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Oct 22 5 tweets 2 min read
@pescami, @jkirchick & I can’t agree on a ham sandwich, but we’ve got 1 thing in common: We host NOT EVEN MAD, a new podcast where we argue abt the top political stories & remain tightly cordial afterward. I mean friends. 1st ep out Wed! #NotEvenMad mikepesca.com/notevenmad
The preview is wicked
Smash the like button and subscribe:
1. Open Apple Podcasts
2. Tap 3 dots on top-right (app) or File on menu bar (web)
3. Add a Show by URL
4. Enter feeds.megaphone.fm/notevenmad and subscribe
Promoting new projects is mortifying but thank you for not blocking me and if you’ve missed @realTrumpcast, I really think you’ll like this show
I promise to sigh like Al Gore, pretend to be interested in other people, and secretly seethe — just like you like it

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More from @page88

Oct 19
If you know a white woman who is teetering on that edge again, remind her:

1. Crime is a GOP problem. It's guns. Murder rates are 40% higher in states won by Trump.
2. Inflation is global.
3. You gotta have more IRS resources to catch rich tax cheats. Helps the middle class.
Some numbers if you want them:

americanprogress.org/article/fact-s…
Read 6 tweets
Oct 7
Rebuilding from the studs a conservative party w/even a prayer of winning in a democracy will take figures like Cheney & Sasse a decade or even two.

Till then, Dems will remain pitted against a Big Lie militia that can’t win fairly but has the advantage of desperation.
I strongly support the regrouping by traditional Republicans. They owe it to the country to really probe and test whether they have something of value to offer voters.
It is still stunning that Trump “ran” in 2020 with zero platform. Was he actually running for President? Or just vaudevilling for a lifetime residency on the Strip?
Read 7 tweets
Oct 5
ANY time someone refers with terror of urban crime, hand them this. Your chances of being attacked in Missouri are much higher than your chances of being attacked in New York. Higher in TX than in California. And on and on. Suitable for lamination. Image
This is just absurd. Why does anyone spend time on defense when JD Vance or whoever bashed cities? His family would be safer back in SF than they are in Ohio.

slate.com/business/2022/…
And if you’re worried about cities Chicago in not even in the top 25 for murders Image
Read 5 tweets
Sep 29
There are no longer any qualities to Republicans except wow do they hate Democrats
Do I have it right that the GOP policy platform is currently (1) Fuck Joe Biden and (2) I don’t like wokes ?
It’s all DeSantis logic

What is a humane and effective policy on immigration?
I hate Martha’s Vineyard
Read 5 tweets
Sep 21
@POTUS and @NewYorkStateAG have the same elegant cadence of profound disappointment and modulated revulsion when they talk about Putin and Trump. More in sorrow than in anger, but laserlike.
I expect this reasonable style to surge as pushback on the bellowing of the demagogue
It’s SMH style
Read 4 tweets
Sep 14
Terrible news, coming just 2 days after a far-gone QAnon Trump devotee in Michigan seems to have murdered his wife & daughter.

This is so-called “black-pilling.” Since the coup failed on 1/6, these men have been indoctrinated to have no hope at all.

pennlive.com/news/2022/09/p…
A way to think of it is:

Blue pill: Prozac, adjusting to reality
Red pill: meth, “seeing through” reality
Black pill: fentanyl / cyanide, giving up

virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/the-black-pi…
The Michigan man turned to QAnon *after* Trump lost & Jan 6. He had come to believe that he was surrounded by lizard people. So he shot his wife, his daughter, and his dog, a Great Pyrenees.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
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