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Proud To Be A Democrat!

Tuesday Evening Open Thread: President ‘Union Joe’ Biden *Gets* It

by Anne Laurie|  September 26, 20237:08 pm| 83 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, President Biden, Proud To Be A Democrat!, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

What the media will never get…Biden being on the ground means he is fighting for workers not for the corporations. Great job sis for speaking your truth. https://t.co/zSHlqVTJIN

— Candidly Tiff (@tify330) September 26, 2023

President Joe Biden’s decision to stand alongside United Auto Workers pickets on Tuesday on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers underscores an allegiance to labor unions that appears to be unparalleled in presidential history. https://t.co/zkelaa257c

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) September 26, 2023

“‘I don’t think we’ve had this kind of support in a long time,’ said UFW President Teresa Romero of the Biden administration.”https://t.co/woZnvq1DFi

— TJ Ducklo (@TDucklo) September 26, 2023

INBOX: United Farm Workers endorse Joe Biden reelect.

Statement from Biden/Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez — pic.twitter.com/b3fxV78N6Z

— Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports) September 26, 2023

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Sometimes they have a very very hard time understanding that 4 out of 5 of those categories can be Black.

— WUT (@wut76543) September 26, 2023

You know it’s serious, because professional plagiarist / Turning Point USA propagandist Benny Johnson tried to put out another lie about the President’s picket-line visit… and his fellow Very Serious Media Folx immediately called him on it!

He very clearly said "first time I've ever done it as President". Do you think it's possible maybe you're senile, Benny?

— It's Biden AND Harris 2024. Deal with it. (@What46HasDone) September 26, 2023

A better literacy test is just not to believe anything he posts

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 26, 2023

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Dank Grey Dawn Open Thread: A Shift in the Political ‘Vibes’?

by Anne Laurie|  September 11, 20235:06 am| 130 Comments

This post is in: 2024 Elections, Open Threads, Proud To Be A Democrat!, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement

Someday, somebody needs to write a doctoral dissertation on how and why so many on the Bernie Sanders campaign team ended up on the far right of American politics, and so many on the Mitt Romney team ended up on the center left.

— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 10, 2023

Simple as: Some ‘political’ people are interested in getting their priorities into law; some are authoritarians who just want to force voters to act as they ‘should’…

Rubber is hitting the road with Biden admin and blue states getting wins and we’re now figuring out who actually cares about moving the ball forward vs who is crypto fash or willing to make a career on taking their money https://t.co/F8Ub7XmSE2

— Giacomo Volpe ?????? (@_jack_fox_) September 10, 2023

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More and more people are finding themselves on the road to Brandon Thought https://t.co/0CJmyWaeL1

— Sviatoslav Richter Scale (@ilpomodoro2) September 9, 2023

“Biden can be ten times better than Trump, let’s concede that for the sake of argument, I’m not voting for him.” ??????? https://t.co/E8PZYKB7VS

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 9, 2023

Briahna Joy Gray can’t afford to stop telling people to vote against Democrats!

A reminder of who really bankrolls the anti-democratic fckery of Gums and Roses https://t.co/A7ygPui9si

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 10, 2023

I'm just pleased as punch to see the Cosplay Socialists wounding each other.

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 10, 2023

Another ‘prominent Leftist commentor’ with too much invested in his priors:

Cenk is out here strongly pushing for the John Bel Edwards-Henry Cuellar Democrats for Life national ticket https://t.co/VEVf9vY4tB

— AquaImperium (@aquaimperium8) September 10, 2023

People can learn — as long as all their (emotional as well as political) capital isn’t invested in not learning…
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Thursday Night Open Thread: GOP Buzzards Circling Their ‘Leader’ Mitch McConnell

by Anne Laurie|  September 7, 20239:01 pm| 100 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Proud To Be A Democrat!, Republican Crime Syndicate, Republicans in Disarray!, Schadenfreude

Mitch McConnell looks like a medieval artist's depiction of the Black Death. Here's why that's a problem for Joe Biden.

— Not up for trouble, please stop asking (@agraybee) September 7, 2023

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has no plans to retire early and has reminded his colleagues of his unparalleled fundraising prowess amid recent questions about his freeze-ups. https://t.co/dTaac0nlfj

— Axios (@axios) September 7, 2023

… Between the lines: McConnell claimed that he’s had no freeze-up incidents beyond the two documented on camera.

= Now that he’s back in D.C., he’ll repeatedly be on camera during long work days.

President Biden and McConnell were born in the same year

Biden is clearly still fit mentally and physically

McConnell is not

Age is a red herring and was always just a cudgel to go after POTUS

Republicans and many in the media are sad their go to criticism is in tatters https://t.co/omlEw8ktZT

— Qondi (@QondiNtini) September 7, 2023

No they don't, most elected Republicans(especially those in the senate) have rallied behind McConnell in the last few weeks defending his health.

But it's nice to make shit up I guess, right?

— Hewie (@dahughjestanus) September 7, 2023

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McConnell tries to downplay questions about his health pic.twitter.com/JQCiwRuLr9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 6, 2023

NEW: During a closed door lunch, McConnell went over his health history & said he was given a “clean bill of health” by doctors, per Sen. Kennedy. And McConnell told GOP members he has only experienced freezing episodes twice — and they just happened to be in front of cameras.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) September 6, 2023

In his first press conference since freezing for the second time, McConnell says that Biden "has been too slow" in giving more aide to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/J53oyAMrpl

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 6, 2023

Response from ‘Ex-Newsmax & Ex-OANN WH Correspondent. Named Top 10 Twitter Influencer’ with 625,000 followers:
Thursday Night Open Thread:  GOP Buzzards Circling Their 'Leader' Mitch McConnell

When discussing buzzards in the GOP, Little Prince Rand will not be out-media’d:

Sen. Rand Paul does not buy the "dehydration" explanation for Mitch McConnell's "freezing" event.

“I think it’s an inadequate explanation to say this is dehydration… Well, I practiced medicine 25 years and it doesn’t look like dehydration to me, it looks like a focal… pic.twitter.com/dNp65GeHbs

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 6, 2023

Knife in back. Twist to come. https://t.co/PBx03JbSXf

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 5, 2023

2/ Piece is also good reminder that Rand Paul is unquestionably the biggest raging cock in American politics, almost regardless of where you stand in politics. He and his dad both OG white supremacists but at least the dad had a congenial personality.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 6, 2023

But Josh ‘Hawlin’ Arse‘ Hawley is a real contendah!

Hawley: I did not vote for Mitch McConnell for leader. He is not my choice for leader. I think we need a change. pic.twitter.com/Y2dWbYTPox

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 7, 2023

Excellent annotations from Jim Newell, at Slate:

… Some context is useful here. When Florida Sen. Rick Scott challenged McConnell for the leadership position late last year, Hawley was in Scott’s corner. And he reiterated that a number of times to reporters on Tuesday. When I asked Hawley whether it was time for McConnell to step aside as leader given his health issues, he said, “You’ll have to ask somebody who voted for him.”

In a shocking correlation, it’s the Senate Republicans who’ve had antagonistic or frosty relationships with McConnell in recent years who seem most concerned about his recent health issues hampering his ability to stay on as leader. But that’s always been a small bloc. McConnell fended off Scott’s leadership challenge last year by a 37-to-10 vote. And those 37 senators, along with several of the 10, are still in lockstep behind McConnell’s leadership.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney won the planned response of the day.

“We might lose from Mitch McConnell 20 seconds a day,” he told reporters, “but the other 86,380 seconds are pretty darn good.”…

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s had a long up-and-down but more frequently down relationship with McConnell, offered a Cruzian master class in prepared ambiguity.

“The health scares he’s had were frightening,” Cruz said when I asked how concerned he was about McConnell’s leadership ability. “But age comes for us all, and Mitch is stubborn as a mule, and he’s tough. And so he’s been in my prayers in recent weeks.” (Stubborn as a mule: It works as both a compliment and a dig.)…

There had been some chatter last week from Senate Republicans about calling for a “special meeting” to discuss McConnell’s health. Since Senate Republicans already have three meetings a week in a format known as “lunch,” calling for a “special meeting” would’ve served little other purpose than to embarrass the man.

No such special meeting materialized. McConnell did, however, use the first 10 or so minutes of Wednesday’s lunch to give a personal status update. For someone so thoroughly disgusted at ever having to talk about his health, this mustn’t have been easy for him. But it appeared to have done the trick…

The most interesting part of Republicans’ lunch, though, may not have been what McConnell said or reiterated. It was the sequencing of lunch speakers. (If you’ve followed McConnell’s meticulous planning over the years, this seemed far from a coincidence.) As soon as McConnell finished speaking, Steven Law—a former McConnell aide and the chief of the “McConnell-aligned” super PAC the Senate Leadership Fund—“made a presentation about McConnell fundraising,” per Punchbowl News.

In other words: There was a reminder that McConnell controls the money…

The Pitchbot finds it unnecessary to gloss further:

‘The Devil They Know’: McConnell’s Health Issues Worry Democrats – The New York Times https://t.co/soyD5qISHY

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 7, 2023

And before y’all start getting bright ideas…

I keep seeing this idea. This is not legal.

Kentucky law mandates that if McConnell retires, Beshear picks someone from a list of 3, selected by the Republicans. And he is required to do this within 21 days. He does not have the ability to appoint a RINO, a Dem, or nobody. https://t.co/taK11km77t pic.twitter.com/jQbgzlXKM5

— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) September 5, 2023

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Labor Day Monday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  September 4, 20237:28 am| 138 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, President Biden, Proud To Be A Democrat!

Florida locals praise Biden for all the federal help they've been getting since Hurricane Idalia hit……and then FOX conveniently loses their feed ?????????? https://t.co/1fo368FMLW

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 2, 2023

Rick ‘Bat Boy’ Scott really, really hates Ron DeSaster…

"And then how fast you approved through FEMA the individual assistance, the public assistance.

It's a big deal to everyone in this community.

These are not rich communities. Many of them struggle."

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 2, 2023

we should talk more about how this was cool and good https://t.co/ldDt25xc8o

— restorative justice ghostbuster (@revhowardarson) September 4, 2023

E.J. Dionne, at the Washington Post, looks at the bright side — “At last, a Labor Day when workers can celebrate their power”:

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Workers and organized labor are cool again. Young Americans are the country’s most pro-union generation. Labor has poll ratings most politicians only dream about, and the Biden administration is making workers’ pay, benefits and rights its calling card…

Let’s stipulate: Although membership in unions is ticking up again, the organized share of the workforce is still stuck at about 10 percent.

But so many other indicators suggest that labor’s long decline is over. Heralds of change include well-publicized organizing efforts in new sectors of the economy, broad public sympathy for the Hollywood writers’ struggle, and big wage gains by workers increasingly willing to strike for them.

There is also President Biden, the most outspokenly pro-labor president since Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) support Biden’s reelection partly because they get how the often-unheralded work of his administration is making a new era for labor possible…

Lest anyone doubt where the administration stands, the Treasury Department released what it proudly called a “First-of-Its-Kind Report” on the economic value of organized labor. It found that unions raise the wages of their members by 10 to 15 percent, have “spillover effects” that benefit nonunion workers, “reduce race and gender wage gaps” and “boost businesses’ productivity.”

The report reflected how a large majority of the country feels. A recent Gallup survey found that 67 percent of Americans approve of unions. That’s down slightly from 71 percent last year, but Gallup emphasized that 2023 was “the fifth straight year this reading has exceeded its long-term average of 62%,” up from an “all-time low of 48% in 2009.” The survey also found a record-high 61 percent saying “unions help rather than hurt the U.S. economy.”…

Next year Donald Trump will be on trial, on live television, for most of the campaign. This is what that election will be about. If America chooses that it’s a problem that Democrats can’t really solve with the right blend of working class pandering. https://t.co/bH7HHKkwDO

— Centrist ??Madness (@CentristMadness) September 2, 2023

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: Holiday Weekend Potpourri

by Anne Laurie|  September 2, 20238:15 pm| 138 Comments

This post is in: 2024 Elections, Open Threads, Proud To Be A Democrat!

A perfect example of how Fox brainwashes its viewers: by sharing some real information (a man did just paint a mural of Trump's mugshot in Atlanta) but concealing important facts (the completed mural shows Trump saying: "M.A.G.A My Ass Got Arrested") https://t.co/S1ez1qPQ9D https://t.co/QcmrAGel4Z pic.twitter.com/wcfUKwGUlq

— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) August 29, 2023

Saturday Evening Open Thread

Kyle is one of the best election analysts & he knows Ohio as well as anyone https://t.co/qoz1GqwxF9

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 29, 2023

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BREAKING: New polling conducted by @GBAOStrategies reveals 88 percent of young Americans support labor unions.

We've said it before and we'll say it again: Gen Z is on track to become to most unionized generation in American history. pic.twitter.com/WpA5Rlpa8R

— AFL-CIO ? (@AFLCIO) August 29, 2023

?? Key Point ??

If we turn out just 5% more Democratic voters in rural areas of key states – we can flip toss-up seats, pass critically important legislation, and protect our democracy from the MAGA agenda.

Follow my friends @DirtRoadPAC https://t.co/ud37rV4s2B

— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) August 28, 2023

i‘ll vote for anyone who sets the death penalty for crypto mining https://t.co/fI5dlcebvJ

— GarbageApe (@GarbageApe) August 24, 2023

The Media Still Doesn’t Get Biden Voters https://t.co/HpqMqFm7Pl

— Shiny Objects (@Shinyobjects3) August 28, 2023

Yes, it’s the (GOP Never Trumpist) Bulwark. Still worth reading — The Media Still Doesn’t Get Biden Voters. And barely even tries:

… Reporters don’t do safaris to “Biden Country,” seeking to understand the voters who put him in the White House. While there are pieces explaining how, for example, black women in Georgia suburbs made a big difference in the 2020 election, there’s nothing approaching the ongoing coverage of white men in Ohio diners.

In case I had a blind spot, I turned to crowdsourcing, asking on social media whether anyone knew of examples of journalists making the case for trying to understand the Biden voter. Few could think of any. The two closest were a September 2019 National Review article by Jim Geraghty called “Inside the Mind of the Biden Voter” and recent podcast interviews by former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh, such as with Charlotte Clymer, a trans woman who’s worked for LGBT rights and pro-choice advocacy groups…

Four years later, discussing “what keeps Democrats up at night” heading into 2024, Geraghty asserts that “Democrats perceive themselves to be more popular than they are and American society to be much more unified behind their agenda and worldview than it is.” Among his evidence: “Oscar-bait movies . . . depicting some heroic multiracial gay handicapped abortionist who wants to save the rainforests” and the right-wing backlash to Bud Light doing a niche promotion with trans internet personality Dylan Mulvaney. Regarding the president’s campaign for re-election, Geraghty argues that a big reason Democrats are nervous is because, as National Review editor Charles C.W. Cooke put it, “Joe Biden is an asshole” and “always has been.”

Anyone’s entitled to their opinion of the president, but it’s safe to say most Democrats don’t share that one. Even in a piece purportedly about what Democrats are thinking, Geraghty focused on how he thinks Democrats misunderstand Republicans and independents, rather than trying to help Republicans understand how Democrats see themselves, let alone imploring conservatives to show more respect and sympathy towards liberals’ point of view, even if they disagree with it.

If anything, those exceptions prove the rule. Walsh does implore conservatives to reach across political and cultural divides, but hasn’t held office since 2013, and angered Republicans by launching a primary challenge to Trump in 2019, leaving the party in early 2020 after it flopped…

… Many journalists, editors, and political analysts at mainstream outlets headquartered in New York or Washington, D.C. were surprised by the rise of Trump and his 2016 win. Sensitive to accusations that they have a liberal and/or pro-establishment bias, and believing that his rise could represent a political shift worth studying, they bend over backwards to try to understand the mind of the Trump voter.

But here’s the thing: Many journalists, editors, and political analysts were also surprised by Biden’s strong win in the 2020 primaries after he lost the first two contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. His nomination defied the narrative that the Democratic party had lurched to the left, becoming obsessed with identity politics and eager for socialism..

Apparently, many who purport to know about politics need to work harder at listening to, understanding, and empathizing with Biden voters…

Millions and millions of Americans are, for lack of a better term, Bidenists. Many don’t have strong feelings about Biden himself, and some are quite critical of him, but they tend to react to societal disruptions by seeking normalcy, not trying to increase the chaos.

Bidenists like a president who shows empathy, though they may not have realized that until confronted with the opposite. It’s not a coincidence that George W. Bush’s approval rating shot up after 9/11 and stayed high until after the invasion of Iraq, nor that various Republican governors saw sustained approval increases during the worst of COVID while Trump quickly lost his…

Overall, Bidenists are pretty earnest. And if the Trumpist right, the far left, and the above-it-all center keep assuming everyone is as disillusioned as they are, they’ll keep getting it wrong.

Joe Biden was swept into the White House by a record number of votes from a wide variety of Americans, and he’s not a charismatic leader who commands crowd and camera, singlehandedly inspiring new voters as Barack Obama or Donald Trump did. If conservative elites don’t like it, maybe they should stop behaving in ways that make Bidenism inevitable.

Yeah, it’s a long(ish) read… but if you’re here on a holiday weekend Saturday night, what else you got to do?

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Yup, Mitch Is Glitching, Again

by Anne Laurie|  August 30, 20238:15 pm| 133 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Proud To Be A Democrat!, Republican Venality, Republicans in Disarray!

Is anyone else grossed out by the staffer winking to/at the press? https://t.co/WjeyBsIdk3

— Luke Watson (@LukeWatsonCMF) August 30, 2023

And he’s being treated like any other aging, failing autocrat — the bottom feeders and sycophants who remain on his staff are busily working to scrape the gilding off the walls and steal the resalable goods out of his closets while they still can, propping him up for ‘live events’ before friendly audiences…

You gotta understand, if he can’t stay in office those McConnell staffers will have to find new jobs https://t.co/jvxTSx345D

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 30, 2023

From what I see of right-wing twitter, Republicans are currently divided between calling McConnell a RINO who should hurry up and die already, and insisting that ‘Sleepy Joe’ is just as physically incapable of doing his job. Of course, President Biden has more class (political / emotional intelligence) than to respond in kind…

Biden calls McConnell “a good friend.” Says he’s trying to get in touch with him today but doesn’t know enough about incident. When I asked if he believes McConnell is fit to serve and should run for re-election, @POTUS dodges, turns to @SecMayorkas and asks: “Are you running?” pic.twitter.com/ts2W5WJVM2

— Jenny Leonard (@jendeben) August 30, 2023

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Opinions differ…

If you're feeling bad for Mitch McConnell right now, remember he only waited 3 hours after RBG died to talk about her replacement.
He has no heart.

He has spent his career manipulating the government to be in this dark place we are today.

He was the director of this mess.

— GingerSpice❄️💙 (@thedesertginger) August 30, 2023

Mitch McConnell's days on this planet are drawing to a close. Rather than spend that time with his family, he's doing everything he can to stay in the senate and block whatever Biden tries to do. So pardon me if I am not overflowing with sympathy for him.

— Jean-Michel Connard 🎃 (@torriangray) August 30, 2023

Mitch McConnell is the reason why we don’t have reproductive rights

Why our Supreme Court is a collection of Federalist Society criminals

Why Koch Industries controls Congress

Why Trump was rehabilitated after J6

The problem isn’t that he’s 81. It’s that he’s a bloody crook

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 30, 2023

No doubt, whoever the Kentucky GOP chooses as a replacement will be a worse person than McConnell, but I don’t believe they’ll be anywhere near as effective, so I’m willing to risk it!

Yeah we live in a world where Mitch McConnell has a legacy that is historical in it's awfulness, and nonetheless, his replacement will almost certainly be significantly worse than he is. https://t.co/EZr10ItnO2

— The Biden Accomplishments Guy (on Threads) (@What46HasDone) August 30, 2023

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Last Week in Review – Clowns & Cartoons

by Anne Laurie|  August 26, 20237:08 am| 225 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud To Be A Democrat!, Republicans in Disarray!, Trump Indictments

Saturday Morning Open Thread:  Clowns & Cartoons

(Matt Davies via GoComics.com)

Around like 2016 I used to think man I can’t wait until I don’t have to pay attention to politics anymore. Increasingly I’m realizing two things: I will never not be able to pay attention to it and I was extremely privileged to feel like I could in the past.

— Jean-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) August 24, 2023

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(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)

 

Can’t wait for Trump’s fingerprint to match those in unsolved cases.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 24, 2023

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(Clay Jones via GoComics.com)

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‘The people who tried to overthrow the government, some of these people are our friends. How can we keep them out of jail despite, you know, the crimes they committed?’ https://t.co/DlYgXT6gJ0

— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) August 20, 2023

Media wants Biden to pardon Trump for crimes he committed while the same media ignores that Republicans want to convict Biden for crimes he didn't commit. https://t.co/CVBl0K7x0z

— John Cole (@Johngcole) August 23, 2023

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(Walt Handelsman via GoComics.com)

 

Also because specifically in the case of Trump, breaking *him* breaks his movement into a thousand different factions each claiming to be his true successor. https://t.co/wF2kSKIPVG

— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs) August 25, 2023

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(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)

Trump has created a bubble within the right-wing media bubble that undergirds his disinterest in this week's debate — and Fox's eagerness to have him participate. https://t.co/qbQkJpOniq

— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 21, 2023

Look at right wing media. You have people like @jimgeraghty, who’s supposed to be the closest thing NR has to a straight reporter, lying to his audience every day about Biden’s mental capacity. https://t.co/X2Y0bOx5nC

— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) August 21, 2023

I think it lets these folks off the hook to say results like this indicate delusion. I think it indicates something more like a cross between trolling, after the fact rationalization, and an attempt to shape reality via assertion. https://t.co/LwDwDf03aC

— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs) August 20, 2023

And in this age where media just talks about what people say rather than figuring out what’s true, they’ve realized they can play the refs by just refusing to concede reality, instead asserting its opposite.

— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs) August 20, 2023

They have been trapped by the Trump/ shame spiral since the beginning.

The worse he got, the more foolish they secretly felt for ever supporting him.

Either pay an escalating psychic cost of admitting your mistake — or cling tighter.

And get angrier.

— Michele Dostert (@dostert_michele) August 20, 2023

Kamala warned us. https://t.co/AHZlTeTfLY

— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) August 25, 2023

lol pic.twitter.com/DyzMH1NOyG

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) August 25, 2023

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