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Just to stress a point I just made. In the process of listening to Beg to Differ where Ross Douthat is the guest. I just paused to say that he would prefer to vote for Bernie Sanders than for Kamilla Harris. He had his reasons (in that he said stuff but honestly he sounded a little like the Peanuts teacher to my ears), but it just support my point that I don't know how the f to have a rational conversation with these guys.

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Yeah but tupper, you know, that if Bernie was the nominee all of his complaints would be exactly the same as they were with Harris (crime, traffic accidents, gun shots, supporting ukraine, etc). That’s why I find one of the most useful conversations between sarah and jvl was about conservative writers/pundits in the Trump era. They are either (1) complete liars or (2) full of shit.

Ross and Bret have the same “type” of thinking. It is fundamentally one thing: dems are evil and bad and almost anything is better than them. What Trump did was fundamentally stressed this core belief. It would be fun to continue to watch this continual car crash IF our country wasn’t at stake.

In both of these convos (Bret and Ross), did you notice how fast they pivoted AWAY from Trump to shitting on Biden, Dems and dem voters?

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Yep. So tired of all of it. And to think I’ve been thinking about killing my NYT Subscription because them and wapo was better anyhow. Oh well

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