Tom Scocca

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Editor of Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.

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Also, like, the voting public

Obviously Ross Douthat doesn't want any Democrat to win but it's funny to see the guy whose No. 1 publishable opinion is that Americans need to have more babies pretend to go for the guy who blew up the child tax credit

Ah, right, Yoda, the old guy who shriveled up and died and left his shaky understudy to beat the evil Empire alone

Anne Applebaum here is arguing that 1. Trump is a senile gibbering idiot so therefore 2. the Democrats must distract the public from paying attention to him

Also a little more subtly “SEAL Team Six” is the framework here because it was the original shockingly funny hypothetical but none of this military law stuff applies if he just sends the Marshals to kill someone—which, again, he already bragged he did

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Setting the particular topic aside for a second, this is a truly spectacular case of the Times' pathologically incompetent "Where there's fire, there's smoke" theory of writing up high-stakes investigative stories

Look just get everybody together and have them agree on a new candidate, what could be so hard about that www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

Removing Joe Biden at the last minute doesn't magically transform a bunch of people who all said they'd vote for Joe Biden into an "open convention" www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

Mad Enough to Blog It™ www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

Who Elected the Times Editorial Board?www.indignity.net Indignity Vol. 4, No. 109

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Here's Fox News quoting the Wednesday statement (fourth paragraph): www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...

Yup

Wait, is that an actual quote from the ruling???

The New York Times Editorial Board: It's time for the Democrats to get together in a room and simply pick a good candidate that everyone can agree to support. Also the New York Times Editorial Board:

It's not like it was particularly hard to see this coming if you had any more brains or foresight than Nick Kristof www.indignity.net/indignity-vo...

Anyway if you subscribed to Indignity instead of the New York Times opinion section we had this covered in May 2023, back when there was still time to do something different www.indignity.net/indignity-vo...

INDIGNITY VOL. 3, NO. 80: Let go, Brandon.www.indignity.net PUNDITRY DEP'T.

Recap: 1. The Times runs a scandal piece on how Biden administration lobbied not to publish age guidelines for youth trans care, because those guidelines could be politically abused. 2. Pressed by the Times, the administration puts age limits on trans care much more severe than the guidelines.

The New York Times gets results! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/h...

Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minorswww.nytimes.com The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors.

For Air Mail, I read John Ganz's When the Clock Broke, a very currently resonant account of the unhinged early '90s airmail.news/issues/2024-...

LOL nope

Yeah, Hillary had a lot of liabilities that made people dislike her the more they remembered them. This doesn’t happen to every candidate. It happened to one candidate who was not a very good candidate and was surrounded by an insular circle of well-heeled nonces.

Just hanging this up as a backdrop to your arguments about which hypothetical candidates are obviously more popular than Biden or Harris

Anyway here's a debate report defector.com/debate-losers

Biden did a terrible job but this from Nicholas Kristof is embarrassingly dumb and dishonest—he brings up this woman he talked to BEFORE the debate to project his own panic about Biden's age onto what he IMAGINES her response would be, despite her having told him which issue she actually cares about

Starting a GoFundMe to buy Pamela Paul a subscription to the New York Times

Why do people tell me and my friends to shut up when we tell other people to shut up

It's genuinely deranged how smarmy pundits keep telling Joe Biden not to say the fake Republican-grievance version of what Clinton said, but to say the actual thing she did say www.indignity.net/worst-thing-...

Is this good

Don't judge us for hosting racists, we have no position on racism one way or the other

Wow / of course

blue sparkles apparently

Not to be confused with

Looks like they're up about 10 percent, inflation-adjusted?

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Looks like they're up about 10 percent, inflation-adjusted?

Oh, they're AMBASSADORS, right, ambassadors, the people who you famously have permission to kill

Seems like by Thomas' standard you can sell a plain old-fashioned machine gun as long as you add some kind of lawnmower-style kill switch to the grip, so you aren't JUST holding the trigger to make it go

Excellent strategy, fire should go out any minute now, throw a few more cans of hairspray on it to be sure

Seems bad