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Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) Profile picture
@speechboy71
Sep 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This week in ... the lies conservatives tell themselves to justify abhorrent behavior
For anyone who has dealt with an extreme narcissist this is such familiar behavior.

Create an alternate reality based on alleged grievance. Use that alternate reality to justify bad behavior. Take no responsibility for acting badly
This column from @DouthatNYT is yet another example of this phenomenon: create grievance structure around Court decisions - and Court members appointed by Republicans - that you don’t like to justify pushing though a new conservative judge ...
... all the while suggesting that this is somewhat akin to what happened to Merrick Garland. Use it as a justification for bad, hypocritical behavior nytimes.com/2020/09/20/opi…

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Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) Profile picture
Jul 22
Lots of people are analogizing Biden’s withdrawal to LBJ’s withdrawal in 1968 … they are very, very different situations. 🧵
When LBJ announced his departure from the race on March 31, 1968 no one saw it coming. There’d been virtually no speculation that LBJ might drop out and only a handful of people knew his plans before he announced them. There were no trial balloons.
Americans were stunned. Even though LBJ had barely won the NH primary over Gene McCarthy and RFK had entered the race about 2 weeks earlier, the reigning assumption in DC was that LBJ would run and be the Democratic nominee in November
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Jul 3
Just a quick lesson in media literacy & what I suspect is the WH's near-term strategy.

I always counsel people to pay less attention to a leak's content and instead ask why/who leaked a story.

Here's why I assume this leak was engineered by the WH🧵
cnn.com/2024/07/03/pol…
CNN says Biden "has privately acknowledged that the next stretch of days are critical to whether he can save his reelection bid for president."

Why would the WH leak a story that feeds the narrative that Biden might drop out?
Because the WH is under enormous pressure, particularly from Capitol Hill, to "do something" to respond to Thursday's debate. They are getting slammed for being tone-deaf and gaslighting Congress about Biden's predicament.
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Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) Profile picture
Apr 29
This letter signed by journalism professors demanding that the NYT re-examine its 12/28 article chronicling the sexual assaults that took place on October 7 is as misinformed as it is shameful.

Every person who signed it should be embarrassed 🧵washingtonpost.com/documents/adc3…
First, the letter ignores the multiple reports and journalistic accounts that back up the Times' reporting. That includes a UN report ... un.org/sexualviolence…
... and a report by the Association of Rape Crisis Center in Israel gov.il/BlobFolder/new…
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Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) Profile picture
Apr 18
Yesterday, @TheAtlantic published my piece on October 7 rape denialism ... and there are a few points I want to highlight.

The first is that, contrary to the skeptics and denialists -- widespread sexual violence took place on October 7.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel found "Hamas’s attack included brutal sexual assaults carried out systematically & deliberately against Israeli civilians and "sadistic practices aimed at intensifying the degree of humiliation and terror." gov.il/BlobFolder/new…
The UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General reached similar if more circumspect conclusions, “there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attacks.” un.org/sexualviolence…
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Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) Profile picture
Feb 20
Ok, time for some game theory ... for @ezraklein @NateSilver538 @DamonLinker and others who continue to argue that Biden should drop out of the 2024 race. What happens next? 🧵
If Biden withdraws the overwhelming likelihood is that he endorses Kamala Harris for president. Why? It would show loyalty to his running mate, ensure Biden's legacy, and, even more important, would block a divisive nomination fight.
With Biden's endorsement, plus access to money raised for the election and the campaign infrastructure that's already been built, Harris would have a huge edge over any other potential nominee. But there's an even bigger advantage ..,.
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Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) Profile picture
Mar 30, 2023
In this exchange, @RepThomasMassie says, "there's never been a school shooting in a school that allows teachers to carry."

I guess it depends on how one defines a teacher, but in the Parkland shooting, there was an armed officer present. He hid as 17 people were killed
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As far as shootings at schools where teachers carry weapons ... we don't know. That information isn't readily available. But very few teachers carry guns in schools. The last estimate in 2018 put the number at 2.6% of schools. nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/…
And since it is such a small sample size (there are still very few school shootings in America) ... if one has not taken place in the tiny percentage of schools that have armed teachers, it's statistically irrelevant.
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