. It should be considered a pejorative, and it fits Bryant well. A zealot trying to impose her Christian beliefs at the expense of people who don’t share her beliefs.
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The all-too-frequent social media exercise of drawing broad conclusions from a single, out-of-context snapshot image drives me crazy. I shudder to think what conclusions someone would draw if they were to cherry pick one snapshot out of hundreds of images of me at a large event.
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Nancy Mace is incapable of embarrassment and does not care about being considered stupid. All she cares about is getting her name and face known. She wants to be called out for her idiotic antics. Don’t give her what she wants.
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No. Not real.
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No.
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Nothing in this post is accurate. HR 7, introduced by 2 far right house members, would not require anything — it is a non-binding resolution, with no references to women getting anyone else’s consent. It just praises a coalition of pro-life women’s health centers (which are not praiseworthy).
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The first full sentence of this passage is a thing of beauty. You have love 19th Century rhetoric.
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I don’t support Trump’s idea because it is frivolous and not made in good faith, but note he isn’t proposing it be called the Gulf of the United States — rather the Gulf of America. All of the Gulf is in the Americas. It actually could help people understand that Mexico is in North America.
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He received the Nobel peace Prize in 2002, not 1978. He brokered the Camp David accords in 1978.
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💯
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I hope his “Champaigne” is flat, like I’m sure he thinks the earth is.
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More like if the country decided to elect George Wallace in response.
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Disgusting. And he can’t even spell “champagne”.
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Oops. I meant doughnut of course.
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Exactly. Looks just like an old fashioned donut.
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An old fashioned doughnut (the best kind) resembles a nut, as in what you stick a bolt through. And it is made of dough. Hence, doughnut.
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Great list. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice list.