Note that the 2022 Biden didn’t say “MAGA Republicans are good people who are going in a bad direction.” He said MAGA Republicans are bad people. It’s the difference between telling your kid he’s been bad vs. he *is* bad–a “status ” offense, as Justice Sotomayor might put it. https://t.co/d9CRgGxquh
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Jul 15, 2024
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When I attended a few campaign rallies with veteran reporters, I learned they see a whole lot of things that ordinary people like me miss. But the photographers see EVERYTHING. https://t.co/DjEJZmMX8i
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Jul 15, 2024
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America’s Heart Shines Through – Even at Assassination Attempt https://t.co/cE1g7gtuDh
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Jul 15, 2024
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BIDEN 7/14/24:
“I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re friends, coworkers …”BIDEN 9/1/22:
“MAGA Republicans represent an extremism… https://t.co/zeAE45Su23— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
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BIDEN 7/14/24:
“I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re friends, coworkers, citizens.”
https://t.co/ZL6K9n0W2I
BIDEN 9/1/22:
“MAGA… https://t.co/O4hqfH1Ui5
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The Feiler Faster Thesis in action. I agree. Maybe not 10 days, but 25 days.
It’s true that on 9/12 I wrote the 9/11 would be off the evening news by Thanksgiving, https://t.co/FxITXsJKQ1 so there are exceptions (that prove the rule, of course). https://t.co/rofjFAYMwY
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Jul 15, 2024
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Trump the vicious attack dog is often problematic. Trump the healer and uniter is terrifying. What will he sell out to justify a new self-image as the man whom everybody can love? https://t.co/r9qdRnxzDH
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Jul 15, 2024
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Agree on the need to know–but his immigration stance could not conceivably be worse than Biden’s. https://t.co/c7cJ5fgldj
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Jul 14, 2024
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I recommend chapter 5 in Mike Kinsley’s “Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide” if you want to know more about the effects of Parkinson’s. https://t.co/oa8k16SEfF Hobbes wrote Leviathan with Parkinson’s (could be a plus or minus, I never read it). Kinsley wrote this witty and thoroughly… https://t.co/f12h2yDP7r https://t.co/53nGTsufwO
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Jul 14, 2024
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Wouldn’t you rather have this guy (Shapiro) as your Democratic candidate? https://t.co/HANbkgB7ii
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Jul 14, 2024
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“Corey was an avid supporter of the former President, and was so excited to be there last night with him in the community.” Shapiro’s statement genuinely moving, because it honors and identifies the victim as one of the people Dems often disdain, if not vilify (“MAGA… https://t.co/mhNdsBLDwb
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Jul 14, 2024
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“Corey was an avid supporter of the former President, and was so excited to be there with him in the community.” Shapiro’s statement genuinely moving, because it honors the victim as one of the people Dems often disdain, if not vilify. Not that easy for a Dem pol to do. Did… https://t.co/RCSn2H4okb
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Jul 14, 2024
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“Alarming lack of humility or self-awareness …” Those historians really shouldn’t have told him he was the new FDR. https://t.co/8u5wVbclxV
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Jul 14, 2024
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Has BlueSky become like a big Journolist, a hothouse where ordinarily sane people try to outdo each other in their anti-Republicanism? … https://t.co/n0wU4s0zCz
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Jul 14, 2024
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??? “Biden’s five-point lead among likely women voters ticked up to 8 points after the debate.” https://t.co/oVcFWCUU9Y
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Jul 14, 2024
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In this overspecialization on foreign policy, Biden resembles George H W Bush, no? https://t.co/uUmXW8w5vx
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Jul 13, 2024
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Seems like a good example of the gap between Biden’s facility talking about foreign policy and his crudity talking about domestic policy. He wouldn’t make a mistake like this about NATO membership! https://t.co/6s6QFDYLKO
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Jul 13, 2024
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Circular firing squads are underrated https://t.co/0QYeLN1efS
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Jul 13, 2024
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Oakland police blame “outdated software” … https://t.co/BFryTR0wFj
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Jul 13, 2024
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He seems to conflate his Child Tax Credit (a straight no-work-required welfare-like cash payment) with the child *care* subsidies (in the failed Build Back Better plan) designed to free more people to work. …. https://t.co/tNCZYEIQgP
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Jul 13, 2024
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“[E]ven when the president… has the entire Congress in his camp, and the Supreme Court on his side, he still doesn’t have the equivalent power of a British prime minister with a super-majority in parliament that [Keir] Starmer now has.” — @sullydish https://t.co/EwdS9FBFpt
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Jul 13, 2024
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But Cori Bush (seems like a potential weak reed) https://t.co/BRy8diFUpt https://t.co/lzp3QUnWbQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 12, 2024
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You missed the crowds chanting “NATO Expansion!” in 2022. https://t.co/8TOTqYumLH
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Jul 12, 2024
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Are you saying Donna Shalala stuck to her approved talking points? https://t.co/uuzoGzwNrm
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Jul 12, 2024
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You know that Trump’s conclusion from the narrowing polls will be that voters are not seeing enough Trump. https://t.co/9tdhZzFZlT
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Jul 12, 2024
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