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Are the "quiet" parts quiet anymore? They just keep saying them louder lmao https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1295489684756299776
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 03:44 |
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Nixon also didn't have the weird cult of personality that would allow him to bend reality like Trump does.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 03:45 |
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Fister Roboto posted:Nixon also didn't have the weird cult of personality that would allow him to bend reality like Trump does. Creating that alternative reality after the Nixon mess was one of the reasons Fox News was created.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 03:48 |
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Fister Roboto posted:Nixon also didn't have the weird cult of personality that would allow him to bend reality like Trump does. For thirty years, the conservative elites built a right-wing media ecosystem only for it to trap them inside with Trump, locked in a death spiral.
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Thwomp posted:For thirty years, the conservative elites built a right-wing media ecosystem only for it to trap them inside with Trump, locked in a death spiral. I mean based on recent history it is so far a winning spiral for the people who built the cage.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:00 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Creating that alternative reality after the Nixon mess was one of the reasons Fox News was created. I’m not a Nixon fan but appreciate his weird 1960 election plan to campaign in all 50 states. The flaws you would expect popped up (from Wikipedia): quote:At the Republican National Convention, Nixon had pledged to campaign in all fifty states. This pledge backfired when, in August, Nixon injured his knee on a car door while campaigning in North Carolina. The knee became infected and Nixon had to cease campaigning for two weeks while the infection was treated with antibiotics.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:04 |
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The Electoral Map from 1972 is...something, too.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:05 |
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Sometimes I wonder what America would look like today if Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:13 |
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Michelle Obama apparently delivered the speech of the convention and nobody might come close. https://twitter.com/thematthill/status/1295556739794862080?s=19 And because this is a good line and also accurate: https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1295554892619186177?s=19
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:13 |
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facialimpediment posted:Michelle Obama apparently delivered the speech of the convention and nobody might come close. I briefly met her on one of her visits. She took the time to thank the behind the scenes support staff. Probably took - a few minutes of her time to shake our hands of the IT, finance and logistic folks and say a few words, but I'd vote for her.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:22 |
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facialimpediment posted:And because this is a good line and also accurate:
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:33 |
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facialimpediment posted:Michelle Obama apparently delivered the speech of the convention and nobody might come close. The speech was boring as gently caress.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:33 |
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Thwomp posted:For thirty years, the conservative elites built a right-wing media ecosystem only for it to trap them inside with Trump, locked in a death spiral. Yeah, like getting "trapped" in the briar patch
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 05:00 |
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facialimpediment posted:UNC Chapel Hill officially closed. They lasted a week before their COVID positive percentage hit 12%. our institutions are run by morons whose entire lives have prepared them to expect being fawned over for their sensibility and virtue
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 05:09 |
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facialimpediment posted:Michelle Obama apparently delivered the speech of the convention and nobody might come close. We're dying without healthcare but it's great y'all get to jerk off over the Obamas again
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 05:51 |
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you do not in fact have to hand it to the lincoln project
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 06:33 |
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Proud Christian Mom posted:We're dying without healthcare but it's great y'all get to jerk off over the Obamas again
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 09:18 |
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Like I legit don't think half of y'all understand I can't play rainbow six because I'm trying to relearn gardening because this poo poo will not end.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 09:19 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Like I legit don't think half of y'all understand I can't play rainbow six because I'm trying to relearn gardening because this poo poo will not end. same but HAM radio
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 10:28 |
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facialimpediment posted:UNC Chapel Hill officially closed. They lasted a week before their COVID positive percentage hit 12%. The deadline for tuition refunds was 5PM and they announced this at 3:45.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 11:22 |
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So colleges can mostly do online teaching to a degree, but what happens to the majors and courses that nees more hands on skills training like paramedic and nursing programs? is there gonna be a major lack of those professions in a year or two when no one's graduating to backfill all the retirements, covid deaths and such?
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 11:49 |
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Most, I think are switching to a hybrid structure, classroom stuff is done online, labs are in person.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 12:23 |
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https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/portsmouth/portsmouth-holding-briefing-about-confederate-monument-incident-several-warrants-secured/ Portsmouth VA police are using a “riot” where a guy got hurt pulling down a confederate statue that occurred 8 hours after a VA state senator and NAACP folks spoke to charge them all with felonies. Totally by chance that senator’s police oversight bill hit the floor today.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 13:32 |
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That’s Kafkaesque.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 13:40 |
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A few of the DNC speeches last night were live, so the pre-speech feeds were broadcasted out early. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1295542788046630913?s=19 https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1295573300802969600?s=19
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 13:52 |
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Platystemon posted:That’s Kafkaesque. Please, no statue touching ma'am
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 14:05 |
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https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1295707096315506688?s=19 The DNC seems like a giant waste of money and a ego stroke but that's just me
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 14:06 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:The DNC seems like a giant waste of money and a ego stroke but that's just me Absolutely! The best part is that reporters used to run around the DNC and spend most of their convention time eating, drinking, or bullshitting. Now, they're forced to sit around and watch every single speech, so they're starting to realize how tedious it all is. Thankfully though, basically everyone gets like 1-2 minutes to talk at most, so the whole AOC ONLY GETS A MINUTE, THIS IS CENTRIST BULLSHIT turned out to be super overblown.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 14:25 |
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https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/...ingawful.com%2F
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 14:59 |
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10am and considering just going back to bed
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:11 |
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Don't forget to drink first!
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:21 |
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“Today it is my honor to pardon Ms. Susan B. Anthony, who- a lot of people don’t know this, but now they’re saying ‘Sir, what happened to Ms. Anthony, it’s very unfair, the Fake News media and the Deep State, they’re treating her- Ms. Casey B. Anthony- very badly.’ And now, she can be a free woman and go vote- in person, because she wasn’t arrested for wanting to vote by mail, which is a Democrat fraud. Can we get her up here? What do you mean she’s dead?”
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:30 |
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Trump is going to be baffled by the indifference from women toward this action much like how he was baffled when Ds were upset or at a minimum indifferent when he pardoned Blagojevich
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:37 |
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Can't tell that's a joke or serious
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:39 |
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So yesterday at the grocery store some older guy was complaining to the manager that the store wasn't enforcing masks. The manager said they didn't have the power to enforce the mask rule, so the guy took his mask off in a huff and proceeded to shop sans mask. this country is hosed lol
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:46 |
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Remember that a pardon carries the implicit assumption of guilt. So he's basically posthumously forcing the admittance that what she did was wrong. Somehow I doubt that she would accept the pardon if she was alive.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 15:50 |
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1295713348571541505 https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1295723474045083648 Welp. Guess I'm reading this today.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 16:26 |
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https://twitter.com/JesseCharlesLee...ingawful.com%2F
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 16:51 |
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drat if only a correspondent for politico/msnbc was allowed to write this out in an article instead of 200 twitter messages
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 17:14 |
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PookBear posted:drat if only a correspondent for politico/msnbc was allowed to write this out in an article instead of 200 twitter messages Yeah Twitter is great for linking content in a form that doesn’t have a character limit. Why people feel the need to write volumes of discourse over dozens of tweets, I don’t know.
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