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9 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
This is actually a great article about rich jerks who want to escape from society because they have no idea what society actually is or how being a part of it works. nytimes.com/2020/10/09/rea…
"I want to buy an island that's a zillion miles from anything but also has all the amenities I'm used to at the tips of my fingers. And no climate change."
"I'd like to escape from everything forever, but I'm not willing to quarantine in a luxury hotel for two weeks to make it happen."
"Is there an extra fee for assurance that my staff won't set me and my children adrift on Day Two of the Bad Times?"
"Nah, that's included."
"Yeah?"
"Sure."

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10 Oct
I don't understand this impulse. It's not like there are a bunch of Good Militias out there whose name is being sullied by the association of "militia" with white supremacist domestic terrorism. Why not call them militias?
They call themselves militias. the public understands them as militias. Seems to me "militias are bad" is a much simpler project than "militias are good, actually, but something completely different than every militia you've ever heard of."
(And if that project puts a little more stink on the public perception of The Second Amendment As Currently Construed By The GOP ... oh well.)
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A thought experiment on "eradicating Trumpism" for wistful Republicans: Is there a scenario in which Trump is alive and not imprisoned in which he is not a speaker at the 2024 Republican National Convention?
I just don't see a mechanism by which Trump is so decisively repudiated that his supporters don't remain an essential component of the GOP base. When he (eventually) dies, that problem can be papered over. But not until.
To put it another way, a LOT of elected Republicans tried to tank the 2016 election after Access Hollywood. They were 100% ready to take the L, put Trump in the trash, and regroup to beat Hillary in 2020. But their base wouldn't let them.
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Biden's got the Duke of Earl. This thing is over.
(One of the most thrilling live recordings ever, IMO:)
The Boomers for Biden Rock 'n' Doo-Wop Party starts at 5PM and lasts for 45 minutes, and I could not be more enthralled. mobilize.us/joebiden/event…
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Folks who are worried about a 25th Amendment coup against Trump should read the 25th Amendment.
It's short, and most of it can be passed over. Section One deals with the removal of the president from office by impeachment and conviction, death, or resignation. Not relevant here. Section Two deals with the replacement of the veep. Also skippable.
Section Three talks about how the President can go about VOLUNTARILY AND TEMPORARILY turning the powers of his or her office over to the Vice President. Voluntarily. Temporarily. His call.
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8 Oct
This plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, put her on "trial," and thereby overthrow the government of Michigan seems NOT to have been a cop-induced sting operation, but an actual thing. detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
("Would this 'plot' have existed without instigation by undercover cops?" is always the first question I ask. It seems that the answer is yes in this instance, though we'll learn more details soon.)
(Deleted and retweeted above tweet because I was rushing to class and tripped over my own grammar—wrote "the answer is no" when I meant "the answer is yes.")
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Republicans hyping a vote-by-mail tutorial by outragedly proclaiming that there are naked ladies in it is ... well, let's just call it shortsighted.
Y'all understand that this isn't Imagine Take Two, right? That it's a primer on how to take concrete steps to avoid having your ballot invalidated, specifically in a crucial swing state where vote by mail is going to be overwhelmingly Democratic?
The more attention the video gets, the more likely it is that Biden wins Pennsylvania. Period. Thirst attention, outrage attention, making fun of Josh Gad for being fat attention. Doesn't matter. Fewer vote-by-mail ballots get invalidated, and Democrats get more votes.
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