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Jonathan Chait is a columnist for New York Magazine (and also a cold-hearted food critic who has a deep admiration for the dish of ratatouille) who thinks he's a prophet we should all be listening about how Joe Biden is doomed and Trump is on the road...
by LaserBurger
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 02:33 PM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 02:28 PM PST
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“And they’re off!” The date of the article is January 29, 2023. It has barely been 12 weeks since the 2022 mid-term election. And the article in the Washington Post proudly jumpstarts the next general election campaign with a bold, audience-grabbing...
by RichardLang
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on Thu Feb 02, 2023 at 01:25 PM PST
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Charlie Sykes over at The Bulwark provides us with a holiday treat down the old memory lane of worthless predictions made by the Media and pundits. Specifically, the Media and pundits anointing the favorite or front runner for the presidential nominee...
by Merlin196357
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on Wed Dec 21, 2022 at 10:23 AM PST
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With Senator Warnock safely re-elected in Georgia, and the counting done for House seats, we can follow up on the series of stories I posted about the pollsters and pundits leading up to the midterms (see the final preelection story here) and see how...
by psychbob
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on Mon Dec 26, 2022 at 05:22 AM PST
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Hey pundits: I know what you did last summer. You went over the edge with outrage because some Democrats dared practice politics to get the most beatable Republican opponents. There was rending of garments and gnashing of teeth from the august heights...
by Bethesda 1971
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 10:05 AM PST
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[This rant generated by the pundits who claim that Trump is done, that he won’t run in 2024, that DeSantis is going to be the heir apparent, etc., etc. To which I say, in pundit style: as if. No way. Hasn’t 6+ years of Donald Trump 24/7 made an...
by Gaurang
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on Tue Nov 15, 2022 at 12:37 PM PST
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Day after day, year after year, Trump and his maga cohorts spew endless lies about election fraud and voter malfeasance. Any journalists and news pundits worth their salt should be hammering these lies for what they are, smear campaigns designed to...
by ConcernedCitizen68
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on Mon Nov 14, 2022 at 03:24 PM PST
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has a call to arms in The NY Times today — and calls out the GOP, the media, and corporate Democrats. All of the links to The NY Times below should allow passage through the Times paywall. Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Just Held...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Nov 13, 2022 at 08:03 AM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 02:50 PM PST
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Now that the red tsunami looks to be a red puddle, it’s time to share the most embarrassing takes from the media figures who spent most of the year doom-saying and concern-trolling Democrats. They were convinced that Democrats were out of touch, sucky...
by Truffle2022
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on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 02:04 PM PST
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In the final few weeks of the midterm, the gusher of stories about the impending red wave and certain Democratic doom were relentless. Democrats were "scrambling" into a "defensive posture" in fear of a "drubbing" and a "shellacking" and a "reckoning."...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 10:04 AM PST
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I don’t know about you, but I am getting sick and tired of what I’m seeing on the editorial pages and commentaries as we get ever closer to an election which might well plunge the country into chaos — even if by some miracle voters soundly reject...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Nov 06, 2022 at 08:25 PM PST
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The word to learn in your Word Power program is “dilatory,” from “dilate”: to expand, esp. with respect to time, delaying. It’s the polite, legal word one uses for rejecting the Donald J. Trump lawfare when he’s guilty. When courts refuse to reject his...
by The Geogre
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on Tue Sep 06, 2022 at 03:45 AM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 02:50 PM PDT
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It’s going to be ugly, but I don’t see an APR. Like any other addict, I need to put the comments somewhere. Having survived the rockets’ red glare when my rural neighbors decided to give proof through the night that they were still there, I need to...
by The Geogre
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on Mon Jul 04, 2022 at 05:29 AM PDT
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After the Supreme Court nullified federal abortion protections with demands that our nation bow to the beliefs of 17th century witch hunters, it took only hours for Republican politicians and lawmakers to repeat their demands that abortion be...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 01:09 PM PDT
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My browser is full of tabs, and my Commodore 64 is going to run out of RAM soon, so I need to disgorge. My apologies for queue jumping. It isn’t my intent, but the weather here in Sunburn, Georgia is fine, and I haven’t been gotten by the virus yet....
by The Geogre
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on Tue Dec 29, 2020 at 05:38 AM PST
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Just to add to the avalanche of polling, Fixed News has just released their newest post-convention polls: The Arizona and Wisconsin numbers are the highlight here, underscoring just how little impact Trump’s emphasis on violent protests and racial...
by DoctorWho
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on Wed Sep 02, 2020 at 04:14 PM PDT
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Order my new book, We Should Improve Society Somewhat, 184 pages of political cartoons on the last few years of our dystopian world!
by Matt Bors
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on Thu Aug 06, 2020 at 02:17 PM PDT
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