James Bennett

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He/him. Mostly politics reposts here. The rest of me is @[email protected] on Mastodon.

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I'm just a leftist, once again asking other leftists why they aren't supporting the most pro-union President since FDR as he's attacked by a bunch of truly awful billionaires

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Maybe the actual story here is that he IS calling the people he actually needs to call on their birthdays, and the people complaining are mad Biden doesn’t need/favor them specifically

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☀️ Starshine

Davvol comments on life as a big donor in Joe Biden's America:

What if the press are sending us coded messages indicating not that Biden is losing it, but of the real truth they cannot report: that the true author of "My Immortal" was... Robinette Dark'Ness Dementia Brandon Way

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Micah

Wait, why am I just now learning about this?

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Biden could tap dance and American media would have a problem with him. They will have a problem with anyone not Trump. Trump makes them money and their owners don't want to pay taxes. Double whammy. They are blind to what he will do to them.

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BOOM YES Bad night for prominent transphobes

Conservative Miriam Cates has lost in Penistone and Stocksbridge #UKGE2024

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I don’t know how to explain to our nation’s top editorial boards that the Democratic Party is an actual organization with a lot of rules and history to it, not just a store that distributes team jerseys, and it has already selected delegates to its nominating convention.

Cannot emphasize enough how pathetic these editorial boards are revealing themselves to be.

Had a burger and an ear of corn for dinner. Soon will have an adult beverage and watch some fireworks. America. Fuck yeah.

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Don Moynihan

Wrote that he wouldn't vote again in 2019, was an "ex-voter:" theweek.com/articles/802... and then what do you know, he voted the very next year, then two years later: voted again. Then almost two years later, a barely rewritten article saying he definitely won't vote this time, honest

Confessions of an ex-votertheweek.com Why I don't vote

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I went to a baseball game today. The Nats won. It did me some good to be outside and around all kinds of Americans, to see their smiling faces despite the heat. It did me some good to be offline, where no one is posting themselves into a panic. Some of you need to try the same.

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Matt Novak

I watched my Mom deteriorate, by her side as her primary caregiver. I also watched that happen to my Grandmother, though I was younger and paying less attention. Either way - this is not that.

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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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Kurt Busiek

Penny Mordaunt, the Conservative whose name sounds the most like a villain in a YA fantasy novel, has lost her seat. Or riding. Or perhaps fallen off a horse, and jolly good that, too.

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Michael Paulauski

Yup. And look, in a manner of speaking I come from this group, I was born into it. These people are absolutely not the ones you want making political decisions. Even the good ones are worryingly unaware of their ethical lapses in the pursuit of self interest. Their ideals are a vibe.

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Ginguy

Kitty Kelley, goddamn! This is also a good explainer of why Biden is not going to step aside. He really believes he was meant to do this. www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/j...

Death and the All-American Boy - Washingtonianwww.washingtonian.com Joseph Robinette Biden, the 31-year-old Democrat from Delaware, is the youngest man in the Senate, which makes him a celebrity of sorts. But there's something else that makes him good copy: Shortly af...

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Michael Paulauski

Everyone seems to have memoryholed that plan A was to skip over the sitting Vice President and move to a brokered convention, and only after people pointed out the *numerous* flaws in that plan did pundits revert to plan B and sing Harris’ praises. This should be setting off alarm bells!

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Biden is completely right to not trust Beltway punditocracy and it's important to remember that distrust is fueling part of the stupid news cycle we're experiencing.

This thread from Matthew Chapman at the Bad Place is a good analysis of why the DC press corps are turning on Biden. x.com/fawfulfan/st...

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“I don’t get it, why are you celebrating American Chauvinism this year of all years? This country is capital C cooked” My abuelo crossed a desert at the age of 14 for nearly a week, by moonlight, to get his life here. By placing yourself in the shoes of others, you may be able to understand 👍

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The true lesson of the attempt to astroturf a Biden replacement narrative into existence isn't the arguments we're having about it. It's that the major America-focused media class is having a collective brain meltdown. Something got into their hive mind and flipped a switch.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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when i say “don’t eat up the elite hysteria that is, in large part, driven by a resentment that he doesn’t treat them like Trump and Obama did” this is quite literally what I mean

Step down for the birthday boys

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Andy Craig

If the NYT has the power to override the will of Democratic primary voters any time they feel shameless enough to do so, we are in for a rough fucking ride.

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someone tell the economist about FDR

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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It's not even about "playing nice". DC political reporters were made to feel *important* by covering the constant stream of petty leaks from Trump's "Game of Thrones for morons" administration. Biden's admin left them covering policy & official statements & that doesn't get you on prime time.

Him not playing nice with the journalists makes me happy

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The DC press needs to find better motivations than getting a prime time news slot or a book deal. They were on the wrong path before Trump set foot in the Oval Office & boy is it showing.

Fucking Woodward had Trump on the record about knowing covid was going to be *bad* & sat on it for months, until his book came out. Parker pretending that's as bad as her being locked out of a wedding is ridiculous.

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The media may be losing their shit, but here’s a voice of pure sanity.

Video: Overwhelmingly Positive Reactions to Biden's Interview with Black Radio Host Andrea Lawful-Sanderslittlegreenfootballs.com Andrea Lawful-Sanders talks with CNN after she interviewed President Biden following his poor performance at the debate. #CNN #News...

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This thread from Matthew Chapman at the Bad Place is a good analysis of why the DC press corps are turning on Biden. x.com/fawfulfan/st...

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.