orviston.bsky.social
Bibliophile, perpetual grad student, fan of democracy, J. S. Bach, cats, bad jokes, and the Oxford comma. Foxes over hedgehogs.
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I mean, the median voter is a dumbass, so this is less impressive than it seems like it should be. But I can’t do it.
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This is a great burn. I would like to borrow it sometime.
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Oh, y’all are about to have a real good time.
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That’s a really good point, yeah.
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I mean, they’re a fun read, and they’re fine, but at some point there were people putting this in the same category as LOTR, and . . . no. They’re just not.
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It might work. It might not. I'm not sure that it's possible to know.
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Yep, this is it, right here. Now he can trade it for favors. In Trump's eyes, there is no power that the Federal government has that can't be made better by using it to make people personally indebted to him.
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The current state of the GOP is that if you do perform the bare minimum of fidelity to the Constitution, you keep it as quiet as possible; if you're trying to overturn the Constitutional order, you hold a press conference to do so.
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We've got answers. Now do something.
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The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit.
"Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.
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bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Rookie numbers. I'm doing my part to help him pump those numbers up.
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Rookie numbers, gotta pump those down
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(Groucho Marx, to clarify.)
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"Those are my principles! And if you don't like them, well, I have others."
- Marx
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It would be super fun to impose this chyron over pictures of what Trump was encouraging on January 6.
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Worth asking where the $5 million goes. Does it actually go to the US, or is going towards lawn maintenance at Trump golf courses?
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Sounds like the Israelis are about to figure out why the Ukrainians don't generally tell us when the drones are going to be on their way.
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To be fair, it seems that this is about as much planning as Trump does for anything.