"Republicans are going to double down on Trump, culture war grievance politics, violent insurrection, and conspiratorial insanity for the indefinite future." theweek.com/articles/96363…
notable how Republican insurrectionists have to camouflage their agenda of violent authoritarianism, even from themselves theweek.com/articles/96363…
NB that Citadel Securities, who fills the order flow for Robinhood, and Citadel the hedge fund that bailed out Melvin, are different companies (though Ken Griffin founded both of them) theverge.com/22251427/reddi…
anyway the whole point of Robinhood is for Wall Street to swindle naive retail investors by getting ahead of their orders. that's why Citadel Securities pays a huge premium to do it cnbc.com/2020/08/13/how…
who knows how this will all turn out but man is it depressing. millions of activists and ordinary people bust their asses to get Dems the Senate and they are *instantly* betrayed by the party right wing
I will say I'm glad this fight broke out just 5 days after Biden took office. it took almost 5 years to get to a similar place under Obama
here is Greenwald's reasoning for why Obama was worse than Trump. half a million covid deaths and trying to overthrow democracy apparently don't rate as "moral evil"
I wonder how many deaths the reimposition of sanctions on Iran caused in the context of the pandemic. I would be real surprised if it was less than 100k thenation.com/article/world/…
the question he is answering is explicitly about why he thinks Obama is worse reason.com/2021/01/23/jou…
what jumps out most about this "unity" tripe today is how conservative rhetoric now is fully, 100 percent bad faith bullshit. these people compulsively cook up the most annoying way to claim victimhood for each and every situation
I remember back before say, 2015 or so, when there used to be at least some dialogue and argument between right and left online. nobody ever convinced anybody of anything but I think people were restrained by the need to be minimally plausible and consistent
what Trump taught the right is that if you are completely shameless all the time, you gain a sort of political superpower. you can get away with (almost) anything, at the cost of dissolving any substantive goals in a stew of culture war grievance, ressentiment, and lunacy
jaw-dropping if true. also if Sund is right about Bowser, she should resign too npr.org/2021/01/11/955…
one major problem with the law enforcement mindset we see today is that most of them are incapable of seeing conservative white people as a real threat. "oh it's no big deal, they're just blowing off steam" right up until they start beating a cop to death