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Elie Mystal Profile picture
@ElieNYC
Sep 14, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The thing to remember about Donald Trump's wildfire responses is that his supporters are *comforted* by the fact the President is as dumb as them.
Like, they feel like elites (like me) have been looking down our noses at them their whole lives (which I have) secretly thinking their views are less valid because they're wrong, ignorant, or incoherent (which they are).
The fact that Trump's intellectual mediocrity is so evident is actually a key to his appeal with other mediocrities who, far from being ashamed at their own ignorance are *proud* of it.
You know, that and the racism.

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Sep 12
Okay let’s do this:
1. my wife waiting to see how I’m going to butcher essential details about our own children.
2. My mother hoping I don’t fuck up my solo in the recital.
3. I’ve walked through the door, 2hrs after curfew not already dead, which was my only way to stay alive. Image
4. My sister would like to know what the fuck I’m talking about.
5. My mother would like to know what I’m talking about.
6. My wife would like to know what I’m talking about.
7. They realize I’m actually talking about that thing I should never be talking about in public.
8. Something I said or did in the past is about to be read back to me like I’m a child and I’m about to be exposed for my hypocrisy. Documents will most likely be produced. I hate this fucking look so much. I KNOW WHAT I SAID IM NOT A CHILD.
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Sep 12
Overheard on the Amtrak: A mother was explaining that she won’t let her son play high school football… as the punter/kicker… because the coach could not “100 percent guarantee” that her kid would never be tackled or have to make a tackle.

And, I was kind of on her side until
She revealed that her *other* son plays… LaCrosse , and she doesn’t understand why her kicker boy won’t just play LaCrosse too.

And now I’m just sitting here wondering how many times I’ve made *important parenting decisions* based on truly having no idea what I was doing.
This lady, she was struggling to come up with the word “punter” so she clearly doesn’t know a lot of about football. But she knows it’s dangerous (which… it is!!) and that’s pretty much that.

But there hasn’t been a brain injury documentary about LaCrosse yet, so that’s good.
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Aug 21
EVERYBODY SHUT UP MICHELLE OBAMA IS ON.
GO IIIIINNN : “Some of us don’t have the luxury of failing forward.”
“If we see a mountain standing before us, we don’t expect there to be an escalator to take us to the top.”

THROW THE DANG TOWEL, SHE’S DESTROYING YA BOY.
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Jul 24
The biggest change I've noticed is that for the last three days, people are treating Trump appropriately: as an old, tired, racist and sexist man who is basically a failing comic with no new material trying to gin up a laugh by repeating his greatest hits.
Two things have always been true about Trump: He is a dangerous fascist and he is a pathetic clown. Those two true things often are seen at odds, because to laugh doesn't take him seriously, and to take him seriously misses how petty and uncreative he is.
But right now, I feel like everybody is coming together on these truths. We're not underestimating him, we're not dismissing him... but we're also not afraid of him, and we're not acting like he's cracked some kind of special political code.
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Jul 16
I know term limits and ethics sounds "less radical" to a lot of people than court expansion.

But, as I keep trying to tell you all, the Supreme Court gets to decide if term limits and ethics are constitutional. And so if you don't expand the court, these other plans will fail.
People still don't want to accept that the "radical" solution is the ONLY solution to get the more *moderate* changes they desire.

But if you tell John Roberts he has to leave office after 18 years, JOHN ROBERTS WILL SAY NO... and then what have you done?
The *only way* to get term limits is to appoint a majority of justices who think term limits are constitutional. And right now, I don't even know if there are *three* justices who think they're constitutional, much less the necessary five.
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Jul 2
I understand why Republicans are invested in downplaying the scope of the immunity decision. If people understood what just happened they might want to do something about the Supreme Court.

I really don't understand why Democrats are downplaying the scope though.
My only guess is that Democrats think that if people understood how much power the Supreme Court just handed to the President, they might expect their President to use it.

Since Biden's not going to use it, I guess there's value in telling people it didn't happen?
And along those lines I guess there's value in Democrats (falsely) telling people that there's still some kind of ridiculous chance Trump is still brought to justice, because even thought that is now a complete lie, people like to believe "the system is working."
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