takethepith.bsky.social
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Could be indecision; could be waiting to see who ponies up the biggest bribe
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Your headline should mention that the law says this is not required. That's the most salient point in this whole thing. Lead with the most important stuff.
...unless you're trying to cover for Trump, of course. If that's your goal, you're doing great.
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Are you guys going to follow up in two weeks or nah
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How many times has any member of the media come back two weeks later and asked him about it?
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April
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That's the 1990 loss
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“Anyone can go to Baghdad; real men go to Tehran” - actual thing that was said at the time by the Bush crew
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Yep, the Project for the New American Century was very explicitly and publicly laying the groundwork for this in the late 90s - op-eds, letters to Clinton, etc. They even said they'd probably need a Pearl Harbor level incident to get it done. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
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He'd never make it to the general. But I could see him cobbling together enough donor support that another primary campaign would trade him a cabinet appointment for his endorsement (money). Hopefully that campaign wouldn't win the primary either, but you never know.
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And the media are extremely uncomfortable in telling people that Republicans are lying. The media spent more effort amplifying Trump's pre-election lie that he didn't support Project 2025 than they have showing that Trump is, in fact, enacting Project 2025 as president.
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It would help if Democrats and the media would talk more often and more forcefully about the unpopular policies. Both of them are wired to minimize criticisms of Republicans.
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When we link and repost bad NYT stories, we're just promoting them. We're telling the Times that they should produce more content like this.
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This is better than most Democrats but still woefully inadequate. She shouldn't say that she's "hurt"; she should point out that the murderer was a rightwing zealot and that Lee's posts are going to cause more rightwing murders. Pin the blame on him. They'll just laugh at "you hurt my feelings".
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Not just the pardon, but the elite consensus immediately became that Ford was a brave Patriot that healed the nation... for letting the most powerful man in the world off the hook for the crimes he committed to hold on to that power. Absolutely insane takeaway, but uncontested CW for decades in DC.
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Agree. Ford pardoning Nixon - and being effusively praised by beltway media as a brave Patriot who healed America - was the first big step on our current path of elite lawlessness.
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Makes you think it wasn't actually a liberal public radio station
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Pretty Nice Guys
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If all you knew about the violence was what Klobuchar said and what Mike Lee said, you'd be convinced that the violence was all coming from the left. So yes, Klobuchar failed miserably yet again.
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If you knew nothing else about this, but just saw the reactions from Jeffries, Klobuchar, and Mike Lee, you'd come away certain that the recent violence was all from the left
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That used to be my go-to, but I'd swear they started making their pizzas smaller a couple years ago. Still decent quality, though.
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What brands are you thinking of?
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I didn't expect any sentence beginning with 'Caitlyn Jenner' to end happily, but this was a surprise
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He also "has" to know that his TNA stuff is readily available 🤷
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I dunno, but I doubt Angle does either. I just don't see why he'd care if fans can see those matches otherwise, especially if he hasn't bothered to check if they are, in fact, available.
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Do you think Angle really cares about his matches being available? I assume this is about Angle wanting more money.
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And, at least in your screenshot of Trump parade coverage, not a word about how poorly-attended it was, how shabby it looked, or how bored Trump and his people seemed to be by it. Why tell the truth when you can instead print Trump propaganda?
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I have a different guess as to why NYT minimized the protests
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See, the Biden story was stickier than the Pelosi story. There was only one time that the Pelosi family was attacked by a violent rightwinger, leading to prominent Republicans laughing about it. Meanwhile, Biden got one day older every single day.
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The DC Jewish Museum shooter was a Stalinist. The guy who shot Scalise was on the left. The right has a far, far bigger problem with violence (as noted above) but the left isn't immune.
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Republicans never hold back in calling all Democrats evil and terrible, and they win elections.
Democrats always water down criticisms of Republicans, and they lose elections.
People in the middle hear all the criticisms of Ds by Rs and don't hear competing criticisms, so they listen to Rs.
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It's definitely not who we are; it's who they are
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This is on all of us? Does that include the victims and their families? Why are you blaming the left for the violence of the right? No problems will be solved until we correctly identify the problems. You haven't.
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Looks like 200 S Clark to 600 N Clark is still a mile. And the marches were all north of 200 S.
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How does that work? The distance between Lake and Van Buren is the same whether you're in the loop or to the west
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I mean, kinda...
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bsky.app/profile/wonk...
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That's him angling for the votes of people who would never ride the subway - regardless of safety - as long as there were "other" people on there
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The more we promote these stories by linking and clicking on them, the more they'll write
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And the media will barely cover it. The median voter will never know about all the chaos and damage.
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Let's say "Armed Forces" instead of Army
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Nope
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The answer:
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Where does this come from? What does he mean by "authorise"? Authorise the use of the weapons or the manufacture of the weapons?
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Nope - check out the school bus with the flashing lights and the stop sign extended. The camera angle doesn't capture it well, but most drivers absolutely would have stopped for the bus, as the law requires.
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Yeah, the video angle and the OP don't make it clear that the mistake was in not stopping when the school bus had the stop sign out. That was the real issue.
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I think you want to add "Republican" in there? At least I hope you do.