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A dem staffer scratches their chin while looking at 25,000 freshly made "President Trump's Eggconomic policies are cracked!" signs at the DNC headquarters today.
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Also this is just after a few months. Odds are good we won't be able to send these transmissions much longer. Vote Trump!
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It's a painful education on how "it can't happen here" happens here. The transition is so, so fast from:
"We would never do that. I wouldn't stand for it."
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"I guess we do that now. Okay. New world. Let's do it."
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Yes, they genuinely want Trump to be president for life.
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I picked up on that too. Booker seemed much less concerned about the ongoing national emergency than one would think given the effort. Moved to action more by the concern about who holds a meaningless record in an increasingly meaningless body. It all feels very Roman.
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"And this offends you as a Jewish person?"
"No, it offends me as a comedian!"
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Adam Savage is on youtube every day with a new advice video or showing people how to actually work with their hands and create cool things and it doesn't get a tenth of the attention or political focus as Rogan or Tate and that ilk. Decline is a choice.
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Trump is a cartoon character villain. He is as has been noted a common cold which our political system nevertheless (filled with cowards and ossified institutions) refuses to brush off. No written document can convince people who prefer subjugation to relish liberty instead.
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We ride with the khan.
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Bluesky users the second someone suggests there's any difference between Trump and Eisenhower, Reagan, or even Obama.
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Apparently you have a very high opinion of John McCain. I just meant he kept Lindsey Graham somewhat in check.
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Scalia functioned as a John McCain of the Supreme Court.
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The broad sense that the government is willing to use its power to harm individuals who anger it and won't be stopped by internal or external checks from doing so is everywhere now. A huge chunk of our daily freedoms disappeared with barely a fight.
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It's the "Yes the planet got destroyed but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders" New Yorker cartoon but for norms.
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The irony of all this is we've elected the one man hellbent on forcing America into the kind of permanent economic decline which leftists already falsely believe we've been in for decades and they spent the entire election exclusively trashing anyone who wanted to focus on stopping him.
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Or what happens is circumstances and external forces choose for you.
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election season: WE NEED TRUMP TO SAVE THE ECONOMY
Trumpcession season: WHO NEEDS THE ECONOMY WE HAVE TRUMP
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The way Trump's own former VP didn't endorse him and no one cared and his own former VP is one of his biggest critics within the party and no one cares are two real nothing matters facts to me.
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Any framing that makes this seem like a fluke or a blip after almost ten years of this and many free choices later isn't really capturing our current state. Wordsworth said that Napoleon's rise in France was like a dog returning to its vomit. The 2024 election was that exactly.
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What would people 15 years ago say or do when asked generically about a president who committed an insurrection, calls himself a king and declares his intention to serve beyond two terms. What protections and courtesies would they say such a man was entitled to?
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I guess I underestimated how much the biggest story from Trump going after political enemies, immigrants, universities, free society, in a nakedly American Putin manner would be "How can democrats win back young men?"
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As a non legal person it always looks like many of the ways Trump and Musk are said to have squeezed out of potential legal liability is by employing simple legal games and semantics the justice system must have figured out how to mow past or else no mafioso would ever see the inside of a jail cell.
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Democrats aren't serious about the state of emergency we're in until they use every lever available under the federalist system in blue states they run to push back against the destruction of our democracy.
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RFK Jr is a good man with good ideas! Vote Democrat!
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Standard collaboration.
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I feel like it's hard to beat the "you never really cared about our country at all — only your own career" if even the collapse of our constitutional order can't wrestle former presidents out of their post-presidency slumbers.
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In order to get to a liberalism that builds we need to first have a liberalism that fights.
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Biden delivered again and again for the American people and it didn't matter in the election literally one bit. Dems stop trying the same old shit that failed last time challenge.
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Can I recommend some deserving eyes?
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The idea that housing affordability in big cities had nothing to do with the rise of Trump seem buoyed by the fact that these conversations have nothing to do with Trump and feel completely orthogonal. LA zoning laws did not give us Trump and better LA zoning laws won't get rid of Trumpism.
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I wish I could have convinced you 1% of the way but that's OK.
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An inherent idea of Trumpism is no one cares about the republic. The old republic was bad and broken and that's why the influential won't do much to defend it.
Ex presidents evolving to a higher plane and caring nothing for our petty squabbles even in this crisis helps reinforce that contention.
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It turns out that people who have been through approximately 50 elections can't think of time in smaller increments than two-year midterm cycles.