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michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 319 days ago

The headline was so ominous that I was not ready for the content
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden-west-wing-aaron-sorkin.html

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emberaegle.bsky.social•319 days ago

Dear mr. Sorkin, you should be aware that some asshole is writing insane letters and publishing them in your name.

erikalyn.bsky.social•319 days ago

Nope. That was definitely all Sorkin.

vocabulist.bsky.social•319 days ago

Was the First Amendment a mistake?

williampreston.bsky.social•319 days ago

After the commercial break, they change their minds.

rifka.bsky.social•319 days ago

do not be Hitler, from Germany, on this https://bsky.app/profile/rifka.bsky.social/post/3kxsd3ilbna2u

ino2000.bsky.social•319 days ago

literally keep shifting that overton window until theres just two republican parties

abbeyarletto.bsky.social•319 days ago

And there it is. The worst take in human history.

what-why.bsky.social•319 days ago

Siri, what is anti-clickbait?

stephenbaines.bsky.social•319 days ago

Pick the guy everyone hates. Inspired!!! No one will see it coming.

(These people live in vaccuum sealed bubbles)

tmoney2007.bsky.social•319 days ago

A wild Kevin McCarthy appeared....

yvrdaniel.bsky.social•319 days ago

Consulting Sorkin for actual political insight is like asking a painter who paints food scenes on how to run a restaurant kitchen.

sugarazor.bsky.social•319 days ago

Deeply unserious people.

blepbork.bsky.social•319 days ago

Unqualified white guy with the confidence of someone who is. May the ghost of Leo McGarry come smack him.

92andthensome.bsky.social•319 days ago

Proud to sat that I never watched The West Wing because dudes who talk like Sorkin make my teeth itch.

dnakendra.bsky.social•319 days ago

It worked so well for Obama had nominated a moderate to the supreme court. We should totally go even further right (with zero process) for pres candidate.

rebeccakling.bsky.social•319 days ago

I think we’re gonna start hearing about how, all these years, Aaron Sorkin has been harassing democracy on set and pressuring democracy to provide inappropriate electoral favors.

melbeast.bsky.social•319 days ago

It’s like… I was just ranting to my therapist about how everything is this specific guys fault because he taught Democrats to think, nay, hope! that Republicans can be appealed to if you just third act morality twist them hard enough and then he just… puts it right out there, doing the thing, AGAIN!

lettucewrangler.bsky.social•319 days ago

Sure, fuck it.
Since Democrats won't take their own side, they should get a nominee that won't take their side either.

swojack.bsky.social•319 days ago

Everyone always claims sorkin is a dem but he's got such a hard on for Republicans that he doesn't even think any dems should exist outside of running the least skilled least popular Republicans as presidential candidates.

anniebkay.bsky.social•319 days ago

Only old white men need apply.

brianamos.com•319 days ago

“Originality”. He did the Democrats-pick-a-Republican for the Supreme Court on the show

mariamwatt.bsky.social•318 days ago

He also did “Democratic President removes himself from power under the 25th Ammendment and hands power to the Republican Speaker of the House”.

simsarah.bsky.social•319 days ago

I mean, it IS titled “how I would write it” - so points for accuracy there.

wobblesmith.bsky.social•319 days ago

aaron sorkin is an anti-union fraud and one-trick writer who deserves about 1/30th of the praise he receives.

michaelhobbes.bsky.social•319 days ago

Romney on the D ticket would lose in a landslide you hack

takahanazawa.bsky.social•319 days ago

I need liberals to stop living in this fantasy world where there are good Republicans that can be drawn away from Trump.

All of them are all in on Trump and any who aren't are already Biden voters there's nothing you can do to get a current Republican to vote against Trump

markorbiter.bsky.social•319 days ago

Sorkin crawled up his own ass writing The Newsroom and as of yet has not emerged.

paulrosenberg.bsky.social•319 days ago

He shoulda stopped with "Sports Night" as I've said a million times.

michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social•319 days ago

that dude needs professional help

michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social•319 days ago

what kind of galaxy brained clown says that in order for the democrats to win they need to nominate a republican?

make it make sense

fancycwabs.bsky.social•319 days ago

Pretty sure “losing in a landslide” is the goal of at least half the people trying to push Biden out.

pomegranateyum57.bsky.social•319 days ago

Aaron Sorkin has lost the plot

varobertivna.bsky.social•319 days ago

robjackel.bsky.social•319 days ago

I'm "Vote Blue No Matter Who" but even I have fucking limits.

laineballou.bsky.social•319 days ago

I mean technically that's not even blue, so you'd still be sticking to it.

kimoco.bsky.social•319 days ago

My God these old white guys really, really NEED TO STFU

lettucewrangler.bsky.social•319 days ago

This is so funny.
Does Sorkin not realize that you also have to keep the votes of your actual constituents?

snackfalcon.bsky.social•319 days ago

Dumping Biden for Romney would result in the rest of us dumping the Democrats.

We could even have a blitz primary! Have a series of forums, invite any reasonable third-party candidates who have sufficient ballot access, and for this year at least, adopt one of them as the "blue" candidate.

ridgewaygirl.bsky.social•319 days ago

This is Cornel West's path to the Presidency.

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•319 days ago

Biden is the incumbent who spent the last 4 years getting shit done. He also won the primary. He was old when we elected him. He’ll be old when we re-elect him. If something happens, we’ll have our first woman President which fucking rocks. These people just don’t want a Black woman as President.

enbuenora.bsky.social•319 days ago

Sure but the point is he would lose *nobly*!

zerocrates.org•319 days ago

Truly this is the product of the mind that brought you The Newsroom

raoulduke1976.bsky.social•319 days ago

He’s right that it’s a unifying ticket. Everyone would unite in hatred of it.

raoulduke1976.bsky.social•319 days ago

I will shit in my hat and wear it, before I vote for Mitt fucking Romney.

laur705.bsky.social•319 days ago

These dudes have no stakes in this election and it shows

lankfried.bsky.social•319 days ago

They tried this already in 2016 with Clinton appealing to Romney voters in the suburbs. I wonder how anyone can walk away from this years RNC that emphasized unions and low propensity voters and think “it’s time for an old school wall street republican”.

lankfried.bsky.social•319 days ago

If Biden steps down, Kamala is the obvious choice and she should get someone with midwest working class appeal like Sherrod Brown (maybe not him specifically bc that would lose the last Ohio senate seat)

7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social•319 days ago

Bernie Sanders. Frankly, she's going to need support from the left (because she's a cop), and an old white guy for optics. Who better?

lankfried.bsky.social•319 days ago

I think Bernie would have made for a great president or presidential candidate in 2016 or 2020 but at this point he’s probably too old considering that Biden’s age was such a huge topic this year.

Also sadly I think Kamala being a cop isn’t necessarily a negative in a general.

lankfried.bsky.social•319 days ago

It’s not a primary anymore and as much as I would love a hard left ticket, it doesn’t have a shot at getting elected in the current climate that feels much worse compared to four years ago.

In terms of strategic picks, Josh Shapiro might be a good choice because abortion and labor are big topics.

faustianfool.bsky.social•319 days ago

This is my favorite part "does Romney have anything that would make him enticing for a Democrat? No. That's why he'd win as one."

mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social•319 days ago

we've really underestimated the damage this man has done to politics in this country

melbeast.bsky.social•319 days ago

He’s doing the exact thing that got us here in the first place, thinking Democratic Party officials to think of politics like a fucking feel good fantasy tv show

theangelremiel.bsky.social•319 days ago

trust me: if the left are wary of voting for Biden, they'd FLOCK to Romney!

laineballou.bsky.social•319 days ago

Who better to unify the country than a man who inspires nobody!

snackfalcon.bsky.social•319 days ago

Who better to win a presidential election than a man who already lost one?

drij.org•319 days ago

The man can only think in terms of what would make good television, except everything he makes is abruptly cancelled

wabisabihobo.bsky.social•319 days ago

This is satire, right? He can't be serious!

flyingsquidgoggles.bsky.social•319 days ago

This is just the stupidest shit possible - we rejected Romney in 2012 because we don't want a president to do what he would want to do, and we should reject him now because he cooperated with Trump in 2017-2019, showing he's a little fash-curious even if not fully into it

tam-lin.bsky.social•319 days ago

That makes no sense. If the choice is between Trump and not Trump, nominate a head of lettuce. How is Romney better than a head of lettuce? Or you could continue to support the person who’s proven pretty good on a lot of things. Or you could continue looking for your unicorn candidate.

librarypaste.bsky.social•319 days ago

Someone please tell him that if he wants to be a Republican, he can just be a Republican.

neruda1952.bsky.social•319 days ago

Um, wut?

potatocouch.bsky.social•319 days ago

“Look everyone, we could have a really nice country here, if we just set aside these pesky little policies regarding abortion, education, regulation, etc. We all want right-wing politics, even the Democrats do, just no fascism please.”

sarahofsb.bsky.social•319 days ago

I absolutely assumed it was satire to show how over the top this whole mess has gotten

tehdeminz.bsky.social•319 days ago

Constitutional Amendment to temporarily repeal the ban on bills of attainder just long enough to pass legislation that says Aaron Sorkin specifically has to visit the Titanic in an Oceangate submersible

frostreads.bsky.social•319 days ago

Good god.

mykidsmombb8.bsky.social•319 days ago

Sorkin is a lunatic.

matthew1290.bsky.social•319 days ago

Pick George Santos, they will never see it coming.

labgrrl.bsky.social•319 days ago

What...what...what did I just read

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