you actually don't need a ten-piece special section about all the great things a racist autocrat who is still very much trying to destroy American democracy and incite violence was right about
I'd ask if there's an accompanying "here are ten staunchly pro-Trump writers writing about all the ways he fucked up" section but of course there isn't because this is just more media elite coddling of conservatives
next week in the Washington Post:
Hitler: The Good Parts
In conclusion: fuuuuuuuuck no.
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As bad as the COVID news this week is — and it’s real bad — keep in mind how much worse things can get if we give the virus time to mutate into a variant that hospitalizes large percentages of vaccinated folks.
that Mission Accomplished banner probably wasn't a great idea
Hey speaking of people making their own bad choices, this tweet is a bad choice.
Even if you’re a selfish asshole you should consider that the longer the virus is around the more chance it mutates into something vaccine can’t stop. Masks help everyone.
Bigger reasons for Trump’s success: 1. Born rich 2. Unbothered by most constraints (moral, ethical, intellectual, emotional, legal) that most people operate under 3. A media & political environment decades in the making that privileges his characteristics
RE: #3: I remember thinking at some point in 2015 that Trump was running the way you would run if you 1) believed the critiques of our media & political environment many of us had been making for years and 2) were completely without any kind of shame or inhibition.
someone pay me* to edit an anthology of mid-aughts media criticism & lefty blog posts that made clear the path we were on, and the dangers of an outcome much like Trump's presidency
* er ... someone else. this sounds like a lot of work.
We knew in 2018 that the FBI was not fully investigating Kavanaugh. That’s how the Trump White House and Senate Republicans wanted it, because they were afraid of what a full investigation would find.
Kind of gross to see the Biden Supreme Court Reform Commission post a bio of a panelist that brags about his role in undermining the Violence Against Women Act.
Yes, true: Progressives criticize the Supreme Court for gutting the Voting Rights Act, handing a presidential election to the rightful loser, and inviting unlimited corporate spending on our elections, while conservatives criticize the Court for ending school segregation.
Here, Levey just straight-up bullshits the Commission, pretending that Senate confirmation of Anthony Kennedy in 1988 didn’t happen.
Also it isn’t a “norm” if nobody has heard of it until you invent it and even then your own allies misstate it because it’s so convoluted.
White Guys Named Jim Who Responded To The Deadly Insurrection By Voting To Overturn The Results Of The Election, As The Insurrectionists Wanted: 2
Women & People of Color: 0
UPDATE: White Guys Named Jim Who Responded To The Deadly Insurrection By Voting To Overturn The Results Of The Election, As The Insurrectionists Wanted: 0