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Greg Olear Profile picture
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Feb 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Does Putin realize how ridiculous, weak, and small this kind of stunt makes him look? It's almost self-satire. The word "laughingstock" comes to mind.
PS This is the real picture:
This is fun.
I could do this all day.
All. Day.
"That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps."
This is about how menacing Putin looks in the photo.
"They keep on coming and going, and going and coming...and always, too soon!"

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Jun 10
Alito's comments here are similar to remarks made by Rev. C. John McCloskey, Opus Dei priest and spiritual godfather to the Catholic extremist Leonard Leo cabal, to Charles Pierce 21 years ago. He, too, regarded the so-called culture wars as a Manichean struggle.

[THREAD]
"Do I think it’s possible for someone who believes in the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of life...to choose to survive w/ people who think it’s OK to kill women & children or for—quote—homosexual cpls to exist and be recognized? No, I don’t think that’s possible,” he said.
"But, unfortunately, in the past, these types of things have tended to end this way. If American Catholics feel that’s troubling, let them. I don’t feel it’s troubling at all.”

The Pierce article:
archive.boston.com/news/globe/mag…
Read 5 tweets
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May 23
Let's talk about the #RoughBeast who is the presumptive GOP nominee for president, Donald Trump.

[THREAD, old school] Image
1/ Donald Trump’s term in office can be summed up in four words: pandemic, protest, impeachment, and insurrection.
2/Trump left the White House with 392,428 Americans dead of a plague he exacerbated; with Washington recovering from a coup attempt he instigated...
Read 26 tweets
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Mar 2
🧵on #Project2025

I. The “Cowboy Catholic”

Like many leaders of the reactionary right—Mike Johnson, Mike Davis, Stephen Miller, and so on—the current head of the Heritage Foundation has a dull, forgettable name: Kevin Roberts.

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2/ Roberts has a winsome smile, a PhD in U.S. history, a background in academia, & a well-earned reputation as a nice guy. Who could have imagined that this bright, friendly Gen Xer would be leading a Christian conservative counter-reformation—a crusade to end American democracy?
3/ In 2013, Roberts, who is Catholic, became the second president of Wyoming Catholic College, a strict, almost monastic institution est. in 2007 that provides “a rigorous immersion in...the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church”—and that will throw you out if you hook up.
Read 28 tweets
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Feb 6
If action is character, as F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed, then it is instructive to look at the life of Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson in reverse, Benjamin Button style. . .

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1/ It is the night before Veteran’s Day, 2021. On his primetime Fox News program, Tucker Carlson argues that the U.S. should back Russia, and not Ukraine, in the escalating conflict between the two countries. “Why would we take Ukraine’s side and not Russia’s side?”
2/ He insists that choosing Putin’s dictatorship over Zelensky’s democracy is a no-brainer because of “energy reserves.” This is either breathtaking ignorance of the region’s history or straight-up Kremlin propaganda. Or, I suppose, both.
Read 53 tweets
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Jan 24
Should the media try to present Elise Stefanik (R-Machiavelli) as a moderate, throwback, Paul Ryan Republican and not the ruthless, power-mad opportunist in league with Dear Leader Donald that she is, please consider her career trajectory:

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1/
 Carpetbags her way to a House seat

Sidles up to Nunes (her doppelgänger) and to Jim Jordan (which makes that hateful troll look tall)

Comes out against impeachment
2/
 Usurps Liz Cheney in the GOP House leadership structure

Supports conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen

Joins Ken Paxton’s treasonous lawsuit attempting to overturn the election results
Read 9 tweets
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Jul 5, 2023
Last week, Leonard Leo’s Supreme Court handed down a bevy of wretched decisions that are now the law of the land. These decisions have two things in common: All of them will cause more harm than good. And all of them are wins for Leonard Leo.

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2/ As many legal scholars have pointed out, the internal logic of the Leonard Leo Court is functionally nonexistent. Nothing holds. There is no rhyme or reason to these decisions.
3/ The Leonard Leo judges will dredge up some anti-witchcraft statute from medieval England, while ignoring the last 50 years of settled law in the here and now; “Starry Decisis” may as well be Sam Alito’s drag name.
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