Chris Dobbertean

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College hoops bracketology at SB Nation. Training developer/editor. Angry UF alum (broadcast/poli sci). I REALLY don't #sticktosports. You’ve been warned. He/him

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get home and turn on the TV to see Canada pulling some absolute nonsense

This has been one hell of a soccer game.

WYD Canada? 🇨🇦 ⚽️

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So is this part we repeat history almost a century later and start regarding the NYTimes as less of a “trusted news source” and more “a vital part of the fascist propaganda machine”?

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What's the penalty for a decade-long self-driving fraud that has killed multiple people?

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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So that's what Republicans are after: constitutional amendments to prohibit abortion.

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Joe Katz

the goal is and always has been the United States of Alabama, 1963

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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

If you take the White House tour, you get to see the control panel. It was the inspiration for the one in Inside Out! If you’re lucky, you might even catch POTUS adjusting the gas prices lever during your visit.

No, no, I have it on good authority that the president of the United States *personally* adjusts gas prices, inflation rates, and various global economic indicators every time he steps into the Oval Office.

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Look, I was there, he corrected himself quickly and fluidly. He does have a speech impediment: the issue at hand is his mental acuity, and if anything this showed me that he recognized a mistake and fixed it

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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil

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One thing rich people forget–or if they're heirs, never learned–is that life can deal you a bad hand & there's no option but to make the best of it & play it out anyway. Huge "I demand to speak to the manager" vibes here.

Assholes: "Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, plans to withhold donations to Democrats until Joe Biden drops out. Gideon Stein said he’s decided to pause planned donations of $3.5 million." www.cnbc.com/2024/07/04/d...

Disney heiress, wealthy Democratic donors say they won't finance the party until Joe Biden drops outwww.cnbc.com President Joe Biden faces a rebellion from wealthy Democratic donors after his debate performance against Donald Trump.

watching Dem-aligned elites (for lack of a better word) freak out because they realize they ultimately have little power to affect this outcome is amazing in a 42-car pileup kind of way. There are things we can affect, but most of us, incl. said elites, have no agency here.

Being a D.C. native and current resident gives me a lot of experience with other people over whom I have no control whatsoever determining political outcomes that affect me. This is very useful right now.

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Just want to be sure all the USMNT folks saw this:

In a scary world, the calamity of Fox Sports’ soccer coverage offers a strange calmwww.theguardian.com It’s a month-long feast of international football in the US, and Fox is still at the buffet, dribbling into the cheese platter

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I keep hearing people float Gavin Newsom — his ex-wife is Don Jr’s girlfriend, and if you don’t think she’d flood the zone with wild stories about him

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actually wild just to see how hard the legacy media has managed to radicalise how many people against them in the last 7 days , I genuinely do not remember anything like this

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Destroy these fuckers.

I would really hope publishing “voting is bad actually” ON THE FOURTH OF JULY would have SOME effect

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Mbappe out with ice on his nose

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You can't fool me, these are clearly AI generated.

These are the directors of Project 2025. Look at these pasty, pathetic, autographed-Bret-Easton-Ellis-first-edition, drunk-on-daddy’s-calvados little megachurch dillholes. TROUP? Stop it. Get the fuck out of here immediately.

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And at the very least, tell everyone you know to stop giving money to the New York Times, a newspaper run by elitist ghouls who want to kill us.

A. G. Sulzberger, New York Times publisher and chairman, is an evil enemy of democracy and the American people. Yank the fucking choke chain on this rabid cur.

He has a better successful launch rate than SpaceX at this point.

THE PASS TO RONALDO AND HE KICKS IT TO THE MOON

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SHOTS FIRED

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Me: Enjoy working on July 4 and Brexit, morons UK: Enjoy fascism and gun violence Me:

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Just like we STILL don’t know what exactly all of those Republican legislators were doing in Moscow on July 4, 2018.

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IT'S NOT THE NEW YORK TIMES JOB TO MAKE SURE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IS ELECTABLE. NO, SIR! IT'S THE NEW YORK TIMES JOB TO MAKE SURE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IS ELECTABLE!

I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.

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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.

Why in the hell did several media outlets here hire ex-Murdoch dirty tricks people to serve as editors at around the same time? 🤔

there is a literal Business Plot afoot to unseat the most pro labour president of our lifetimes(unless youre way older than me)

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Everyone watching any Bond movie: this is utterly unrealistic, no one would stand there and say exactly how they were going to do some awful thing, the Incredibles even made a joke about monologuing. Everyone experiencing reality: Oh. Oh, I see.