John Dellaporta

If you every doubt the existence of patriotism in America, go to a citizenship swearing-in ceremony. Mine was in a courthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Wouldn't it be hilarious if Biden had done more appearances since the debate than Trump? www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Well looky there, 9 Biden to 6 Trump. 5 of the 6 are (presumably friendly) interviews. Two whole days with nothing. And this is as of yesterday.

Tracking Biden and Trump on the Campaign Trailwww.nytimes.com President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump’s rematch is testing their ability to make the traditional appearances on the trail that voters have come to expect.

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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.

1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...

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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1

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If I were an optimist I would say we are at the "villain confidently starts monologuing about the success of his evil plan before it is a success" phase. I got a call from my extremely normie mom scared about the SC ruling. It is possible the crowing about blood scares a lot of ordinary folks.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Oh 100%. If/when a replacement is named for the ticket, it will NOT be a fantasy casting. The entire deal will be “someone totally fine that the party likes”. Someone for the normies, not the wonks.

The only thing I'm confident in predicting is this: "Democrats should nominate someone who isn't Joe Biden" "No, no. Not like that!"

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Resist inevitability. It doesn't exist. It's an invention of people trying to convince you to shut up and go along so that they don't have to fight you, because fighting is hard and there's generally a very good possibility that they'll lose

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DOC JENSEN BACK

These Essential Lost Episodes Will Take You Back to the Islandwww.netflix.com All six seasons are now streaming, from the “Pilot” to “The End.”

It’s greatly ironic that the two major realizations of the past week are, “the most important part of the presidency is being good on TV” and “the president has the power to do literally anything he wants.”

I get the sense that your average person wants to vote for an asshole who will do what it takes to beat the other asshole, and then vote for a different asshole to replace the asshole who continues to act like the asshole they voted for.

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I beg you all, do whatever you have to, subscribe to whatever level of cringe you feel is necessary, to give yourself the sense this election is winnable. Because it needs to be.

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we don’t think it’s constitutional for a special prosecutor & all the trappings of a proper court system to look at very obvious crimes the former president committed but we do think it’s fine if you just had jsoc rendition him to gitmo

to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited

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In a weird way, SCOTUS did the Biden campaign a big favor, because everyone knows the stakes now and no one should give a flying fuck about whether Biden spaces out every now and then. The alternative has become unimaginably bad.

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Me: "Mr President, I'd like to give you a bribe and commit some treason together." President: "Hold on, lets move this conversation to the Oval Office and bring in some White House aids so we are sure all this gets immunity."

My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.

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Debate moderator Jiminy Glick: But if ‘TWERE the case that you were sovereign of a candy kingdom, would you be a benevolent monarch or a cruel tyrant? Trump: You’ve gotta be tough. You’ve gotta be tough with the candy people or they’ll laugh at you

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The thing about establishing standards ex ante is that they do not change in response to political whims. There is an irony to the fact that the Former President Donald Trump falls below the ethical standards to sell booze in New Jersey. I hope enough Americans vote against this moral menace.

NJ Does Not Renew Trump's Liquor Licenses At 2 Golf Clubs After Felony Convictionpatch.com The golf clubs are temporarily allowed to continue to serve alcohol until a final hearing on the renewals is held in July.

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the vvitch (2015)

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I actually appreciate how the NYTEB’s take revved the Discourse all the way up to “guys it’s literally insane that THIS was the event that finally made you call for a president to stop running”

NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

Enough “shoulds”, enough trying to game out other people or low-info or whatever: what would you like to see happen now?

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I think Trump using “Palestinian” as a slur should be clarifying to people who care about Palestinian lives. I don’t say this to excuse anything happening now, but because Trump put up a blaring siren with this that things *will* be worse for Palestinians if he wins.

Both the “black jobs” remark and using palestinian as a slur are hopefully clarifying as to actual Trump’s ideology and worldview, in contrast with the imaginary trump some people have built up in their heads as the memory of his administration has receded

Frankly seeing very little conversation of Trump’s comments PERIOD. We’ve priced in his insanity. He’s now “doing fine” by being insane.

it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter