“Joe Biden is tougher on his dog, who I’m told has done nothing wrong, than he is on the GANGS and DRUGDEALERS at the border. Sad!”
He would’ve tweeted a dozen times about the dog and at least half of them would’ve been bangers.
He would call Biden “President” Biden and we would have six news cycles dedicated to this latest, incalculable threat to the American democracy from which we may never recover.
“Sooo funny to see the Fake News and the Failing New York Times completely ignore how ‘President’ Biden is handling the border. Separations up! Where’s the coverage?”
“‘President’ Biden has been GREAT for coyotes (not the animals!) and drug smugglers and a DISASTER for America!”
Someone would ask him about Biden’s dog and he would be like “listen, that’s a very nasty thing to say about Hunter, but you know what, where is Hunter?”
We will never be allowed to have a funny president ever again. Now we’ll only get mad. Right mad and left mad. But all mad.
Of the 100 funniest things ever said by the POTUS, Trump has easily 90 of them
“Listen, no one is paying attention to Wacky Psaki. You turn on CNN and it’s all Trump Trump Trump. Biden can’t even remember his own name, but nobody cares. A disgrace!”
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The rise and fall of Gov. Cuomo is a case study in the dangers of a partisan press.
If we had a national media that was half as interested in the open corruption of a Democratic Governor as they were in the mean tweets of a Republican President, we never would’ve gotten to this point.
Every J school should have a course about understanding political biases and what they mean for both the topics that are covered and the tenor of that coverage. Particularly when everyone in a news room tends to have the same ones.
There is nothing quite like the young urbanite - usually male - who needs to tell you about the grit and character they’ve developed from living in a shitty walk-up in Bedstuy ($1500/month rent) and eating food out of cans.
The new Steinbecks, all of them.
Accidents of fate have, on three separate occasions, prevented me from this fate. But I would’ve lived in the upper(ish) east side, on account of I am a different variety of prick. But I would’ve taken up cigarettes and written better, surely.
The reason that woke crusades matter isn’t because of the critical importance of the particular thing being canceled.
It’s because their continued success underscores deep, structural problems in our society around tolerating diverse points of view.
And the ease with which cultural, political, business, social and other forms of capital can be brought to bear to snuff out those ideas with serious consequences.
That’s what matters. The people whose response is always some variant of “who cares about Dr Seuss?!” ignore that.
And their success breeds more power. The more scalps that cancel culture and other forces like it claim, the more it emboldens the mob to behave in a way that free people shouldn’t.
I’m sorry, Cuomo was “the perfect man for our perilous pandemic times”??
What possible metric could support this? The attorney general of NY - from his own party! - is actively investigating his misconduct! He lied about **thousands** of deaths.
“Have people forgotten how the whole country tuned in every day to watch Cuomo’s honest pandemic updates”
Honest?! I ask this earnestly, @lindastasi, are you out of your fucking mind? Whatever else you think, calling them “honest” is a lie. nytimes.com/2021/03/04/nyr…
This will be how Cuomo crawls out of all of this. Whataboutism and historical revision and ‘but I felt so safe listening to him, who cares about all the deaths?!’ bullshit.
Intellectually and morally bankrupt drivel. All of it.
I don't like to revel in the failure of others (I think it's generally unbecoming and unchristian) but watching the rats jump from the @ProjectLincoln ship has brought me a lot of joy, if I'm being honest. nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/…
A unique collection of bad people trying DESPERATELY to save some measure of face.
"Stuart Stevens, a longtime media consultant who has taken an increasingly prominent role in the project, cried during an interview while talking about his commitment to the cause."
seeing people like @stuartpstevens describe Lincoln Project the way that so many GOPers described Trump is a chef's kiss moment.
"They were drawn to Lincoln Project not because we were H.R. geniuses but because we knew how to fight and were willing to take on our own party."