Christopher Lamb

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Interested in many things, but among them sci-fi/fantasy and tabletop RPGs.

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Read The NY Times this morning and I guess Trump has already won? “Republicans took a victory lap.” Lots still about how Biden can’t win. It’s apparently over already. I foolishly thought there was going to be an actual election where people voted.

My 11 year old is listening to Biden speak. “He sounds really wise.”

The Washington Post has a graphic showing how close the shooter was and although I’m hardly an expert it looks like a baffling failure by the Secret Service. He was on top of the nearest building maybe a football field and a half away.

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Times lensman extraordinaire Doug Mills appears to have captured the very second a bullet grazed Trump -- www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Update from Maggie Habermanwww.nytimes.com

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That Press Conference? Trump Could Never Match Biden's Performancewww.nationalmemo.com The question is so, so obvious: Can you imagine Donald Trump giving that news conference?Okay, early on, President Biden had one of his patented slip-ups, calling Vice President Harris “Vice President...

Watching Biden’s press conference and he’s answering these questions way better than I could and I’m 30 years younger. People see what they want to see though.

I read this far in this NY Times article and decided I don’t want to know any more.

Black people — and especially black women — are the heart of the Democratic Party and maybe some certain others, instead of panicking, should listen to them. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/u...

After Propelling Biden in 2020, Black Women Aren’t Eager to Abandon Him Nowwww.nytimes.com Leaders of the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc have expressed frustration with the calls for President Biden to step aside, mindful of undermining Vice President Kamala Harris.

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They've done this with crime in the past, too. They'll go wall-to-wall with coverage of "concerns" people have to create issue salience where none existed, then report on the fact that people are talking about the story they've been hammering for weeks as if they had nothing to do with it

It's not that the Times just now suddenly decided to take a nosedive, its coverage of trans youth, of the confected "plagiarism scandal" at Harvard, and of the protests at Columbia have all been deeply embarrassing

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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

Could there be something different in the way the media — let’s say this very paper — treats and runs stories about these two candidates that explains much of these differences? No, don’t be silly. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/u...

Varying Treatment of Biden and Trump Puts Their Parties in Stark Reliefwww.nytimes.com Republicans and Democrats live in radically different universes, interpreting the same set of facts through radically different lenses.

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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

“There’s good reason to believe that Democrats will become more distrustful of the Supreme Court as legitimately serving its role as a guardrail of democracy.” Who could trust those corrupt, arrogant judges at this point? If you think they are guarding democracy you are an idiot.

Has the Supreme Court just set the stage for more political violence?www.motherjones.com When people can’t trust the courts, they often support taking matters into their own hands.

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ICYMI, I wrote about the terrible trap the Republicans have set up for this country. itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

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"Amidst all the tearing of garments and vultures circling, the fact is that we’re still pretty much where we were pre-debate. There are two questions: Is Biden fit to serve? And, would Democrats benefit by forcing him off the ticket? The answers remain 'he is' and 'probably not.'"

The pundit class needs to get a gripwww.publicnotice.co Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.

Heard on NPR that Pelosi suggested Biden do a series of non-scripted interviews with major journalists to, basically, show he’s still got it. I don’t think that’s a bad idea. I would find that reassuring and it might shut some people up. And if he really can’t handle it that would be good to know.

That we are just hearing this now — and not, say, during the primary — makes me wonder how true this is. Could it be people who want Biden to drop out seizing on the momentum after the debate to try to pressure him? Or is it a real concern? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...

Biden’s Lapses Are Increasingly Common, According to Some of Those in the Roomwww.nytimes.com People who have spent time with President Biden over the last few months or so said the lapses appear to have grown more frequent, more pronounced and, after Thursday’s debate, more worrisome.

I suspect that one reason this decision took so long — besides the simple reason that any delay helps Trump — is it took them that long to think up a standard that would let Republican presidents do anything and Democrats nothing. But they did it! Official acts!

This is poor reporting. First sentence: "In its immunity decision Monday, the Supreme Court emphasized the long-cherished ideal that no one in America is above the law, not even the president." But really they did the opposite. wapo.st/3W6klak

Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling poses risk for democracy, experts saywapo.st The decision raised fears that a future president will be able to act with impunity because official acts have been deemed off limits from prosecution.

In the past few days we’ve seen a Supreme Court eager to abandon all history and precedent to stop all govt regulation and empower Trump as a dictator. Instead of confronting that people are imagining replacing Biden with an imaginary savior that does not exist. It’s hard to keep up hope.

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

At the pool and a stranger by me just said to someone “it’s like a Frankenstein at this point” and it was all I could do not to say “actually, Frankenstein was the name of the doctor.” But I managed. Barely.

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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

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Oddly, the ed board says Biden is doing a good job as President, and doesn’t suggest he leave that office.

NY Times editorial board calls on the President to drop out of the race: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

I wish I could be paid what NY Times opinion writers are paid to write about something I don’t understand in the least. Except Jamelle Bouie who has more sense than all the rest of them combined. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...

Opinion | ‘Is It Too Late?’ Four Writers on What Democrats Should Do About Biden.www.nytimes.com None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.

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if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary

This is the stupidest take I’ve ever seen. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

The headline in The NY Times is not about the debate. It’s about Democrats panicking over the debate. If they’d just shut their mouths and not act like idiots there’d be no headline. Yes, he’s old. Too old. But there’s nothing to be done about it now. He’s what we’ve got. Don’t make it worse.

Bought a cat tree for my cat. I can’t put it together because when the box arrived he jumped on it, went to sleep on top of it, and hasn’t moved.