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31 Dec 21, 5 tweets, 2 min read
There are myriad lenses through which we can assess the quality and achievement and influence of a musical act and under absolutely none of them are The Beach Boys better than the Beatles

I say this as a Beach Boys fan
The historically bankrupt view that the Beach Boys are better than the Beatles is in many (if not all) instances just anachronistic culture-war wishcasting by far-right Americans whose taste in and understanding of music is on par with their taste in and understanding of politics
The Beach Boys are one of the best musical acts ever, and not only are Pet Sounds and Smile timeless artworks but when I was a 60s-music DJ I acted on this belief

This isn’t about disliking the Beach Boys—it’s about disliking the Beach Boys being used as proxies in a culture war
FWIW, this is my favorite Beach Boys song. I think it underscores not just their melodicism but their great short-form storytelling ability. As someone who spent summers as a kid working as a camp counselor and ice cream scoop on Cape Cod, it speaks to me.
...And here’s a song by the Beatles’ *third*-best (!) songwriter.

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(🔒) NEW at PROOF: The Coming Collapse of Donald Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 1: Alex Jones

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The worst day of the pandemic in the US was January 8—48 hours after Trump’s attempted coup. 300,000 Americans were infected by the virus. No other day approaches that number. The outgoing CDC director says the CDC fears a *million* Americans a day could be infected with Omicron.
The fear here isn’t simply that the unvaccinated will be hospitalized and die in record numbers—which Dr. Fauci said yesterday on CNN he believes *will* happen—but also that Omicron will cause a historic number of breakthrough infections... and *those people* will infect others.
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America is in freefall because what used to be one of the nation’s two political parties has abandoned the American experiment. This article confirms the GOP as an insurrectionist entity; Democrats must govern—to the extent they can—like it does not exist. cnn.com/2021/12/19/pol…
(PS) It’s outrageous that CNN changed the headline of this report from what it was, which was something along the lines of, “GOP Indicates It Won’t Confirm Any Biden Supreme Court Nominee.” That’s what the content of the article establishes and that’s what the headline should be.
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Joe Manchin, who represents one of the poorest states in America, says he can’t vote for Build Back Better—a historic piece of legislation aimed at bolstering the social safety net—because he can’t “explain” it in West Virginia.

If he’s that *thick*, he shouldn’t be in politics.
I’ll tell you one place Manchin *actually* can’t explain Build Back Better: at his 4-figure lunches with energy industry lobbyists and other fat cats.

He’s provided no evidence that West Virginia citizens—the ones who voted him into office—wouldn’t benefit from this legislation.
The notion that the hundreds of thousands of desperately poor West Virginians are clamoring for their chief elected representative to *block* paid family medical leave and *block* countless provisions that would change their lives for the better isn’t just farcical but *obscene*.
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Maybe media should read the book? cnn.com/2021/12/17/pol…
Most Americans will have no idea of the significance of this Rick Perry text, because major media did nothing to inform them of the sprawling Trump-Ukraine scandal aimed at the heart of the 2020 election. Media deemed the story too complex to report—now we’ll all suffer for that.
Perry’s job was to help Trump bribe foreign officials into publishing info about Biden they knew was false—thereby helping Trump steal the election. Here, Perry is aiding a foreign national-supported coup by embracing disinformation and implying Trump is above the law.

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