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Aug 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
At lovely Marymoor Park because a free @drivebytruckers show is, not unlike whiskey, hard to beat
Jay embracing the “Canadian bantam hockey player in 1988” aesthetic
My first time hearing “Heathens” live in a WHILE
As the dissenters in Dobbs observed, “Shit shots count if the table’s tilted, just pay the man who levels the floor”
Rewarding the hard-working roadies by letting them shred on “People Who Died”
Rock n roll must be followed by beer and baseball #SummerVibes

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Aug 20
Shapiro has agency, of course, but 1)the ad he helped to fund was obviously immaterial to a race Mastriano won by 23 points and 2)could only have helped Mastriano at all if Republican primary voters like candidates more if they're associated with Trump
While we're here, Shapiro was the Attorney General-elect when Trump won PA in 2016 and did not advocate for just awarding the state's electoral votes to Clinton, so we can be extremely confident he would not in fact act like Mastriano if the shoe was on the other foot
You've got it!
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Aug 20
The idea that Republican elites aren't to blame for who their voters want because their primary electorates are controlled by Democrats is as pathetic an evasion as I've ever seen
It's worth noting here that Democratic interventions in these primaries, like them or not, consist of running ads saying "this Republican candidate is a degenerate fascist" and assuming Republican primary voters will be like "that sounds great"
Clearly, this razor-thin race does not reflect strong and deep Republican support for an authoritarian extremist, but was decided because of a single ad pointing out Mastriano's affinity with Donald Trump
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Aug 18
I don't think Ohio is really at risk (although a man could dream) but if Vance is a shitty enough candidate to force the RNC to expend resources to defend a Trump +8 state as the out-party in a midterm that's a major win in itself
I mean, yeah, Ohio still has a liberal Dem senator and Obama carried the state twice. I don't think a win is remotely *likely* but it's not like trying to knock off McConnell or even Ted Cruz
If the race is even close in October, it's a result of Dobbs plus the Ohio GOP using gerrymandering to govern like absolute psychos
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Aug 17
Don’t do what James Comey did lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/08/dont-d…
One of the many problems with eleven-dimensional-chess arguments for not prosecuting Trump is that eleven-dimensional-chess appeasement of Republicans is exactly what gave us President Donald Trump in the first place: johnganz.substack.com/p/the-case-for…
Roe v. Wade was overruled because James Comey came up with a bunch of ad hoc reasons to break the rules because he didn't want Jason Chaffetz to yell at him. My response to this, personally, is not "we need the FBI to do more amateur Machiavellian political strategizing"
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Aug 17
Whether one agrees or not with the Democrats intervening against Meijer, it is *not* inherently inconsistent with seeing Trump as a threat to democracy, because defeating Republicans in general elections is the most important way of thwarting MAGA
Which is why in Wyoming, where winning the general is off the table, Democrats generally preferred the non-Trumpist candidate (although Mr. Crank's analysis would imply they would take the opposite position)
The only question here is tactical. John may be right that the MI-03 was a mistake. I don't really know, and am also extremely skeptical that the Dem spending was material to the outcome
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Aug 15
My favorite part of this is that one of the central Republican messages of this century is that the most horrible possible thing the federal government could theoretically do is to compel you to eat broccoli
That all seems like the communist food Michelle Obama is trying to force down the throats of your children. Here's how you serve your guests properly
This too
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