And by right of this intellectual flattening, this ability to homogenize and render legible every issue with his durable, easy-to-use rubric, Yglesias achieves the gratifying feeling of being smarter than everyone else.
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And by right of this intellectual flattening, this ability to homogenize and render legible every issue with his durable, easy-to-use rubric, Yglesias achieves the gratifying feeling of being smarter than everyone else.
This is so very on-brand for the super-rich CEO...and dare I say, it's something this clown obviously learned from his American bro-thren.
Not their business. Not their business at all. And especially not their business to be taking direction from the gorillas in the White House.
Totally f*cking caved
There’s a large component of unseriousness here. The RFKJr’s generation of Kennedys is hit-and-miss. Very good or very bad. The Trump movement’s least serious trait is the fetish for being a brand name. Thus, they cannot distinguish, when faced with a Kennedy, whether he’s poison or candy.
Charlie Kirk should be expected to live under the expectation that he finish college. He might even learn what Marxism is.
I’m sorry his wife is sick, but a guy like Erik Erickson has no one to blame but himself.
…one of whom was his granddaughter. 🤢
Do people feel like maybe AI might not be good? I think it seems like it might be bad. I’m thinking maybe we’ll be sorry we decided just to let the fuck-around gang do whatever with it.
Not only that...Cassidy approved the captain, a former heroin addict with a narcissistic personality disorder, multiple instances of sexual misconduct and marital cruelty, and perhaps most shockingly, numerous on-record statements of astonishing, self-congratulatory ignorance with respect to science
Immensely so
Not if prosecutors can’t get an indictment within 30 days. That’s what the law says. The grand jury refused 3 times—because it wasn’t assault and Jeanine Pyro was just on her bullshit again. But do go on with your tears.😭
What’s going on in the Trump DOJ isn’t “the law,” sport. Filming the actions of federal agents doing public business isn’t illegal. Take a seat. You’re embarrassing yourself.
The fuck they are. “Take your head out of Trump’s ass.”
Precisely.
But they won’t. And just as social media unleashed a toxic tsunami on the culture—and especially young people—poisonous companies like OpenAI will make their dead-eyed young masters wealthy beyond imagining. Once that happens, they’ll be completely off the leash. We’ve been to this one already.
We should be delighted. The militarization of law enforcement in DC has so squashed lawlessness that there are no longer convicted drunk drivers to pick up the trash in the parks.
Transparent eyeballs everyone.
What does it mean if I don’t care where they live as long as they try to eat a ghost pepper?
Render best
Videos of people eating ghost peppers. 19th-century memento mori photographs. French bulldogs doing French bulldog things (like skateboarding).
No. He's had a few walk-on moments in the second Trump administration, and he acquitted himself well when he was dogpiled by federal agents. But as far as this California resident is concerned, he's not the guy.
The shame of it. It's a stain that will last forever.
Cities? Something like fourteen citizens...but they still get two senators.
An effort prosecuted by a woman who looks as though she's auditioning for a secondary role in an Avengers movie and whose voice has all the charm of a clanging gong. The emptiness of her gaze is a chasm you fall into and know that you will never find the bottom.
youtu.be/-jLlJqVnDbU?... Hard to imagine that Vance could have listened to her work. The woman singing this song obviously wouldn’t just shut up and play for god’s own autocrat in short pants.
youtu.be/6QgNzTN-STA?...
Or peaceful.
Tina Cole, who played Robbie Douglas's wife Katie was a member of the King Family Singers, who had a variety show on the boob tube in the mid-sixties and produced a number of Christmas specials. I had a tremendous crush one her--which I believe was her intended effect on one such as I.
I saw him perform with a full multiracial choir in a church. Tremendous
Leopards and faces for those in high places.
Campaign slogan: "Gonna make 'Fetch' happen!"
...or profoundly insular. The danger os saying something new or original is nearly zero.
www.howiemandel.com/podcast/epis... I think this is it. He starts playing nicer in the second half.
Mandel: "Go ahead. I don't mind. I love your passion." [...while he gets his clock absolutely cleaned and put away in a vault.]
I don't know how I've gone through life without fully tuning in to how good--and how edgy--@marcmaron.bsky.social is. Listening to him hollow out Howie Mandel's empty skull right now, and you can hear Mandel's brain dissolving. Marc Maron is a fucking boss.
“sTAnNinG” 🤪
Oh my. A sTeRn leFtIST CriTiQUe. 🤪
Let us be clear: she was legally adjudicated of participating in the recruitment and the actual sexual abuse.
You can disagree with Tom, and there are times when he can be curt, quick to block, and even quicker to fire off the acerbic quote tweet. But if you come for him, you’d best do your homework and come correct. And if you suspend your indignation and read, you might learn some. Sign me, Lefty Arbuckle
This appearance by Newsom is especially hurtful because he goes to a hostile space and uses his opposition to GA care for people under 25 as a credential. This care offers the possibility for trans people to mature physically & socially in their correct gender identity—making it harder to out them.
By gazing out the window at all of the many trees tossing their leafy heads of knowledge in the freshening breeze of public opinion and stoutly, passionately, and firmly (if a little self-pityingly) refusing to acknowledge the Left’s intolerant claims that a forest of grievance stands there.
The florid whinging of this man is so Bari Weiss. Is he ripe for a pundit takedown on IBCK?
This guy whines so prolifically that I sometimes feel tempted to challenge the contempt I experience reading his occasional posts. And then I see an excerpt like this, and I think…”Nah, I’m good.”
This issue of the Third Way no-fly vocab list doesn’t seem that important, except that it’s a residue of successful bullying form the Right about language and insecurity to say what one means.
Newsom’s also just shooting his mouth off here. Notes that he hasn’t looked into the issue that much…and then comes out against it. Spitballing about trans-folk-gone-too-far with someone in the anti-trans universe. He’ll need to do some serious work to get that part of the base back. 🏳️⚧️
You’re just so close to getting it, Mark.
Newsom has hit the right note in an important venue. Right now he’s wielding the satirist’s sword which is devastating. But most of what he’s succeeding at has little to do with what will take to repair and govern this country. He still has a lot to prove to the people who will be the base.
We need to cast a wide net. The choice is not just between two polished white men who’ve enjoyed every advantage. Newsom is clever, but is he brave and fully inclusive? Pritzker stands on business, but he’s a man of great wealth. Can he listen? Can he follow?
He’s like an enormous leaky pig’s bladder filled with molasses, antifreeze, and soy sauce. It has a spigot at the base and every morning it gets propped up in a stupid hat. Open the spigot, and whatever goop is down there at the bottom glops out. There. Is. No. Plan.
There is so much in that interview that Maxwell says she never saw and never—and that she has been adjudicated to have seen and done—that it’s impossible to take seriously.
She also says the whole federal conviction thing is just a big misunderstanding.
"I gave my knife to mice in the Cracker Barrel parking lot.!"
The madman in the family room. A new archetype. Yay!
I don't, and I do.
“Sheesh!” the poor aggrieved MAGA troops will cry. “Everything’s about slavery with you wokesters! Can’t we talk about how hot and rascally the country used to be when the cracker was still on the sign?” 3/x #breakthebarrel #wokeisbroke #Rufo #MAGAsuckerpunch #crackerbarrel
…the slavery days based on the overseer being a “whip-cracker.” Rufo & friends will then profess shock—SHOCK!—at that interpretation. They will cite the Earl of Dartmouth’s reference in 1766 to “a lawless set of rascals” that he called “crackers” who were running around Georgia at that time. 2/
I think this is actually a rhetorical trap. They’re waiting for people on the Left to notice that they appear to be mad because Cracker Barrel’s liberal overlords have cancelled the cracker in their logo. Someone of the Left will then point out indignantly that “cracker” is a slur from…1/
I think it’s that they took the cracker out. Wait till they find out where the “iconic” archetype’s name comes from.
Um, are they mad bc the old (white?) guy leaning on a barrel isn't on the new logo? If so, could they possibly be any more utterly, brittlely, and painfully sensitive to the imagined slights of a phantom elite?
I guess it's the Barrel's time in the barrel.
Gotta have the cankle guards
What he's doing here is kicking them around with a manosphere podcaster who'd gladly see them erased. If he's not brave enough, he can keep trolling and then sit down when the serious people speak. And you can take your own head out of your own ass if you want to help the Dems defeat Trump. 8/X
But if he wants to reach common ground the issues--which is worthy in a national candidate--he needs to engage directly with the citizens affected by his views on those issues (see also people living on the street). 7/
If he thinks he "takes a back seat to no one" in the matter of anti-discrimination, then he needs not to do so by offering dismissive or self-evidently ill-informed views about people he doesn't understand. Sure, he has some credentials (which you cite). 6/
Gavin Newsom's trolling of the president has been masterful. But don't get it twisted: it's smart, not brave. If he wants to be taken seriously, he should stop shooting his mouth off on podcasts like this for starters. It's a matter of the health and well-being of marginalized citizens. 5/
...to tell that someone has transitioned. The Right hates it for the same reason. Newsom is oblivious. Presenting his views this way--an uninformed mish-mash on an anti trans platform--is unserious. Worse, it's cowardly punching down. It's no wonder that trans people feel betrayed by it. 4/
He begins remarks on gender affirming treatment for people under 25 by saying, "I haven't dove that deep into it," and then goes on to say he would oppose it. This is important to trans youth, among other reasons, because if treatment is undertaken early enough, it's virtually impossible... 3/
...on right wing platforms calculated to show him as presidential timber. Here, he's on the Shawn Ryan Show: a MAGA outlet that typically hosts the likes of Joe Rogan, Erik Prince, and Donald Trump. The governor's just kind of spitballing about issues of core importance to trans folks. 2/
bsky.app/profile/juli... Passing over for the moment that compelling forensic epithet, let me explain what I mean. Newsom's trolling of Trump is his latest in what has been a hit-or-miss series of thirsty bids for national attention. An earlier phase featured appearances like this... 1/
Who is sponsoring this ground-breaking cultural achievement?
Beginning to suspect that our president may be a fool.
Please explain. Not sure I see where we disagree.
NB: Calling Toni Lauren’s account “a yelp for toilets” is, indeed, very clever and very funny.
“Winnie was born yesterday in a country far far away. She has no knowledge of customs, social mores, or local laws that may have existed on days prior to yesterday or in places other than her own faraway land.”
“Can we have the TV on?”
Is it possible that the phrase, “ruthlessly optimize,” is a full blown oxymoron?
Alas, not all of us. 🏳️⚧️
The dead-eyed young man with the skin of a mollusk and one of those Q-tip headset mic-and-earpieces should be enshrined in the hall of archetypes next to the guy with pomaded hair, a golden tooth, and a pencil thin mustache wearing a gold lamé jacket.
How does each of these guys not look at the other two and think, "Oh. My. God. I am floating around a toilet bowl with a coupla turds"?
...unhoused people, and he needs to stop shooting off his mouth on dumb platforms. Doesn't matter how long ago it was. He needs to fix it. Everybody deserves respect. Children shouldn't starve. People shouldn't die because they can't pay. These are principles that the left mustaways stand for. 3/X
He's doing a great job trolling Trump right now. If that's all he wants, that's fine. But he should take a seat when the serious people start talking. If he has aspirations beyond trolling, Newsom needs to do the hard work of getting right with the trans community, changing course on... 2/
If he wants to be a national political figure, Newsom needs to come across with a well researched policy, developed in consultation with actual trans people and providers of gender affirming care. That he prefers to go on sweaty manosphere podcasts and shoot off his mouth is beyond insulting. 1/
Once, again, wants to parade his Christian chops around...but he doesn't "have to act or prove anything." Have you read a word of the New Testament? The Book of Acts, for example. White people on christianity is why we can't have nice things.
More words of love from the guy who follows Jesus. Shameful.
You follow Jesus and you're all about love, huh? That's a hot one.
...to engage directly with the citizens he's opining about so freely with this gruff clarion of the manosphere. If he's not brave enough to do that, he can just keep trolling and then sit down when it's time for the serious people to speak. 4/x
...anti-discrimination, then he needs not to do so by offering dismissive or self-evidently ill-informed views about people for whom the issues are matters of essential human rights. If he wants to engage with complexity--which is worthy in a national candidate--he needs... 3/
If he wants to be taken seriously on this topic, he needs to stop going on Roganesque podcasts and shooting his mouth off--this is, after all, a matter of the safety, health, and well-being of a marginalized group of citizens. If he thinks he "takes a back seat to no one" in the matter of... 2/
This is a mish-mash. Newsom is trying to take a bunch of different positions at once. On the issue of gender affirming care for young people, he seems to take the coward's way: some people say to-MAY-to, some say to-MAH-to...so "I get it," (that's a tell--he doesn't) it's just a big mystery! 1/
Anybody who believes this possesses the open-mouthed credulity of an empty mayonnaise jar.
“Segregation” doesn’t adequately describe what’s going on here. It’s a white nationalist cult run by a pair of world class reprobates. They’re not sending their best, but Sara Huckabee Sandbag knows this is her base.
Whose fault is that, I wonder?
It’s true, too. Mostly if it’s out of the mouth of someone under 50. Preferably a woman or someone trans or gay or other than the usual parade of earnest whitefolk. No more gerontocracy. (And I say that as a white cis male, well into my sixth decade. We’ve had our turn & look where it got us)
