“They said no one cared about democracy. They said the abortion issue had faded away, that the only thing voters care about is the economy. They were all wrong.”
My first post-midterms @MehdiHasanShow monologue, detailing what the pundits missed. Watch:
In my monologue tonight, I also listed some of the wins for Democrats, democrats, progressives, & workers, from the 4 state governments the Dems took control of, to the minimum wage increases, to the diverse people elected to Congress & state legislatures:
Oh, and tonight, I also played tape of Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan and Jesse Waters predicting a red wave. #sorrynotsorry
*Watters not Waters. Apologies.
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1. It's astonishing how wrong so many of the predictions of a 'red wave/tsunami' were. I for one am fed up with pundits and commentators getting things so, so wrong & then just... moving on.
So here's a thread/reminder of some of the worst midterm predictions. Read/share/enjoy:
2. There was Fox host Jesse Watters: "We are looking at a historic massive red wave coming" foxnews.com/video/63151264…
3. There was Jim Geraghty over at National Review:
"Midterm Predictions: The ‘Red Tsunami’ Comes into View Once More" nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo…
He literally cannot stop personally replying to - and agreeing with! - the worst of the worst right-wing bad-faith actors on this site.
It’s kinda amazing that the man has over 100 million followers, his timeline and mentions column must be jammed full, but he always manages to seek out the worst of the worst rightwing accounts to reply to, & in the nicest, most agreeable way. Just total coincidence, I’m sure.
Amazing to me how it has become the new conventional wisdom to say we *overreacted* to the pandemic when the exact *opposite* is the case: the U.S. took the pandemic much *less* seriously than we should have done & suffered way more deaths, as a result, than we should have done.
And it kills me to hear so many people pretending to claim they care about school closures or 'learning loss' from the pandemic, and weaponizing children for political purposes, while ignoring the 200,000+ *orphaned kids* the pandemic created in America *alone*.
Sickening tbh.
Oh and please stop going on about how Sweden handled the pandemic better. Can we let that myth die? Please. latimes.com/business/story…
I’m watching Dem lawmakers line up in their droves to denounce Rashida Tlaib’s ‘apartheid’ remarks on this website.
Imagine if they applied that proactive energy & message discipline to denouncing the GOP’s mainstreaming of white supremacy and actual hate-filled antisemitism.
People often say Dems don’t have the GOP’s unity when it comes to launching attacks on their opponents - not true, as today shows, a lot of elected Dems move quickly and loudly and en masse when it comes to denouncing a Squad member.
Meanwhile the GOP’s fascist turn continues…
One of our two main parties has mainstreamed conspiracies about Soros, and Jews bringing in immigrants, and globalists, and is led by a man who praised Nazis. And yet the other one is focused on… Rashida Tlaib, who called out supporters of Israel’s *government*. Sigh.
Why, what's this? Trump standing in front of two men in uniform as he defends his racist remarks about The Squad? BUT WHAT ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL TRADITION???? nytimes.com/2019/07/15/us/…
Here's the thing, I'd prefer for all politicians not to stand in front of troops or cops & give speeches.
But to think *that* is something worth remarking on tonight, & not the substance of his speech or the existential moment our democracy is in... I just have no words tbh.
Maybe we worry more about the 'presidential tradition' that says a president leaves office when he loses and doesn't incite an armed insurrection. Or worry more about losing free and fair presidential elections altogether in two years time. #JustSayin