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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rural Republicans: "No turbines, and no solar farms." Also: "Man, these diesel prices are killing us!"

Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's strange that phenomenology--the study of how humans experience the world--remains largely a subject for the most rational of disciplines: philosophy.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Republican voters: "I voted for Trump 3 times. I'm not voting Republican this time, but I can't bring myself to vote for Democrats." Why not? "It's too embarrassing to admit I've been wrong my whole life and those sanctimonious Democrats have been right."

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Republicans expect the rest of us to respect their opinions and take them seriously even when they have been disproved repeatedly.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Satan: "Tell them to burn it all down. They'll be stupid enough to fall for it, and you'll get tax breaks." Tech bros: "I'll pay you a lot of money to tell people to burn it all down." Right-wing media: "Burn it all down!" Republicans: "Let's burn down the tech bros, too." Satan chuckles.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Satan: "Everyone else is corrupt. I'm smart to take bribes and cheat on my taxes." Republicans: "I love Satan! He's so authentic. He says what he really thinks."

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Democrats:"Satan is the very embodiment of evil." Republicans: "Democrats should get over their Satan derangement syndrome." Press: "Satan a Polarizing Figure"

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2028 Republican focus group: "I personally don't like Satan, but I'll vote for him because Jesus is a communist." "I just like Satan's economic policies." "I'm going to vote for Satan based on my deep Christian faith." "The Samaritans are ruining this country. Jesus is too soft on them."

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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am old enough to remember Richard Nixon. What he did was criminal, but basically more stupid than anything. He didn't hurt American citizens. He was just paranoid. Compare to Trumpy who has cost everyone so much, it's not even a fair comparison. Trumpy makes billions while all of us suffer.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The same people who lied and told you Trump would be a great president are the ones telling you that Democrats are communists.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Their thinking is his thinking: We'll stick with our notions even if it kills us and everyone else.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/09/2026

‘Employees have produced increasing amounts of real output but in return for real wages that don’t allow them to enjoy a proportional amount as income. The end result is that an increasing share labor productivity accrues not to workers but to corporate profits.‘ www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc26...

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Republican voters: "Democrats try to tell us what to think." Trump: "Canada has been taking advantage of us for years." Republican voters: "Canada has been taking advantage of us for years."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I will admit to being surprised at the extent to which elites in 2025 seemed to surrender...we cannot throw out MAGA just to be left with the same worthless leadership class." Everything goes back to the fatal overreading of 2024. As we said on Half the Answer, screw you for getting that so wrong.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Republicans freaking out about rare gender transformations is really a displacement of the fear that's too awful for them to face: voter transformations from Republican to Democrat.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I propose a law: only one new translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey permitted every 25 years.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s not a triumph—it’s an embarrassment—if Democrats nudge into a single-digit lead on the economy when they are the only alternative to a failing Republican administration after a century of Republican underperformance. epurchaseattack.substack.com/p/the-econom...

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The Economy Gap That’s Killing Democrats

A recent Gallup poll found that 73% of Americans say the economy is getting worse; 23% believe it’s getting better (https://news.gallup.com/poll/708713/americans-economic-confidence-drops-april.aspx).

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It is honest to say that America’s fiscal deficit problem has one cause: Republicans. But honesty, of course, is not something you get for free: it is a discipline you have to train for, which is why we get things like the passive voice in the title of this chart of the day: **The U.S... 1/

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The U.S. Federal Fiscal Flow Deficit Problem: CHART OF THE DAY

Republican tax cuts for the rich created the problem; please name and shame; restoring the Clinton-Gore tax rates and tax base is the solution; pass it on...

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If cutting taxes on the rich doesn't increase economic growth and create jobs, raising taxes on the rich won't decrease economic growth and reduce jobs.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Republicans, don't you ever get tired of lying to yourselves?

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What the post-Trump era will be like: "We made money supporting Trump. Now we want to make money saying how sorry we are that we supported Trump."

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Republicans are the spiritual (and sometimes actual) heirs of slaveholders.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This sucks. We want you to change outcomes without making any changes.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

From here on, Democrats' motto should be: No compromise with failure. Stop trying to split the difference with Republicans whose ideas don't work. Insist on full implementation of Democratic ideas that do work.

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cliffdubya.bsky.social @cliffdubya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

To be a Republican you must be a good liar. "Good liar" doesn't mean telling plausible lies. It means persisting in the lie no matter what, even after everyone else knows it's a lie.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The same people who lied about the Reflecting Pool also lied about . . . The 2020 election How things are going in Iran COVID Trump’s intelligence Caring about you and your family Not cutting Medicare Who would pay for the wall & ballroom Donald being successful in business & school

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I hit Republican voters hard. But that reflects hope that enough of them (it needn't be many) can be brought back in touch with reality to save American democracy.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

America's motto: One out of many Republicans' motto: Me first

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Republicans think like fascists, talk like fascists, act like fascists and even share a political party with Nazis. But they get very angry when you call them fascists.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump's approach to governing: Break something you value, then demand something to fix it. He's coming for your weekends next!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

As Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far.

Line chart titled "The United States currently has the highest inflation in the G7" showing year-ended consumer price inflation rates across G7 countries. The United States leads at 3.5%, followed by Italy at 3.0%, Canada at 2.8%, Great Britain at 2.6%, Germany at 2.4%, France at 2.0%, and Japan at 1.5%. The US inflation rate is more than double Japan's and stands as the only G7 country exceeding 3.0%.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The main lesson of Trump is not that he lies constantly but that Republicans have been lying to themselves about their own beliefs for decades.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The problem isn't Donald Trump. The problem is the Republican Party, which told us three times he was the best person they could find to be president. I take them at their word. Any other Republican would be even worse.

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Dominic Holland @dominicholland.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Also, Hegseth and Trump are not just buffoons but cowards, and not just cowards but grandiose cowards. They manifestly are the opposite of what they grandiosely pose as being. They attract only cowards and buffoons. They are using & abusing & destroying the US military, which itself is complicit.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Categorical reflex explains why it’s futile to debate ideas and policy with Republicans. What you think is an open-minded discussion based on fact and reason they treat as a rationalization of firm views they will never change." epurchaseattack.substack.com/p/categorica...

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Categorical Reflex and Republican Fragility

We were all baffled: Republicans became anti-vaxx overnight just when vaccines were about to save the world from Covid.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trump's governing philosophy: Break something they value so they have to pay you to fix it.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Of coyne, you seldom hear this from Democratic candidates.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Billionaires: "Anyone who opposes our abuses is a communist."

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Republican Party has been on the verge of collapse since 2008. It just needed one strong blow to shatter. Instead Democrats were desperate to compromise.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Republican Party is irredeemable.

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Eric Purchase @ericpurchase.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Republicans: Jan 6 was a picnic. Democrats: Jan was a coup. Rs: We have a difference of opinion. Ds: No, you're delusional. Rs: You've deeply offended me. I wanted to have a civil discussion so I can pretend my biases are well reasoned.

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