Jacques-Larry David

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A god walking among men for being relatively handsome and taking the subway.

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There’s a couple people I’d like to share this post with but I don’t want to have to explain the “anon” thing (and, more importantly, don’t want to reveal I *can* explain it)

Did you ever doubt, Anon?

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Heartwarming! Local French President gives his old high school teacher a long hug after hearing good news

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Did you ever doubt, Anon?

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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Life imitates art.

I would NOT draw conclusions bc this has become a structural issue with polling: there’s weirdly high response from old Democratic whites and young minority Republicans (an old pattern but especially bad now). This was also an issue in 2020 too iirc but not as bad (and Biden won anyway).

obviously someone could do a better job of analysis than this, perhaps by locating the correct question. but what that says is that old people are by far Joe’s strongest soldiers in swing states

Getting a start on being an old guy (watching a Lee Marvin movie)

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iPhone autocorrect and the bus don’t mix

Happy Fourth

Dad doesn’t like Challengers because he thinks it’s too much of an advertisement for Stanford

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I have never heard an entire city cheer before or since. It was an experience. Because they knew, they *remembered* what losing democracy was like. I will always vote like the Greeks voted that day.

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Every time I see these people, I think of the time I accidentally (courtesy of a flight diversion) found myself in Athens, Greece, on the day of their general election in 1987. I was 14 years old. The junta ruled from 1967 to 1974. The current democracy in Greece was *younger than me*

Land of Landseer

UK elections always bring good dogs

Dulwich dogs gather for traditional polling station pack photowww.bbc.com A group of dogs pose for their regular "pack" photo outside their owners' south London polling station.

Rookie mistake honoring Poseidon, he’ll just give you saltwater. Should have put a statue up of Athena instead.

Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this

Dog(?)

Interesting mention of how JFK was a big deal for Latino Democrats—it’s a small thing but I’m always a bit surprised to see a JFK portrait alongside the expected Catholic memorabilia in Robert Beltran’s character’s mother’s house in Night of the Comet.

For Latino Americans, the third Trump campaign cycle is no charm. My conversation with Julio Ricardo Varela: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/latinos-in...

Latinos In The 3rd Trump Cyclegoodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com I talk with Julio Ricardo Varela about the Presidential candidates, and the communities caught between them

One clarifying thing I saw on twitter is that this discourse is being driven by people who thought DeSantis would be the Republican nominee.

the fact that the same people pushing Biden to drop out immediately are also proposing shit that wouldn't fly on The West Wing makes me think we need a complete and total shutdown of the nation's op-ed pages until we can figure out what's going on

I’ve been trying to figure out the reason why the last few days have unnerved me to the core, well beyond Democratic anxiety. This clarified it for me: my dad has Lewy body dementia, and the term “dementia” is being thrown around ignorantly and maliciously. It’s not the stuff of savvy quips.

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Those of us whose families lived under at least 8 different authoritarian governments in 80 years, half of which transitioned at least partially towards democracy at some point (and some back again), can tell some tales bro

And for those of us who have only known authoritarianism’s succour through supine legislatures, & a pliant judiciary, what SCOTUS decision enables in US is a familiar experience. The West talks of history’s lessons. We can speak to lived experience, negotiated daily, of absolute power’s violence.

It’s also quite funny because nearly everyone participating in this discourse is giving off big “Julián Castro supporter” energy

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A lot of Irish people are from Ireland.

No truck nuts, but when I lived in Amsterdam I lived near a family with a Ford Raptor, which is a truck I’d never actually seen in the States

Just came back from an AI thing in Amsterdam and all I can think about looking at this is the dying-inside embarrassment of having to explain Truck Nutz to my European colleagues

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Ppl are retweeting this and I just want to add that faxing is THE most annoying thing to do to your representatives. There are websites where you can fax for a small fee and those machines are LOUD and then at the very least they have to deal with all the print outs.

Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.

As someone whose father has actual dementia I can say definitively that it’s *not* something that can be hidden by using a teleprompter. In fact he wouldn’t be able to use it as a speech aid at all.

This is the idiot whose pushed the 10-4 president story with background sources Just pure punditry and Obamaesque “teleprompter” shit

Now wondering why he felt the need to outright say, “This president is not abover the law”

watching RAMBO III (praise to the brave soldiers of the mujahideen) and reminded of my personal head-canon that every character kurtwood smith has ever played is simple clarence boddiker in a different universe

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It’s how you end up with situations like this - when rights aren’t explicit they can be taken away without process or debate, in the blink of an eye www.economist.com/china/2024/0...

Roxie, one of China’s few lesbian bars, closes its doorswww.economist.com Yet another sign that life is getting harder for gay people in the country

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The rule of law is good because it’s clear. A lack of rule of law is bad and you learn that when whatever you had been doing previously without incident all of the sudden becomes something unacceptable because of nebulous behind the scenes changes.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

Blatantly lifting from twitter (can’t remember his long-unusued @ on here)

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Obviously, because the revolutions of 1848 were meant to succeed. We've been in the bad timeline totally free from The World Spirit since then :(

something that i do think about with some regularity is that there is no way to tell if this actually is the bad timeline or not.