Share this page!

Berny Belvedere Profile picture
Twitter logo
28 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The GOP successfully filibustered the January 6 Commission.

The U.S. is hardest hit from this, since of course it's absolute clown level stuff to be incapable of properly investigating an incident in which frenzied rioters attempted to stop the certification of our election.
Imagine being this deranged.
Mission Accomplished, Mitch
Okay, but, I mean you’ve been his colleague for a long time. How is it possible that McConnell being a nihilistic partisan took you *this much* by surprise?

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Berny Belvedere

Berny Belvedere Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @bernybelvedere

Berny Belvedere Profile picture
28 May
I agree it’s incorrect to say the U.S. is intrinsically racist, but “it had to struggle its way out racism that existed when it was founded” is an indefensible whitewashing of the way in which the American founding intentionally weaved white supremacy into its social design.
Where’s the agency? Lindsay talks about the American founding as if it featured heroes of incorruptible character battling a hostile universe’s vile attempts to saddle it with the evils of slavery. Maybe the founding wasn’t a Marvel movie.
What are you talking about?

Of course the founding era contained "aspirations to rise above it." I never denied that.

Read 15 tweets
Berny Belvedere Profile picture
27 May
I am in tears 🤣🤣🤣
This is amazing content.
Can you imagine actually believing that the Hunter Laptop story could have swung the election? Can you imagine being that cognitively compromised?
Read 4 tweets
Berny Belvedere Profile picture
27 May
I understand that everyone has already dunked on this, but I am still trying to wrap my head around a Covid reporter for the NYT actually thinking this and then tweeting it out. It seems like it shouldn’t be possible to be this professionally incurious.
“Is that code beyond just calling me a clown?”

😂😂😂😂😂

Oof
I feel like I need to tweet an obligatory defense of the NYT since so many people use occasions like this to draw unwarranted conclusions about the publication. The paper has generally covered Covid exceptionally well.
Read 4 tweets
Berny Belvedere Profile picture
26 May
My biggest problem with fake analysts like Skip Bayless is that their entire approach is to support pre-formed takes with cherry-picked statistics. It's the perfect grift because sports furnishes us with an opportunity to do just that, if we're shameless enough to try it.
Here's what I mean by that.

In baseball especially, but also in basketball, football, hockey, and even soccer, there is always going to be some stat, some aspect of the game, that can be deployed to show that a player hasn't been flawless.
These are sports with enough statistical categories, with enough competitive complexity, that you can always isolate some statistic to fit a pre-formed narrative.

What Bayless does is the shock jock equivalent of p hacking.
Read 6 tweets
Berny Belvedere Profile picture
24 May
Anyone who voted against certifying the 2020 election results should be permanently disqualified from serving as election officials in the future.

This is madness.
Of course, this minimal standard of election integrity is too reasonable to be implemented. So instead we get anti-democracy partisan superhacks positioning themselves to preside over our future elections. Not great.
Some galaxy craniums have read my opening tweet really weirdly. I am not saying voting against certification is always disqualifying. Nor am I saying these people should be barred from office.
Read 4 tweets
Berny Belvedere Profile picture
23 May
News orgs engender trust from readers by projecting their capacity to reliably produce reporting that is accurate and fair. The world is fantastically complex, which means readers want it analyzed, and want to make sure it's being done from an intellectually honest vantage point.
I am generally against news organizations dropping personnel over political tweets, but you have to be completely ignorant of psychology to believe that a reporter publicly telegraphing his politics *isn’t* going to compromise his ability to convey impartiality in his reporting.
<tweets 10 things in a row about Israel being divinely mandated to destroy its enemies and Palestine being an evil people who are completely in the wrong>

<next day>

"Folks, here's my new report trying to make sense of the latest Israel-Palestine dust up."
Read 13 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @bernybelvedere has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @bernybelvedere!

Read all threads by @bernybelvedere

:(