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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 56m

The Dems orchestrating the most successful political messaging campaign of this administration and it's all bad from the people who asked them to do this the loudest.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 58m

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 7h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

What is the point of lying about this?

LETTER FROM BIDEN'S WASHINGTON

JOE BIDEN'S THIS-IS-NOT-NORMAL SPEECH ON THE RISING DANGER OF MAGA TRUMPISTS

The President calls out Trump and his Republicans, and they see red.

By Susan B. Glasser

September 02, 2022

Listen 7 minutes

NBC NEWS

WATCH

2024 ELECTION

Kamala Harris calls Trump a 'fascist' as she argues he's 'dangerous' and unfit for office

At a town hall with undecided voters, the vice president said she agrees with Donald Trump's former chief of staff's claim that Trump is a fascist.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations Jenna 💙

Cup O' Coffey @ammathor.bsky.social · 1d

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I imagine Senate Democrats were a little unprepared for the US Attorney General to make a foll of herself by doing childish name calling instead of answering their questions.

Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 16h

Man, what

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

Dave says this won't happen because he doesn't WANT it to happen (because he wants to keep fascists in power).

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h

This is posed as analysis but it’s not. It’s demotivation fuel.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 22h

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

And we can see that's true by comparing 2016 to both 2008 & 2020, Clinton started out with a superdelegate lead but lost it when Obama consolidated support with African Americans. While in 2020 trying to bandwagon himself to the nomination saw Sanders lose even worse than in 2016.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

Already getting some folks claiming this strategy worked for Clinton in 2016 because something something "superdelegates" but that gets things exactly backwards. Clinton's superdelegate lead was a trailing indicator of her broader support in the party especially with its African American base.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

I like cinnamon, I like spaghetti, I like cheese, the three together are perfectly acceptable.

I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

Never got the hate for Cincinnati chili myself.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

I mean this is just factual, Clinton put up assad numbers with the base & it has nothing to do with superdelegates.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

They would not have gone differently. Sanders was radioactive to the party's base which is why he lost.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

Trying to do what he THOUGHT was done to him in 2016. In point of fact his opponent just really did have more support than him.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sure Massie would IF they did it but they aren't going to do it.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 18h

This is the issue here. Even if every red cent invested in AI disappears tomorrow it would be a fairly minor recession, & the pillars of the financial system just don't have the kind of exposure to it they did in 08 no matter how many tech CEOs psych themselves into a panic.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 18h

No they were in ICQ or AIM chats. I still don't see how SV being idiots again gets to the wider economy.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 18h

I mean that was true during the .com bubble too. It still wasn't enough to do the kind of damage the Great Recession did because the US economy is fucking huge & the Great recession was the first thing in 75 years that really struck at the heart of it.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 18h

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 18h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 18h

I just don't see where it has enough exposure to the larger economy to make things get really bad here. There's a lot of money invested but also there isn't the kind of totalizing forces that would wipe out the entire financial & insurance sectors like in 08.

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 18h

It's surreal that we're watching the Attorney General, the head of the FBI, and the Speaker of the House running a cover-up in plain view but at this point I don't know how else you interpret things like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 18h

Like you are VASTLY underestimating both the scale & the kind of exposure all financial institutions had in 08.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 18h

No it wouldn't. Their exposure is nowhere close to it was in 08.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 19h

A bunch of real estate investors who got into the market at a bad time taking a haircut would be bad but it would not in fact be as bad as the time we weren't sure if banks would continue existing.

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