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21 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The guy had a great story about a con artist sitting right there and instead turned out to be one of the marks newyorker.com/magazine/2008/…
BTW was able to watch most of the 86 Mets doc on a plane and it was EXCELLENT. I forget who made the point (Darling maybe?) but "Hernandez was the leader, Carter thought he was the leader" sums up The Kid (who I love RIP) perfectly
You have to be REALLY good and comitted to have been ultimately respected in that clubhouse while being an annoying tryhard, and Carter was every bit that good
The most amazing thing to me is that the Cashen traded for Carter, Henandez, Darling, Ojeda, and Fernandez -- HOFer, should be HOFer, three good-to-excellent pitchers -- and by far the BEST player they gave up was Hubie Brooks
Whitey was a very good manager but man the War on Drugs is one hell of a drug Image

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21 Sep
"Centrists" making opposition to literally the most broadly popular item in Biden's agenda their hill to die on gives away multiple shows
"Defund the police is unpopular! Give us a winning issue!"
"Well, yes, that's why we want to run on reduced prescription prices in 2022."
"Not like that! I was thinking like a tax cut for rich professionals in Westchester County, that's how we win the heartland"
I still can't get over the fact that Biden's legislative agenda might die because a House rando let himself get baited by a reporter who was jonesing for a Dems In Disarray story
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20 Sep
I guess this gambit might work, but I think the Narcissist Caucus is failing to grasp that the mediocre infrastructure bill ain't the ACA; it means way more to them than anyone else, and especially if JM is signaling that he won't support any reconciliation bill House might walk
People who are confident that this is a bluff seem to think that everyone in the party is as invested in the BIPARTISAN infrastructure deal as Manchin/Sinema are, and I see no actual basis for that
And so in addition to the obvious problems with CREDIBILITY theory, the Manchin/Sinema/Gottheimer gang and the reporters egging them on don't seem to have figured out that this logic now cuts both ways
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17 Sep
Venal “moderate” House Dems torpedoing Biden’s agenda lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/venal-…
It's worth noting here that the pharma lickspittles aren't even the most marginal. Peters won his last election by more than 20 points, Rice by 13. They can live without their money. They're killing the most popular part of Biden's agenda because they can -- that's it.
Also worth noting that Rice's justifications for opposing literally the most broadly popular item on Biden's agenda are almost surreally nonsensical: prospect.org/politics/how-k…
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16 Sep
COVID and the moral panic over obesity lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/covid-…
The vast majority of people in the study who were, per the study’s definitions, unhealthily fat, *did not have any statistically significant increased risk for either hospitalization or death from COVID, relative to people at what the study defines as a “healthy weight.”*
"insignificant differences in relative risk are, in the context of the moral panic over obesity, treated as irrefutable proof that fat people are dying of this or that illness, that has been caused supposedly by their fatness."
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16 Sep
I see the WSJ is on its "making $400K a year isn't *really* rich so people in this income bracket couldn't afford a single extra cent in taxes" bullshit again lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/the-re…
The party of the working class: $11M is a "small nest egg" for a couple
To state the obvious, saving lots of money so you can enjoy luxurious consumption without working at a relatively young age doesn't make you less rich than if you engage in the luxurious consumption now -- indeed, quite the opposite
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15 Sep
LOL Glenn wanted California to have an anti-vaxx MAGA governor so desperately, and now he's lashing out at people for pointing out how badly his side got crushed
This is particularly devastating for Glenn because the recall vote became a referendum on the DeSantisian anti-anti COVID policies he strongly prefers, and it has to sting how much better CA is doing than Texas and Florida
Tune into Tucker tonight to see Glenn talk about how it's extremely bad for cable news hosts to have a preference for one political party over another
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