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14 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
God they’re so close.
Honestly thinking of pinning this one.
Neocons talking about how forever wars are sobering like
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15 Apr
🧵THREAD🧵

Today the “Russian bounties” story - where Russia was supposedly paying to have US soldiers killed - quietly imploded.

For the last year, Dems, the media & others have pushed this conspiracy theory endlessly.

If you think that’s exaggerative, have a look⤵️
The worst offender was @nytimes, who broke the original story and went on to convince the families of soldiers who had been KIA that perhaps the Russians were to blame and President Trump didn’t care.

Will we get a follow up? Will the families? ImageImageImageImage
But they were far from alone. @CNN pushed the conspiracy theory just as frequently as anyone did.

You’ll notice that, while some of the stories note the bounties are “alleged”, eventually CNN dropped that, despite the narrative being disputed (and having since fallen apart). ImageImageImageImage
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14 Apr
🧵THREAD🧵

Today, President Biden announced his intention to end the war in Afghanistan, to great media fanfare.

You may remember, way back in 2019 & 2020, President Trump said the same thing.

Let me know if you can spot the difference in coverage then vs. now⤵️
When Trump said we were leaving, @CNN quoted the NATO Sec Gen with a “stark warning” about how “dangerous” the move would be.

But Biden’s decision? Well, on that one, we just get to hear from his people.
One of the things I’ve discussed before is how outlets can frame the narrative they want by focusing on people who support or oppose a certain policy. It’s misleading, but also a calling card of @CNN.
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13 Apr
this is so good. nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opi…
one idea Douthat hits on here is that US meritocrats are usually "deeply committed to a moral vision that regards emancipated, self-directed choice as essential to human freedom and the good life" and I wish we talked about that more.
as well as the reality that "[t]he tension between this worldview and the thou-shalt-not, death-of-self commandments of biblical religion can be bridged only with difficulty"'
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12 Apr
@ChrisCillizza I’m...not confident that this is exclusively (or even primarily) a Fox News phenomenon.
Perhaps another network who does something similar may come to mind.
All of these from @brianstelter are from *the last 36 hours* and comprise about half of his mentions of Fox News in that time.
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8 Apr
If Republicans talked about any issue - particularly a constitutional right - with the blatant, mind-melting ignorance that Dems talk about gun laws, it would be a 24/7 newscycle forever.
There is no single issue in American politics where one side is as fundamentally misinformed/uninformed as the left is on gun laws. And I don’t think it’s even close. Space aliens could come up with more effective policy.
Dems talk about guns the way that humans talked about flight in the 1800s or how I would imagine an uncontacted tribe would explain electricity. It’s mind blowing.
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7 Apr
The lesson that GOP pols should (but won’t) learn from Tucker’s recent beat-downs is that the pretty words and sentiments that’ll pacify corporate donors and beltway bigwigs just don’t cut it anymore.
Do I think people’s careers will end because of these? No, probably not. But media opportunities are meant as a good and safe option for someone in the hot seat. You try to find a comfy opp. Tucker has made clear that he’ll never be that thing, and we all owe him for that.
This is how you get a better GOP. You stress test the latest ideas and discard those that aren’t good. So many ideas have kicked around for a long time because they were a sacred cow for lobbyists/donors that the base wants to see die.
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