Emma Roller

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laugh hard, it's a long ways to the bank

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"What the hell? I’m blowing up!"

Kamala Harris Freaked Out After Seeing Her LinkedIn Profile Got Over 30 Views This Weekwww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Her heart racing as she stared at the page, Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly freaked out Wednesday after seeing her LinkedIn profile had received more than 30 views this week. “What ...

Monday: The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel runs a puff piece about Columbus police "dialogue team" in town for the RNC www.jsonline.com/story/news/l... Tuesday: Five Columbus cops in town for the RNC shoot and kill a Black homeless man www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

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Solidarity with the Teamsters social media manager, who clearly is a person who stands for the working class

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The very racism that would enable a situation where 5 Ohio cops on bicycles shoot to kill a homeless black man in MLK Park a mile outside the soft zone of the convention area.

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This is speculation on my part, but rooted in some regional/state knowledge but the WI GOP’s contempt and hatred for Milwaukee really feels like an underlying principle in these choices. And that contempt for Milwaukee is absolutely undergirded by anti black racism-

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RNC sponsors Starbucks & GM: “we support fascists for the tax cuts and union busting.” wtmj.com/wp-content/u...

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IMO Republicans do this too (Joe Six Pack). the whole idea of calling other voters "normie". There are no normal people. Everyone is weird.

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Bartenders, Uber drivers, servers, and strippers in Milwaukee have confirmed one consistent, clear fact for me — RNC visitors don't tip

god damn it www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...

Officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com An out-of-town police officer shot and killed an individual early Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee, according to two law enforcement sources.

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Dumbass. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

You Patsywww.hamiltonnolan.com We don't have time for this bullshit.

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I call this the universal pundit syndrome. An inability to say "this is what i think" and an insistence on asserting "i think this would resonate." I think it is part of the general alienation/loss of self that comes from mass media and social media in particular.

I think a big mistake liberals make is constantly making up an imagined "normal voter" in their heads to triangulate their opinions around. NO! What do YOU THINK? What do THE PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY KNOW BELIEVE?

this is all valid! it's also why in my personal experience, canvassing and getting to know my neighbors has been the best antidote to political despair.

The ideal American day you seamlessly transition from your isolated exurban home to your soundproofed automobile where you see no human faces on your long commute to your in person but still completely isolated job in the Microsoft teams mines, stopping only to use a self checkout otw home

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The imagined “normal voter” is always more conservative than them too. Seems like a cognitive dissonance to rationalize the conservative values they’re ashamed to admit they hold.

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This! All the time. Senator Schumer even gave a name to his imaginary people.

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I think this, from 2007, is the first mention of The Baileys.

Imaginary Friendswww.newyorker.com Chuck Schumer’s imaginary middle-class couple

yes! Alex Pareene wrote about this in 2018 www.splinter.com/chuck-schume...

Isn't this famously literally what Chuck Schumer has long done? I think he has a name for the imaginary Long Island couple in his head.

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I really feel this. Some folks spend entirely too much time justifying their knee jerk reactions based on how they imagine some guy in an Ohio diner would respond.

NPR "sample size" mentality is a huge part of this problem! It forfeits ground prematurely!! hearing from some random dipshit in Dayton is not the same as canvassing your community!!!

The people I actually know is a ridiculously small sample size. When I listen to, say NPR, and hear the opinions of ~moderately~ informed quasi-centrist voters, it's eye-opening. Extrapolating and triangulating from there to where a "normal voter" might be, I feel despair.

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I'd say knocking a lot of doors canvassing here in VA over the past 20 or so years cured me of this. Huge variation in what's on people's minds, but most people think of politics very very little and also often have very weird ideas of how politics connects to their life.

What if you held beliefs because you, I don't know, believe them?

That gets you into dangerous territory because you're making decisions based on the poll of you, me, and everyone we know.

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Somehow that voter is Joe Scarborough every time

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Thinking fondly of all the liberals who gave Hillbilly Elegy glowing reviews and otherwise legitimized someone who was always very clearly a reactionary shapeshifter

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the Constitution now effectively reads, in its entirety: "Donald Trump Is America's Special Boy and Can Do No Wrong"

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

praying for my city this week

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So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Osita nails it as usual www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Democrats don’t just need a new candidate. They need a reckoning | Osita Nwanevuwww.theguardian.com Democrats will be impotent messengers on democracy as long as they remain beholden to the feudal culture this crisis has exposed

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Every big media organization was so crossed-up by Trump winning in 2016 that they have been behaving and hiring as if Long Island-Coded Suburbo-Racist Sociopathy was on an unstoppable ascent worldwide, and interpreting everything backwards from there. It turns out most people actually hate it!

Honestly, what kind of bananas frame this story like this? Is shit serious or not, fucken freaks?