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Dear Bari: I never thought this would happen to me, but if Jesse Helms had been president we never would have had any of these problems lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/04/dear-b…
If not for Bari's finance bro, where else would we be able to read about Martin Luther King, the uncontroversial figure whose entire career consisted of one speech that contained one sentence, except for every conservative publication that has ever existed? Image
It's the Chris Rock "you're not racist if you didn't literally shoot Medgar Evers" routine, but unironically: Image
Finance bro who has already dropped more than 200 large on his daughter's elementary school education wants you to know that he is not *especially* deep-pocketed, and wishes that Upper East Side private schools could return to their roots as engines for social equity: Image
Bari's correspondent is not merely an anti-vaxx troofer, he's an Alex Berenson reply guy, the only thing in the world more pathetic than being a Bari Weiss reply guy: Image
I wish I could tell you that this wasn't about to become Republican orthodoxy but

Was racism completely ended by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, views differ Image

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Jun 9, 2023
Trying to retcon Trump as a whistleblower is amazing stuff even for Glenn
"James Comey was in the tank for Hillary Clinton" ROFL. Glenn really should reconsider the "tweeting about dogs in Portuguese" approach to days when something bad happens for his political side Image
One point to add is that it was incredibly stupid of Comey to think his statement would help clarify why Clinton wasn't indicted (i.e. because nobody ever has been for comparable conduct.) Inevitably, the only message people got was "extremely careless" lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/how-ar…
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Jun 9, 2023
As Patrick Deneen is making the rounds with a new book generating credulous coverage for claims that "post-liberal" reactionaries are actually more egalitarian than liberals, keep this in mind:
The Biden administration is enacting exactly the kind of pro-labor, pro-domestic manufacturing, pro-environmental industrial policy Deneen and his allies claim to want, and they don't care at all: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/the-re…
Instead, Deneen's actual friends and allies are all politicians who supported Trump's upper-class tax cuts and Trump's efforts to take healthcare away from tens of millions of people to pay for even more upper-class tax cuts: politico.com/news/magazine/… Image
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Jun 9, 2023
It’s worth noting that the only reason Trump is the first former president to be indicted is that Gerald Ford unwisely preempted them lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/its-th…
Ford's pardon was very unpopular -- indeed, it probably cost him re-election -- and should not be seen as establishing some kind of American constitutional tradition that former presidents should be above the law.
"at will" Image
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Jun 8, 2023
Great achievements in Alabama neoconfederacy lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/great-…
Plainly, Alabama should never have panicked and brought in Vladimir Myshkin to start the second period
Meanwhile, in dissent Alito offers the “Martin Luther King’s entire career consisted of one speech which consisted of one sentence” school of statutory interpretation Image
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Jun 7, 2023
They also don’t want you to know that book critics write more about Toni Morrison and Phillip Roth than Robert Ludlum, which is very odd given that the latter sold many more copies
It’s fine not to be interested in watching Succession, just say that rather than pretending to believe that there’s a prefect correlation between aesthetic quality/interest and popularity
Whatever popularism’s merits as a campaign strategy, a hard no in applying it to aesthetics
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Jun 3, 2023
Sean makes the smartest case for the "NHL playoffs are pretty much a random walk and we just have to accept it" theory, and as always this is worth reading, but I don't fully agree. Ultimately, the Stanley Cup is almost always won by a genuinely top-quality team
And I think if they win Florida (who had the best regular season record in the league last year and added a Hart finalist, albeit at substantial cost) qualifies, just as I think Boston was a very good team having a season where everything broke right rather than historically good
I also definitely think that despite the #8 seed the 11-2 Kings -- who were possession monsters after Sutter took over, made some critical additions, and of course won again with a similar roster two years later -- were genuinely outstanding
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