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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 2h

I think there's a lot of truth in this.

You have a few stubborn mules like Larry Kudlow, still insisting against all evidence that trickle-down economics actually works.

The rest of them move further right, because admitting the left might have had a point is inconceivable.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6h

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3h

Badenoch's brain should be studied. Visibly believes that she has put the hours in working while all her policy suggestions are just obviously picked up on Twitter without any critical thought before they end up as policy. Visibly confused as to who was in office 2010 to 2024.

Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 3h

"while we were arguing about what a woman is, china was building five nuclear reactors"

Yes but that is very explicitly your fault, more than most, kemi.

She's such a strange perception of herself

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 3h

I did not need that visual of Kemi in a hot dog suit to start my day, tyvm

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 4h

They did!

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 4h

Yeah, and the neocons. Who, shockingly, are our new allies of convenience.

I hate everything about this timeline.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

going to rewatch the clip of his dad getting a base hit off a ball that bounced in front of the plate

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12h

SUPERMAN IS IN THE BUILDING

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 12h

RIGHT?

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 13h

Politoco has a well documented lean to the right. If they are saying this...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 13h

Disarray!
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Politico: Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13h

USA be like: oooh ooh tariffs. You should surrender and be a state.

Canada just nodding and saying:

"World Series? Your national sport? Thank you kindly."

a man in a uniform and tie is smiling .

Alt: Fraser from Due South in a uniform and tie is smiling .

media.tenor.com

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 13h

Because Democratic voters—the ones whose support candidates will need in the primaries—are definitely going to want to hear the answer to that question.

all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 13h

democrats in general - and ones with 2028 aspirations especially - should, imo, be thinking about how to answer the question: "what are you going to do to make these people pay?"

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 13h

I don't think this is quite what was intended but I'm highly amused that Gilmore Girls and The Sopranos are tv shows in each other's universes.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 13h

My item on this suggested that while it could be how inept Trump always is, what I suspect is going on is that the GOP has just lost the ability to talk to anyone outside their strongest supporters. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/underminin...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

(Politico) - One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

#RepublicansInDisarray @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 14h

Some of you have never been mods on a decently large site and it shows.

I'm glad I have aphantasia.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

do people really think you can just post any arbitrary image on a large social media website without an entire mountain of automation kicking in to make sure you’re not spamming child pornography or videos of people being stabbed to death because that’s the entire history of social media in sum

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

person

CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

Yeah no, not missing that at all

CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

The problem being that there is no real center-right in 21st century US politics. There's the center-left, and the extreme right.

So these media orgs wind up chasing the extreme right in the name of "balance" and abandon/alienate the center-left in the process.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of ships abandoned on these shorses. Most recently CNN. (Via @status.news)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 15h

Nor those 11 years ending with DJT Jr ascending to the presidency

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 17h

"Who was president in 2020?" is the defining question of our age

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 17h

Remind me how that worked out for Charles I again?

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 17h

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 1d

Such as how to converse with women?

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

We are permanently trapped at these people's mercy while forced to watch them slowly learn shit people generally figure out in 11th grade

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 1d

For reasons that aren't that interesting to anyone but me, my teenage boomer ww2 obsession ran directly through Kasserine Pass

War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 1d

Kasserine Pass reminds us that the true test of an army is not avoiding defeat, but adapting after it.

The Importance of the Battle of Kasserine Pass

The Battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the first significant engagement between German and U.S. forces in World War II. The fight delivered a

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d

not sure how long they were planning on keeping this going but just hypothetically do we think Texas National Guard owns Chicago-grade winter coats

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 2d

I mean, accurate

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2d

Bull Durham came up in today’s Box Office Game and I told my wife, who’s never seen it, that it was about how Susan Sarandon fucks so good it makes people better at baseball.

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