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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 2h

The Pope has made it from Chicago to Vatican City with a layover in between and he's been watching the same game the entire time.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if the Pope is watching this.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sorry. They pitched over 1,000 innings and played 118 games?

I know things were different then, and they only played 6 years, but my god.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 3h

I'm a firm believer that defanging Chotiner would be reading 10-12 Wodehouse books, writing extensive notes, and walking in prepared to discuss.

Then, get the reading audience on your side by extolling Plum's love of dogs. Post photos on your Bluesky account of Plum w/ dogs.

Chotiner solved.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 9h

CHOTINER
I’m just wondering, you did look me up before agreeing to this, right?

ME
Whether or not I looked you up doesn’t matter.

CHOTINER
It doesn’t matter?

ME
It doesn’t matter because I’m nailing this.

CHOTINER
I’m just curious why you think you’re nailing it.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

The Democratic party should adopt values first, not policies. Values like, "E pluribus unum, bitch. Diversity is our strength and how we kick ass. We welcome everyone who welcomes everyone. If you don't like it, fuck you."

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 12h

Tell you what though, give me free healthcare for undocumented immigrants, increase refugee immigration, and restore affirmative action. Hell yeah, give me all of that and fuck these guys.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 12h

Hey it's the b.s. Republicans use. Look at all these unpopular positions, they're so out of touch.

Then you look and its 3 things poorly phrased, a position D's got scared off of in 2006, 2 positions a City Councilor voted for once a decade ago, and an unpopular R initiative they're blaming on D's.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 13h

This is a list of people who haven't won a thing in years. Their positions aren't to help build the Democratic Party, but are instead nostalgia bait for when they were last relevant.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13h

The usual and unsurprising crowd of "sacrifice the unwashed for centrist votes" crowd is behind this Kinder Gentler Fascism screed

David Axelrod
Andrew Bates
Matt Bennett
Rachel Bitecofer
Patrick Bonsignore
David Broockman
Lilah Penner Brown
Kelly Burton
Cheri Bustos
James Carville
Christina Coloroso
Danielle Deiseroth
Pat Dennis
Tré Easton
Lanae Erickson
Jon Favreau
Stefanie Feldman
Jesse Ferguson
Adam Frisch
Jon Fromowitz
Yair Ghitza
Nick Gourevitch
Matthew Grossman
Andrew Grunwald
Michael Halle
Vicky Hausman
Abby Horrell
Lakshya Jain
Olivia Julianna
Josh Kalla
Alixandria Lapp
Lindsay Lewis
Seth London
Mona Mahadevan
Will Marshall
Marissa McBride
Susan McCue
Marcela Mulholland
Carlos Odio
Ishanee Parikh
Dan Pfeiffer
David Plouffe
Lara Putnam
Otis Reid
Jonathan Robinson
Josh Rosmarin
Greg Schultz
Meg Schwenzfeier
Nate Silver
Lis Smith
Daniel Squadron
Matthew Stoller
Aaron Strauss
Charlotte Swasey
Chris Warshaw
Margit Westerman
Miya Woolfalk
Josh Yazman
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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 13h

That's what I did reading GLHM's original comment.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 14h

Jesus. Did they let Will Lewis run Amazon too?

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 14h

And as more Americans run towards danger it becomes less likely they'll succeed at more than turning most all of us towards them.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 14h

This thread is, I think, very true. Especially the part about believing we'll turn against each other. R's have built a media ecosystem dedicated to that, but lose the 10% soft support, 5% R cowards, 5% soft-MAGA, and it gets ugly quick.

Noticeable reality won't keep bending to their fantasies.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 16h

Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 14h

That's a follow; and I'm very sorry about your week.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 14h

Really like George, Champagnie too. Feel great about Sarr and Johnson, jury's still out on Bub and Whitmore, maybe Coulibaly. Bub I feel bad because I keep seeing him as a one for one for Avdija, who rocks, and on Bub I'm just meh.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 14h

Read an article about my Washington Wizards and briefly wondered if they'd make the Finals again before our Color Revolution happens, or after.

And then, thinking about it more, realized the question isn't will they make the Finals before, it's will they make the playoffs. Sigh.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

Dunno that the entire colosseum going thumbs down makes for long-term success.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

Oh no. I'm sorry. This is so tough.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know if this is a joke by me or not.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

It feels like either an attempt at that or, like a Roman, be torn to pieces and thrown into the Potomac.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

Embalming could only be an improvement.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

Every centrist argument boils down to "we will cede ground to the right no matter how radical and unhinged they become." I think the professional class of D centrists are a bit like the Platner left where "the people" is white and male. And because white and male is default conservative, you cede.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

We think this Administration is spiraling now, I can't imagine what it'll be like.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

And R's lose when people realize they can only provide radical change while decreasing personal stability, because that's the Republican project.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

What Dem success there's been for the past decade has been coasting on the wake of Trump's unpopularity. They see when Republicans lose as an argument for stability and limited change, but it's not. It's that people want radical change, and personal stability.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 17h

I really think these centrists confuse their members personal preference for what voters want. You lose standing with all parts of your coalition when you refuse to crush Republicans who are out to ruin lives. The lack of fight is a constant complaint about Democratic politicians.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 18h

Li'l scoop at Semafor: A new report endorsed by Biden's former campaign manager, former DCCC chair Cheri Bustos, and other centrist Dems blames the party's broken brand on post-2012 left-wing language and ideas - not just "the groups" but adopted by whole party www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns

The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.

www.semafor.com

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