Robert Mononucleosis

folks call me Michael. Politics Guy @ NYSDACC, opinions all mine | he/him

[Robert Mononucleosis @ThePowerWoker]

@EmacInSTL He talks a lot of shit for a guy that practically no one wanted to be in charge just a year ago

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@mattyglesias “Obama won twice so we should get more right wing” worked for Republicans, so, why couldn’t the opposite be true? I don’t think the median voter wants to be lectured about sensible solutions and bipartisanship anymore.

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@steady_drumbeat @ditty_design I think my favorite part is when they argue you could get a two for one of cheap housing and transportation by removing air filtration from apartments by highways. Really splendid piece

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@windydanchou @StreetsblogNYC The majority of these are camera tickets, they’re automated, by definition they’re not discretionary. Just because you’re paying the fine for breaking the law doesn’t mean you should be allowed to keep breaking it. We are too generous with traffic enforcement.

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

The New York Post treats Zohran Mamdani like how J. Jonah Jameson treats Spider-Man lmao

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@windydanchou @StreetsblogNYC you shouldn’t be able to rack up that many tickets before having you license pulled, full stop

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@Acyn Overheard in Moderate locker room after Manifesto Launch: “He got me,” Gottheimer said of Zohran’s dunk over him. "That f***ing Mamdani boomed me." Gottheimer added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times.

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We literally do public employee pay scales at every level of government it’s not a problem. I just wish any of these political commentators had any real government experience

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

I also don't actually think public employment would be popular once anyone started talking about implementation:

Is it one salary for everyone? If not, are we maintaining people's most recent salaries? How are you deciding what jobs people do?

The second any of this gets debated in any detail it's going to become extremely toxic imo

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

My Uber driver in Branson was a Kennedy-Goldwater-Nixon-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Reagan-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that after Tuesday’s primary results in New York, there’s no way he’ll ever vote for a Democrat again.

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@dwdavison I mean they did for like half of his wives, right?

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@burkehenryt University of Chicago

[Henry Burke @burkehenryt]

They're all so excited for this they're missing that it's clearly a grift. It's run by a college sophomore whose only job experience is a sinecure at WelcomePAC, a job his dad (the Director of Electoral Programs & Finance Chair) gave to him and seemingly driving his car a lot

[Sam Biederman @Biedersam]

A specter is haunting Europe, folks. Many say GHOST but I say SPECTER. I say it because it's much spookier, more serious. SPECTER! And it's the biggest specter we've ever seen.

[Robert Mononucleosis @ThePowerWoker]

I don’t think Yglesias would look as joyful at the birth of a child as he does talking about the death of thousands. Look at that twinkle in his eye

[The Argument @TheArgumentMag]

Is it Hamas' fault for refusing to surrender, or did Biden fail by standing with Netanyahu? Matt Yglesias and Jerusalem Demsas don't see the war in Gaza the same way. Full debate out now: ranking the worst parts of the Biden presidency.

Watch the episode: https://t.co/ay5f9wKYT0

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Yeah oversight of the executive is an important part of Congress, dipshit. You guys should get the ball rolling, maybe the door won’t hit you as hard on your way out

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Speaker Johnson on losing Midterms:

“They [Democrats] will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors and friends…”

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@LinkofSunshine Big room they sit in can’t fit more desks on the sloped section.

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@admcrlsn Upstate GOP has been in a civil war for a while, I wouldn’t be surprised by Republican voter defections and Inds being turned off. Check out the contested nomination for ‘25 special in AD115 - and their failure to find a candidate to challenge this year

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Almost liked a hate post

[Pericles @PerryALPHA]

If Kamala had won, the America 250 celebration would have been an hour of black women twerking, followed by an hour of black men twerking

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This is insane

[Taniel @Taniel]

.@syracusedotcom reports two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday to demand that she take down an Insta post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). https://t.co/WIB1hbqx5W

[Robert Mononucleosis @ThePowerWoker]

@metzgov You have to be losing bad if clipfarming your opponents is your only hope