Michael Kohler

@thekohler.bsky.social

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Former History PhD student (studied domestic slave trade)

ESRD survivor. Spectrum parent. Nerd.

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Reply to

R. Eric VanNewkirk

As far as I'm concerned he counts as Gen-X (though I know that's not the "official" cutoff). I figure if you're young enough to not remember where you were when JFK was shot but you're too old to be a millennial then you're one of us.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Stewart also epitomized the type of political commentary where you first talk about how evil something the Republicans are doing is, then follow it with "and the Democrats are terrible, too", just to make sure nobody thought you, like, cared about something.

Same

You do know he doesn't have the votes in the Senate and that Republicans control the House, right? You know how a bill becomes a law, right?

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John Lyons

????

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Michael Kohler

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John Lyons

He never had the votes to do anything anyway. How is that his fault?

That's all he can do about anything now. It's an election issue. If elected it depends on holding the Senate and winning the House. How is election "implausible"? It's July. 🙄

Doomers after SCOTUS: "And Biden isn't going to do anything because he sucks." Biden: wapo.st/4bGC9gI

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswapo.st The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Michael Kohler

Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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Michael Kohler

time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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Shawn Connery

I've been quoting that to friends a lot since the SCOTUS ruling.

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Michael Kohler

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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Michael Kohler

Have we done this one yet

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Michael Kohler

“Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic.“ #giftarticle

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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The Washington Post

Wow, that guy who took his family to a Nazi rally sure was a hero. 🙄

Reply to

maraleia

I didn't know you could do that on Twitter. Most of the times I got on a list it was something like "Commie soyboys" run by MAGAPatriot1776 or something stupid like that, so I just blocked them.

Reply to

The New York Times

I wouldn't be shocked if this story ends up being bullshit, with him collapsing on them after he was already shot or something like that. Either way an easier way to phrase this is "local Nazi killed at Nazi rally".

Reply to

Benjamin Dreyer

Do people keep forgetting that Trump is fully aware that if he loses this election he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison?

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Michael Kohler

This is NYT’s portrait of a Trump rally, where the explicit agenda was putting millions of people in concentration camps before deporting them.

Reply to

Elizabeth Picciuto

I think about that one a lot.

Reply to

Faine Greenwood

I've certainly seen people make that mistake before.

Reply to

Possible Cabbage

He never would, unfortunately. He knows winning is the only thing that will keep him out of prison.

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Michael Kohler

Fuck every single one of you who bullied Jamelle Bouie from this app. What the hell is wrong with you?

Reply to

Bob’s Your Uncle

Half the people who've blocked me seem the type to have done so just for cursing (which, fair). The other half seem to mostly be the kind of scum whose scorn I welcome. If dipshit tankies don't like you you're doing things right.

What a gigantic asshole. This is an easy block.

Reply to

Don Moynihan

I particularly like the lists. I managed to make it onto both "pro-hamas" and "Zionist" lists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wow. Actually about half of the lists I'm on is one psycho who put me on nearly a dozen, some of which seem to be the same list, but with different spelling. I hope they enjoyed their little temper tantrum. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I don't know who they even are.

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Michael Kohler

Reply to

Alex de Campi

Someday this meme will cease being eternally relevant, until then I am begging you to log off and go touch grass

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Michael Kohler

Also interesting that I can see the accounts I've blocked on the list.