As someone who has been beating the "Glenn is a huge piece of shit & an awful person" drum for years now, it's kind of vindicating to see him turning his fire (with the same disingenuous RW talking points) at all of the ppl like Walker who used to be in his Leftist Defense Force.
People (wrongly) thought he was progressive b/c he spent all of his time attacking Dems & boosted some candidates that supported 'left' goals. But he only did so to b/c they too had being 'anti-Dem' as their guiding light. You think Glenn gave a fuck about M4A or the GND? Hah.
This is literally NRA talking points when faced with serious concern from people wanting to regulate guns. "Whatttt about cars?" is just lazy whataboutism that isn't even clever if you think about it for more than a second. But that's what he is. He's not even good at *that*.
He doesn't even know what he's arguing. All he knows is that the libs are for this one thing (caring about the potential for a bunch of kids to get seriously sick), so he has to be against it. And in the most dramatic of fashions.
Oh and one last thing. I am not mad. Please do not print that I'm mad. I'm actually laughing.
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The issue with Fetterman v Lamb was not an issue of 'progressive' ideology, it was a matter of ignoring numerous red flags that he was a very 'off' person not suited for congress, mainly b/c people fell in love with his aesthetic
One of the first major "red flags" about Fetterman that I called out years ago was his behavior wrt to the jogger incident.
He did something that was so self-evidently wrong but rather than apologize or take accountability, just pushed through & refused to admit to being wrong.
It should have been really easy to do, but he wouldn't do it.
Pretty obvious parallels to Platner's defense of the Nazi tattoo (a clear, insult-to-your intelligence lie) & his defense of his reddit posts ('i was an angry troop').
Anyway, this is all going to go fine. For sure!
The Left desperately wants to pretend they were all completely duped by him and he suddenly changed after the stroke, but the truth is that there were numerous red flags that were there if you wanted to see them. But his aesthetic!!
Would just like to note that back in Oct I pointedly asked @jonfavs what the Pod Bros relationship w/ Platner campaign was and he gave me a whole big, indignant," How DARE you, sir!" response.
And now, faced with another Nazi 'controversy' they rush out another softball intvw.
It strained credulity to believe that there was no actual relationship and 'just wanting to keep an open mind.' Now, it's just completely obvious that John was just straight up lying about it.
I mean, it was obvious then too, but now it's just comically obvious.
Yesterday Trump said, 'he didn't know what body part his MRI was, but NOT the brain'. Today Trump struggled to stay awake repeatedly during a cabinet meeting.
Naturally, Nate's last 14 political tweets are about BIDEN OLD (12 of which are about Neera Tanden).
That's dedication!
And yet ANOTHER long ass, whiny 'article' about Biden Old and how right he was. Nothing else going on. Nothing about pardons. Nothing about presidential age/cognitive abilities. Nothing. Just that pure 100% uncut Biden Old.
Never say that Nate doesn't have hobbies.
I was going to post snippets from the article but honestly it's just too pathetic. It's literally the same shit he has posted, i don't know....100 times?
Given Nate's total silence now, I can only assume that he thinks this is all normal and acceptable (way more normal than having a well-planned cabinet meeting). Nothing authoritarian going on now!
These guys all used to react to every single utterance. Every single flub. Every anonymous background quote Politico article. And now...all of them are just completely silent.