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attorney Was Jacob in ILoF
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Enjoy the tax cuts, dipshits

i have something to admit that's been weighing heavy on my heart: when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"

Despair creeping in? Worried things ultimately won’t work out for you? Is Hell getting a bit too Hellish? Consider setting those worries aside and trying Grim Determination and focusing on helping who you can however you can Ask your doctor if Grim Determination is right for you

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, *to us*

When it’s over, there will be attempts to spin an epic narrative about this. Realist IR theorists will come up with some balance of power BS, the media will try to make it some kind of operatic tragedy, etc. Resist this. It was stupid and pathetic and senseless. Don’t let them gaslight you.

quit it with this doomer shit. i'm here to win.

hey uh what color is the liquid in that tumbler

Repeat this to yourself and understand this. You can be clear-eyed about your odds and still enter a battle with resolve. You may give up your life, but never your integrity.

do they break us?

trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.

i think think this administration is unleashing things they don't understand and it will get out of hand

hey can you look into whether or not Trump has Parkinson’s

before people get all "this isn't going to stand up," he knows this the game here is clearly (imo) to give the (not terribly informed on how ratifying things works) public the view that all this trad/misogynist shit is in fact illegal, to create an *understanding women have rights*

Some folks are pushing back on this plan as something that won't work and maybe it won't but you miss every shot you don't take.

TIRED: "well obviously this thing Biden did on his way out will be overturned immediately, so it means nothing" WIRED in a way that's *useful*: "Biden says the ERA is ratified, and if [when] SCOTUS says it's not, they're illegitimately taking rights away from women and we need to demand them back"

My feeling is that David Brooks is a literal demon

we can either have a democracy or this supreme court but not both