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Dan Benbow
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Lifelong liberal realist/policy wonk into music, lit, writing, reflection, FBR, CBT, TIC, EBP, existentialism, dogs, photography, standup, conversation, fitness, art, Stanislavski, cities, Clare Torry, NBA, movement & people of soul & substance & good will
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · May 26
Careerist media charlatans (from elite backgrounds) love to paint Dems as 'out of touch' with 'real Americans,' even though Dems are the ONLY party who represents real Americans' interests.

The blame for Trump?

It's the bigotry & political illiteracy, stupid.

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
Don't blame Dems for Trump
As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump would win the 2024 election, I braced myself for an onslaught of bad-faith, blame-Democrats-first narratives — from Kamala Harris supporters.Despite the se...
www.rawstory.com
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 6d
Perhaps because he doesn't understand demographics, or the history of past U.S. elections, or pay attention to election totals, Fintan doesn't grasp that the power transfer after 2024 far exceeded the vote differential. Dems barely lost the House and the popular vote & won 4 of 5 swing Senate races.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 6d
Perhaps because he doesn't understand demographics, or the history of past U.S. elections, or pay attention to election totals, Fintan doesn't grasp that the power transfer after 2024 far exceeded the vote differential. Dems barely lost the House and the popular vote & won 4 of 5 swing Senate races.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 6d
What bullsh!t
The idea that Dems would have won if they were better storytellers is pure fantasy
They have huge structural disadvantages & they had situational disadvantages on the issues that motivated voters most in 2024 because voters are breathtakingly ignorant and gullible tinyurl.com/7k6xkutm
Don't blame Dems for Trump
As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump would win the 2024 election, I braced myself for an onslaught of bad-faith, blame-Democrats-first narratives — from Kamala Harris supporters.Despite the se...
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 6d
What bullsh!t
The idea that Dems would have won if they were better storytellers is pure fantasy
They have huge structural disadvantages & they had situational disadvantages on the issues that motivated voters most in 2024 because voters are breathtakingly ignorant and gullible tinyurl.com/7k6xkutm
Don't blame Dems for Trump
As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump would win the 2024 election, I braced myself for an onslaught of bad-faith, blame-Democrats-first narratives — from Kamala Harris supporters.Despite the se...
www.rawstory.com
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 7d
"If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and filled,' without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."

-James 2:15-17
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Sep 1
Welcome to the United States of the Irony-Impaired,
where the staggeringly corrupt a$$hole at the top of this list based his first campaign on the assertion that his opponent was 'crooked' while he was a straight shooter who was too wealthy to be corrupted by The Swamp

You can't fix stupid.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Jul 2
Yes it is
77 million fine people voted for this
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Jul 1
Behold the worst 'Christians' you've ever met in your life:

*A trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts
*Big cuts to Medicare, CHIP, ACA subsidies & SNAP benefits (vets included)
*11 MILLION more Americans uninsured by 2034

'Christians' who voted for this are free to keep their heads in the sand
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Jun 28
summertime lush
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Jun 1
I'm with you. Sometimes we can say obvious tactical errors were made (like Dukakis/Kerry not fighting back aggressively when they were attacked/defined), but other times structural factors just aren't on our side.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Jun 1
That played a big role, but the selfishness, bigotry, and intellectual laziness of tens of millions sealed the deal
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · May 26
Careerist media charlatans (from elite backgrounds) love to paint Dems as 'out of touch' with 'real Americans,' even though Dems are the ONLY party who represents real Americans' interests.

The blame for Trump?

It's the bigotry & political illiteracy, stupid.

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
Don't blame Dems for Trump
As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump would win the 2024 election, I braced myself for an onslaught of bad-faith, blame-Democrats-first narratives — from Kamala Harris supporters.Despite the se...
www.rawstory.com
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 28
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 28
Remember when Combover Caligula told us multiple times that COVID will 'go away by the summer' of 2020 (as the first of 1.4 million Americans were dying from it) and was such a narcissistic fool that he insisted on leading daily briefings about complex scientific subjects he had 0 understanding of?
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 27
Worse yet: tens of millions of women vote for their own (and their daughters,' and their granddaughters') oppression
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 27
...and the dopes who take Fox at face value wouldn't blink, even as they sat in front of the idiot box with their church clothes on*

See: Sunday--the most hypocritical day of the week for RW evangelicals

(*if they actually bothered to maintain the charade that they were 'practicing Christians')
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 26
The San Francisco skyline
A view from Dolores Park
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 26
Fred!

I've been mostly off of social media since Nov. 5, but I'm glad to see you're still at, being the public citizen that you are

Happy Friday, comrade!
a picture of a man with the words feel that that 's friday underneath
ALT: a picture of a man with the words feel that that 's friday underneath
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 26
Trump fought the law and the law won

(p.s. all-star resisters below; follow them and meet many, many more where that came from)
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 26
damn straight.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 26
Futurism: Elon Musk Accidentally Wasted a Vast Sum of Taxpayer Money Due to His Staggering Incompetence

The skinny: projected DOGE savings ($150 billion)
cost to rehire workers ($135 bil)
lost due 2 IRS firings ($500 b) + lawsuit payouts

tinyurl.com/ycx24rdm
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 22
#FBRParty
All-star #BlueCrew
Defenders of democracy & decency
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · Apr 22
I'm not a Boomer, but I appreciate the concern