Eric

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Political junkie, hobbyist programmer, and accountant by day still ploting my escape.

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HOTD combines my two favorite things about the original Game of Thrones: political intrigue that goes horribly wrong because someone is being an idiot, and hot platinum-haired psychos burning the shit out of people

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It’s extremely funny the worst people alive are spending the day “sad about France.”

I love it when the far right are ‘sad and disappointed’. 🇫🇷 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France's far right 'sad and disappointed' over election resultwww.bbc.co.uk With the champagne on ice, they thought they were on the brink of victory - but it didn't happen.

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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i like bsky because it’s a diverse melting pot of numerous psychiatric disorders

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It's almost like there was another dude in the debate who spent the whole time saying insane shit like everybody wanted Roe overturned and J6 was good actually

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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Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.

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"He's earned second term because of the job he's done" is a perfectly good message for surrogates to make about an incumbent candidate. "I've earned a second term because of the job I've done," is fine, but not really an optimal message for the candidate to make, imho.

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If Democrats are confused about how to handle tough questions about their nominee's fitness for office, they can just look at the thousands of examples of Republicans avoiding, deflecting, and redirecting similar questions about Trump over the past 8 years.

Leftists for the record have been agitating against Biden as the nominee for a long time and intensified efforts during the primary It's the center-left elites that were fine with Biden up until the second the media began asking them hard questions

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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in summary:

They’re already setting up the next overblown freakout, this time to take down Harris. Nice work everyone

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When you see the way the press is treating Joe Biden for aging in public, you see how they could treat Donald Trump for committing fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection and never, ever will.

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

Too bad Red Lobster shut down. Venture capital stopped FLOTUS from flaunting POTUS fucking prowess.

I know how to turn this all around. Jill Biden needs to come out and say that Joe still fucks good.

It's finally time. Break the glass and eat the emergency Hot Ones.

politics is messy... sometimes your seat at the table comes with wet wipes. joe biden, i implore you, eat the hot chicken.

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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath

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Jebas I had actually forgotten about this, damn you all for reminding me.

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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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10/10 do recommend. You can’t fix the SCOTUS on your own, but you can lift the heavy thing. And maybe lifting the heavy thing will help you lift your kids or carry groceries or tackle some tough yard work or ease your back pain (no really!). And maybe that’s enough!

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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Wife: How’s Berlin? Have you gone to any art museums yet? Me: Yes I’m walking into one right now

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Biden rebroadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent.

Biden in the Oval Office cutting tags off mattresses.

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let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.

Well that was nothing . . .

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Despair is one of the sins you ask forgiveness for on Yom Kippur--an inevitable human sin. "Forgive us for we have trafficked with cynics and indulged in despair."

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What if things started going really well? Y'know as like a joke

Just learned a cousin of mine died from an OD over the weekend. So much awful shit for a Monday is really pushing me to my limit. Might just need go back to bed and start over tomorrow at this point. FUCK!!!!!

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the fact that the left and centre in France have both said that the third place candidates will drop out is getting basically no play in a US press going full apeshit over Round 1 results and yes it is so that you think fascism is inevitable globally so why not here

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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If Hillary Clinton and 2 of Jason Kander (lost by 79,000 votes); Katie McGinty (lost by 87,000 votes); and Russ Feingold (lost by 100,000 votes) had won in 2016, Democrats would currently have a majority on the Supreme Court.

Why didn’t voting for the lesser evil stop this? And other questions for the liberal mind