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when your example of 'barely legal' is just literally illegal
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
when your example of 'barely legal' is just literally illegal
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pair this with my "why are all these woke restaurants pushing coke zero instead of a diet coke like i asked" take and im ready to join one of those right wing "comedy" tours
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
pair this with my "why are all these woke restaurants pushing coke zero instead of a diet coke like i asked" take and im ready to join one of those right wing "comedy" tours
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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People elected Trump twice knowing he was like this.
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
People elected Trump twice knowing he was like this.
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h y p e r r e a l s i m u l a c r u m
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
h y p e r r e a l s i m u l a c r u m
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
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look i dont have a perfect prediction record but i have common sense and some media knowledge - and i said in real time the attempt to turn white lady fox news right wing culture warrior megyn kelly into something that works with female daytime audiences was one of the dumbest things ever.
And NBC tried to turn Megyn into Oprah a few years back
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
look i dont have a perfect prediction record but i have common sense and some media knowledge - and i said in real time the attempt to turn white lady fox news right wing culture warrior megyn kelly into something that works with female daytime audiences was one of the dumbest things ever.
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megyn kelly once spent an entire segment of her fox news show whining about me because i made like two tweets about ann romney. so yes, i am enjoying everyone hating on her for the minute.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
megyn kelly once spent an entire segment of her fox news show whining about me because i made like two tweets about ann romney. so yes, i am enjoying everyone hating on her for the minute.
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you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
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this isn't political analysis, it's just shouting buzzwords to get a cheap pop from cable news guests
does paul begala think that giving quotes characterizing another democrat like this *helps* the democratic party?
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
this isn't political analysis, it's just shouting buzzwords to get a cheap pop from cable news guests
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If y'all are going to share it, I'll link the video.
Keep in mind that this video is from the beforetimes (last year).
youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM?...
Keep in mind that this video is from the beforetimes (last year).
youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM?...
John Fetterman And The Progressive Switcheroo - SOME MORE NEWS
YouTube video by Some More News
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If y'all are going to share it, I'll link the video.
Keep in mind that this video is from the beforetimes (last year).
youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM?...
Keep in mind that this video is from the beforetimes (last year).
youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM?...
Housing is most expensive in cities like NYC, SF, Seattle, where you need to pass the rental Olympics to get approved for a lease.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Housing is most expensive in cities like NYC, SF, Seattle, where you need to pass the rental Olympics to get approved for a lease.
I don't think immigrants who barely speak English are the ones outbidding working professionals for single-family homes.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I don't think immigrants who barely speak English are the ones outbidding working professionals for single-family homes.
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Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable
Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable
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Potential, but (and I won't pretend I did the work; Some More News did) if you look back at who he was BEFORE his social media team rehabbed him for the election, he was always a bit of an unstable liar.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Potential, but (and I won't pretend I did the work; Some More News did) if you look back at who he was BEFORE his social media team rehabbed him for the election, he was always a bit of an unstable liar.
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The right said plenty of terrible things about him prior to his election.
It's just that since then, he's been on their side. Hence the vitriol from the left, to whom he catered while campaigning.
It's just that since then, he's been on their side. Hence the vitriol from the left, to whom he catered while campaigning.
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The right said plenty of terrible things about him prior to his election.
It's just that since then, he's been on their side. Hence the vitriol from the left, to whom he catered while campaigning.
It's just that since then, he's been on their side. Hence the vitriol from the left, to whom he catered while campaigning.
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also the potential of that whole stroke thing affecting his personality and perception
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
also the potential of that whole stroke thing affecting his personality and perception
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and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
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I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
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Exactly!
Make the representatives of the people have to stand up and vote.
The wackadoos would either prevail...or we'd find the center has more in common with itself and maybe ACTUAL bipartisanship would happen.
Make the representatives of the people have to stand up and vote.
The wackadoos would either prevail...or we'd find the center has more in common with itself and maybe ACTUAL bipartisanship would happen.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Exactly!
Make the representatives of the people have to stand up and vote.
The wackadoos would either prevail...or we'd find the center has more in common with itself and maybe ACTUAL bipartisanship would happen.
Make the representatives of the people have to stand up and vote.
The wackadoos would either prevail...or we'd find the center has more in common with itself and maybe ACTUAL bipartisanship would happen.