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27 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
He’s complaining about Catherine Rampell, who _is_ a columnist for the Washington Post — while Brit Hume is the man who serve up glistening gems of thought like these: ImageImageImage
(* _serves_ up)
Hume “can assure us [he] is not” having fantasies about Trump’s anatomy: yes, we already know.
I would point out that the sexism dripping from Hume’s dismissal of Rampell is, well, sexism — but he might call that characterization ‘automatic’ and ‘weaponized,’ so. ImageImageImageImage

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Greg Greene Profile picture
29 Sep
Time for progressives to make like an electric truck and #TankIt, I suppose.
If a counterparty in a negotiation refuses to even begin negotiating, there’s little choice left but to move along to the best alternative to a negotiated agreement. That’s not the BIF — which falls short of addressing the climate challenge and other needs. It’s nothing.
If Manchin’s best alternative to a negotiated agreement proves to be nothing as well, we may be stuck. At least we’ll have clarity about that situation, though.
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28 Sep
Sargent has this right: when Dems spend their time explaining Republicans’ irresponsibility on the debt limit, they’re missing the point. What Dems _want_ the public to view as hypocrisy is intended, in fact, to demonstrate Republicans’ power to do as they please.
To sputter about hypocrisy makes Dems look feckless. Republicans are being consistent: they’re asserting that they can do as they please, and don’t mind if anyone calls them out.

Dems would do well to refuse to play along — by junking the debt limit entirely.
“[Republicans] must allow us”: no, Sen. Durbin, they won’t allow it. The whole goal here is to demonstrate Republicans’ power _by disallowing it_.

Dems get nowhere by appealing to some imagined, impartial center to judge this hypocrisy for what it is.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
24 Sep
The centrist approach to policy making remains aloof from Dems’ political interests — and unaffected by the lessons of the last Dem trifecta.

By deferring policies that solve problems for *4 election cycles*, Dems forgo most of the benefit of whatever political risks they took.
Like … aside from a sprightlier CBO score, there is *no upside * to deferring benefits to a huge voting bloc for *7 years*.

A policy delayed for that long before implementation may as well not exist — in political terms _and_ because a future Congress can bloodlessly undo it.
All I want for Christmas is a Democratic Party purged of all reticence about embracing the possibilities of policy feedback.
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24 Sep
This is just about the most ghoulish piece of political journalism I’ve ever forced myself to read. politi.co/2ZtoL02
“Thousands have died, but DeSantis’ prospects in 2024 — which have ebbed and flowed with the pandemic — have resurged as the refrigerated trailers parked at Florida hospitals begin to fill more slowly.”

– this Politico article, essentially
Just a repellent, thoroughly macabre piece of work.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
23 Sep
Beyond the racism, the deaths tied to such rhetoric (e.g., Christchurch, El Paso), and the Radio Milles Collines-level incitement, the brazen lying jumps out.

The DHS just sicced horse-riding agents on Haitians who got lashed before being deported—but Fox talks of “replacement”?
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but our politics and discourse are in a f––ing wretched place right now.
When Biden entered the race, he cited Charlottesville and called the moment “a battle for the soul of America.”

I trust that his feelings were sincere. I just wish I had a better sense, tonight, of what the battle plan is.
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11 Sep
Pat Moynihan, when talking of low-income communities of color, called what Tapper did here ‘defining deviancy down’—reacting to social breakdown by shifting standards “so as to … raise the ‘normal’ level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard.”
To Tapper’s argument: sure, some vaccine refusers have steeped themselves in misinformation. But misinformation isn’t a new condition in American society. Mass rejection of vaccines, by contrast—viewed against the backdrop of our responses to the 1918 flu and polio—absolutely is.
Rather than acknowledge the past standard, Tapper excuses the vaccine refusers of the present — treating their deviance as beyond what society, or at least its journalists, can afford to recognize, while scolding Biden as déclassé for naming it. jstor.org/stable/4121206…
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