"What is racist about equating the credentials of a Latina woman with 20 years of experience as an Article III judge and a white woman with no judicial experience who literally didn't know the difference between Earl Warren and Warren Burger" gee I dunno fellas
This chart created by @mattyglesias back in the day might perhaps be helpful
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Holmes is an interesting character the Theranos story is also about what willfully gullible rubes so many of our nation's overcompensated and underachieving elites are
And of those who aren't rubes, too many (cf. David Boies) are amoral nihilists who will squash anybody so their great-grandchildren can get an extra zero on their inheritance
Crucial to Holmes's ability to attract capital and thirsty old men was her intuitive understanding that having the superficial characteristics upper-class people associate with talent and success is more important than actually having any talent nytimes.com/2022/01/03/tec…
My favorite Neil Gorsuch, Amateur Epidemiologist (TM) moment was actually his attempted gotcha question about why OHSA was not using a statute enacted in 1970 to make the polio vaccine mandatory
Sad that someone as smart as Prelogar has to spend her time answering idiotic questions from some of the worst Dunning-Kruger cases in history
What's funny about this is that Gorsuch's defenders don't seem to realize that if Gorsuch was in fact mis-transcribed that makes his question much, much dumber
"The nihilism, hypocrisy, and armchair epidemiology on display at times bled into rank anti-vax-ism" slate.com/news-and-polit…
This was just an amazing day for many of the nation's highest paid bluechecks to say that they can't see an substantive stakes to today's political conflicts lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/01/let-th…
As Roe v. Wade enters its last months and the few Republicans committed to basic democratic norms get purged, highly compensated pundits assert that political conflict in America is based on nothing lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/01/let-th…
Republicans: America's 50 year experiment in multiracial democracy was bad, let's end it so our fanatical commitment to upward wealth redistribution can be pursued
Wealthy pundits: there is no substantive political conflict in America
One reason Roe is about to die is that decisions about how to cover the 2014 and 2016 elections were mostly made by people who don't know anybody who can't afford to fly to Europe if it comes to that
Ian Anderson beat him to the "British guy first person ever to discover that God doesn't exist" schtick by decades, and at least he threw in some catchy tunes
His attacks on Kissinger were no more original than his attacks on religion, and also completely cancelled out by his becoming a professional apologist for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
John Roberts's remarkable ability to cultivate liberal respect while writing some of the worst and most reactionary opinions in the largely ignominious history of the Supreme Court: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/12/john-r…
Two important related points in this excellent @EricLevitz piece. First, Roberts (with one crucial exception) understood that holding his fire in a few high-profile cases would buy a lot of liberal approval even as the Court moved inexorably to the right: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
[The exception here is Obergefell -- that case coming out the other way would have instantly eliminated the Strange Liberal Respect for the Court, although who knows how Roberts would have voted if he had been the median]