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@davidjorgonson.bsky.social

In the southern USA.
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Posting about world events and resist lib stuff, mostly
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He's thinking about how many registered Republican gun owners are in the room
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He's concealing that it healed instantly and miraculously, proving him the Antichrist
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Once again, this vessel was carrying Russian oil. Either the Houthis are really mad at Putin or the US Navy is not protecting those ships
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Those policies are to be enforced on other people
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Congress should offer the SC a deal: say the terms are constitutional, and we won't relocate you to a Guano Island
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Politicians sometimes get sympathy. Reagan got more popular for a few months after he was shot. So I think this does reflect Trump's unusual unpopularity
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This is not really unusual for huge events, though. No one PD has enough personnel. They call it "mutual aid" ironically enough
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It seems extra strange for Fuentes to make this kind of attack when he's Hispanic and possibly gay. Am I wrong?
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👀 "President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code" * CeCe Peniston voice * 🎵 finally 🎵 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.
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1. There is polling, which shows no big change 2. Why are you believing, and intensely reacting to, these articles?
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Taking bets (payable in gold bars) as to how long it takes for the Supreme Court to overturn this
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez convicted of taking bribes paid in gold and a luxury car. Verdict still being read at corruption trial.
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Callers could discourage that behavior while encouraging private persuasion
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That is the question but there's no way to know
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Everyone is denying some polls now because the results are conflicting. Either lots of Trump voters want a Democratic Senate (even though the Trumpiest Senate candidates do worse) Or polling has a serious problem
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I guess people could call their Congresspeople to ask them to privately speak to Biden. No harm to it, at least.
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Yes, Congressional Dems can speak to Biden directly to try to persuade him. The public waffling does nothing constructive
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I don't think the trolls are mad at the right wing at all, or they wouldn't be acting like this. For some people from solid blue areas, Republicans may not be fully real to them. For horseshoe tankies and campists, they may prefer authoritarians, even right authoritarians, to democracy.
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How many gods does Monsignor Douthat believe in? I fear for his immortal soul.
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To be clear, it was only the tweet that was wrong. The website headline always said "defended"
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"look at all those help wanted signs! we need forced labor"
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Reminds me of the bit in Burmese Days where the less racist British colonial admin starts calling Indians "our Aryan brothers"
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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.
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This isn't a book to get 'hillbillies' to support you, of course. It's part of a vibrant lower middle class tradition of shitting on your impoverished relations to make yourself feel better, and then shitting on them even more once you're around rich people who want an excuse to cut SNAP benefits
"Vance raises questions about the responsibility of his family and people for their misfortune. Vance blames hillbilly culture and its supposed encouragement of social rot." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbil...
Hillbilly Elegy - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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The neo reactionary weirdness has hurt with middle voters. It's just that Republicans have counterbalancing advantages. And there are stabilizing effects. And "moderate for electability" arguments don't work inside the GOP, after Reagan's landslides.
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Imagine if Bernie had won landslides in 2016 and 2020. How well would moderates' electability arguments work in Dem primaries?
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