Yawn. I got plenty. But first: I stand by my view that it reflects very poorly on you that you take Schlicter seriously. That was the main point of my response to you. He’s a deceitful and pathetic troll. But since you can’t see that. I’ll pretend you asked the question. 1/
She didn’t “attack the base.” Show me a quote from Cheney where she attacked the base. She said Trump lied about the election being stolen. That’s factually true. If some people are triggered by that, okay. But that’s not “attacking the base.”
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Indeed, the idea that defenestrating Cheney is a sign of seriousness only makes sense at all if you believe the party is deadly serious about being a Trumpist cult. 3/
In fairness to you, that is precisely what many people want it to be. So yes, this is a sign of seriousness if you think the GOP should be defined by loyalty to Trump above all else. How else to explain the Trumpers embracing a far more liberal congresswoman to replace her? 4/
After all, Stefanik falls short of Liz Cheney in every regard save one: She is a pliable and malleable sycophant to Trump. Not his policies mind you. Cheney voted with Trump more than Stefanik. No, she’s just more of a Trump ass-kisser. 5/
Stefanik supported the unconstitutional and anti-constitutional effort to steal the election. She’s less conservative than Cheney according to Heritage Action and the ACU. She’s a hackishly and opportunistically loyal Trump shill. But, she is “serious” about it. 6/
Having just heard the 5,000th Trump apologist pundit make the same argument(s), I feel like venting.
So, as the say, thread:
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If your only -- or even simply your first -- point in defense of Trump is that Democrats are hypocrites or have double standards, you are in effect arguing that the left dictates your standards. ...
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If you say Trump can't or shouldn't be held to account because liberals didn't hold their own side accountable for (what you allege) was similar incitement or behavior, what you're really saying is you care less about your own standards than the hypocrisy of the left...
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So overnight my feed filled with people votesplaining to me what are and aren’t the only legitimate reasons for how I should vote. Some friendly, some not. To all of you: Please peddle it somewhere else. 1/
There is no single “only way to decide.” There is no lone consideration — policy, character, sending a message. People have been shouting binary choice at me for five years as if saying it makes it true. It’s not. 2/
They shriek how voting “symbolically” wastes a vote. Well, my vote is definitionally symbolic in DC. And B) it’s only wasted in the sense you think I should use it differently. “Why are you wasting good steak on chili?” Well, its my steak and it’s my f’ing vote. 3/
Yawn. Steve, you're at a terrible disadvantage here because people know who you are. This Trumpy tweet is a perfect example. You made your career as a thug-dufus negative campaigner for GOP politicians and somehow think that makes you a man of letters.
I still remember your emails to me whining about how Republicans were being mean to you. I remember your suck-up act to me too. As for my career, I think it speaks for itself and I'm proud of what I've accomplished. How many bestsellers have you written?
You're so intellectually insecure, your first instinct is to fall back on the only skill you ever had: hack attack dog. But your insults aren't a defense for calling two honorable Trump critics Nazi collaborators, it's just that you're so full of shit you can't even see it.
Smart piece from my friend @MatthewJFranck pushing back on the "Make A Deal" cabal (of which I'm a member). I'm saving my responses for a longer piece but 2 quick points.... thedispatch.com/p/vote-on-pres… 1/4
First, I actually don't think McConnell is being a hypocrite (certainly not on the scale of Graham). He was always more careful and surgical in his statements (As far as I know, maybe I'm missing some quote). and .... 2/4
Second, I don't think "fairness to the nominee" is a particularly powerful argument. I'm all for fairness, to be sure. But it can't be the primary determinant in confirmation battles, can it? I mean "fairness to the nominee" isn't in the constitution either. 3/4
I disagree, at least a little. Ethically Woodward was bound to hold this stuff. But morally it’s at least grayer. Woodward’s operation has the ethics worked out. But sometimes ethics and morality don’t align perfectly. 1/
Psychologists, lawyers, priests, et al have carve outs from confidentiality SOP if there’s good reason to believe it will save one life. But Woodward has no such obligation when there might be thousands of lives on the line? I think that’s problematic. 2/
Now I’m not saying it’s obvious that Woodward’s silence cost lives, but it’s really easy to come up with a hypothetical *very* close to this situation in which his silence = death. “If he talked he’d never be able to interview again!” Is some very weak sauce in that context. 3/
Since I’m waiting for my daughter to finish getting ready before we go to dinner, some pics from the road. Fairly random order. Here’s one of dozens of bald eagles we saw in Alaska. This was on Admiralty Island