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Also "I didn't make up these quotes it was the chatbot I had write the book for me that did" might be the worst possible excuse he could have come up with.

I'm seeing a lot of "Stephen Colbert was the greatest voice of our generation" types of commentary, and this bothers me partially because A) it's a dopey claim to make, and B) it's actually worse that this fascist White House is also shutting down milquetoast nice guys who aren't remotely a threat.

I believe Sun Tzu wrote "if the most unflattering pic of your enemy that you can find still makes her look like an absolute smoke show, one must find a different battlefield"

My working theory used to be that Katie Miller was just some woman who was attracted to power and has had to live with her choices, but I'm starting to think she's every but as terrible a human being as her husband and also a wee bit mentally unhinged.

we live in hell

There may be a story here, but it would be just like literally anyone in this administration to think, "I haven't heard anything about Morris Day in years, so that means he'l never know we're announcing that he's agreed to perform." www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

Do you think he knows what a cognitive test means? It doesn’t seem like he does and maybe no one is brave enough to explain it to him

I am so fast that I can catch a dragon.

if i could get the mob of raccoons who play cards in my shed to recognize me as their consiglieri, its over for you hoes

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For a long time in the Manosphere there's been a shared ethos that if you are a straight man, and a women you are having sex with enjoys it or feels any kind of pleasure, then you have failed and are not manly. The grocery store tweet is another version of that sex thing.

It's weird how corrupt bigots hiding behind Christianity like Paxton are never "false counselors," only Christians who preach acceptance of LGBTQ people.

I could not imagine admitting that I, a Man, was unable to navigate a grocery store to feed myself snd my family. Dude is either doing a bit, or has no sense of shame Or embarassment.

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

Also, to the extent Side Hobby believes anything, he does not believe that James Talarico is a worse person that Ken Paxton.

Anti-anti-trump reminds me of anti-antifa: people so ashamed of what they are for that they use double negatives to elide their support.

This National Review writer is the epitome of a certain type: the anti-anti-Trump figure. Someone who claims to be anti-Trump, but in every election for the last 10 years finds some rationale to oppose the candidate running against Trumpism. Never willing to put morality above his partisanship.

The whole pretending any liberal who's popular is super weird * bigoted, but more than that it's a premise that falls apart the moment you take a second to think about it. Like, other than "hey look, everyone likes this trans person more than me," I'm not sure what my take away is supposed to be.

“Is trump racist” is an actual debate people have

New York Democrats have introduced a bill to tax 100% of all funds any New Yorker receives from Trump's January 6th slush fund.

I’m not saying this is definitely or even probably going to happen. I’m just saying that if Paxton gets beaten by Talarico, the TX GOP response will likely NOT be to nominate more reasonable candidates, but to instead go ever deeper into the fever swamp.

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but not in an antisemitic way

There are layers to how stupid this is, of course. But the one that stands out to me: Monday wasn't a holiday for anyone else

For now, with the student age population crashing, there isn’t much ability for universities to pass tuition increases onto students We are seeing dozens of colleges close their doors

I completely agree with Kate here, regarding why people feel Bad about the Economy:

It's crazy to me that people are focused on the number or years and not the cost per year.

When your dog has a sense of humor. 😆

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Okay, a couple of quick things. 1. I use 3 hardware stores, none of them lock up drills; no idea if his story is city specific or just made up. 2. It seems like every grievance I hear from these people is some piddly little thing that happened to them personally that they simply cannot let go.

Hats off to Trump. Biden's theory was that you could spur EV takeup by giving people money. Trump is going to do it by taking their money.

Who wants a peace process that doesn't involve a lot of boats and building going boom? That's boring, low energy stuff.

Could... could I do this?

There are certain people you don't have to take seriously. Those that claim Obama was no better than Trump are such people. You don't have to engage.

I think actually this is the wrong way to look at this, imo what's disqualifying for Spanberger isn't so much the vetoes themselves but that she's unable to manage the legislature in such a way that these mostly technical disputes aren't resolved before a bill hits her desk

lol fact that Obama installing some hoops and having some entertainers over is seen as an equivalent is a hilarious demonstration of the racism in respectability,

I'm taking a news and social media break for about two weeks. I've done this each year around this time since 2020, and it's been good for my mental health. If anything especially big happens, someone will tell me, but otherwise, I'm checking out for a bit. All the best, and see you when I get back.

And the framing needs to be smarter: “We just found four billion more that the Trump boys stole!”

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What takes this from funny to hilarious is that Luntz is actually making fun of the reporting of Scott Jennings, the supposedly respectable journalist who said this, only with a lot more words to disguise the bullshit.

I mean he's not wrong about the exact opposite part.

The Rule of Hussein is still batting 1.000 (The Rule of Hussein == anytime someone refers to Barack Obama by his middle name, you can safely ignore everything that follows.)

I'm wholly in support of that. I focus on these two because without these you can't reverse anything. It's the same with all the critical policy issues.

Hard to bring the people back to life too

I wonder if @joshtpm.bsky.social would consider adding a"pledge to reverse all of the corrupt acts" to his really insightful list of things we should get Democrats to commit to going forward (court reform, filibuster, etc.).

One troubling aspect of the unique way in which Trump is corrupt is that a lot of what he is doing simply won't be reversible after he is out of office. And a lot of what is technically possible won't be easy (ballroom, arch, airport names, forced media hires/fires, crypto scam enabling, etc).