Dan Festa

@danfesta.bsky.social

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I've been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out

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Shawn

Speaking of exposure to Philip Seymour Hoffman, in an early cut of the film there's a scene where he's sitting on a lawn chair and lifts his leg and his junk was accidentally fully visible on screen. It was quickly edited out, but some people out there saw the PSH nards cut of Twister.

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Nathaniel Rakich

They think Democratic makes us sound too noble or something.

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Dan of La Mancha

He could pull a Blago. Republicans have no problems whatsoever with utterly corrupt *former* Democrats!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

I’ve been saying for a while now the single best case for voting for Biden is to simply look at the people who fucking hate him the most; not just hate Democrats generally, but hate *him*. It’s a who’s who of the shittiest, most annoying people on the planet. That’s gotta count for something.

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The Big Marmot

Especially since the guy who did it doesn't seem to fit into their preconceived notions of who would try to.

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One Who Walks Among the Dead

He wants to run for President so bad but legally can't.

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Brendel

He knows that if your first impression of a person is them as an underling, that's how you'll always see them.

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Lexys🏳️‍⚧️

He didn't have that sweaty desperation for power most VP's exude because he already had it.

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Dan Festa

A great illustration of how class is just vibes is that only one major party ticket is entirely Ivy League alumni and it’s the one that yells about the elites selling you out

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Lars Maischak

Getting lost in the many weedy details of their hypocrisies doesn't work, but there is a ton of value in standing up and saying "this guy is completely full of shit" over and over.

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Karl Bode

These are people who, to a man, have never been in a fistfight before in their lives.

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Dan Festa

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Getaway Cat

Fully banking that everyone they need to win is already in “seeing what they want to see” mode.

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Dan Festa

it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel

I was born exactly one day after Usain Bolt was born, so I know all about drastically different outcomes originating from the same starting point.

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Dan Festa

"We know how Donald Trump thinks America should be united: by reelecting him and allowing him and his cronies to ransack the country’s institutions." I wrote about the depressing aftermath of the assassination attempt newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Nothing Has Changed: Trump Is Still Trumpnewrepublic.com After being shot at a rally on Saturday, Trump is a bigger threat to American democracy than ever before. Why aren’t Democrats acting like it?

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Brendel

Also, the job actually hasn’t been boring under Biden! *He’s* been boring (until recently) but history hasn’t stopped tweaking out since he took office.

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Michael

The keep assuming that when you lose, the thing to do is change course, since what you're doing isn't working; i.e. Republicans would choose to ditch Trump/MAGA since it didn't work. They didn't expect them to simply stick to the idea it *did* work and they were just unfairly cheated out of victory.

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Fuzzy Mike

It's fun to pretend to be the rebel fighting the status quo, especially when you are the status quo.

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Microplastics Sommelier

If you played a well-liked but frivolous character, you had to just let the character become your life, because it was understood that while people might want the character around they were never going to want you around.

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Drew Magary

World never stopped being crazy, sometimes it just makes it impossible not to notice.

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Dan Festa

Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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katie dzwierzynski

Finally deactivated at the other site. Was posting there less and less anyway. Just nah.

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Brendel

If it's because they literally did not think at all about the existence of ownership, it doesn't bother me *that* much, bc when you remind them of it they usually reply "oh yeah, fuck them too" so it's basically a wash. The freaks who actually cape for the owners on the other hand...

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Jake Yeston

It’s not just age or mutual respect. The left identifies Biden as their best chance to both win and govern effectively, and that didn’t happen by accident.

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Dan Festa

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ryan cooper

"It should be illegal not to like me" is the thought process of a four year old and the animating force of the entire conservative movement.

The funny thing is in certain circumstances they love it when people hate them, when they assume the people hating them are a weak minority that can’t disrupt their goals. They become unmoored when the number turns out to be way higher than they expected.

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Alan Sepinwall

A TV show without filler episodes is just a miniseries! There’s nothing wrong with miniseries but you just don’t have the same sort of relationship with them that you have with a television show.

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actioncookbook

I’ve come to the conclusion that if Biden stays in he needs to be omnipresent in the media from here to Election Day. Even if he’s flubbing lines every day. Because if he’s doing it everyday it stops being the story, it just becomes part of the landscape, the focus moves to other things.

If there’s any lesson to be learned from Trump it’s to just plow forward. The reason nothing sticks to him (in a career killing way) is because he just keeps going. The most important thing is to never go away.