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Kevin from the Armageddon @kmmickvega.bsky.social · 2h

This trajectory was quite a ride:

Graph of George W. Bush’s approval rating.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 1h

Oh yes he did

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 2h

i dunno, america 9/11/2001 - mid 2005 was one big right wing bubble, and completely insane. people just forget

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 2h

that dinged him a few points but was into low 30s already (i did just check the timing/gallup to refresh my memory)

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 2h

It was hard to imagine George Bush ever dropping that much, but the man was hitting 25%.

brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 3h

Legit don’t think there’s anything Trump could do to drop below like 39-40% approval.

He could crash the economy AND have the military shooting people in the streets and he’d still poll at like 39.9% lol

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 6h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 3h

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 3h

probably realized that doing slightly spicier versions of what US newspapers will do gets them clicks

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 5h

Mr. Pope, did you enjoy my book? I haven't received your written comments yet

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 5h

did The Benedict Option ever catch fire? No? Weird

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 5h

"Open secrets" aren't necessarily 100% factual but the intra-dem open secrets must be fucking wild

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 6h

Too woke

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 6h

it's all about bending the cost curve

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 6h

i'm all for stoning adulterers who work in the new york times building, as a kind of pilot program, see how the politics goes

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 6h

you don't even have to be an especially woke pope (or person generally) to think this is all fucked up and bullshit

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 7h

All west bank residents have to do is return the hostages

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 7h

We went through this in trump i without any resolution, but that they lie constantly is a headline story. I mean should be

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

And while sam went away, they all (the crypto guys and their familiars) regrouped abundantly well

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

THE DISCOURSE of 2022 didn't make any sense until i realized everyone had giant piles of SBF bucks

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 8h

The Katie Porter thing reminds me of Sam Bankman Fried going to prison.

Yeah of course he should go to prison. Fuck him. But he was just a scapegoat for the real dirt.

Still waiting for the Justice Department to bring those campaign finance charges they mysteriously dropped.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

can we get labour down to #4 just for laughs

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10h

You wouldn't know it from The Discourse but the "economic inactivity rate" is near historic lows

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 11h

Really it is hard to see as much other than "let the city center spoons force the council to let them stay open later" for actual pubs

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 11h

my bet would be that you could create more pockets of "night life" in satellite areas, potentially, instead of everybody heading to "the city" if they want a big friday out. but the random local also has staffing (and transport) issues to deal with. hard to see it as a big benefit most places

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12h

late night places pretty much confined to city centers

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13h

Definitely a "help the winners" policy. For most pubs the issue is "why aren't more people here at 730 on a wednesday"

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