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The discourse I've heard about why Beasley was the choice from "consolation prize for 401 votes" to "we fear Jeff Jackson will have a Cal Cunningham" moment were cringe then and are worse now. I still can't believe she stood up A&T homecoming plus both Biden and Harris.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 1h

The best path is Jackson Senate and Nickel as AG. Sherita Walton deserves her redemption tour as Wake County DA.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 1h

But Cal Cunningham's texts. But Kay Hagan's beef with Randy Voller. Both are the Buttery Mails of North Carolina (Democratic) politics. #NcPol

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 22h

November 4, 1980. People knew Reagan was trouble yet chose him anyway.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some parts of Substack have gone full Threads levels of delusion.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone has too much faith in ratchet theory.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All avoidable if one binary choice was made differently.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If I actually interact with the person on a regular basis and make the effort to want them in my life, then definitely and I don't want to make all my work and interest. There are people in this day and age who want people to have parasocial relationships with them to overshare without effort.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Eagles meltdown against the Rams was high comedy. After the high comedy of the Flyers getting blown out in their home opener. With the Phillies window slamming shut in between. May adding LeBron and JB backfire seriously for the Sixers. Annoyed Philly sports is the best Philly sports.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Philly is having a sports hell week and I'm here for it!

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can reverse one United States Presidential election over the last 50 years in which the popular vote and electoral college votes matched. Which one do you reverse?

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The curse of Two Ingredient Dough.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She conceded the next afternoon and didn't fight.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The spouse of a cousin (Staten Island resident, usual Dem voter, boosted Mamdani hard) and I typically get along decently but his 2024 vote for Jill Stein got under my skin more than vaping or leasing a Tesla.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where was she in 2018 when Marc Molinaro was trying to be a Charlie Baker/Phil Scott?

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That block and the hype FAM put into it was the first signs of life. I'd put Debt in there too over on Lifetime. Bergeron Squares was the sign games were really back. Millionaire was rocket fuel.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now I have the theme to Shopping Spree stuck in my head thinking of non-problematic 1996 and I can't blame @troytakesphotos.bsky.social for this like any other Sunday night.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's the Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Haviland of wrestling without the beinf sisters angle.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was in San Diego in early June, they did a video package about how he had zero earned runs in May. He proceeded to give up an earned run and blew the game. To the Mets!

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The late 90s-mid 2000s in general have aged like milk.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If he was so bad, how did 77 million people want him back at the earliest chance and why did the opposition just do...nothing rather than fight knowing how bad it would be? It feels more and more like 21st Century US politics is total kayfabe that pro wrestling would be in envy of.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm on that hopium of this being a reverse 2010 and @joshsteinnc.bsky.social getting the legislature he needs that can finally drag North Carolina forward but I feel like dragging horses who aren't thirsty to water. The ads for NCGA races being heavily to Republicans has me worried. #NCPol

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If this is true, at least four known Democrats sat on their hands in the aftermaths than do something to prevent it.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait what am I missing on Threads? Has it devolved further?

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Sox should've choked their way into the 6 seed. Problem is once someone becomes a Yankee they become a Yankee for life unless they're some journeyman.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I was a woman and I found out I was pregnant, I would seriously consider abortion or at least passing a doctor a $100 to pull a Bruce/Brenda/David Reimer. Perhaps the US needs a reverse China period where women are desired and men are aborted or shipped off for foreign adoptions.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But hey, Caleb Bolden finally made it to the Woo! If I were the Sox, I would never live this down.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought all the Adley haters were smug Orioles fans.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I got banned there because the AI didn't like me wishing suffering on pedophiles because Rule 1.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It feels like the Red Sox don't compensate for losses of players and that irks me.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The same AI that auto bans people without nuance?

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I never want to hear Yankees fans complain ever again about Boone or Cashman. I'm annoyed that the Sox are stuck until 2030 with a failure of a manager and a failure of a GM.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can the Red Sox rescind the deal they gave Chad Tracy? They should've waited until after the postseason to offer a deal. You know who never would fall short in this position? Aaron Boone but the Sox ditched their Boone (Cora) for nothing.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was thinking more 1960s and Denny McLain, going from a dominant season to out of baseball to two unrelated federal prison terms. Perhaps with a side of Fernando Valenzuela-tier overuse. Oh, that reminds me of this Immaculate Grid!

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Has anyone lost friendships defending Kamala Harris, the most misunderstood Presidential candidate in United States history and the woman who would've saved America from collapse and woe? I have. Am I alone?

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 20 years, Tolle's kids will be going full Verlander while Walpole Cam will be either in the Mexican League (or a Partner League)...or perhaps worse.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So now everyone gets the memo that Cornell is bad? Newsflash: Cornell was always bad. Their existence and having all the grants that should be with the SUNY schools drags down strong public universities in New York State. Those 7 wastes of life are the tip of the iceberg. I'm miles underneath.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I totally memory holed George Holding and wonder how the heck someone barely in his 50s looked at least 65. It almost feels like NC politics this century are a form of kayfabe the Crocketts at their peak couldn't concoct for a house show at Dorton Arena.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fools who were the embodiment of Jar Jar Binks yelling "Wesa Free!" at the end of the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi. The whole Biden Administration feels hollow because everyone had collective amnesia over the last four years minus those who were considered hysterical for thinking otherwise

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I meant more that entrenched Dems like Roy have never fully seen Republicans as a threat the way Republicans see Democrats as a threat. The actions of Republicans post-2010 have browbeat them so much that I don't think they're capable of fighting.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Roy is a relic of a bygone era in NC politics where the NC Dems were on autopilot to the point they drove the car off a cliff.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Key NC Dem people have a long-range plan going out to 2028 to get back the courts. Something about the tepid, flaccid situation in 2022 broke them, possibly permanently. This is the first time they've had true headwinds in I can't remember how long.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why didn't they do this in 2021?

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

States need two viable political parties to function properly.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have you thought about your state's Auditor or Labor Commissioner lately? In 49 states, the auditor doesn't do much of anything? Not in NC, where the Auditor turned into a Shadow Governor with constant press and the Labor Commisioner's pictures are in elevators with abysmal labor conditions.

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And nowadays everyone has memory holed the issues the NC Dems had in the 90s and 2000s that allowed the NC GOP to take power with the exact same playbook. Now NC is stuck in Perma 2011 until the Dems can get power back. Imagine if Jim Black happened with modern social media.

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