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@ZaidJilani
Apr 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
An MSNBC host claimed that independent journalist Matt Taibbi lied to Congress, a federal crime. What's more likely is the MSNBC host has no idea what he's talking about.
leefang.substack.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi… Image
Having worked with Mehdi, this is a pattern. He learns very little about a topic and then goes 100% full throttle with no nuance. He plays to a partisan crowd but frequently makes elementary errors. Like claiming black people can't vote in Georgia:
Which by the way had higher voter turnout in 2022 than New York did. Where's the MSNBC segment on New York's oppressive voter laws?
Going 100% into a partisan or tribal ideology with no nuance, always seeking to demonize the other side is why Mehdi fell for this Islamist stuff as a 20-something. True change would be listening to the other side not preaching at them.
An avowed Afghan foe of the Taliban decrying Medhi describing Americans as analogous to them. Of course to Mehdi this is just partisan banter to get the MSNBC job he was seeking.
Mehdi Hasan has perfectly adapted to the pathologies in partisan cable news: seek out conflict, not facts. Play to your base, never challenge them. And polarize the country because it's good for you, even if it's bad for the country.
By the way I was working with both lee and mehdi at that time, and this *never happened.* What happened was they were just arguing about politics on twitter and the managers wanted them to chill so they both did. Why is Mehdi lying about this during *Ramadan*? Image

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Jan 30
The fact so many libs really thought Tim Walz appealed to men is all you gotta know about how deep in the hole they are with male voters.
The second he did the oh shucks I can’t handle spicy food loser sitcom dad routine…
Well male and female is a biological fact it’s not a social construct like race. Male brains are different. The Democrats don’t like them at the moment.
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Jan 29
In the Quinnipiac poll, only 22% of men in America say they have a positive impression of the Democratic Party.

22%!

Maybe Democrats need to start treating men like full humans and not just sexist bumbling oafs who are responsible for all the world's ills.
Their strategy was to throw Tim Walz out there to joke about how he can’t handle spicy food, so appealing to men I know.
Literally if the VP can’t do Hot Ones they are disqualified
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Jan 29
Since the election, Democratic pundits have a new boogeyman: the Groups. Activist groups have forced their party to take unelectable positions, which is part of why Kamala Harris lost. It's a theory backed by @AJentleson, @ezraklein and others. But it's too simple. 🧵 Image
Jentleson, a Fetterman staffer, wrote an oped in the NYT shortly after the election telling us that the @ACLU "pushed" Harris to support a position on surgeries for transgender prisoners, and that this helped contribute to the GOP's attack ads.

But that's not what happened. Image
When did Kamala Harris embrace the idea of government-backed transgender surgeries for prisoners?

Jan. 20, 2019. That was the very first day of her campaign.
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Jan 24
DEI was a failure. It was a failure not because it wasn't implemented properly or because we didn't try hard enough.

It was a failure because the civil rights movement wasn't about elite diversity in the first place -- it was about lifting up the poor.

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Trump is ordering federal agencies to eliminate DEI efforts. This has polarized elite liberals, who are not happy: Image
It's not clear what Trump's executive order will actually do in the long run. Will it simply eliminate ineffective and annoying programs or will it end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Image
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Jan 21
The Resistance is dead. Americans want Trump to succeed on major issues -- from orderly immigration to ending endless wars to bringing down cost of living for families.

So Democrats should, where Trump is willing to, work with him on these issues, I argue at @compactmag_ 🧵 Image
There's a vibe shift in American politics. Trump is no longer an anomaly. Now he's a fixture of government, and he's more popular than the Democrats are (for now).

There's a reason Zuckerberg is cozying up to him. He wants to be on the winning team. Image
There's two reasons for Democrats to work with the Trump admin on some areas. One, it will show voters that they are serious about tackling problems where GOP holds the advantage. Two, it will make it so that they don't have to wait 4 years for progress on anything.
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Jan 9
Why annex Canada but not Mexico? This is like when libs always say they want to run away to Canada if a Republican wins. Mexico is much cheaper to live in and has great food, weather, and chill people.
Americans always compare themselves to white people but the reality is our culture is more Latin than European.
In the South if you insult someone you’re either going to get punched in the face or shot. It’s why we’re so polite. Quebec could never.
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