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Oprah just endorsed Fetterman. A little fucking late; believe it or not, some people on the fence would finally be convinced of Oz's quackness when told about it by the star who had him as "her" doctor for five lamentable seasons... Let's hope it's not TOO motherfucking late.
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Well, if the polls are correct, The Insane Party is about to win again.
America is fucking lost. Newsom has it right. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE??? I blame Biden for this. He really is "too nice" in these extraordinary times. (He's too fucking old!!!) But anyway, I live in Canada.
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"If the Bible is right, the world will explode..." FiveThirtyEight had the Kansas Amendment 2 vote wrong by... 20 points! ![]()
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So what happened to free speech absolutism?
Musk recommends voting GOP, suspends Twitter accounts for ‘impersonation’ The social media company experienced a chaotic weekend under its new ownership. (That's impersonation of him, you follow...)
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Have I mentioned that Musk is a fucking asshole lately?
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A beer can was thrown at Ted Cruz while the senator was riding in the Houston Astros World Series parade, as he's faced repeated fan animosity in recent weeks.
The senator was also booed at a New York Yankees game in October. Political violence? Nah, more like instant karma. It's Ted motherfucking Cruz for chrissakes.
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i'm currently looking for an alternative. there really aren't a lot of options out there, but i'm sure something else will appear because this can't continue in its current state. |
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Twitter was always a social cesspool though.
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the problem is that there is no other text-based microblogging platform like this right now, and everyone in the public square is currently in it. i used it like the old rss feeds to hear from serious sources, and it was good in this form. during brexit, for example, instead of waiting for tv or newspapers to report things hours later i would follow https://twitter.com/houseofcommons (and labourwhips and so forth) anyway of course you can go even deeper and watch stuff happen live right here: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons but now it becomes a collection of websites instead of a centralized funnel. ... thinking this through out loud, i think the way to go for me is to start collecting bookmarks. but see, bookmarks don't have push notifications, so now i have to start scanning. unless of course i can find a script that scans for me... but it's still not a network. |
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I've never tweeted anything, and I quit facebook 2 years ago. Trust me - life is better without social media.
(Yes I know, this is a forum....but it's different.)
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So, when the Repukes do well today, will any of them be talking about rigged elections? Or will it be crickets?
Every cycle is "the most consequential ever", but this one really is! How many Big Liars will win, and be in power to fuck up the 2024 election? Imagine if McCarthy was House Speaker instead of Pelosi last time around. It's sickening to even think about, but I think we know how this is going to go tonight. Good luck, America. You are going to fucking need it.
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sounds like the demonrats (lol) have managed to partially stem the bleeding. good!
the maga promotion strategy was playing with fire/flirting with disaster, but i'm glad someone in the democratic party had both the balls & brains to go with it, because repukes are corrupted to the core and will enable trumpians shamelessly. just look at how they crucified darth cheney's spawn. so this was very good judo. nevertherless, borderline or deeply irresponsible depending on how you look at it. i have no opinion. anyway the reason i did not go hysterical through all of this fucked ordeal was that because unlike outside observers commenting on another country i have to live through this shit and can't afford to be a *gynormous* pussy about it. we have dodged half a bullet. the other half is still flying. we're on the same side, but please quit it with the fucking tears, it's not just embarrassing but actually demoralizing, and if these were trenches you'd be shot for it. |
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From Paul Krugman's NYT newsletter (1/2):
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the biggest economic risk of a republican hijack of the budget is not falling short of fiscal goals, but the monetary result of dangerous flirtations with the debt ceiling which push the dollar further towards losing its status as *the* reserve currency of the world. this status is already under pressure from the rise of china as a global power, the reaction of authoritarian governments against western economic sanctions, etc.
this reserve status is what right now protects americans from feeling the full effects of inflation induced by global supply shocks and other risks. we get cheaper imports than anybody else with the dollar at historic highs so we don't feel the punch. and we can outbid anyone for what we need, while others can't. we have in fact exported inflation to the rest of the world. the reserve status is also why the size of the national debt is not such a terrible burden. to see what happens when you destroy confidence in a currency look at the short lived government of liz truss. biden's fiscal policy goals are already in place and are massive, even after the manchin/synema reductions. we now have an industrial policy codified within the inflation reduction act etc. that will play out over the next decade and beyond. just because democrats are terrible communicators who can't properly tout their achievements it doesn't mean the industrial policy is not there. here are 2 polar opposite views of it: https://www.americanprogress.org/art...-quality-jobs/ https://reason.com/2022/10/17/bidens...-always-fails/ and here the more evenhanded and reasonable take: https://www.economist.com/united-sta...ith-difficulty |
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a short one (from reuters)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month for his defamatory claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting, a Connecticut judge ruled Monday. |
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Georgia On My Mind again, huh. Remember the big bearded dumb fuck in Superman II? Basically, that alien subcreature, minus the powers, is Herschel Walker. Even though the dipshit cannot speak he got enough votes to take Warnock to a runoff election, on which EVERYTHING depends now.
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