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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

True enough, we all tend to find our information silos, just cuz I haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I don’t think they’re the same but I do think there’s not a LOT of daylight other than in facade.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Perhaps so, but I’d like to see him do things he campaigned on like rescheduling cannabis, solitary confinement, death penalty, etc. And also D’s not capitulate and hand them circuit court appointments or give Trump dictator type power.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Within the last two weeks the Dems gave Trump four circuit court appointments and passed a bill to give Trump authoritarian power…and you think a little nepotism from an outgoing president is fighting back?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Trips me out when people think it’s a choice. If it was, you think I’d choose to be straight? Look how much fun they’re having for Christs sake!

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

- all in the service of defeating the right wing of course.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I agree brother. I’m a bummer though; I used to think they were just spineless, but around 2011-ish I became convinced most of them are in on the hustle. (Fuck it, nothing matters anymore. I want the Biden fam to get lit on crack and throw a goddam rager. Just trash the WH before Trump moves in🥳🤬)

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That’s what came across on your comment, i was thinking of all the gleeful cheering in the op’s replies. I get the sentiment but i think it’s better to have credibility for when Trump pulls shit. They wanna sack up for nepotism but in the same week give Trump 4 circuit court picks.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For sure. Hell I might say fuck it and pardon my son too. It’s still not a good precedent to set. Just weird to celebrate it. Yeah, R’s manage to get shit done - awful shit but they get it done. We get to learn what a Senate Parliamentarian is 😫

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I get it. I guess i just haven’t really seen people being vocal about the Admin’s share of the blame that I’m having a hard time understanding. Is it a sense of hopelessness that they will ever do the right thing, but maybe the 3rd party voters will?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think Trump sucks bro. I wish our elected Dems brought that fighting energy to M4A, or min wage, or anything to help the people. Pardoning his son doesn’t impress me as tough.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Very true. Just meant they love gun charges so much they’ll prosecute when it’s bogus, let alone when it’s actually warranted.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s always been standard liberal doctrine that half the things on that list are inherently untrustworthy. Trusting Trump isn’t better for sure but can we please not normalize this??

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If other people don’t have consistent principles then we shouldn’t either?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That’s an outrageous thing to say. You don’t think throw poor black people in jail on bogus charges all time with glee?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This is from Sept. She started out populist economic but big donors made her transition.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I don’t understand people celebrating a president pardoning his son, whoever he is. If Trump did this we’d all - correctly - be shouting about corruption. Is politics just about sticking it to the other side now without any consistency in principles?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Yes they’re all hypocrites and Kennedy is trash who has a lot shitty ideas, but we can all agree that getting rid of hfcs and artificial dyes is still a good thing right? We don’t have to give him props, just we’re all on board with that. Let’s please not switch sides on this now.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The campaign strategists deserve plenty of scorn too. It was astonishingly poorly run.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Very true. Labor Secretary looks like a welcome exception though.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Is it a humble pie? (Sorry not busting your balls. Just like you and the pie I couldn’t resist it and I’m not proud of myself)

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just answering your questions 👍. But you’re absolutely right: shit sucks for so many people under one admin, the next candidate says “shit sucks. I’ll fix it.” He wins and shit still sucks under him - rinse and repeat.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I remember when we all knew intelligence services suck, and big pharma should be scrutinized. But cia didn’t like Trump and became “a sacred institutions” and pharma became “the science” That the revolving door corrupts govt, was standard liberal dogma. With Kennedy saying it, who knows? 🤷‍♂️

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

…It’s wild because they knew all this. Campaigns are all about data and polling. If The Guardian and YouGov knew this, certainly they did. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

They should all be in The Hague. But anyway it’d be the same. But who are these unicorns? Lots of Dems held their nose and voted Harris. Same would be true of R’s….

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

*’Rock solid’ (dibs on ‘Rick Solid’ if I ever go into porn)

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“To win elections we have to abandon every principle that makes us worth electing.” Rick solid logic.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Fetterman is going to be the next ‘Rotating Villian’ if D’s get a majority again, replacing Synema. “Gee, we wanted to do xyz but Fetterman [shrug] Well what ya gonna do?” His whole working-man schtick was bullshit.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I feel you. I think too we’ve got some learned helplessness. Like when R’s say they’re gonna cut rich folk taxes or whatever horrible shit, they get it done. D’s give us the senate parliamentarian. That and it’s considered an axiom that any criticism at all helps Trump.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Please don’t start measuring skulls next.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I remember when Bush/Cheney were inarguably the ‘Greater Evil’. Now they’re cool with Democrats? Feels like we’re moving in the wrong direction.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I know this sounds like an attack, but I’m asking in good faith bc i don’t understand. Why is the anger directed at voters and never directed at the admin who has the power to end the genocide if it’s the right thing to do and would help defeat Trump. Is there a calculus I’m not seeing?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I hear you. I’ve been feeling that since 2012

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Tell who? Who in Texas is saying Russia has a right to Ukraine bc it was once theirs? This is a straw man to get people worked up. (Aside - The US definitely stole that land from Mexico, but Alaska was bought free of coercion - people even thought we got shafted. So that’s not an apt reference.)

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Personally, b/c he railed against the deep state, MIC, empire and duopoly and then joined it; and also against those things but oddly pro-Izreel. But I agree, reflexively rejecting EVERYTHING worries me. Getting chemicals out of our food shouldn’t be controversial.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It’s disheartening to see people who claim to champion science - and compassion - write/share a post that suggests recovery from addiction disqualifies someone from being a health advocate. Dude’s a hypocrite for sure - there’s plenty of examples - but not because of that.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

…or vote for disruption. Take for instance the 7-9mil people who voted for Obama in ‘12 then Trump in ‘16. Not saying it was a good idea. But I do believe the Harris campaign was awful and the D party needs to get their shit together.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Okay: Because the Dems have abandoned the working class, many people’s lives have gotten materially worse under both parties. They’re disenfranchised so to them it’s not possible to vote AGAINST their interests, that would imply there’s an option that advances their interests. So they don’t vote…

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Oh nice! Yeah I guess you would be. fwiw I think college is very worthwhile. my wife is an Ivy League M.D. so we’re a higher Ed household. Well since we’ve cleared things up, I don’t feel like leaving up posts where I mischaracterize. I dunno how it works but I’m down to just delete this thread?

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

…arent (intentionally) making a political statement. Their lives have gotten materially worse under both parties. They’re disenfranchised and hopeless that it will make any difference to them. And tbh they’re justified to feel that way.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Me too, but they’re vocal and online. We don’t see the majority of the 89mil bc they’re not even acknowledged let alone discussed. (eg Favreau saying emphatically a MAJORITY of the country chose Trump. He got 77mil non-voters were 89mil). Turns out they’re mostly poor people of color who…

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I agree but it wasn’t dumbass-ery. Winning was not their priority. They’d much rather lose than do anything economically left.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

but rest assured I don't need an advanced degree in bovine gastrointestinal systems to know when I smell bullshit. I've seen a lot of people use their caricature of a Trump supporter to spew vitriol against whole groups of marginalized people, so I'm a bit touchy lol. Thanks again for clarifying.🤝

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thanks but I am indeed aware that dictators target schools to control the flow of information and foster ignorant compliant population. Artists and intellectuals are free-thinkers whose gifts of expression and articulation can inspire others: therefore dangerous....

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thank you for clarifying. In that case I withdraw my indignation. I do agree that critical thinking is essential. A friendly suggestion if I may, 'educated' tends to be understood to mean 'college educated' regarding voter demos. Perhaps there's a different word that captures your meaning.

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dcj7122.bsky.social @dcj7122.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Media sucks, but it was a shit campaign. I kept hearing about reaching the mythical "Haley Republicans." All 6 of them? Pal around with Dick fucking Cheney to get a couple? Agreed on Sanders but they would never do that. I remember prominent D's saying they would vote for Trump over him.

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