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19 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
@ChrisCillizza, are we getting a 2,000 word story on Biden’s stumble?
They fact checked the weather when Trump walked down a ramp guys does anyone remember this.
Trump walked down a ramp weird and we had a full blown media panic attack.
Can someone ask @ProjectLincoln if “there’s something seriously wrong” with Biden’s health?

Do “the American people need to know” or are we not doing that this time?
Listen, I don’t care about this shit, but these aren’t my rules.
You know what this means.

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Drew Holden Profile picture
19 Mar
Okay fine🧵.

Guys. People lost their minds when Trump walked slowly down a ramp one time.

I don’t think the Biden stair stumble stuff should matter. But boy did the media set one hell of a precedent about presidential walking patterns.

And if you’ve forgotten, read on ⤵️
Remember this very earnest and concerned @nytimes story (and video!)? Suggesting his “halting walk” “raises new health questions”??

I wonder if we’ll hear about how Biden is the oldest president when (if?) his stair story hits print.
And people picked this story up. This was a whole news cycle! Here’s @kylegriffin1 and @jaketapper sharing this story as if it were something that mattered.
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18 Mar
A lot of people have suggested that the insane Covid focus on Florida is an attempt to kneecap DeSantis in 2024.

But I think it’s more a visceral response to the idea that governors who didn’t *appear* to care as much could’ve succeeded.

It doesn’t compute for many. Quick 🧵
Part of this, I think, is just a natural human response to a crisis: we want people who act like they’re doing everything to keep us safe. That’s why Cuomo’s pressers were such a hit: it was the reassurance, purportedly, that someone really cares.
Plus for lots of people there’s surely some mental requirement to justify their own behavior and suffering: the reason I’ve been inside is because I will help end this thing, so if other people aren’t doing what I am, they don’t care. That it isn’t actually that neat is bypassed.
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17 Mar
The logic on this is pretty ridiculous. The study Rupar is talking about focuses on major cities, esp NYC and LA.

Are we meant to believe that there are marauding bands of Trump supporters there, responding to his “racist” language?
Here’s a write up of the study - which, to be clear, is based on data from 2019 and 2020, so mostly before the pandemic. Most of the “effect” is just conjecture. google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…
Also - and please don’t read this as excusing hate crimes - a lot of this is just a matter of small numbers. Hate crimes against Asian Americans, percentage wise, had a huge uptick from 2019 to 2020, that’s true.

From 3 to 28.
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Drew Holden Profile picture
16 Mar
Biden Admin is just gaslighting on this
I will say that, while the mental gymnastics around not saying “kids in cages” is bullshit, I appreciate seeing the media continuously cover what’s going on at the border.
Escape the fact checkers
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15 Mar
My earnest take on the WAP Grammy performance vs. Dr Seuss thing is that it’s an unsurprising result of what happens when one side gives a shit about what they’re fighting for and the other doesn’t.
Those who believe that things like potentially racialized comics are a threat to equity actually care about what they’re fighting for.

But basically no one actively cares if a song’s performance is vulgar. Some people pretend to, to score cheap political points.
It’s Janet-Jackson-Justin-Timberlake-Super-Bowl all over again forever. People hem and haw and appeal to some general sense that Something Is Bad but no one is compelled to attempt change anything.
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14 Mar
You could show me a picture of any white woman in her 20s and 30s who isn’t a famous celebrity and tell me that it’s Phoebe Bridgers and I would believe you.
I have no idea if that’s how you spell her name.
Quiet girl from your high school who moved to Colorado and maybe does drugs? Boom. That’s Phoebe.
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