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Jan 3 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I assume Christopher Rufo will now move on and insist that Neal Gorsuch step down from the Supreme Court, given that he plagiarized parts of his 2006 book "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia." (Screenshot from this Politico article: ) politico.com/story/2017/04/…
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The defenses of Gorsuch's lifting, btw, were remarkably similar to the defenses of Gay's work: it was just "sloppy," not "mendacious" or malicious, and was not serious because while it copied language, it didn't involve the purloining of ideas.
It's also hilarious to see Rufo's announcement that he's contributing to a fund to investigate plagiarism reposted by serial plagiarist Benny Johnson. Shamelessness is a superpower. Image

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If you want to know why Republican primary voters keep nominating guaranteed losers like Doug Mastriano and Don Bolduc in potentially winnable races, it's in part because they think their crazy views are shared by a large majority of Americans. Image
If Republican base voters had an even vaguely accurate view of public opinion, they would never have nominated so many hard-right MAGA candidates in winnable swing-state races in 2022. But they have an incredibly inaccurate view of public opinion.
As I've argued many times, the fundamental problem for the Republican Party is not the Republican establishment: it's the Republican base.
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1. One thing that's crucial to remember about Trump's attempt to pressure Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" is when that call happened. It did not happen, as many ppl seem to think, while Georgia was still counting or even re-counting votes.
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2. Instead, Trump's call to Raffensperger (during which he threatened him with criminal prosecution) happened on January 2. At that point, Georgia had already re-counted and hand-recounted all its votes, certified the election results, and its electoral votes had been cast.
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Pro-appeasement politicians are scrambling to salvage their position, so they've decided to lie about what ppl were saying about Prigozhin. Exactly no one was calling him "a liberal reformer."
Other than maybe Ted Cruz, JD Vance is the most cynical demagogue in American politics.
@mwarden49 MTG is nuts. Hawley's a contender.
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May 24, 2023
Lying through it.
I will never understand why DeSantis didn't hold a big kickoff rally in a Florida football stadium. It would have been covered live by cable news, and would have sent the message, "I'm a normal guy who likes the same things you do," which is a message DeSantis needs to send.
Instead, he launches his campaign in the lost online way possible, risking the kind of glitchiness he ran into, and ensuring the TV coverage of the event would be minimal, since television networks like events with images.
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Reading "Trust the Plan," Will Sommer's book about QAnon. It makes clear how absurd it is to argue that YouTube, Twitter, etc. should be obliged to publish the kind of conspiratorial, defamatory, harassing content (often aimed at non-famous ppl) that Q supporters specialized in.
American law is ill-equipped to deal adequately with online defamation and conspiracy nonsense targeting individuals. The notion that on top of this, social-media platforms should be required to publish this kind of content is absolutely bonkers.
The other thing the book makes clear is how completely feckless and cowardly Republican politicians have been when it comes to Q.

Instead of making it clear to their voters it was an absurd, offensive conspiracy theory that had no connection to reality, almost all stayed quiet.
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This is just objectively false. It has absolutely not been proven that work requirements lift people out of poverty. In fact, the best studies show work requirements do not increase labor-force participation. Their real impact is to throw eligible ppl off SNAP and Medicaid.
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