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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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Dec 17
A question progressives have to ask themselves is why in a population of tens of millions there is so much fixation on say Harvard rather than the pitiful state of Baltimore schools. We can’t change child performance by adjusting the finish line.
19 black students in the freshman class of Harvard law…there are individual classroom with more students like that who can’t read many levels below their grade level. This is the much bigger problem.
It's not whataboutism though. If the majority of Baltimore kids read well below grade level, how can they gain admission to an elite college? These are directly related issues.
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Dec 14
Post office sends a personal representative of the government to every address in the country, and it’s been doing it for 250 years.
Congress put a mandate on the post office to prepay retirement benefits many years in advance, that’s the main reason USPS has any debt. It’s not because of operations, which are efficient.
There are other examples. Like anything else there are some things govt does better some things private sector does better. Anybody who argues one or the other is always superior is just an ideologue and doesnt wanna question their beliefs.
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Nov 15
Get it straight: @JoeRogan is no right-winger. Yes, he voted for Trump in 2024. In the past he liked Bernie.

He's pro-choice and pro-drugs. He's open-minded and curious. He's America's most famous swing voter, and the Harris campaign screwed this up.

theamericansaga.com/p/joe-rogan-is…
"Biden stepped down and she had one banger of a speech. She looked young and energetic."

Joe Rogan talking about Kamala Harris in the past month. Image
"I’m not a woman. I should not have the choice of what a woman can and can’t do with her body. I would not want a man, if I was a woman, to tell me what the fuck I can do with my body. And I think it’s all connected to religion." - @JoeRogan recently.
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Nov 10
It's not clear to me the "liberal international order" is preventing more violence than it's causing and so whatever Trump does I wouldn't grade it based on preserving something that is leading to endless wars and the strengthening of China.
On the contrary, Washington wants to fight until the last Ukranian and is helping wipe out a generation of young men on both sides. And China is the one benefitting. We should be focused on Asia-Pacific if we're anywhere at all.
An analogy. Obama had this guy named Denis McDonough working for him (not a big fan of me but that's another story). His theory on Syria's civil war: It's great! All our enemies are dying. That's how DC seems to think about Russia-Ukraine.
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Nov 10
He’s a millennial who went from a broken violent home to the marines, Yale law, a small fortune, the U.S. Senate, and now the vice presidency.

Look I’m as egalitarian as the next guy, but progressives need to admit sometimes merit is a real thing.
Sure plenty of people coast on unearned advantages and schools like Yale are full of kids whose daddy donated $1 million.

Thats not what happened here. Some people actually work their way up and that takes talent.
Tim Walz kept bringing up that Vance attended Yale as some kind of mic drop. It’s not like Vance got in because he has an auditorium named after a donor uncle. People who earn their way into these schools are smart. It isn’t easy. He was posting JDs Ws for him.
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Nov 8
For weeks, Democrats were worried that Kamala Harris couldn't do a long-form interview with...anyone. Someone who had served as vice president for four years by that point had to do weeks of preparation to talk about the exact same agenda as Joe Biden. She's not smart.
I used to be a sometimes-Hill reporter. I'd go down to Capitol Hill and ask Senators questions as they walked around in the subway segment. If I asked Ted Cruz a question about anything on God's green earth, he'd talk my ear off. And he's not Stephen Hawking.
That's not it either. Watch her videos where she talks about her family or cooks or just talks about anything besides governance and politics. She is perfectly natural and even charming. It's literally that she didn't understand her job.
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