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The press wants Trump because he doesn't ignore them—this paragraph from CNN's own Jake Tapper.

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I have never seen a better example of the bored punditry pretending two ideas cannot exist in people’s heads at the same time than “biden is too old to run” and “I don’t care that biden is too old to run if that’s all you’re gonna offer me”

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This day in history. 1504. Bogdan III the One-Eyed became Voivode of Moldavia. I don't know what that is but I hope it works out for everyone.

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That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.

Black Americans demand to know what ‘Black jobs’ are after Trump debate commentwww.wate.com Black Americans are demanding to know what “Black jobs” are after former President Trump used the phrase in Thursday’s debate with President Biden in Atlanta. In response to the first 2…

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It’s weirdly reassuring that Black Twitter-style virality is still possible with the actual Twitter made deliberately as hostile to Black users as it’s ever been

That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.

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the man has an undeniable, once in a generation talent for utterly humiliating every single person stupid or greedy enough to try to do him a favor

Trump has repeated accurate news reporting as "fake news" and described journalists as "enemies of the people." Journalists he describes as fair might want to do some soul searching. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

Trump Hails CNN and ‘Very Professional’ Jake Tapper and Dana Bash: ‘They Treated Me Very Fairly’www.mediaite.com Former President Donald Trump praised CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for their moderation of Thursday's debate.

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ross douthat and bret stephens, for example, should have absolutely zero credibility with democratic party voters. none. they are not democrats, they have never been democrats, they have always been partisan republicans. if you want an *actual* nevertrumper, you read jennifer rubin.

a lot of these articles are via never-trump conservatives (who i respect even if i disagree with at times) that also sold us a couple wars on a credit card along with the belief that twitter was resemblant of normies in the 2020 election. so call me skeptical.

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What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you're doing right now

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It was a Gish gallop, a term coined by my former boss Eugenie Scott for a creationist tactic in debates. And in prepping Bill Nye to debate creationist Ken Ham, we came up with a counterstrategy: do your own Gish gallop back. Force Trump into the same corner.

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It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!

"CNN Defends Decision to Not Do a Journalism"

Gish gallop - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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it really fucking bothers me that this collective hysteria has me defending joe fucking biden

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So who’s “us”?

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Michael Tae Sweeney

The other debates in my lifetime that were like this were the Trump-Hillary debates, where Hillary ran circles around him performance-wise but made little impact, while Trump was doing the work of hammering home his important campaign themes and catchphrases.

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While pundits were watching based on the "Can Biden speak clearly" frame they had established as the most important storyline, swing voters were listening to what the candidates were saying:

Each person is given a dial. You can turn it up as high as 100. If you love what you are hearing, turn it down as low as zero if you hate what you are hearing, and every time Trump opened his mouth, those dials dropped, they just absolutely plummeted.. www.politicususa.com/2024/06/30/t...

Trump’s Debate Numbers Plummeted With Swing Voters Every Time He Opened His Mouthwww.politicususa.com While the media is obsessing over Biden’s age, more data is emerging about just how terrible Donald Trump’s debate performance was.

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It's Thinkpieceover

Joe Biden’s family is encouraging the president to stay in the 2024 race and keep fighting, offering him their “unequivocal support” during a family gathering at Camp David on Sunday, according to two Biden advisers.

Biden’s family encourages him to stay in the race during Camp David gathering | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Joe Biden’s family is encouraging the president to stay in the 2024 race and keep fighting, offering him their “unequivocal support” during a family gathering at Camp David on Sunday, according to two...

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Thomas Zimmer

I wrote about a this particular camp of prominent leftwing academics who are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right and on politics in general: thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-anti-l...

The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problemthomaszimmer.substack.com Prominent leftwing intellectuals are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right

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There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.

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Nicholas Grossman

Biden's age is just a stand-in for whatever criticism would be lobbed against another Dem. Making them younger would only shift the issue. I was just thinking earlier today how Dems ran a veteran in 2004 while war was the main issue, and the GOP successfully smeared him *for winning war medals*.

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Big hat tip to @jbouie.bsky.social for treating uncertainties as uncertain, with both downside and upside potential, rather than what many pundits are doing: imagine a positive scenario and act as if things will smoothly go that way if only people try it. Doesn't seem like a high bar. And yet...

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K. Chen

Shit I forgot I'm apparently supposed to tell @proptermalone.bsky.social before doing violence on the feed.

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Your regular reminder that the only politics poster you have heard of, professional or otherwise, who has had the wherewithal to actually run for office is Will Stancil

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remember when he was in walter reed with covid and they showed pics of him “working” and he was just writing his name real big with a sharpie on a blank piece of paper

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One of the funny things with pundits being alarmed about Biden being old and not making decisions is that it implicitly suggests that when Trump was president he was looking over dossiers and intelligence briefings and not just watching old episodes of Baywatch

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Asawin Suebsaeng

Reality tv ass president. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-approv...

Trump Approved Iran Strikes Knowing Body Count Would Be Highwww.thedailybeast.com Trump said he called off an attack on Iran when a general told him minutes before that 150 people could die. But Trump was informed of the death toll earlier—and okayed the strike.

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This is damning with faint praise but With his current brain, Biden would still be able to figure out on his own that bombing Iran is a Bad thing to consider, whereas Trump, with his Brain, often had trouble getting to the end of that very easy SAT question.

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I’ll say this as generally as possible: those of us with speech impediments/difficulties are seeing a whole lotta people this week and won’t be forgetting it.

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Bolivia’s president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity

Bolivia’s president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularitywww.theguardian.com Opponents say abortive raid on palace by angry ex-army chief was a stunt to bolster support

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So who’s “us”?

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the truth is a tremendous number of powerful people have been extremely careless with that power for a very long time in regards to the threat posed by donald trump specifically and the revanchist right generally. and they are *just now* realizing the problem several years late and panicking

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond

Biden's favorables within the Dem party are the same as Obama's was in 2012. These pundits are really just mad at the Dem base for chosing Biden again, but don't have the fortitude to just say that.