Thread by @JoshuaCypess

14.01/ The alacrity & zeal of converting the house/kitchen from Pesadik to Chametzdik is in inverse proportion to the zeal in taking down the sukkah

14.02/ Given how often I need to use it during the #TrumpCrisis, I need to add "incompetent" to my list of words that I will never spell correctly when I first type it out.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1270736640433164288?s=20

14.03/ Last year I answered the Q below w/Ernie, Dr. Teeth, Gonzo, yet realized I should have said Ernie 3 times!

I was told that was allowed & while I followed the rules "as an Ernie, I should have just done it anyway. I'm betraying my Ernian heritage!"

https://twitter.com/drugmonkeyblog/status/1112930333459079169?s=20

14.04/ I hate medicine commercials, as all good people do, despite the hilarious list of euphemisms for side effects ("fatal events have occurred" is the gold standard for PR) but can we agree: "Don't use [this drug] if you are allergic to [this drug]" is a bonkers thing to say?

14.05a/ There are so many reasons why the MSM slavish agrees w/the GOP & why they're easily victimized by the abusive POTUS; but if DJT loses big in 2 weeks, there's a chance they'll accept the "new normal" that everything he did was truly toxic & that creates a newer normal

14.05b/ I'm thinking of how FDR not only ended decades of GOP dominance of POTUS (Wilson was an 8 yr blip over a 36 yr span, 1896-1932, McKinley to Hoover) to the point that he redefined the function of the Federal gov, created the Imperial Presidency & dominated US culture

14.05c/ Reagan was a New Deal Democrat b/c who wouldn't be. RR, of course, was able to kill the FDR culture and even tho the social cycles stuff (like Strauss-Howe) is simplistically structuralist, we can see these 40 year periods of FDR->RR->now

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E…

14.05d/ If Trump (ym'sh) is smashed in Nov., we can look to FDR and RR as cases where the culture shifts to new conventional wisdom. FDR made big government logical which then set up Reagan's argument - like all dissolute trust-fund heirs - that cruelty & greed are defensible

14.05e/ From RR to BE"H Biden, the GOP position was taken as the Only Logical One (tm), just like 1932-1980 Big Government & Big America & Unions & Science were logical before it.

This gives me hope that we can push for a new, better, era if we succeed in destroying the RedHats

14.06/ At 7:22 the guy in the upper left asks - sarcastically? - how does the fact that Trump (ym'sh) is inciting supporters to murder the MI Gov. "play with swing voters"

If he intends sarcasm then be explicit. Because this is still normalizing fascism

14.07/ This is brilliant. Peer review is simultaneously a strength of academia and - like all necessary structures in the academy, like tenure, grading, the pipeline of doctorates - ridiculously broken

https://twitter.com/JoshuaGrubbsPhD/status/1317154197532495874?s=20

14.08/ Calling the Trump (ym'sh) pandemic plan a "herd immunity" strategy is a "fin*l soluti*n" style euphemism for mass murder on the scale of Stalin or Mao.

The GOP's "solution" is to let the disease run rampant. They mock even wearing masks! That's malice aforethought

14.09/ Really good gif-chart via @michaelharriot which shows the necessity of intersectionality in understanding the interplay of inequality. In this case, race correlatives with lack of class mobility for Black Americans but not for whites.

https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1317666605082595330?s=20

14.10/ This dirty article reads more like a GOP oppo-attack on Biden than even the Burisma nonsense. Only Trump (ym'sh) benefits from this topic; I know no Democrat or Biden-supporting ex-Republican who wants this

politico.com/news/2020/10/2…

14.11/ Like what I said about race discrimination in 14.09, gender-discrimination is so pervasive in nearly every social endeavor that - at least in 2020 - it must be seen as a given: there will be bigotry built into systems unless it's explicitly excised

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1317604611860189190

14.12/ Quick pep-talk thread for the final stretch. With our heads held high, and resolve strong, we can take Berlin in 2 weeks

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1318925626720518146?s=20

14.13/ As a man, it's my responsibility to talk about Toobin indefensible actions, why it was abusive, & that he should be considered a menace.

We must root out rape culture & protect innocent people, not predators

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1318983332001185793?s=20

14.14/ We are on ironic-metaphor overload here in 2020. But a massive book of entirely blank pages being passed off as the sum total of Trump's (ym'sh) accomplishments is just [chef's kiss] perfect

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1318981063595708417?s=20

14.15/ I am here for every aspect of this joke

https://twitter.com/nyeusi_waasi/status/1317941352383000587?s=20

plus this follow-up

https://twitter.com/JustinMidcarder/status/1318021988355510274?s=20

14.16/ What I like about the newest TLP ad is that I don't mind knowing the research behind the message: it's aimed at center-right men who voted GOP in 2016 to act like Biden - a great father - and reject the toxic masculinity & weakness of Trump (ym'sh)

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319247130809278464?s=20

14.17/ OK, so @MeCookieMonster lacked control on his heater due to his hands' muscle-memory designed for power eating, not finding the strike zone. So who could we expect to be a more reliable member of a starting rotation? Bert? Bert.

https://twitter.com/ProfMMurray/status/1318283385370939392?s=20

14.18/ We're all being doing this, no? Finding the Miriam-Webster (as we call it here) words introduced in our birth year. So I had no idea that "woke" was from 1972!
merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/…

So, using the term is more like "groovy" than "mansplain"
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

14.19/ Nixon's resignation vs Trump's (ym'sh) lust to destroy the US in order to be POTUS shows the essential diff. b/w the two:

Nixon knew & wanted *quality* while DJT actually prefers something soiled, sordid, empty & rotten, b/c his whole life is about surface over substance

14.20/ Trump (ym'sh) is such a coward that it makes me physically ill to contemplate. That said, it's fun to watch him act like a sniveling worm. Here he is begging Stahl of 60 minutes to go easy on him.

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1319308186021670912?s=20

14.21/ BE"H, if Biden wins, he needs to go in the Ally Hall of Fame b/c he will have used his lifelong Establishment White Man prestige to help a Black man become president & a Black woman to become VP. As Levitsky & Ziblatt point out, this is a rare feat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Democ…

14.22/ It just blows me away that the GOP has a captive population fed their numbing propaganda through Fox/Facebook, which allows them to get away with virtually anything their dirty hearts' desire, and they use it for *this* [waving around at 2020's hellscape]

14.23/ The trauma of 2016 has blunted and blinded many of us to what could be an epic trouncing of the GOP on Nov 3. But this sounds like good news for the Allies vs the Axis

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1319639196252950533?s=20

14.24a/ I'm a fan of Noah Avinu (my middle name) and he gets a bad rap because the Torah doesn't record any protest from him to save his neighbors. I have a looooong set of shiurim on this, but I think the 2020 pandemic can contextualize Noah's righteousness

14.24b/ For the pandemic, we've been told that my actions can save innocent lives - and despite having COVID antibodies, I've been shut down as much as possible b/c I care about complete strangers. This is what we'd expect from Noah as well.

14.24c/ Compare to my attitude re: Trump (ym'sh) who actively is trying to kill people, enjoys human misery & profits off of the disease. If I was told that only he would suffer from God's plague, then I'd actually understand. (Note, I'm not a prophet, so I'm not claiming facts)

14.24d/ The Torah makes it clear that the generation of the Flood were active & eager destroyers of each other & the world. They were described (esp. in the Midrash) as equivalent malefactors to people like Trump (ym'sh) (e.g. who last night defended his nice clean baby cages)

14.24e/ But then there are the people I know personally who I was begging to take COVID seriously back in March, who refused and who still are making things worse. They have blood on their hands. After a certain amount of begging, I learned it was futile to engage

14.24f/ I've spent time trying to save the innocent, to look for signs of flagging cultist brainwashing, to make a difference whenever I could. In that sense, 2020 has made me identify with Noah in a visceral way.

14.24g/ Note, pandemic can be replaced with climate change for extra Noah punch.

In any case, context matters and how we treat our RedHat neighbors can teach us how we would have acted in Noah's place. I sympathize.

14.25/ Shabbas is getting earlier, so I will close the thread down now. It's the last grilling Friday of the season (usu. I end on Yom Kippur but global warming gives me a few more weeks before the clocks change). #ShabbatShalom y'all

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And postscript, the New Yorker has (pseudo) jumped on my avatar bandwagon. Great to see!

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