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New episode of The Adam Friedland Show with @destiny.gg out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq4v...

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Who else thinks Biden should pardon anybody who committed a hit and run on October 14th 2022

actually insane how differently the pardon would be covered if trump pardoned one of his children

a trump supporter replied to me with this and it goes hard

Great piece from @wajali.bsky.social on all the "hypocritical outrage" from the GOP over the Hunter Biden pardon. He brings receipts:

I love this idea that Biden pardoning Hunter will somehow ‘justify’ or ‘excuse’ Trump pardoning the Jan 6th prisoners, ignoring the fact that: 1. Trump had promised to pardon them long before Biden did this. 2. There is nothing comparable between Hunter’s crimes & their crimes.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It is sort of darkly funny that the only person the Biden DOJ unfairly prosecuted for political reasons ended up being Biden’s own son

Yep. Biden, wanting to Uphold the Norms, agreed to keep on a Trump-appointed prosecutor who was probing his son. Created a special counsel to probe his own post-VP document retention. Kept on Durham so he could finish a Trump-ordered probe of 2016. What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.

@jessesingal.com reply guy reporting for duty 🫡

There's no longer any upside to Twitter over Bluesky. Twitter's engagement is terrible, it downranks external links, and you're subjected to straight nazi shit if you write even the most banal post. Why are we subjecting ourselves to this?

if one of joe bidens dogs tried to bite me i would use jujutsu to leverage the biting jaw force and throw him 1000 feet across the room .

homo-genius: a history of gay inventors

everyone seems to have forgotten just how incompetent Trump's GOP was he managed to pull off the longest shutdown in history while controlling both halves of Congress

to normal people, any sufficiently online person is indistinguishable from magic

It's just going to be four years of making economically devastating promises, immediately folding, and declaring "mission accomplished" isn't it?

“I think sometimes we kind of forget that liberalism is a good thing. And it's okay to be proud of your country and be proud of your political organization.” - Destiny

Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.

the number of people who claimed to care deeply about student loan debt and remained completely unaware of SAVE was comically high

A very good point that goes far beyond economics. Your description of the world is not objective if you make subjective choices about what to include in it. (Which we do, unavoidably.)

Great detail here: "The bipartisan team, an increasing rarity in Congress even on anodyne issues, stems at least in part from the men’s relationship outside of the House. Kiley took Raskin’s class at Yale Law" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/raskin-...

@ckava.bsky.social @arthurcdent.bsky.social Any plans to cover Curtis Yarvin or Balaji Srinavasan in a full episode? These two are fairly influential to Vance. Yarvin in particular seems to be a key inspiration for Vance entering politics. Including two great background pieces:

I got an email from a big strong guy today saying I need to be "cuck-pilled." Anyone know if that's good or bad?

Really great election postmortem from @briantylercohen.bsky.social and @jonlovett.bsky.social, that both cuts through the noisy blame game after this election and zeroes in on the tangible, solvable problems facing dems moving forward