Ds00n
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Ds00n
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You want to understand people who vote for Trump: He’s Palpatine. They’re Darth Vader.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.

PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
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That YMCA dance fugue on the campaign trail is a perfect example of Trumpian camp and its appeal.

A voter could look at that and say, hey, this is a fun guy who doesn't take himself too seriously, I don't have to take the scary shit too seriously, either.

They'd be wrong. But they could
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A major problem for the Trump II regime is that they are going 5x hard on Trumpian cruelty and are utterly failing at Trumpian camp.

It's there-- the Gatsby party, the ballroom nonsense, the bathroom reno-- but it is mostly siloed from the public.

All the electorate gets to see is the grim stuff
They heard "bread and circuses" and thought this sandwich trial would count
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When my kids started hitting the playground and every kid had a water bottle it absolutely broke my brain.

Like what, does everyone think we are on a playdate in the Sahara?

Of course now we are converts and never leave home without them
If you were not alive in the 90's, you don't realize that no one back then drank water. The idea of hydration didn't exist yet, if you were thirsty there was soda or some kind of very bright blue sugar water and that was it

Every kid was extremely dehydrated and close to organ failure at all times
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No, but mortality is.

The Boomers HAVE to be understood as the first generation for whom "being young" was the CORE of their cultural identity: They will *always* be the first teens/college-kids demographically big enough to have 'reshaped history' - EVERY acknowledment of aging is a dagger to that
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Dick Cheney was a bad guy and my main reaction to hearing of his passing is to be annoyed at how many stupid reactions I'll have to see online about living politicians not saying performatively "bad enough" things about him and how many grating clips people will post from that sh-- Adam McKay movie
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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Honestly not buying the crocodile tears from people who decided workplace trainings and Black characters in Marvel movies gave license to abandon civil rights.
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A couple years ago I read that robotics companies were investing in stair climbing robots who could escort super wealthy dug-in manhattanites to doctor’s appointment like mechanical spider crabs so forgive me if I’m skeptical that they’re gonna uproot their lives and abandoned their rent control NOW
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
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If the media accurately reflected feelings of the American people, this current government would have already been ousted.
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...sigh.

It depresses me to remember how f---ing YOUNG these guys all are, relatively speaking, and HOW MANY "acts" there probably still are to their lives 🤦‍♂️

Ronald Reagan made monkey movies and was a Union leader. He had a full, fascinating life before he was Republican Jesus.
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This happening at literally the exact same time as the Prop50 CA elections, the NYC Mayoral elections, Spanberger in VA and Dick Cheney dying is the real-life montage moment you'd get if Millennials made Zemeckis-style nostalgia movies about their own pop-history like Boomers got.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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The saddest but also funniest thing about the last decade of McKay's work is that the most HONEST take I could give you about it I won't because it would be a Woody Allen quote 🙃
If you want to understand Cheney's legacy, maybe the last place you should look is Adam McKay's VICE - the worst Best Picture nominee this century. In the days ahead, there will be funnier obits with more history and moral clarity than McKay - an idiot's idea of a smart man - could ever muster.
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You’d think it would be a major scandal at least in certain circles that the CEO of America’s most valuable defense contractor gets absolutely blasted on heroic amounts of cocaine before going on TV and screaming about his stock being down 5%
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Right now is the time for people who have interesting things to write or make videos to get after it.

The media empires have kicked out all their talent, and people that want actual experts and not just talking heads who spew bullshit all day, are looking for people to support and follow.
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MTG is a slovenly moron who barely qualifies as a fully-evolved 21st Century human being ...BUT she's also *authentically* the sort of sentient garbage that wellborn fancy lads like Trump and Johnson only play at being (badly) for the votes.
I'm not sure that there's a better indication of the ground shifting out from underneath R's than MTG's interview on The View today, woof.
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It’s very strange to repeatedly see Democratic “strategists” observe that the party is widely seen as focusing on identity politics—in spite of the Harris campaign largely avoiding them —and concluding this is a problem with party priorities and not with losing voters to misinformation.
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This is literally a joke in "BACK TO THE FUTURE III" where the cowboys don't believe Doc that people in the future *run* for leisure.
Slightly tangential but you can always tell if somebody has never done manual labour, when they talk about it's dignity.

Yes fucking up your back by age 40, so dignified!
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There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.
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$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this
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“The Witcher” would’ve slapped if it was a monster of the week journeying adventure show like 90s Xena.
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Yea trying to make prestige(ish) TV out of "The Witcher" when not even the game* was trying to be that was probly a mistake.

*(yes I know it's also books, that's not how they got a show)
“The Witcher” would’ve slapped if it was a monster of the week journeying adventure show like 90s Xena.
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And just the basic math thing is that homogeneous nationalized rural/exurban America vs homogeneous nationalized suburban/urban America is a political system where the former is locked out of power
But uhhhh that is not the case anymore, and in general you can't really ask 30% of the country that holds controlling stakes in some of the wealthiest and most important states (urban liberals rainbow coalition) in the union to just roll over and die