STYLE GUIDE: Calling David Koch is philanthropist is like calling Nero a violin player.
He gave away a fraction of the money that should have gone to taxes and the permanent damage he did to the planet and humanity. You don't focus on the soccer fields Pablo Escobar built for the neighborhood kids.
The Kochs funded a massive assault on the first black president under the guise of caring about the deficit. They then helped deliver the Senate to a white nationalist who exploded the deficit more than any previous president. Because it's a game to avoid taxes & pollute for free
All of us live but few us will live on in the perpetual droughts, floods and misery you've helped doomed humanity to forever. Farewell, Dave Koch.
The thing that unites white nationalists and libertarians -- besides actual racist beliefs, often -- is the conviction that unearned privilege is the most precious thing on earth and must be defended with the sort of overwhelming force we actually need to save the climate.
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I think the reality break between the reaction to the debate and the stakes of this election comes from:
1. An inability to self-regulate 2. An opportunistic chance to shiv Biden for policies you don't like (mostly Gaza) 3. A disdain for the Democratic party (never Trumpers)
Let's grant the obvious that no one seems to want to emphasize: Replacing the nominee at this point—let alone a successful president (perhaps the most successful first-term president since FDR)—would be the biggest gamble in the history of American politics.
People are asking us to take this gamble in exchange for their fantasy of how it works as we face the greatest threat to America's faulty democracy ever. Trump has argued that he can essentially operate as a king in the Supreme Court, and the GOP majority agrees to degrees.
You've probably noticed Republicans led by Betsy DeVos -- aided by some Democrats who are hostile to public education -- are attempting to rewrite the history of the pandemic.
The think they have a chance advance right wing educational policies parents have rejected for decades.
To muddy the debate and distract from the failures of the policies DeVos has backed in Michigan, Betsy & her allies are attempting to smear and scapegoat the president of the AFT -- Randi Weingarten, a Jewish lesbian who taught in Brooklyn for 6 years.
And the NY Times is on the case!
This piece is a laundry list of easily rebutted right wing tropes framed with a quote by the ultra irrelevant Mike Pompeo nytimes.com/2023/04/28/mag…
He's going to try anything that makes the company more reliant on squeezing money out of his fans -- as a way to have to not be accountable to advertisers or anyone.
But ultimately, he can try shitty idea after shitty idea because this isn't a business for him. It's a crusade.
Beyond reminding us how weak and enthralled Kevin McCarthy is to the insurrectionists who made him Speaker, Tucker's January 6th Reverse Reichstag proves the two things that should be obvious.