“Rich people own more homes so funding the fire department and police department, which protect property, is funneling money to the upper class.”
“People with more money have more cars so funding infrastructure is funneling money to the upper class.” 🙄
If you’re so concerned that people with degrees have too much money— TAX THEM. Tax them on the back end. Don’t make teachers and social workers suffer because a bunch of journalists with advanced degrees now claim it’s “elitist” to get an education.
Charlotte tells Miranda she should cover her grays: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg died HER hair"
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Miranda implies podcasting is a *youth* activity that she disapproves of: "Carrie, I love you to death, but I draw the line at podcasts" 🥲
Guys. Guys. This might be my new West Wing.
An investment banker running for mayor? The stuff that dreams are made of! 😜
FWIW, it’s true to character and I’m enjoying every second.
Ok. We meet the replacement Samantha who is Black of course bc this is reparations for how they wrote the occasional black woman in the original. (I’ll never forget that one where Samantha slept with a Black guy & they wrote his sister as a disapproving shrew). Love Ari-Parker.
‼️The Boy Who Cried White Supremacist (w/ @bungarsargon)‼️
"At a moment when Americans are ready for a multiracial working class coalition, you have people sort of putting the kibosh on it on MSNBC by calling half that coalition racist."
.@bungarsargon was gracious enough to meet me in NY to chat about how the mainstream media betrays working class values, how much the left should be led by polls vs values, whether intersectionality and other "woke" ideology has jumped the shark, & more.
"I frequently have what I consider to be woke emotions, like assuming a person of color needs a certain kind of protection or help or whatever it is in a way that is disgusting & embarrassing & dehumanizing & paternalistic & a lot of very bad things."
I hoped not to do this bc I sincerely appreciated that you agreed to be a guest on @BadFaithPod. However:
1) It was not a convo abt deradicalization -- a term you introduced after I asked a question about how your reporting affected your view on coalition building on the left.
2) I offered you a chance to talk about whatever you thought the main take aways of the book were. I asked germane follow up questions.
3) We agreed to record the podcast at 1pm on Friday. You kept my producer and I waiting an hour and then showed up in a car on your phone.
You ignored the detailed technical instructions and were not in a position to conduct a quality, professional recording. I said nothing about this, but simply offered to reschedule at a time that was better or you. We agreed to Sunday. That left no time to record a back up.
What does that say about a party that dismissed the "Bernie Bros'" request for modest reforms like a $15 minimum wage or a VP that didn't support the Hyde Amendment &, instead, courted conservative suburban voters by moving right?
Corporate Democrats sold out their base to get Republican voters, lost parts of their base as a consequence, and have spent the last *five years* kvetching -- pretending that the left left the party when it is they who abandoned the base.
As @MalaikaJabali 87 *thousand* Black voters *in Wisconsin ALONE* voted in 2012 and then declined to vote in 2016. The reasons most frequently cited?
Watching He’s All That and feeling sorry for Gen Z. You deserve better.
So does Rachel Leigh Cook.
Why do producers think that the way to modernize a plot is to make it heavy handey about social media? “It’s not a modern teen movie without a chat screen scrolling over the opening dialogue!”
Of course our soulful nerdy makeover subject isn’t into social media. Or new music.🙄