aaronsawyer

Currently Candy Crushing level 1356.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Trump canceled both his 60 Minutes and CNBC interview. He declined to participate in another debate, and he is refusing to release any of his medical records. All of this makes us wonder: what is Kamala Harris hiding from us?

[aaronsawyer @aaronsawyer]

The orange dictator has always defaulted to one move: delay delay delay.

He’s been campaigning for pres since 2015. There’s been no tangible health care alternative presented.

Same tactics to indictment-palooza.

Same tactics to the latest dust up at Arlington re: footage.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

"I have concepts of a plan" - Trump on health care (and basically everything)

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The New York Times is going to need an emergency session tonight to figure out how to make it look like Trump won

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Moderators Fire 6th Tranq Dart Into Trump’s Neck

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Whether it’s Tim Walz’s son saying “that’s my dad” after watching a Democratic National Convention speech or several of Herschel Walker’s children saying “that’s my dad” after seeing paternity tests, both men made fatherhood an issue during their campaigns.

[aaronsawyer @aaronsawyer]

@DougJBalloon Double Willie 🔥🔥

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Hello Walz

Kamala went country with VP pick Tim, but will this bald-headed stranger leave blue voters crying in the rain?

by Maureen Dowd

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Trump is likely to kill or imprison me if he wins. But if that's what it takes to own the libs, it's a price I'm willing to pay.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool.

Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right.

And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero.

But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it.

We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Both know what it’s like to be convicted in America

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

I personally want to congratulate Donald Trump for finally winning a popular vote

[aaronsawyer @aaronsawyer]

These same people say nothing about the mental health of those who watch these senseless acts play out time and time again with no action, no willingness to do anything but thoughts and prayers. Sure a shooter has problems but the casualties go far beyond the body count.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

It’s sad to watch Kevin McCarthy become a victim of white on white violence inside the Congressional White Caucus

But it will continue to happen until those people decide to stop fighting each other and demand more from the leaders of the white community

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

If you are voting in the election to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker, STAY IN LINE!

[aaronsawyer @aaronsawyer]

🏳️‍⚧️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏳️‍⚧️

[Nate Rau @tnnaterau]

I just spoke to Olivia Hill (@Oliviafornash), who has apparently made history as the first transgender person ever elected to public office in Tennessee.

“It feels like every horrible thing that people have said about trans folks has just washed away," Hill says.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Meanwhile, many Americans suffer a crisis of belonging, a vulnerability to conspiracy theory, an understandable inability to make sense of it all. Because the blending of radicalization (Us v Them) and trivialization (nothing matters) leads to the destruction of objective truth.

[aaronsawyer @aaronsawyer]

Either @RepChrisTodd is a dipshit (most certainly) or he thinks everyone around him is a dipshit.

To say he can’t know what the killer is capable of then w/o a breath assert the killer would have certainly turned to a car as the weapon of choice if a gun wasn’t available. 🤮

[Melissa Brown @itsmelissabrown]

Here’s a part of that full exchange between Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Rep. Todd