jwc1959.bsky.social
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If Michigan voters elected Whitmer to do photo ops with Trump, then they can keep her, because this ought to disqualify her in a presidential primary.
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Just as it's appropriate in murder trials for the prosecution to begin by acknowledging all the people the defendant hasn't killed.
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By this theory, RFK Jr. is entirely comprised of fluoride.
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Life imitates art.
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They cover everything as politics, they cover politics as a game with no consequences, and they don’t understand the game.
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Everything is projection and confession with these people.
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youtu.be/KKJprZqU_oU?...
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The popularists said voters don't care about this, and we should only talk about the price of eggs. Will they follow their own weather vane, or will they continue to be dipshits?
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Mulish stupidity is a less valuable attribute than commonly believed on the right wing.
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Will the popularists consult their weather vane?
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When he says “We had more money than anybody,” he means that rich people made out like bandits.
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Nate’s problem is that it wasn’t fun any more just to talk about polls, so he’s become just the sort of bloviating pundit that he came to prominence skewering. He’s illustrating the Dunning-Kruger problem.
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Alito imagines that he ceases to be a nasty little shit by blaming his bigotry on God.
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It was obvious no later than his first term that Trump is a corrupt sociopathic imbecile and wannabe dictator, but only now that he's costing them money do the Masters of the Universe get their first clue. Unimpressive.
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I thought I was just attending a local Indianapolis protest and didn't learn until I got home that I was part of a national uprising of ordinary people. I'm very happy I did this. It made me feel happier, more optimistic, and more empowered. It'd be worth it to me if that were the only benefit.
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I’m still a subscriber, but the Times’ political coverage infuriatingly abandons objective reality to maintain partisan political neutrality. It’s fair that you don’t want to relitigate this in every post, but I’ll be interested to note which pieces you think are good.
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youtu.be/g0IzBXO2pCE?...
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Neither of those ass clowns can button his suit.
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If The Other Guys don't have to follow them, then they aren't rules, and you're playing a sap's game.
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If it’s not 20th century inter war European fascism, it’s just sparkling racist authoritarianism.
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I wonder if there are even Maoist cadres in China today.
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Clap for Tinkerbell! youtu.be/A6IKaLF4Fqc?...
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” — Crooked Timber commenter Frank Wilhoit (March 2018)
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Their ignorance isn't even a shield, yet here they are waving it around as if it were a sword.
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They aren’t “rules” if The Other Guys don’t have to play by them.
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Brady was a great QB, but he's a subpar commentator. None of his football knowledge comes through, and instead he offers insipid banalities and cliches. Troy Aikman, Tony Romo, and Trent Green are all much better.
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This is pathetic even as a performative gesture. And meanwhile Ds are voting to confirm Trump nominees.
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I hear you, but Vichy responses from the sclerotic D leadership aren’t merely frustrating. I think people aren’t nearly angry enough. Also, why does everything the Very Serious People say apply only to Ds? Rs control the entire federal government even though they ignore everything the VSPs say.
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While collaborating with Trump, Vichy Ds pretend to be tough by hyping pretend legislation saying it’s illegal for Trump to do what’s already illegal. Even as a performative gesture it’s pathetic.
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Ds correctly warned that Trump is a sociopathic fascist who’d try to end American democracy. Now they’re doing business as usual with him while he destroys our democracy. Appalling.
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
— W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
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They aren’t “rules” if The Other Guys don’t have to follow them.
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I have a lot of respect for you, but it feels to me like you know the answer to this question and are pretending you don't.
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Or maybe he wants to eliminate technocratic aid distribution in favor of a corrupt political bribery system with himself at the top. Or maybe this particular sociopathy is overdetermined.
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I have an anatomically impossible suggestion for Zuckerberg. Where’s your “masculine energy,” you big baby?
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In small quantities.
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Someone who lost family in the Holocaust could surely have an angry view today. But I'm focused on us today here who haven't yet been subjected to fascism. And attacking AOC undermines Democrats, who for better or worse are America's only anti-fascists today. Or I've missed the point.
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I respect you, and I agree that Don't Look Up isn't a great movie. But it has a point, and the point is aimed at pundits like you, so this feels like an odd hill for you to die on.
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Anyone who thinks there's a meritocracy should read David Brooks. Regardless of context, "David Brooks is stupid" is correct.
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Delete your account.
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Well done! Apart from the pandemic blip, crime has been falling for 30 years, but people almost always tell pollsters that it’s going up. Americans are persistently misinformed about crime. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Absolution alerted me to the trilogy, and I recently binged all four books (with Absolution last). Deeply weird and unsettling. I’ve never read anything like it. Thank you!
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I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I am saying it pisses me off. : )
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Having (accurately) campaigned on “Trump is a fascist,” I think business-as-usual bipartisanship now makes Ds look like politically motivated liars who don’t really mean anything they say — just as Trump claimed. No one pays me for political advice, but the electoral upside isn’t obvious to me.
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Serious question: what exactly should Democrats have done?
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Either everyone is incapable of reading, or you need to write more clearly.
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For example, as a 1L I outlined all of my law school classes, then made little use of the outlines — because the work required to do the writing was much more important than the final product.