Chris Belasco

Remember the day Trump was found guilty? Feels like it happened a year ago right? It was 45 days ago. Barely six weeks. The election is in 113 days. You do you, but we're going to live a decade in the next 4 months so maybe stop assuming every Big thing that happens is the definitive one.

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Ask yourself based on what you know about this iteration of the American right if you think they have the political acumen to play this event successfully for sympathy - which they could! In theory! - or if they’re going to react in the most deranged and alienating way imaginable.

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I understand the impulse - the trauma response - to react to everything by rending garments and screaming "It's over, no matter what happens it must benefit Trump!" but in addition to being bad for you it also doesn't make any sense.

Ok so I cooked this tasty meal, not sure it’s News

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Team Biden has just circulated excerpts of his speech tonight in Detroit, and folks, he is making Project 2025 a campaign centerpiece.

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also there's the fact that i would vote for trump's opponent if it were a "law abiding" potato gently aging on a tray and with its name "johnny diarrhea" rhinestoned on its rotting skin in fish eyes

Biden is old, he stutters, he’s always been a gaffe machine, and he’s never been a facts wonk. But this is not a man in cognitive decline. He just isn’t.

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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.

The future of the earth is something I’ve been a bit concerned about with this election, in addition to smaller dinner table issues like democracy

The climate choice and stakes could not possibly be clearer in this election. www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

'Drill, baby, drill': Trump’s Project 2025 would gut all U.S climate policywww.msnbc.com Chris Hayes on Trump’s Project 2025: “Not only do they have no plan to mitigate the effects of climate change, they want to actively make it worse by undoing all climate regulations.”

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rewatched dr strangelove and cannot stop thinking about the comment “he’s just doing tim robinson” about george c scott

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It seems clear now that, for better or worse, Biden is staying in the race. So everyone who is opposed to Trump needs to rally around Biden and the sniping needs to end if democracy is to survive.

An unnamed House Democrat who wishes Biden would step aside texts Axios and NOTUS: "The dam is holding." To Axios: "As someone who wanted the reckoning and is disappointed that it's over, trust me: it's over." To NOTUS: “They’ve outflanked us with the CBC and others ... It feels closed for now."

The Courier gets it.

newpittsburghcourier.com/2024/07/08/t...

To Be Equal: Project 2025 is the new Southern Manifesto | New Pittsburgh Couriernewpittsburghcourier.com (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Project 25 is a radical, extreme, pro-authoritarianism plan pushed by conservatives who are desperate to take our country backwards. It is a movement led by far-right extremists ...

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peter baker starving to death with his hand in a raccoon trap because he won't stop clutching a small piece of shiny tin

I am firmly agnostic on Biden staying on at this point but I am fully ready to shove Peter Baker and A.G. Sulzberger’s heads in the toilet for a swirly if I see them in public for this shit

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Hey politics reporters, when the former president was in office he just stopped releasing WH visitor logs and it was like a 1 day story and you all were like ah well nevertheless instead of doing your job

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He signed a bill addressing Parkinson's literally yesterday. Give me your job

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

I kept watching the Venezuelan opposition coalition do this and just give and give power away. VOTE and get active

“So, no, boycotting an election doesn’t work. At all.” That’s right. Read this👇

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When the France election results are good

Vibe

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Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

Remember. youtu.be/RGmmkS6KvAw?...

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We are here. This is where we are.

COUNTERPOINT: Voting is Good, actually

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The Pittsburgh Courier fighting fascism, 1943

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kamala harris running for president is currently a non-starter. now, maybe it was my correctly picking wes clark, jon huntsman, rick perry, and pete buttigieg for president, but if she can just get nancy mace as her running mate, that's a guaranteed unity ticket. i haven't had a real job in 35 years

User @jesspgh.bsky.social hosted an All Star birthday party for our about-to-be-8-year-old. I’m a Believer!

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.