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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Look if conservatives want to own me by reminding me that Ben is a very successful conservative, cool, he still looks, sounds, and talks like the “let me at ‘em” cartoon puppy with this stuff
I refuse to believe Ben owns and is well trained with a semi automatic rifle, and even if he did the government does not have to come to take it away from him, they simply need to put it on a higher shelf
Wait is it just Scrappy Doo who says that, I was thinking of like an obscure Looney Tunes character, it might just be Scrappy Doo, Ben Shapiro is absolutely Scrappy Doo for this analogy. Anyway, he’s short

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14 Feb
It’s weird how many people think when I point out the Democrats are going to be annihilated in 2022, they think it’s just pessimism or doomsaying or something like that. And that’s on them. From an actuarial perspective, Democrats have already lost Congress:
First of all, basically every state where Republicans control the legislature will be redistricting this year to guarantee as many Republican pickups as possible. That is baked in. There is no way to stop this other than federal legislation, which can’t pass, because filibuster.
Second, the incumbent party historically loses seats in the first midterm. Again, this is a natural flow of societal mood. The one time in decades this didn’t happen was the year after terrorists attacked the country.
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31 Dec 20
I keep seeing people argue that “Democrats failed us again” and man, I’d LOVE to see Democrats actually fail us. Failure implies trying to do something and not succeeding.

Democrats didn’t fail us, they abandoned us.
I have no idea what’s going to happen in the runoff next week and honestly as of this morning I no longer care. If the Dems win it will quite literally change nothing, and if they lose after their stunt last night it will be, to be clear, incredibly fucking funny
I don’t know what else has to happen after all but six Democrats teamed up with McConnell to kill the $2000 checks to make you understand they care only about having power and not actually doing anything with it.
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31 Dec 20
A lot of people have made the no-shit observation that this is the start of Hawley’s presidential campaign, but color me pessimistic—he’s pretty much in a 24 hour period made enemies with the entire Republican Senate caucus and look how well that went for Ted Cruz
The entire strategy here appears to be make the headlines and make money first and as fast as possible to shut out other nominees which is of course a doomed idea, at least 20 Republicans are running in 2024, minimum
This of course does not even consider the possibility that Trump himself will simply run again, which, for the record, he is absolutely going to do, if only to raise money as well
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30 Dec 20
I’m going to be honest here, these numbers appear good but at the same time they… Don’t really appear good enough. Perdue beat Ossoff by 88,000 votes in the general.
Let’s say with 80k new voters and a very generous pro-Dem lean of 75%: that’s a 40k net gain for Ossoff. Barely half of what he needs.
This is just the back of the envelope stuff, but what that would mean is that at the rate of new registrations, Democrats would basically have to be matched on LACK of enthusiasm from Republicans at the same rate.
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30 Dec 20
She’s called for them repeatedly, the last time literally four days ago. Congrats on all the likes I guess
Imagine being so lazy you have to invent a reason to be mad at Elizabeth Warren about something
Literally the first result in a search that took me 15 seconds Image
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26 Dec 20
From most of the reviews I'm reading WW84 is a massive casualty of lacking the theater experience in that viewers have instead been left to contemplate the logic and quality of these movies and realizing there is none immediately, instead of hours after leaving the theater
Like imagine if you watched Rise of Skywalker in a setting where you could literally stop at every scene, open your laptop or take out your phone, and immediately address how dumb the thing that just happened was. This is going to kill the entire studio blockbuster model
Attack of the clones might quite possibly be one of the worst movies ever made, but I watched it in the theater twice because it was one of the most enjoyable theater experiences in my life. Movie theaters better figure out how to market that experience as irreplaceable
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