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Yinzer in Chicago

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every time I start to be swayed by the Biden-should-drop crowd, someone I absolutely despise and who I know to have terrible political instincts makes the case and I immediately get negatively polarized

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I'm old enough to remember a media that in 1992 treated the defining story of the whole RNC as being the terrifying extremism of Pat Buchanan, who was not the nominee or VP nominee but GHWB's defeated rival. And that was for a level of extremism that Trump or Vance tweet out before breakfast.

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I don't even know what to say. This gleeful cruelty is despicable. I have some faith that it is also disgusting to average, non-posting types. I mean, this is just really fucking gross.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

In fairness, the right-wing VCs like Thiel and Andreessen hate the big public tech companies because they want their smaller portfolio companies to grow instead. So yes, Vance wants to break up Google et al, but it's strictly for his backers' financial benefit.

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Hens Breet

Yeah, this confused me too. Probably why they were stupid enough to get caught.

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"Democrats cynically decided they wanted votes from illegals more than they want to protect our children." — Ted Cruz with one of the grossest, most dishonest attacks I've heard in a long time

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It is comically irresponsible how the news media claims Trump is a "changed man" and "somber" and "serene" and "adopting a new tone"

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Mike Johnson: "we are made in His image and because of that every single person has inestimable dignity and value*" *terms and conditions may apply

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I do think this is the best explanation for why local PD dragged their feet on the shooter. They also a white guy doing dumb shit on the roof and thought “he’s one of us.”

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Mad Bastard

This NFL erasure has got to stop

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Also simultaneously a hardliner. Converts are not real sorry.

I'm the equivalent of an anti-zionist jew but for catholics.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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Rachel LeCaffeinated

Ah yes, he WAS going to stay at Trump Tower in Chicago, but he canceled that after word got out. I don't know where he's staying now - looks like the Pfister in Milwaukee?

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Rachel LeCaffeinated

Oh you might be right, I was thinking you got your convention cities mixed up.

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it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

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Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

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Trump’s new VP nominee, in 2016.

So fun to look at this and realize Vance has consciously used his talents since then to move the dial towards the "American Hitler" direction. You certainly can't say he didn't know!

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Here’s the thing about the Vance pick: it’s probably unhelpful in electoral terms. But, in terms of governance, it’s further evidence that they’re Going For It. Trump 1 was hobbled in his authoritarian attempt by the admin and GOP. Trump 2 will be aided by both. They’re gonna go for it.

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Judges tearing up the Constitution so Big Tech can sell more AI lawyers 'Who cares if what AI says is gibberish or nonsensical? It's not like it matters to the judge, who's gonna do whatever they want anyway!'

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This is a good point. She could have waited until after the election, or after a jury is empaneled. It smacks a bit of mask-off triumphalism, a sort of HA WE ARE WINNING TRUMP 4EVER BITCHEZ, which may be an accurate perception of the drift of things, or not.

The only thing that surprises me about what Judge Cannon did is that she did it this soon, on grounds this likely to be overturned.

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D.M. Schmeyer

Great series of posts. Also, people not knowing Buster Douglas makes me feel ancient.

You mean Milwaukee?

Bethel Park is a well-off Pittsburgh suburb, not rural.

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

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anti-leafblower account

There are about two swing voters left in this country, and they'll forget this happened in a few weeks.

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Geoffrey

The Supreme Court helped with this meme

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Jonathan M. Katz

My brother lived in Butler, Pa., for a few years. Never has a Trumpier part of the country existed. It's wild that this happened there of all places.