sammettsmotter.bsky.social
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"Where can you turn when your fairweather friends cop out? What's it all about?"
The first use of "fairweather friends" and "cop out" in pop history. Totally natural and unforced.
And heartbreaking.
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Call.
*throws Don't Worry, Baby into the pot*
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I'll give you that. Well played!
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So... a nihilist. Cool. Cool.
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Those strawberries can kill people if they get in the wrong hands.
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Hollywood Forever?
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Totally.
I shall mock them indirectly here. If I ever meet one in real life, I'll go with the sympathetic "he used you".
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Freeing the slaves was clearly a desperate attempt to hold on to power at all costs. Had he won the Civil War WITHOUT freeing the slaves he would have been a great president.
I'm smart at history.
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We are all Democrats, but that does NOT mean we support all Democrats.
The party is but a means.
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Matt Taibbi will be out with a full exposé any minute now.
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We invented the salad as a meal. We spread the gospels of the taco and Korean BBQ to America. We invented mellow-sounding hip-hop with extremely violent lyrics. We put graffiti on skateboards.
WE ARE THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!
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So Democrats need to accept the false reality imagined by Republicans. Fantastic.
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Yet they want women to birth more babies.
Strange, that.
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I mean... good?
I hope this wipes out the US auto industry.
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It's a federal offense to attend a protest via automobile or public transit, apparently.
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And then we all agreed to come together as one.
Thank goodness THAT'S all in the past now.
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They prefer people like MLK and Jackie Robinson to be turn-the-other-cheek martyrs instead of the smart, strategic fighters they were.
And they prefer ALL their civil rights heroes to be dead so they can keep them in their preferred little boxes, unable to fight back.
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POS
Sanctuary Cities exist because they make communities SAFER. Protecting undocumented immigrants is a boon to law enforcement because those immigrants are more willing to cooperate with police.
But I guess public safety was never the point, was it?
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Grew up in San Diego. We went to Tijuana as kids all the time, tons of Mexican friends. None of the hatred makes any f*cking sense.
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"Shifty Schiff" is one of Trump's grotesque nicknames.
Call him a shithead for all I care, but beware of fascist framing.
Respectfully. You may not have known, and we all make mistakes.
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Do NOT use Trump nicknames, please.
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On the bright side, they're both very bad at it.
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Famously leftist.
It's not like "corrupt, fascist LA cop" hasn't been the focus of like 10 million movies, books, and TV shows. It's its own freaking genre!
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I've seen more than a few comments endorsing violence. I THINK he's referring to the proposed riots, not the peaceful protests of the civil rights movement. Just a guess.
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We're buying goggles and saline, but NOT clubs.
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It's still good news.
Naturally, they have to turn this regular guy into a supervillain.
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This is Leopold II erasure.
Seriously, the Scramble for Africa isn't taught nearly enough. It's as evil as it gets.
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SINCE THE '80s!!!
Infuriating.
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That's almost too good to be true.
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Welcome!
Those opposed to welcoming ex-Republicans also bemoan that "40% approval for Trump is still too high!"
If we wanna get him to the 25% approval we really need to fix things, we'll have to welcome MILLIONS of Trump voters.
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I thought the same thing. And Germany WAS rearmed fairly quickly for that very reason.
MacArthur was in Japan anyway. He had nothing to do with Europe. Gah! The ignorance! It burns!
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Minor point. Did MacArthur ever say, "Never let Germany rearm?" Like, famously?
He was only in the Pacific Theater, so he would have had ZERO influence. Trump doesn't know this and is only aware of two American WWII generals, so I'd like to confirm that this is horsesh*t.
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Well done.
Cuomo is such a ghoul.
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I feel like vibes are the nature of things in presidential politics.
FDR, Ike, JFK, Reagan, Obama, Trump - policy is always second to the "feel" of the candidate.
You want emotional resonance at all times.
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You failed to protect the people you serve. End of story.
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That's pretty neat! I didn't know that.
Lincoln considered the free and soon-to-be-free black troops the Union's secret weapon. There's no doubt it influenced his thinking on equal rights.
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He grew SO MUCH over the course of just 4 years. He was an extremely intelligent and empathetic man. Constantly evolving and able to stand outside of himself to evaluate both his own values and the time in which he lived.
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Remember when they complained the Harris campaign was only "vibes"?
VIBES IS HOW YOU WIN!
The substance is in the policy, but policy doesn't do shit in campaigns.
So, naturally, they cut back on the couch jokes and "weird", and spoke at length about their 17-point plan to help black businesses.
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Yes, with simple, emotional, variations such as, "Stop trying to search little girls' pants!"
It's why Walz's "Mind your own damn business!" was so effective... until he was told to stop saying it.
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Because she did a musical with Hillary? Should we condemn anyone who collaborates with people who aren't sufficiently anti-Hamas?
These litmus tests don't seem helpful to me.
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The GOP has embraced only the worst parts of the Soviet economy.