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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 49m

It's probably true they let right wing Indians think they were in the club for a while if they hated it Muslims enough.

jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 1h

Planter's own response - whether you think is honest or adequate - is better for him as a candidate than the line taken by his defenders who want to make this yet another round of the 2016 primary.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 1h

That's not what he's doing. He's showing how Trump could do this in a way that's a political win and he's choosing not to. It's a very obvious criticism of Trump.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1h

Struck me at the end of Trump's first term, post-impeachment, that even when he got bipartisan support (like for CARES) he didn't invite Dems to the bill signing.

I think about this bc there's a kneejerk political media instinct to ask Dems how they'll unify the country and it's getting very silly.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 2h

I think there probably is something to that.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 3h

We need a separate office, "Tribune" or something, elected in its own right. The IGs report to them and they rule on FOIA requests.

Can't be reflected. Pay is $1M/yr and you get the same as a lifetime pension, but you're not allowed to receive any other income for the rest of your life.

jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 3h

lol

jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 4h

Do you think I was talking about the actor Clint Eastwood?

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 6h

Like, what happened that stripped away any of the "noble" pretensions of the traditional masculinity and why was its harbinger a guy who wears more bronzer than a Florida grandma who chain smokes 120s?

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 6h

Sure but I'm really talking about the aesthetics here too - Trump is a whiny, fussy, theatrical germaphobe who carries his weight in his hips, eats steak well done and can't walk downstairs. And they're still eating it up. Something is wrong aside from just traditional gender roles suck.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 8h

Kimmel didn't say anything vile.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 8h

The oldest active constitution in the world sitting on a base of English common law is pretty rickety for a globe spanning empire with a president that's more powerful than most gods.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 8h

They thought all the chokepoints they built into the system would slow down a demagogue. They couldn't imagine how those would be exploited by the richest people to ever exist, and certainly not that the president would become the most powerful person in the world.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 8h

It wasn't set up as an honor system; the Framers were explicit that they did not expect everyone to be virtuous and built a system where they thought ambition would check ambition.

The problem is that the framework has barely been updated since 1789.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 9h

Charlie Kirk credited Susan Collins for casting the “deciding vote in the Senate that ultimately led to the repeal of Roe v Wade”

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 9h

Conservative conceptions of manhood always included being quick to anger and the tinge of violence but it also included not whining, being taciturn, being hardworking , etc. Clint Eastwood, not a 12 year old raging at Mom for not having chicken nuggets.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 9h

For all the ink spilled on manhood, this is the crisis in masculinity.

I get, on some level, why a whiny, queeny, bratty blowhard appeals to people who resent the notion of self-regulation or restraint. But something is fundamentally fucked up when that's "macho".

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 21h

I'd like some explanation for Gen X; "they got middle aged" sure but that's not happening with Millennials and that doesn't explain why they are going so crazy for Trump.

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jms @malthusiantrap.bsky.social · 22h

We held his seat and won an election in Alabama.

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