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Scott Lemieux

20 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read

If you haven't spotted the sucker after the first 4 years, you *are* the sucker lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/01/if-you…

"his supporters" glad we're finally admitting that at least

Anyway, it could be that Liz Cheney casting a superfluous vote for impeachment prevented Donald "Assange should be executed" Trump from acting on his natural civil libertarian impulses, but no actually it's that you're been hilariously wrong about him all along

https://twitter.com/GlemGreenwald/status/1351980382602874880

LOL

https://twitter.com/GlemGreenwald/status/1351980382602874880

Try to imagine a journalist completely abandoning any semblance of adversarial coverage when a president they like gets elected, losing any dignity whatsover by the end

who could have seen “I ratfucked an election for Donald Trump and all I got was this lousy federal indictment” coming except anyone who knows anything about Donald Trump

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Scott Lemieux

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19 Jan

Christ, when I joked that Jacobin would go full anti-anti QAnon I didn't mean it as a dare

The best part is the repeated projection that a movement dedicated to the idea that Donald Trump is a world-saving hero and a riot devoted to keeping him in office by fiat is ACTUALLY equally critical of both parties

"Lauren Boebert and Q were just involved in a few minor real estate deals many years ago"

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Scott Lemieux

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18 Jan

https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1350511916955783168

I will observe again that the "Overton Window" was back-of-a-cocktail-napkin bullshit developed by an also-ran libertarian think tank, whose thesis was that Bush's drive to privatize Social Security would be a smashing political and policy success for the right

https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1350511916955783168

As Chotiner suggests, a big problem is that people defending the "Overton Window" don't seem to understand what the theory is. Advocating to move policy in your direction per se isn't the "Overton Window," unless your stated endpoint is DELIBERATELY crazy and unrealistic

The core fallacy of the Overton Window is its implicit assumption that in politics the other side has to meet you halfway and can't just walk away, and the problem in most cases is that this transparently false

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Scott Lemieux

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16 Jan

Tonight we have dissents from both Sotomayor and Breyer in the last instance of the Supreme Court waving the matador's cape for Trump's machinery of death without so much as a word of reasoned justification

Trump's DOJ has moved with unseemly haste in order to preempt credible legal challenges, and the Court has happily gone along

"This is not justice"

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Scott Lemieux

@LemieuxLGM

14 Jan

Josh Hawley, America’s most ridiculous senator lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/01/americ…

What's funny is that Hawley definitely thinks he's a serious candidate for 2024, when after all that smarm and sedition he's 15 points underwater to *Ted Cruz.*

In fairness, Hawley and the seditious mob he incited and validated aren't exactly the same. They smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol literally; he just does it metaphorically.

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Scott Lemieux

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8 Jan

The dominant discourse on this website after Election Day was to essentially concede the Senate to the GOP. And yet the 11th Black Senator ever was elected in the heart of the Confederacy pretty comfortably in the end. This was great! lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/01/the-rev