Much like Antifa in the Democratic telling, libertarians are an idea, a loose collection of ne’er-do-wells, marching under the same banner, burning cities in their wake.
Every time a man between the ages of 18 and 22 waxes poetic about the power of the inv*sible h*nd, a new libertarian hatches.
Libertarianism is like absolute zero. The best you can do is get really, really close, but there’ll always be that annoying kid in class who points out that you aren’t *quite* there.
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1) I don’t get why these personal moments are newsworthy 2) they’re heartbreaking, and the type of heartbreak that anyone who has had a loved one battle addiction knows 3) this does more to humanize Joe Biden than any campaign ad. nypost.com/2020/10/16/tex…
More succinctly: dunking on a man for comforting his addict son is fucked, and if your politics leads you to do it, that’s fucked, too.
We are in the midst of the greatest addiction and overdose crisis this country has ever seen.
And we’re dedicating time and attention to dunk on a man struggling with addiction and a father who cares for him?
It’s become fashionable to criticize the US response to coronavirus. Perhaps that’s warranted. But cases are spiking across Europe and it’s gone unremarked across much of the media.
I ran the numbers. It’s grim, particularly compared to new US cases.
France
New cases: 29,641
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 145,108
Actual US cases: 55,291
There’s still apples to oranges a bit, here, but for context, that would be about double the highest single-day case total in the US so far.
United Kingdom
It isn’t just France, either. This is all over Europe.
New cases: 17,502
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 85,681
Actual US cases: 55,291
By now you’ve heard that @SteveScully’s allegation of being hacked was a lie.
I thought that, surely, there wouldn’t be a need for a thread on this, because no one could have possibly believed his original claim, but...
Nope. We had bad takes.
Starting off, we have the inimitable @joelockhart who thinks you are - I kid you not - “a damn liar” for so much as QUESTIONING Scully’s allegation that he was hacked.
I thought it would only be Joe out on gullible ledge on this one.
The bombshell @nypost story about Joe & Hunter Biden has caused some bluechecks to suddenly worry about pushing a story that may not be true.
Where was that sentiment during the Russian collusion hoax?
Your latest class of the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame. #HypocrisyHOF
Perhaps the richest about-face comes from @jonathanchait. The same guy who suggested, with a straight face, that Trump has been a Russian asset since the 1980s & endlessly pushed the Steele dossier is worried that the Post’s story is a Russian hack. True #HypocrisyHOF material.
Right behind him in lack of self awareness is @kylegriffin1.
He didn’t want anyone sharing the link to the Post story, but he was happy to share @RepAdamSchiff’s conspiracy about Russian collusion even post-Mueller report.