Harvey Fliester

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Just a guy with nonsense opinions, go follow someone interesting instead.

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Republican president was shot by a Republican because of an environment of normalized violence that Republicans insist we all live in, and somehow this means that both sides need to tone it all the way down, which in practice means that Democrats and only Democratic need to stop talking entirely.

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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I keep seeing people on TikTok wanting to live in precedented times, when catastrophic historic events don’t happen every day. Biden needs to capture this energy: “You want to live in steady, boring times? You want mellow, chaos-free energy so you can get on with your life? Vote Chill Grandpa.”

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I doubt there is anyone left around Trump who has normal human thoughts.

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Do not obey in advance.

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Max Berger

Ah yes, but taking the other side at face value is just obviously the correct thing to do.

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Hot new Quiet New Deal chart just dropped

WHY THE QUIET NEW DEAL MUST GET LOUDER Joe Biden deserves credit for reducing administrative burdens. And politicians will likely abandon making government work if he doesn't get it.

This is why we cannot let the Quiet New Deal stay so quieti-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io If politicians don’t think they will get credit for reducing administrative burdens, they just won’t do it. What do 11 down-on-their-luck factories being retrofitted to build EVs have in comm...

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Project 2025 authors at the Heritage Foundation are already alleging the next election will be stolen, claiming any result other than a Trump victory in November will have been the result of fraud and will be challenged.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

One of these days showing demonstrably awful conservatives grace and forgiveness will pay off. Oh sure, it never has in the history of the country, but soon, soon. Biden being a part of that was the main reason I was sceptical of him in 2020.

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In this, Obama was a moron. Did all the previous versions of settings Rs off the hook lead to doing anything other than doubling down on awful? It was so damned obvious in real time.

I wonder if Trump being officially immune from crimes if he becomes President makes any future VP a bit more nervous about the whole trying to have the last VP hung thing.

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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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Charm City Slicker (58-38)

You could see the people knowing it was bullshit deciding in real time that going along with it was easier/better for their careers. Once I saw it there, I noticed it everywhere. A country where the people in power, the people with voices, are almost universally cowards.

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Central NJ Yimby

Amazing what we might be able to accomplish if 85% of local government time wasn't taken up by fights over a 2 lot subdivisions. It's just HOAs all the way down.

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And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏

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IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don't have to believe in everything, but I believe in that. From these are the words by Nikita Gill (Macmillan Children's Books, 2022)

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What if - and hear me out - from now on, we judge debate performance by the accuracy of the participants statements?

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“It is not just that my side — the ideas I believe in like bodily autonomy, economic justice and diversity — are losing in the marketplace of ideas. It is that many of the ideas that I believe in absolutely kill in the marketplace of ideas, and it *does not matter*.”

Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.

Biden's "as long as I tried my best" sums up the problem with the last 8 years. The people we elected to fix our fascism problem don't believe the danger is real. No matter how good his policies, this is what be remembered, a man who didn't understand the times.

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This photo is pure 2024.

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We used to live around the block from Elizabeth Warren, and I personally witnessed her giving out full-size candy bars on Halloween, I’m just saying

My wife and I ran into her and her husband when our daughter was a newborn, and she was really touched when my wife told her how she was glad to have a role model for our daughter representing us. My wife came away from the interaction an even bigger fan.

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For me it’s not that I’m either ok or not ok with Biden as a candidate it’s that my brain cannot rationalize that the media has so uniformly freaked out about him while remaining comparatively serene about all the other far worse stuff in the past two weeks.

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Sarmad Faiz on Instagram: "Perhaps one of the greatest ads ever. John Cena on patriotism and what makes America, America."www.instagram.com 7,536 likes, 881 comments - sarmadfaizesq on June 28, 2024: "Perhaps one of the greatest ads ever. John Cena on patriotism and what makes America, America.".

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Shocking scenes as a major G7 country votes decisively for the not completely shitty option

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So hey, I know one candidate is old, but has the other guy done anything lately, like promising to imprison or kill his opponents, hold politicized military tribunals, exile people for their skin color, deny them healthcare or the right to marry? Anything like that? Sure would be nice to know!

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the very few of trump's sentences that actually meant anything coherent were full on monstrous hitler shit and nobody cares

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It’s weird that US political journalists don’t seem to think the President Trump being accused of multiple sex crimes against minors is worth covering as much as Joe Biden being old, right?