Incredible to see @BillKristol begging for table scraps in his new party from people like @neeratanden who aren’t exactly fans.
People will talk about the NeverTrumpera selling out to fit in w/ the Biden Admin, just as other NeverTrumpers sold out to fit in w/ Trump but what I think it comes down to is that many political types purport to care about things/people/institutions they don’t, so this happens.
Kristol has shown in his career that he cares about two things: being in the spotlight and bombing Middle Eastern countries. Everything else makes more sense when you consider what he does as a means to one of those ends.
Politics is funny because it’s populated largely by shitty and self-interested people who have to constantly bend over backwards to convince you that they are neither shitty nor self-interested.

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1 Dec
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Today’s news about China’s poor and deceptive handling of the coronavirus outbreak should serve as a wake up call for those in the media who praised and defended it.

Because it’s a long, long list of those who served as an apologist for China’s response. 👇
Given @CNN broke the bad news today on China, it seems like a good place to start the list of those who vouched for them.

They carried water for China’s propaganda for months, and criticized @VP for rightly blaming their response for the global death toll. ImageImageImage
Of all of @CNN’s people on the anti-Trump beat, it seems @jgriffiths was dedicated to covering for China in their response, and obfuscating the truth in criticism from Trump and others. ImageImage
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30 Nov
Perhaps now is a good time for @CNN to stop parroting CCP talking points on coronavirus then?

Quick 🧵👇 ImageImage
And maybe it would be a good time to apologize to @realDonaldTrump and @VP for serving as a conduit to Biden blaming Trump for these deaths? Or saying that Pence had “sought to cast blame” rather than just tell the truth? ImageImage
Perhaps @CNN could follow up with Madeleine Albright about the “art of statecraft” that compels us not to punish China in light of these new allegations? Image
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28 Nov
We should really stop pretending political things aren’t political simply because they have broad support among the powerful and influential.
I’m also very, very tired of the chicanery around pretending a political organization with a sweeping legislative agenda and expansive mission statement can be distilled down to “Black lives matter” simply because that is the name they chose for the organization.
Also I will never understand what passes for political bravery these days. Every center of political, financial, and cultural power is arraigned alongside BLM except, what, the GOP?
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26 Nov
See, if cities and states would simply allow everyone, and not just the people in charge, to make their “decision as a husband and father,” this whole mess would blow over.
What I wish people like @MayorHancock and @NYGovCuomo and @LoriLightfoot and @GavinNewsom could just wake up and realize is what they’re telling people is that they don’t think their rules matter enough to follow.
It’s really that simple. If they thought that their travel bans and eating bans and whatever else bans were truly **so important** as to be worth meaningful sacrifices then **they would be making those sacrifices** too
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25 Nov
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Three years ago, America was locked in a battle for #NetNeutrality, and, by extension, life as we knew it.

For the lucky few who survived, I invite you to join me on a quick stroll down memory lane to revisit the doom and gloom we were promised.
There was a concerted push in the Senate, so it makes sense to start there, where we had many, many examples of people who get paid by your tax dollars pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that repealing #NetNeutrality would mean no more internet.

@SenWarren led the charge.
But she wasn’t alone. Her Massachusetts compatriot, @SenMarkey, was right behind her, with claims every bit as outlandish.

Repealing #NetNeutrality would mean “killing the free and open internet.”

Okay.
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24 Nov
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We haven’t talked much about it, but Biden’s cabinet is chock full of lobbyists.

Here’s a quick rundown of top Biden appointees:

💰CoS Klein lobbied for asbestos & Fannie Mae (& others)

💰DHS chief Mayorkas is currently a partner at lobbying shop Wilmer Cutler
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💰SecState Blinken currently runs a consulting shop called WestExec

💰 WestExec comes up often.
DNI Avril Haynes is a former WestExec partner

💰NSA Sullivan was at consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners, where he worked on behalf of Uber and others
(3/6)

💰Counselor Riccheti is one of DCs best known lobbyists, working with the Podesta bros & on health care + other topics

💰Leg Affairs Director Terrell is a former lobbyist at Facebook

💰John Kerry is, well, John Kerry

Despite this, we see only puff pieces on his team.
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