Horrified, Lydia

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Horrified, Lydia

@lfillingham.bsky.social

Former lit prof, lawyer. Close reading is my superpower. #PDX My gender is a work in progress🩶
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He put half a person in a coffin? That's worse than I thought.
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Man, it is really weird to not forgive a murderer
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It's anti FDR, which also tracks for The Economist.
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Why FDR had to minimize his disability while president. We haven't moved much.
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Did not think that, just wanted it to be correct.
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One of those is just wrong, it was in May, not this week. The rest were prepared speeches, some with teleprompter, and at none did he answer questions. He hasn't given interviews or answered questions (in public) since the debate. He will give his first interview to fucking Stephanopoulos on Friday.
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This is wrong, misinformation, it's from May.
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That made me laugh ol, not what I was expecting from the picture.
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I know you were talking about pundits, but I did immediately think of what I would put on a list, but a list is wrong. So I do understand bananapantz's urge. But they should make their own post at this point, hint, hint, without involving you.
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I will add, though this may be more controversial, I didn't like people making homophobic jokes about Trump and Putin. That also isn't the problem with Trump. Also when Dems feel completely free to make fat jokes about Trump. And don't want the right to do so taken away from them.
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Sometimes it seems like speakers choose the university, and the U can't turn them down, either bc of connections, or because the speaker is too good a get. The former guaranteed to bore everyone to death, the latter just likely to.
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And also, New York should really update the definition of rape. I don't want to get into the technicalities of that, but the current definition is extremely narrow.
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It seems like he reached out yesterday to leadership. But what was he doing from Thursday to Tuesday? He very much was not coming out punching.
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Well yeah, but we've all given up on that and diagnosed Trump as both a sociopath and a psychopath. I am worried about Biden's condition, particularly bc he hasn't come out swinging, but some scientisty person in the Atlantic, the Atlantic!, isn't going to tell me anything.
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Yeah, need to learn how long one personally needs to give something. And in depression all food tastes like gruel and whole days taste like gruel.
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Let me just note that shipping it would still be less than buying it new.
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What I have is an enormous failed shoe collection, which is more expensive than pillows. All collected during times when you couldn't return shoes you had worn outside, and your boundless optimism about the new shoes would definitely last until you wore them outside for a while.
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(Also there was some blame cast towards me for spending so much on shoes.)
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Not faintly surprised by it's cancellation, but I love this second season where I don't know if someone just said, the hell with it, I'm going with my vision; or if someone lost control of his vision and didn't know what to do, so threw everything in the pot. Also nod to Will Patton going full evil
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I'm not sure what you are trying to say. It's ridiculous to think she could become the candidate this time. Let her keep building a record, let her somehow progress. It doesn't make sense that she can never be president bc of one misstep. Biden has had bad gaffes throughout his career.
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In California Katie Porter was frustrated and complaining about a different kind of rigging where the Dem Party pretty much told her it officially wasn't her turn yet. She misspoke, but she simply isn't going to be suddenly the candidate for Pres, and after that we can all get over her gaffe.
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I got my coolest shoes in the 80s at Payless. I was a grad student, and the shoes' color was "pewter." Yes, they were incredibly cheaply made things that were a piece of flexible plastic attached to a white flat plastic sole, but I got many compliments on them, and danced the night away.
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Whoa, that's bananas! Like, he starts going off on Nazis and Communism and icky Psychoanalysis, and this is all tied to Pierre and Moby Dick, how? Because Emotions, baby!
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If Biden decides not to run again I'm theoretically for him stepping down, as it would smooth the path to Harris getting the nom, which is the only sane way out of this mess. But that's an incentive for an assassin to make Mike Johnson interim Pres.
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Ok, doomerism for you, but not for me.
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If Trump gets in it'll only be Congress who can save us, which does not make me feel better at all.
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Hearing that was a strike against him made me laugh, bc that is one of the perks of being president. I'd like to yell at Bibi, but I don't get the chance. (I still yell at him, but it would be better if he were present.)
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International smuggling, and then you realize it between us and Canada, such a let down. lol
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From his reaction to her, I believe this is a true story. Everyone is in that room with her.