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Wow - I guess we really will see Melanie Smith play Emily again like most of us wanted. Strange times.

It's Suicide Pill Sunday for this admin, apparently.

Meadows is insanely stupid sometimes. That's the end of the election AFAIC (knock on wood). That's their epitaph.

I take Politico with a grain of salt. It is and always will be a Republican-born Beltway gossip press which has no problem printing Trump's dirty laundry but will always - always - concern troll Dems.

Re: the above post - whatever one thinks of the Lincoln Project (and I have no illusions), this is brilliant and cuts Jared and Ivanka at their core.

Damage control (ratioed):

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It's true!!

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This is of course not a new phenomenon with young National Review/Politico/right wing alumni who are often laundered via the NY Times and other outlets, like Salena Zito before Plott, among others. Different roots but same principle involved when which you now see other gossipy access-obsessed, fascist-adjacent journos like Olivia Nuzzi (whose entire career, IIRC, stems from being a gossipy campaign staffer for Anthony Weiner) and her new partner Ryan Lizza trending more and more towards the right, and soon I suspect Ken Vogel, who's still very put out that his Biden/Ukraine scoop that got the president impeached did not pan out properly as a negative for the Dems and has been mostly a laughingstock since.

I critique the media plenty, but this is a reach. Matt Lewis is a Republican who whined that Sarah Palin's career was ruined by the media. He is an outlier at the Daily Beast, at best and so far this is the only take outside of Fox I can see claiming Trump won last night's debate. That is not the prevailing media take at all.

ABC says it didn't do enough to change the race for Trump. "Joe Biden had his best debate in 2020." Said he was surprisingly aggressive and very strong.

Biden brings up the Central Park 5. Trump is now babbling about "the laptop from Hell". Trump is uhhh, doing some sort of supposed BLM chant: "Pigs in a blanket/Fry em/Like bacon!" Admits he "doesn't know what to say" to unhappy Black voters. Trump: "I am the least racist person in this room!" Biden: "Abraham Lincoln here is the most racist president we've had in modern history." Invokes the Proud Boys. "This guy is a dogwhistle about as big as a foghorn!"

Trump on a relief bill: "Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to approve anything - " Welker: "But you're the president." Biden finally invokes the Heroes Act. Rails against the GOP doing nothing, McConnell and Trump doing nothing. "Mitch McConnell said let 'em go bankrupt!" Trump is now rambling about the bill being for "high crime Democrat cities" and illegals. Biden replies: "When I get elected, I'm gonna be an American president. I don't see red states and blue states, what I see is America, United States!" The media loves this sort of thing, BTW You can handwring if you want to, but Joe is killing it tonight. He has also succeeded in both making Trump lose control and keeping him at bay at the same time. Welker to Trump: "How will you reunite [undocumented] kids with their families?" Trump rambles about coyotes and cartels. Joe: "Their parents were with them! They separated them from their parents! And it makes us a laughing stock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation! Parents were ripped from their arms and they were separated! It's criminal!" Trump just said "only the lowest iQ" immigrants/asylum seekers come back legally?