John Q Public

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Finally banned from The Bad Place. Ram Ranch Resistance. Electoral Reform. Police Reform. Energy Reform. Slava Ukraïne!

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John Q Public

Is anyone paying fucking attention!? Democracy in crisis matters more than poll numbers. News outlets ignore the erosion of democratic norms and the impending disaster. Journalists need to listen to experts, not just cover politics as usual. This isn't about parties—it's about democracy itself.

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It is absolutely, 100% a mass hysteria event. A complete and all-consuming loss of perspective, because all of you get all of your ideas from these internet and media narratives and refuse to admit it

I said to someone else the other day, this is the most insane spasm of cowardice I have seen from Democrats in my lifetime and I lived through the Reagan years. It really is like a very specific group of people had a mass hysteria event or ate moldy wheat or got a bad batch of LSD.

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Lauren Persoff

Because 2-3 options means that whoever wins will need to endure weeks of costly campaigning on a last minute primary and receiving potentially devastating attacks and bad vibes from their own party immediately before entering the general against Trump. It’s suicide

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executive editor, barbell quarterly

I've never been much of a Biden fan and maybe I'm just being influenced by having had a lot of family that lived into their mid- and late-90s but the conventional wisdom in the media and on this site that he's cooked is pissing me off/radicalizing me/pushing me into Joeverdrive

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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Faine Greenwood

Or is that Warner is a very rich Senator and he's getting calls from very rich donors who are getting calls from the New York Times billionaire correspondent Teddy Schleifer and that's why they are all freaking out?

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whelp, guess the big interview didn't give them what they wanted since the goalposts have now moved to "can he win over crypto investors with inexplicable politics" www.cnbc.com/2024/07/06/b...

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In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

Project 2025

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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will

Because Dems like to freak out and engage in circular firing squads. Instead they should be saying “Yeah, he’s old. So what? He’s the most successful president in decades. 42 straight months of jobs growth. The other guy is also old, but also a demented psychopath felon rapist. I’ll take good old”

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I'm not watching the Stephanopoulos interview closely, but someone here has it on and he keeps asking what Biden thinks of articles that have been published in the last week. If I wanted to watch the press jack off, I know how to find porn online, thank you

WHY ?!

If Joe Biden is fit to run for office, why isn't my anxiety disorder cured?

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John Q Public

Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)

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It's as if our press just can't process a threat as grave as Trump. They no longer have the skills or backing from their top editors to grapple with such a grand-scale horror as the death of our democracy. So they've shrunk the issues down to a size they feel comfortable with: Shaming an old man.

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i swear to god. people will spend eight goddamn years complaining about how friendly the new york times is to donald trump and then just... keep accepting their framing. apparently forever. it's a provincial newspaper run by a sixth generation failson. have some self respect

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The rise of fascism today is fucking terrifying, and the role of right-wing Catholics and white evangelicals is one of the most disturbing parts. They actually think they can control these evil bastards to do good. Wake up! They're leading us straight to fucking disaster.💔👇

Has anyone heard from Steve Bannon on the Supreme Court immunity ruling yet? Oh.

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Brooke Binkowski

they wouldn't be doing all this sweaty shit if they thought the people were actually with them. it's a desparate attempt to overrule the will of the people and it does not, must not, work

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Once again, the SCOTUS regrets having caught the car on abortion. This time, to the extent that it has "ruled" anything at all in this case, it "rules" that it's a bad time to catch the abortion car again, so everyone should look away and allow them to say they didn't catch it after all.

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Micah

from an xkcd alt-text, xkcd.com/2399/ - there were more Trump voters in CA than TX, more Biden voters in TX than NY, more Trump voters in NY than OH, more Biden voters in OH than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than VT.

2020 Election Mapxkcd.com

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I think it needs to be said often and loudly, it’s NOT poor people fucking the world up right now.👇

Evergreen

It is indeed annoying to discuss something only to be lectured that it’s wrong to discuss it, which you are doing no less than I am. And it’s a tedious contradiction to complain about getting the very attention being sought. I accept and understand your explanation of their goal. And it’s stupid.

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A.R. Moxon

It frees them from seeking their livelihoods from people who believe they shouldn't even exist. Now I'm inviting you to find somebody who brings value to your life, and, if you can afford it, do a curious and wonderful thing. Pay them even if you don't have to.

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There’s a fake #Loblaws #NoName #advert that has popped up in downtown #Calgary and its accuracy has got #Canadians doing a double take. #letthemeatcake #peasants #galenwestonjr #westonfamily #oligarches #corporatedemagogues #greed #shareholders #happenedin1960 nowtoronto.com/news/fake-lo...

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This And the folks who were so proud of themselves about combo seasonal flu and covid campaigns…don’t understand seasonality

The people who said covid was going to become seasonal didn't have evidence to back it up, it was just a bunch of bullshit to pander to anti-maskers and make people feel better about doing nothing to stop covid.

Got a summer cold? It could be COVID. Here's why this virus isn't seasonal quite yet | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca While SARS-CoV-2 is now a familiar threat, the virus isn’t neatly seasonal. It still circulates year-round, humming in the background. And for the fifth year in a row, some scientists are bracing for the possibility of a small summer wave.

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I once thought defending the constitution against a fascist confederacy was a norm.

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No matter how ridiculous it all gets, we can take some joy and comfort knowing that this is the future for Alex Jones and Infowars.🤣👇