Luke Garrett

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i sue corporations for poisoning people.
former PD.
iowa expat in seattle, more or less.
re the photo: not a furry (not cool enough).
he/him.

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This is going to conflict with Democratic leadership’s MO of “don’t try.”

Do not obey in advance.

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“In the name of unity, stop taking issue with Jan. 6” is “when you say it’s wrong that I hit you, you’re tearing this family apart” on a national scale.

This *feels* true to me--and I want it to be true--but I have no idea if it is.

This is something that I think the favorability polling misses. People dislike Biden in a general way, but they really hate Trump in a way that they actively do not wish him well. The number doesn't catch the depth of the feeling, and that matters in an election like this.

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most extremely online people assume the marginal swing voter is someone like them except a little more moderate when the actual marginal swing voter is "guy who's mad at the president because he thinks the president appoints the commissioner of major league baseball"

I think a big mistake liberals make is constantly making up an imagined "normal voter" in their heads to triangulate their opinions around. NO! What do YOU THINK? What do THE PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY KNOW BELIEVE?

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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This is written like an exaggeration to make a point but it is actually just a clearly worded statement of the mainstream GOP position

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The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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the 80s had a high density of celebrities whose authenticity was hard to figure out, as a kid. like, was Mr. T a real guy? he was like that in shows/movies but also in interviews? or pee wee, elvira, max headroom, various wrestlers. even alf was on celebrity squares. it was a confusing time.

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woman in a parenting group I’m in just said the theme of her one-year-old’s birthday party is “animal farm” and I know she doesnt mean the book but imagine if she did

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AOC is right.

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I’m wishing people understood that calling the police — especially for someone having a crisis — risks death.

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I oppose this worldview—this theory of America—with every fiber of my being.

Has anyone checked to see what flag Martha Ann Alito is going with these days?

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And this is how fascism wins. It convinces moderates to stop using the correct language to name what our enemy is and make no mistake. Trump and the Republicans are a fascist anti-democratic enemy to every real American who believes in the Constitution and rule of law. Do not stay silent.

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This is how you do it.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

Damn it, this is right. The replace Biden mess is just more of Dems being afraid of trying to move opinion.

The case against Biden increasingly isn’t “he’s senile” or “he’s old” or “he can’t do the job.” It’s just “he’s behind in the polls.” Dems are unwilling to try to win an election rather than predict its outcome, so faced with bad polls, they think the solution is give up and change horses.

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Again, qualified immunity is one of those things that if you describe it to someone who has never heard of it in simple factual terms they will think you are entirely full of shit

are you fucking kidding me

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Your move, Hemingway

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PEOPLE WHO JUST SPENT TWO WEEKS SETTING JOE BIDEN ON FIRE: Looks like setting him on fire was an error. However, he probably can’t survive the fact he’s on fire

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No one is infallible but I think AOC has shown with some regularity that her political instincts are sharp as hell

idk what the right thing to do is but it's pretty telling to me that the people in politics who I respect like AOC and Bernie are saying "we gotta make sure the leaky rowboat doesn't sink" and the people drilling holes in the bottom are like, Scott Peters

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This is the thing, and I think some of it comes from a disastrously wrong presumption that Biden’s performance, even in 2020, represents a floor that somebody, anybody else could only improve upon, probably hugely.

If there was someone on deck who could swoop in and knock out Trump, we'd all know exactly who it was without anyone having to say

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most successful progressive president of my lifetime being eaten alive by terrified centrist lemmings in the party because he dared defy the New York Times will be something I will never forgive or forget tbh

The seems more plausible than it should.

Eh, the first part of Friedman's post is relevant Just need 1 Texas voter to claim they voted Biden and are being disenfranchised by picking someone who didn't get the most delegates Kacsmaryk enters nationwide injunction. Fifth Circus affirms. Weeks of time wasted waiting for SCOTUS to undo it

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I don’t like to use this word when discussing American politics, but these people are evil.

"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.

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