Most Excellent Theophilus

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Just remembered when one of the guys running for president actually was president and Congress had to quietly take him out of the chain of military command. Maybe worth mentioning why in an ad or something

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

this whole situation should remind us that undecided voters are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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OK: Biden’s not stepping down. Like it or not, good idea or bad idea, not happening. From here on out, you can either complain about it like a loser, or help him defeat fascism. Time to decide.

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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see

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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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One President ended the Afghan War and limited drone strikes. The other: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/s...

Trump Advisers Call for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing if He Is Electedwww.nytimes.com A former national security adviser says Washington “must test new nuclear weapons for reliability and safety in the real world,” while critics say the move could incite a global arms race that heighte...

He's got a "Fuck Kamala" sticker. sorry this is just more evidence that she's the only other option

long island, baby

Say what you will about Madeleine Albright, but she had a pretty good line about this kind of woman

i think of some y'all are being entirely too naive about the type of coverage harris would get

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of good people here worth fighting for, and that’s what I’m going to hold onto regardless of what happens in November and those people are worth celebrating

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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabiaapnews.com The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.

ah fuk

ok he’s toast

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Greg Pak

NO KINGS. That's the bare minimum these days. NO KINGS. NO KINGS. NO KINGS.

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Corey Rayburn Yung

ngl sure is a weird history reversal that the UK chose July 4 of all days to throw off the yolk of their entitled and incompetent government, and over in the US the NYT and supreme court have spent the past week deciding that presidents are kings and voting is bad actually

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I don't think Confederate monuments belong anywhere, let alone at Gettysburg This is what happens when sites/monuments/holidays/names are decontextualized

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problemwww.nytimes.com The site of the battle is hallowed ground, but it is littered with Confederate propaganda.

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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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I SAW JOE BIDEN BEING OLD, what a fucking brilliant revelation, did that take you 3 or 5 minutes to come up with? “i would walk through hell to vote for the corpse of joe biden before ever voting for trump” is the base dem voter, maybe at least talk to a couple of them before you fucking kneel

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

if you say his name without including all this other shit you're a sucker

Would-be king, felon, rapist, fascist, and friend of Jeffery Epstein, Donald Trump, is the Republican Nominee for President.

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I am ride or die for pee tape trutherism

I happen to still believe the pee tapes are real

ohh but Biden old Biden old Biden old saith A. G. Sulzberger

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Trump went on social media and published a literal list of enemies he's going to imprison after he wins.

Meanwhile, at the top of AP News apnews.com/article/pres...

Biden vows to keep running as signs point to rapidly eroding support for him on Capitol Hillapnews.com President Joe Biden is vowing to keep running for reelection as he rejects pressure from within his Democratic Party to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readin...

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if you, like me, are tired of All The Bullshit, may I suggest repeatedly picking heavy things up and putting them down again

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings 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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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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every time we get news abt clarence thomas being deeply unserious i think about him lying for years about his sister being a welfare queen who was indoctrinating her children into welfare dependency and the entire time she was working two jobs and her kids were either employed or still in school

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Paul Krugman

Finally, for those concerned inflation might get entrenched in expectations, the Atlanta Fed’s measure of business expectations is also within spitting distance of 2 percent. Hard to see anything here that justifies concerns about “sticky” inflation or a difficult “last mile” 3/

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Underlying inflation is also low. I like the New York Fed’s measure, in large part because it’s an algorithm that doesn’t involve judgement calls and hence possible motivated reasoning. It’s within spitting distance of the 2 percent target 2/