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16 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
this is why i cant listen to a single politics podcast. i listen to shows about comedy, history and murder to escape.
its also why i absolutely dont watch cable news unless something absolutely huge is happening. but also because cable news is very bad and political twitter is absolutely addicted to it. righties watch fox and libs cite msnbc people like theyre family. ick.
on the rare occasion i do pull up cable news i practically get physically ill. i really dont know how so many of you do it. it was my job for years, but otherwise i avoid it like the plague. its so stupid.
i would watch the real housewives shows (i only have seen them via my aunts) over cable news, any day. you would learn more.
stop watching cable news, is what i would say. for conservatives its because fox news is racist and rots your brain. for liberals its because you've convinced yourselves that watching msnbc is activism and it is not.

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16 Apr
kal is like this all the time. weiner dogs are #1
you can literally just wave your hands above a dachshund and they lose their minds. its great.
Right now however he’s just in post-nap Image
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i had forgotten how on the nose network dramas can be then i watched the law and order episode based on the central park karen thing. it was still entertaining but it felt like most of the episode was the cast looking into the camera saying "racism, we totally get it, america."
every time the show cut to ice-t, it was like there should be a greek chorus going, "BECAUSE HE'S BLACK, WE TURN TO HIM FOR A TAKE"
and also the program was like, "we know you all love Olivia Benson, so we're totally not going to make her into a racist, but maybe you'll learn something if we point out your beloved character has racial blind spots."

its heart was in the right place. just not subtle.
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16 Apr
i think liberals are falling into a false sense of security fwiw
fwiw this isnt pessimism or despair. its more like seeing people celebrate v-e day when in reality you havent even landed on normandy beach.
i get accused on here often of being an eeyore. i dont see it that way but maybe im not communicating it correctly.

i think in general liberals - democrats are ill-prepared for true political trench warfare. i think despite their lack of ideas gop is more loaded for battle.
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15 Apr
the race war guys never seem to contemplate a scenario where they lose and Urkel becomes King of America
BOW BEFORE YOUR BLACK SOVEREIGN GOD
"say it"
"but king urkel..."
"i said, say it"
"did i--"
"i can't hear you"
"DID I DO THAT?"
*blam*
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15 Apr
wall street journal goes full jacobin
this is illustrative of how there are simply no core principles to conservatism. its just "whatever."
liberals keep punching it at like "this cognitive dissonace will ruin them." but its like hitting the blob. there's nothing to hit and you just end up stuck.
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15 Apr
not tired of all the winning folks 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⭐️⭐️⭐️
A strong man, powerful man, very rough man, he comes up to me and he says "sir, jobless claims will be over 700,000 sir" and I say "make it lower. make it 576k" and he says "sir, we cannot do that sir," and I told him you go back there and you do it.
And now the initial jobless claims are 576k, 200k lower than before. People are opening up, folks. Your 401k is so beautiful like you wouldn't believe. So the man comes up to me, tears in his eyes - this is a strong, powerful man - and he says "thank you sir."
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