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average against the machine

California, USA
Joined August 2009
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@Rschooley
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I’ve been cutting back here, but it’s looking like it’s time to make the break. At least until something changes in the head office.
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Angela Merkel has a doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry. Our President called her stupid.
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It's amazing how quickly "the President is going to cheat to win" is just normalized as a factor we must all work around because the system itself is far too corrupted to stop him.
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Donald Trump has finally achieved something Barack Obama didn’t.
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The thing I like about Beto's stunt is it shows a willingness to try anything at this point. Which is exactly the emergency stance every Democrat should be taking right now.
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This halftime show will not be taught in Florida schools.
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I don’t think Brett Kavanaugh’s family should be put in jeopardy as a result of his decisions. But I also think my family shouldn’t be put in jeopardy as a result of his decisions.
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Nothing stopping Joe Scarborough from devoting a weekly segment from now until Election Day to highlight a different Trump sexual assault accuser’s story.
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Opening schools will be a hell of a way to discover the reason Covid wasn't too prevalent in kids is because schools were closed.
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Biden should sign the bill in front of enormous Let's Go Brandon banner just as a power move.
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That this all can be plausibly traced to an event in defiance of a woman’s dying wish is definitely the beginning of a horror plot.
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If a governor beats a recall with 66% but you can call for a recall with 12%, I don't think the problem is with the governor.
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Imagine telling 50 people at a MAGA rally that they won a free trip to Mar-a-Lago and then dropping them in Venezuela.
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For God’s sake, the controversy shouldn’t be Democrats moving to impeach, it should be Republicans not calling for an immediate resignation.
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Just to be clear, Trump's lawyer saying a government official should be executed is a "joke," but Kathy Griffin, who makes jokes for a living was making a "threat."
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Honestly don’t know how Musk’s genius reputation holds up the more he talks.
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Biden should announce a different cabinet pick every day 15 minutes before a Trump press rally.
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Imagine if 4 days after 9/11 there were no official federal briefings about it.
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Let’s be honest here, if we’re going to float unsubstantiated conspiracies, Trump getting 74 million votes is much more suspicious than Biden getting 80 million.
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Nobody ever does a piece on how slashing executive pay would lower prices.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill has hiked menu prices by roughly 4% to cover the cost of raising its workers’ wages.
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Fox News seems like they prepared for this like the BBC has the plan for when the Queen dies.
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The President who didn't know who Frederick Douglass was can somehow dig up quotes from obscure racists at the drop of a hood.
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Upon reflection, Contagion vastly overestimated this country’s interest in fighting a pandemic.
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Has Trump expressed any sympathy to the families of the dead yet? Any compassion for the medical professionals in harm’s way? Any human feelings at all beyond pride in his ratings?
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The party that wanted to relive Benghazi every day for years wants to move on from the Capitol attack 3 weeks out and not look back.
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I’m not even sure how we all moved past he buried his ex wife on a golf course.
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Biden issuing an emergency declaration for a state that didn't vote for him without even a little insinuation that it's really kind of their fault? Weird.
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Regarding the Newsom move, I hope other Democrats are taking note of just how giddy the base gets when fire is fought with fire and not just stern pronouncements of disappointment and wishful thinking.
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Twitter’s starting to feel like a mall that’s down to a Macy’s and a Burlington Coat Factory.
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Trump building a wall when he should have been building bridges is one of those rare metaphors that also works as a factual statement.
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World's richest man doesn't want to pay more taxes is right up there with "toddler thinks bedtime unfair" in terms of scoops.
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Elon Musk slams Biden over his new billionaires' tax and warns 'eventually they run out of other people's money and come for you'
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Odd that Qanon doesn't seem particularly interested in actual child trafficking in the justice system.
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I'm not sure a week ago I would have bought that it would make a difference but I really do think Jon Stewart dropping hot inside the GOP media bubble had a catalytic impact that blindsided them.
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Who are you going to believe, a hundred ex-White House staffers or a dozen current ones that are trying to stay out of jail?
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We used to make fun of North Korea for this stuff.
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9 days between Katie Hill being accused of an affair and resigning. It's now been a month since the Matt Gaetz story broke and he's raising money off of it.
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The thing about going zero tolerance on people spoofing Musk’s screen name is did he really think million follower accounts would stick with the bit for more than a day or two? The actual funny response would have been for him to change his to Kathy Griffin.
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People who think Joe Rogan has had a rough week should talk to a doctor or nurse who has to look forward to watching people who did their own research die every time they clock in.
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Now let's find out who paid off Brett Kavanaugh's debt while the press is doing the FBI's job.
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So I guess we've stopped asking why an old semi-rich guy in Vegas shot five or six hundred people?
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Is it just me or is Pence wearing baggier suits, longer ties and standing tipped slightly forward, dead arms dangling?
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Every New York contractor can tell you, immediately cash any check with Trump’s name on it.
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So how often did Trump remind Mitch McConnell that he had what he needed to put his wife in jail?
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Two years in and Republicans still can't grasp that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just better than them at this.
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Given just winning Georgia doesn’t help anything, we can imagine Trump’s had this same conversation with other states that didn’t leak the tape.
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It’s not like there’s a history we can learn from about what happens when a regime starts vilifying doctors, scientists, and teachers.
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I'm just a little skeptical of the motives of the politicians saying today's tragedy requires an instant rethinking of policy but after every mass shooting in this country insist the only answer is to do absolutely nothing.
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Mark Zuckerberg has the right to your firstborn male child. You agreed to this when you played FarmVille in 2009.
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Really nice that those that investigated Benghazi eight ways to Sunday are just chilling out as Trump guts national security for revenge.
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Walter Reed standing by for phase two of the physical.
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The subtext of the Carl Bernstein CNN article is there are really a lot of people around Trump who know he's an existential threat to the country and they are freaking out.
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When they pull out Obama’s middle name you know they’re losing.
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What percentage of the solutions to this nation’s problems are off the table because they would upset a hundred or so rich guys?
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How did we become more afraid of European style socialism than European style fascism?
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Has it occurred to anyone that the White House that wasn't concerned about Democrats dying because they weren't going to vote for them anyway feels the same way about school children?
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In the debate, Biden should just pull out a list of words and challenge Trump to pronounce them.
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The real point of the Arizona audit was not to overturn the last election, it's to overturn the next one.
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Is Ted Cruz really trying to scare voters with pictures from Beto's band days when there are pictures of him out there as a mime?
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When Pete Buttigieg says, "I'm really glad you asked about..." you're already dead.
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Leak the tapes of Trump’s insane calls to foreign leaders to Sarah Cooper and Sarah Cooper only.
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The new phase of gaslighting is pretending the previous four years of gaslighting never happened.
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The rush from MAGA media figures to performatively condemn the halftime show is a great example of how much ginned up white grievance is the glue holding the right together.
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Republicans want less security around the Capitol, which was breached, and more "security" around elections, which were not.
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Fox News: Right after we mock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's fear of being targeted by a murderous mob, Josh Hawley is here to tell us one more time how a canceled book is the worst thing that can happen to someone.
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I think elected Democrats need to talk less about the sane Republican Party they wish for and more about the radical one we got.
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So basically the same people that were begging for pardons two years ago now run the show.
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I’m so old I remember Adam Schiff warning these same senators if they condone Trump’s conduct he will do worse.
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In light of this week's revelations it sure seems like Mike Pence has a patriotic duty to explain why he wouldn't get in the car with the Secret Service.
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I don't remember after 9/11 a huge outcry about holding off on discussing how to fix airport security.
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If people must start a cult, can’t they do it around Dolly Parton and not Donald Trump?
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Whoever worked on a Saturday to fire out that Baltimore Sun editorial needs to step out and take a bow.
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The Central Park Five should take out a full page ad in the Times.
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I want the Twilight Zone where as soon as Trump touches Vietnamese soil it’s 1968 and he’s a buck private.
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If you use the expression “after every mass shooting” like the frequency is a political inconvenience, you may be part of the problem.
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When someone rants in real life like Trump does on twitter, you grab your kid and say, "Let's go to a different McDonalds."
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I just want to say for the record when in the future people say, “We had no idea the extent of the damage he was doing to the structure of the government,” some of us knew.
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I'm sure Republicans want to get the Kyle Rittenhouse trial over quickly so they can elect him to congress.
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The new Ocean’s 11 plot writes itself.
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Stevie Nicks has thousands of shawls, keeps them in a temperature-controlled vault
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If you are one of the people paying a little more in taxes this year, just remember it's so this guy can pay $670 million less.
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So we find out the FBI half assed the Kavanaugh investigation under GOP orders and that's it, lifetime appointment, move on.
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Why isn’t every Democrat demanding Miller’s resignation today? Doesn’t seem like a tough call.
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Stephen Miller, Trump’s architect of mass human rights abuses at the border (including child separation & detention camps w/ child fatalities) has been exposed as a bonafide white nationalist. He’s still at the White House shaping US immigration policy. Miller must resign. Now.
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Cheering crowds everywhere. It’s like every city’s team won the World Series.
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Has anyone been held to the Al Franken standard since Al Franken?
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Does Susan Collins find her 17 point approval rating drop "troubling" or "deeply concerning?"
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“Both parties are the same really.”
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What Republicans and Democrats are doing in the states where they have total power:
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Hannity losing the co-presidency is hitting him hard.
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Cops holding a "do not comply" sign. Alrighty then.
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Herman Cain's been hospitalized with post Trump rally Covid for 25 days now.
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Donald Trump has 5 kids and 10 grandchildren and he’s rage tweeting about Nancy Pelosi on Christmas night? Play some Farkle or something, man.
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There's a palpable frustration from Republicans that a real war has interrupted their culture war route back to power.
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If anyone Trump infected dies, he won't feel guilty, he'll feel superior.
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At some point maybe more people will notice that Republicans are actively trying to make everything worse so they can run in how bad things are. And that’s the extent of their plan.
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I'm sort of morbidly curious about how Republican senators thought voting against veteran's health was going to go for them.
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The October surprise is that Bob Dole is alive.
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Sure would be a nice break from the Manchin and Sinema show if some press would ask Collins and Murkoski their take on stuff like family leave or vision and dental for seniors. Republicans get to be against popular legislation without any heat whatsoever.
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I just keep thinking about what would the coverage be like if a store owner was killed for flying a MAGA flag.
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The greatest trick the Republican party ever pulled was convincing working class voters that liberals losing means they win.
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I do appreciate that the one short clip of Jared behaving like an aged out John Hughes villain instantly undid all the reputation repair work they've done with the New York Times.
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Remember when we were all supposed to believe his child was severely traumatized by Kathy Griffin?
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Trump Calls Reports of Child Separations Phony Stories of Sadness and Grief
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It's just amazing the heroes charging into the fire are being insulted by the guy who won't go out in the rain.
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