The Bob Cesca Interview: Aaron Rupar Returns

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Aaron Rupar Returns — You might know Aaron from the videos he posts on his popular Twitter feed, or from his Substack newsletter called Public Notice — publicnotice.co — or from such podcasts as this one. In addition to keeping us laughing at Trump’s constant short-circuits and glitches, Aaron is also reminding voters what exactly it was like four years ago under Trump. So today, Aaron returns to the interview show to talk about the state of the campaign, and the state of political social media. Meantime, don’t forget to support this podcast by subscribing us at patreon.com/bobcescashow. Music by Marina Rocks.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:49:32pm

Erin Burnett just reported that Speaker Johnson told her pro-Palestine student protesters have no free speech rights because Hamas agrees with them. That’s … an interesting interpretation of the First Amendment.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T21:28:51.317Z

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silverdolphin  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:51:17pm

Chamber of Commerce sues to overturn noncompete ban. Can you guess where they did it?

Of course they are. And in Texas too.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:52:26pm

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:53:59pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Chamber of Commerce sues to overturn noncompete ban. Can you guess where they did it?

Of course they are. And in Texas too.

What’s worse, they might actually do it, because this might not be a thing the FTC has jurisdiction over. By the way - whenever progressives complain that the Biden administration isn’t doing enough progressive things, point to this post right here. He’s fucking trying, folks. But it’s too easy to turn aside executive actions with a captive Court. There’s only so much the President and his administration can do, and it’s getting smaller all the time, thanks to a Calvinball Court that is determined to minimize the amount of good things we can have.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:54:25pm

re: #1 goddamnedfrank

So just like black folks.
Perfect.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:02:38pm

what we’re seeing all around the country is the lesson those in power learned from the George Floyd protests: they should have crushed them faster and harder

sit down and shut up and let us kill people without being yelled at

— Micah (@rincewind.run) 2024-04-24T21:50:27.897Z

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:03:14pm

We’re going to see a continuing succession of horrific rulings from the right wing Supreme Court, unfortunately, for years to come.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T18:50:29.352Z

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:07:39pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Only way out of this nightmare situation would be to expand the court. But it would take 60 votes in the Senate, and Biden is opposed to it. So we’re apparently stuck with the far right setting the legal agenda of the country.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:08:03pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Even more years to come if Trump somehow gets re-elected.

Can you imagine a 7-2 or 8-1 court?

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:10:29pm

New:

Far-right figure Laura Loomer, who’s become increasingly close with Trump, said in an interview, “You are an enemy to this country if you do not vote for” Trump, & said Jews supporting Democrats “might as well just go put yourself in a gas chamber.” www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer…

— Alex Kaplan (@alkapdc.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T21:43:09.423Z

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Randall Gross  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:14:01pm

Locker room talk that thing all realtors do right!!!???

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T21:32:00.444Z

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Teukka  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:22:40pm

News from Stockholm:

Två till sjukhus efter attack mot politiskt möte: ”En blixtoperation”

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Teukka  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:24:42pm

re: #13 Teukka

News from Stockholm:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:29:19pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

The good thing coming out of this—Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema are gone from the Senate on 1/3/25. Hopefully We Hold Arizona along with all Blue seats and pick up Texas, Florida and hopefully Missouri. We just need 51 Senators to kill the goddamned filibuster once and for all. Then we can pack the court, impose the ethics rules on the Sleazy Six and force them to give up those prizes like Slappy T’s RV.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:38:48pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Someone warned us about this in 2015….

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:39:24pm

The right margin appears to not register correctly on posts containing Bluesky links.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:43:40pm

So my niece and her family are visiting her in-laws in Ann Arbor for the holidays — when

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:43:57pm

Bob and Aaron did not very well explain why they are still on twitter. It sounded like they were excusing themselves from blame, because Mastodon is too slow as a place to build a following (the least-bad sounding alternative). They acknowledged each other as a reason to go there, like it would be rude to leave.

I can only see who they are by what they do. Yes, it will be hard. Yes, there will be losses. It still needs to be done, they agree. And then they are surprised how ‘resilient’ it is. I was surprised that Trump got elected. I have whatever they are dealing with.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:46:58pm

re: #17 BeenHereAwhile

The right margin appears to not register correctly on posts containing Bluesky links.

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I’ve noticed this too. I miss the embeds. 😢

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:52:01pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Noncompete agreements reduce people to serfs. Of course the business community and Texas are in favour of that.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:54:54pm

re: #17 BeenHereAwhile

The right margin appears to not register correctly on posts containing Bluesky links.

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If you reload it should be better now on mobile.

Unfortunately it looks like the Bluesky embed code doesn’t run on mobile devices.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:55:44pm

The *electoral* impact of Kent State was Nixon doubling down on white working class voters who hated the protesters, and winning huge. After construction workers fought with protesters in NYC (at one of the actions that followed Kent State) Nixon invited them to the White House.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T14:52:24.402Z

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:04:39pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

If you reload it should be better now on mobile.

Unfortunately it looks like the Bluesky embed code doesn’t run on mobile devices.

Thanks

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:06:44pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:09:49pm

@jbouie.bsky.social

reminder that when republicans say “antisemitism” they don’t actually mean “anti-jewish hatred”

Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers
Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:11:53pm

NO FALLING

FOX 7 Austin captured on video troopers pinning a person to the ground and detaining them. Troopers are also using bikes and riot gear as barricades to push students back.

A FOX 7 Austin photographer was also arrested. After the protest line was moved back, the photographer fell, and was then detained and taken to jail.

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/ut-texas-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-rally-college-university-campus

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:14:27pm

BREAKING

Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 people with various felonies related to attempts to subvert the 2020 election.

Kelli Ward, the former Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, is one of the 11 defendants.

mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d…

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T23:12:28.639Z

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:15:12pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Only way out of this nightmare situation would be to expand the court. But it would take 60 votes in the Senate, and Biden is opposed to it. So we’re apparently stuck with the far right setting the legal agenda of the country.

Unless two die.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:16:09pm

It is so nice to be able to post embeds from Bluesky. I have been waiting for this day ever since Twitter went into the Xitter.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:17:18pm

UT Austin protestors now chanting
“Who failed Uvalde? DPS!”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:21:01pm

re: #31 jaunte

UT Austin protestors now chanting
“Who failed Uvalde? DPS!”

And I saw your repost that they’re going to charge the protestors with rioting and obstructing a highway or other passageway. Fuck the police, man. Not a thing I would’ve seen myself saying 10 years ago, but shit happens.

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A Cranky One  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:21:23pm

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:22:03pm

re: #32 Nerdy Fish

From someone on the scene:

Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social

I mean, the sidewalks were clear until the cops pushed everyone off the lawn!

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:23:22pm

re: #34 jaunte

From someone on the scene:

Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social

So, cops doing what they do best: Setting people up to arrest them.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:24:38pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:29:56pm

Arizona fake elector indictments blowing up.

Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman, and more.

Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:31:35pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

Arizona fake elector indictments blowing up.

Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman, and more.

Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator.

Why are so many people afraid to go after this motherfucker? HE DID ALL THE FUCKING CRIMES!

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:32:06pm

And Michigan.

Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-giuliani-meadows-unindicted-conspirators-michigan-fake-elector/story?id=109578220

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:32:34pm

abcnews.go.com

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:33:58pm

MICHIGAN TOO

Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals - ABC News

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T23:33:31.000Z

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:34:24pm

Wow on episode 7 of the X-Men. Some new faces.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:36:36pm

Man, that’s a lotta shit raining down on Donny today.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:37:13pm

“Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas.”

— Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T21:00:34.873Z

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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:37:45pm

Poor baby. Nah. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving awful, evil asshole.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:38:13pm

re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth

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Point of interest, my Dad designed the thermal management system for the SNAP-10A, the only fission reactor we ever put into orbit.

So I’m curious what …

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:39:01pm
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Captain Magic  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:43:06pm

…

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:45:14pm

re: #46 goddamnedfrank

I will note, because it’s an extremely interesting technical rabbit hole to go down, that it’s hypothetically possible to create a nuclear pumped laser. I also very much doubt that this is what the Russians are planning. If I had to guess I’d say they’ve packed a bomb with a bunch of sand and are creating a contingency plan that just shreds everything in orbit.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:45:20pm

re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea

That Fox News photographer must have been taking antisemitic pictures.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:45:25pm

Also, if more preachers were like Nightcrawler, things would be different.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:46:30pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:46:49pm

“Unindicted co-conspirator 1”

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:47:30pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:48:04pm

med-mastodon.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:49:28pm

re: #47 gocart mozart

Because “free speech” never means what people like Abbott want to pretend it means.

It does seen the TX authorities are going to step on their own dicks, given their tendencies to over-react.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:52:53pm

re: #55 Backwoods Sleuth

I guarantee you a majority of those geared up for battle were reluctant to wear a mask because they were afraid of looking afraid of a virus.

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2024 • 4:56:36pm

Dam on the Chippewa River at Eau Claire, Wi creating Dells Pond, originally to hold lumber, now used for recreation, flood control and for the Cascade paper mill (toilet paper) on the east side there, as seen from what we call the “high bridge”. It was a railroad bridge constructed in the 1880’s by the C&NW and given to Eau Claire in 2007 and converted into a foot bridge.

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JC1  Apr 24, 2024 • 5:00:43pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Only way out of this nightmare situation would be to expand the court. But it would take 60 votes in the Senate, and Biden is opposed to it. So we’re apparently stuck with the far right setting the legal agenda of the country.

Analysis I’ve read suggested that Idaho would lose.

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teleskiguy  Apr 24, 2024 • 5:01:40pm

re: #46 goddamnedfrank

A most fascinating fact about your pops!

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teleskiguy  Apr 24, 2024 • 5:03:59pm

re: #59 JC1

Analysis I’ve read suggested that Idaho would lose.

I’m guessing 5-4 with Roberts siding with the liberal wing or maybe even 6-3 with Roberts and Kegstand Kavanaugh joining the liberals. Kavanaugh has been sort of a weird justice, he has sided with the liberals on more than a few cases.

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teleskiguy  Apr 24, 2024 • 5:06:16pm

Another weird one is Gorsuch. Every time a case comes up when it comes to indigenous people and land disputes Gorsuch has sided with the indigenous people almost every time.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:46:53am

re: #3 The Ghost of a Flea

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