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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Utterly brilliant! It wasn't until the John Barron quote that I wasn't sure it was all an extended excerpt from the NYT or The Hill.

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the john barron quote locked the NYT link in for me.

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this is so good, because it's so true. especially the 'many democrats' mention. joe manchin might have referred to the obvious reluctance of the president to handle any serpents as an example of his all too secular grounding.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Manchin would def be a fan of the snake-handling in the scribe-appended “longer ending” of Mark

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Ironically, anyone having to deal with Joe Manchin should also be adept at snake handling

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serpent libel!

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Ouch. It really is stunning that Biden can pass a piece of major legislation that 75% of the country approves of, and the reporting and opinion pieces take the angle, “will this hurt him?”

Didn’t Trump have big Rose Garden celebrations every time he managed to sign something without getting ink from his Sharpie all over himself?

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

It's a reflexive tic by the media. EVERYTHING is seen through the lens of Republican political operatives. So even passing enormously popular legislation must be cast as somehow disadvantaging the Democrats.

"Welcome to NPR's Weekend Edition. I'm Scott Simon. Congress this week passed, in the dead of night, one of the most expensive pieces of legislation ever written. Some say that the covid relief bill spell doom for Democrats in the mid-term elections. Others think that this effectively ends Joe Biden's presidency. Here to discuss this with me are New York Times columnist David Brooks, and LA Times columnist Jonah Goldberg."

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Pitch perfect, although I’m surprised Brooks can spare the time from his side-gig walking Mark Zuckerberg’s dog.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

If it were only walking, it would be OK. But, the grooming, shampooing (he could afford real poo, but the NYT was already using their real poo for anti-Biden stories), nail cutting really take up his time.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Brooks needs a side gig because he’s going to have to put his wife through college soon

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Oof. Mean but fair.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Her first course will be about deli meats

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Jennifer Rubin--yeah, I know, but she was great during Trump--makes this very point today in WaPo. The MSM, when they bleat about bipartisanship, keep looking at the Republicans. She praises Biden and his people for ignoring all that, and finding bipartisanship in the agreement of 75% of the country.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I can’t read her column because WaPo is paywalled, but I generally agree. It would take me a very long time to actually *trust* Jennifer Rubin, but she has been much better than 95% of the Never-Trumps.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I think she is genuinely horrified at what the GOP has become.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“It used to be a lovely little country club where we made bad-faith arguments, shat on working people, and reminisced about the good old days of racism and misogyny. But now you’ve gone too far!”

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I think so, too. But I'm not sure if she just wants to go back to what it was pre-Trump, which inevitably leads to the next Trump. Either way, she is still playing wingnut games and maybe donating part of the proceeds to the oppressed? I dunno. She seems like a net drag on humanizing American politics.

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Look, I don't even trust Charles Johnson yet.

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Mar 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Is Biden not a Democrat?

Then the failure scenario is the one the establishment, GOP-suppoting media are required to run with.

If you want, uh, accuracy in media reporting, you have to look elsewhere other than the big boys.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Will no one one rid us of there troublesome “Centrists”?

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thank dog the NYT is there to help us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

This just shows how waterlogged Biden's plans are with the majority of voters. He will drown Dems in the midterms with antics like these.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"McDaniel added, 'His so-called walk doesn't count in any case as he wasn't wearing Temple-approved undergarments so far as we know.'"

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I keep forgetting she’s a Romney for some reason.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

So did she when it became convenient

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I'm waiting for her to reclaim it. That's how we'll know Trumpism is dead. Kinda dead. At least in name.

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when she recalls being human, i'll really know it's dead. along with irony.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

That's some optimism!

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comes with the territory of liberalism.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Well, now, the fucked upedness of the Republicans in a nutshell. Of course, this precludes a LOL post but there you go.

Two quibbles, tho'.

The characterization of Psaki is a little off and a little negative. She is in fact a perfect press secretary, as good as one can be in that position. Speaks clearly, lies and dissembles for the boss when necessary, very elegantly tells reporter to fuck themselves when incited by obnoxious, stupid and/or gotcha questions. OTOH, I'm a confessed Psaki Pshipper so sure, YMMV.

As for the last line:

Wrong: "“I think one thing is pretty clear,” says John Barron, a hotel executive in Palm Beach, Florida; “Joe Biden can’t swim.”"

Corrected: “I think one thing is pretty clear,” says John Barron, a hotel executive in Palm Beach, Florida; “Sleepy Joe Biden can’t swim.” There; the subtlety removed as it should be.

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Maybe Psaki should have been more "We're more focused on the miracles President Biden performs when he's on the job. If he performs a miracle here and there during his leisure time I don't think that's any less appropriate than spending the afternoon cheating on the golf course."

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

That's beautiful.

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Turning [a walk on] water into whine!

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

(Turning Water Into Whine is one of the underrated skills of Ted Cruz.)

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

New York Times: Biden Narrowly Avoids Drowning, Dems Concerned

Washington Post: No Polling Bump for Biden "Miracle"

Fox News: Migrants Can Swim

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Great, so I’m the asshole who has to make the Biden as Chauncey Gardiner reference...

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

They elected him to bring down the deficit, cut entitlements, and reach across the aisle.

They elected him to be a real Republican, unlike that loser RINO?

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

What, "riverine life" would have sounded too New Yorker-y?

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

That's some awesome satire there. Nicely done!

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Ha ha! But let's get scholarly: does Joe's elimination of the heavy Trumpian import duty on Irish and Scotch whiskeys parallel Rabbi Jeshua's stunt at the wedding at Cana?

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I too have walked on water. Sure, usually the solid form (ice, snow, sleet), but it was water natheless

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Mar 8, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

No one specified that it had to be in liquid state. The judges will allow it.

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"secular grounding" means Biden isn't Catholic enough; but walking on water and turning water into sacramental wine (Harumph, harumphed the Evangelicals) means Biden is too Papist,...er, too Catholic. Pundits are almost all...er, Caucasian, and high-earning, and alumni of 'elitist' educational institutions, therefore...Repugnican. So peculiar no one brings this up on teevee.

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