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Software engineer. Freedom and lasers are the right of all sentient beings. Takes on politics, tech, culture. Quality is job 9.
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Russert would be disgusted by what his profession, his network, and his old show have become.
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Dowd will always be the idiot queen, but yeah, the bench is deep.
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Dems should run on CNN being an apologia network for fascists.
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He is the ur failson; nothing he has ever said has been interesting. Yglesias is the more interesting case here; also born on 3rd base, but he at one point had worthwhile thoughts to contribute.
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Having been familiar with Josh’s work since his days doing guest appearances on McLaughlin Group: he was always like this. Intellectually unmoored and morally bankrupt.
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I remember Josh from his McLaughlin Group days. Antics were about his speed then, too.
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a lot of them are also, let’s face it, not bright, so they don’t notice the pot of boiling water they’re sitting in as they piss and moan about mean liberals
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he’s on my “I remember that stupid asshole from the McLaughlin Group” bingo card
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in related news, this is some embarrassing shit for Jain
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sincerely wondering what the audience for barro’s work is these days; is there some vast untapped demand for a knockoff Yglesias who used to be on McLaughlin Group?
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FYI
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It’s less dangerous than it looks. This isn’t a representative section of troops.
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yeah, there's a reason the ones in front are where they are
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Case in point. By 11am PT tomorrow, there might be thousands of troops in LA.
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add in the fact that noem's level of stupidity is impossible to measure with the techniques available to modern science, and you've got a decades in prison stew going
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i find it increasingly unlikely that the people who are running ICE and homeland security are going to be able to avoid state level, unpardonable human trafficking charges when this is all said and done
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Sure, but I'd think this is where the admin's track record works against them - pretty easy to argue that this administration will try to stall in court and take objectively illegal actions before courts have a chance to rule.
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"we don't anticipate more department cuts" and "i will work with congress to shutter department" seem at odds, for starters
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that assumes that he's able to distinguish his cronies from his enemies in a year, and I would not make that bet for a whole host of reasons
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the english language is not equipped to properly describe the depths and breadths of kristi noem's ignorance
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as someone with ties to the dakotas: noem is not only dumber than the dumbest person you know, she is dumber than the dumbest person you can likely conceive of
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we go live to gavin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=etBR...
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that's gavin's secret: he's always angry
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but seriously, what are the odds that someone in the wh shoved a glorified fisher price phone in front of trump and told him he was on the phone with newsom, because i think they're a lot higher than zero
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we go live to the perfect phone call
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speaking of property destruction, this was the senate parlimentarian's office on january 6th:
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on a separate note, there is no dad on the planet more divorced than russ vought
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very, very large risk that this parade has the stink of fear all over it and becomes a huge fucking joke inside of a week
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GOP 2028 planning commences:
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this policy alone would be the best thing to ever happen to happen to the FLDEMs in 50 years: bsky.app/profile/fint...
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Trump is going to succeed where the FLDEMs could not in turning FL blue again.
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so unless trump's plan is to nationalize marriott for the purposes of bypassing the 3rd amendment, good fucking luck to them