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(1/2) This July video is far more revealing than people realize. To break it down:

1️⃣ He withholds his tip for the staff until they praise him.
2️⃣ He calls the President of the United States "that old broken down pile of crap" in front of his teenage son.
(2/2)

3️⃣ He claims credit for forcing Biden from the race—an eventuality he celebrates—but now falsely alleges it was an illegal Democratic Party conspiracy.
4️⃣ He knew well in advance he would be facing Harris—but now shrieks that he was unfairly blindsided.

He is so pathetic.
(NOTE) I like this video because it gives people a window into how vile this man is. It is not just that he has no respect for anyone or anything or even a modicum of basic decency or grace in public, he is exactly that way—and far worse—in private. (And he is *not* a Christian.)
(NOTE2) I hope it goes without saying that he is lying to these staffers and to his own son in this video. At the time he made these statements, there had been no announcement whatsoever—not from anyone in the world—that Biden was dropping out. He was just bullshitting, as usual.
(NOTE3) I want everyone to think about what a sad, small, weird man he is in this video: he is terrified that his *caddies* will not respect him enough, so he withholds money from them until they praise him and boasts about things that never happened to try to gain their respect.
(NOTE4) He’s an ex-POTUS who thinks he’s acting tough, but is actually acting like a high schooler trying to impress jocks. *And* he calls the VPOTUS “bad,” “fucking bad” and “pathetic” in front of his son.

Of course, now we know he often says even worse. vanityfair.com/news/story/don…

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Aug 9
Up to 2,000 entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021—and *tens* of thousands surrounded it, illegally trespassing on its grounds.

Why is Maggie Haberman obsessed with minimizing what happened that day by saying only “hundreds” stormed the Capitol?

It is *demonstrably* false. Image
Here’s another example of Haberman subtly inserting a Trump talking point into her reportage. I’m unhappy with how things were done this summer, but were I *reporting for the NYT* I *couldn’t and wouldn’t say* “the Party replaced Biden” when in fact he agreed to end his campaign. Image
These differences matter.

Trump wants to minimize January 6. Haberman helps.

Trump wants to falsely say—and did repeatedly, today—that Biden was *forcibly* replaced by the Democratic Party via *threats and worse* and ended his campaign *under duress* and Haberman (again) helps.
Read 11 tweets
Aug 8
God help me, I’m actually going to watch this Trump press conference in full now

I’m going in, folks—if I don’t return, remember me semi-fondly I beg you
Just a quick note to say that I’m 25 seconds in and Trump has already assured America that "we are very close" to both World War III *and* a "1929-style" Great Depression, so this is going to be a really fun and chill and normal {checks video runtime} HOUR-PLUS
4 minutes in: jfc
Read 17 tweets
Aug 7
(1/4) As major media should be shouting from the rooftops today, Governor Walz filed to run for office and notified the Guard he’d be leaving it after 24 years of honorable service in February 2005. The earliest he could’ve learned his old unit was being deployed was July 2005...
(2/4) ...which is when the order arrived. The unit didn’t actually deploy until 2006. Walz served in 2003 and 2004 in Operation Enduring Freedom—which included Afghanistan *and* the Global War on Terror (including Europe, where Walz served with a weapons-of-war specialization).
(3/4) Walz was a sharpshooter and heavy-weapons (field artillery) specialist—so serving abroad in the Global War on Terror in that capacity absolutely meant handling deadly weapons in a time of war (a war the GOP declared under President Bush). So attacks on his service are vile.
Read 11 tweets
Aug 6
BREAKING NEWS (WASHINGTON POST): Harris Picks Walz washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
MY TAKE: This was exactly the right pick. Walz is articulate, likable, relatable, will appeal to most Midwesterners, has executive experience, has decades of National Guard experience, and young people like him. He is perfect for VP and has no significant baggage to speak of.
If you haven't heard Walz speak, prepare to fall in love. The reason this guy sounds like everyone's favorite high school teacher and coach is because he *was* a HS teacher and coach. But he's also served in Congress and run a state perfectly. He has the capacity to change minds.
Read 8 tweets
Aug 3
(🧵) We again see the difference between reportage and curatorial journalism. I just read 20 identical tweets saying Judge Chutkan has jurisdiction over the January 6 case again, set an August 16 status hearing, and dismissed Trump’s Motion to Dismiss without prejudice.

Uh, so?
1/ None of those facts are particularly newsworthy.

For instance, a status conference is just a check-in; there is nothing to say about it until it happens.
2/ By the same token, a dismissal of a Motion to Dismiss *without prejudice* means it can be filed again later on. Nothing has actually been decided.
Read 41 tweets
Aug 2
BREAKING NEWS: New National Poll Confirms 5 Proof Polls—With ~100,000 Respondents—Showing That Democrats Want Buttigieg or Kelly or Walz As Kamala Harris's VP, and Do *Not* Want Shapiro

(As if right on cue, Axios is reporting all signs point to Shapiro.)
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Which potential VP polls the best among *swing state voters*? The same VP candidate who decimated his competition in the VP polling: Pete Buttigieg.

Yet once again—as if on cue—major media is reporting that Buttigieg is *last* among the six finalists.

Please make it make sense.
When Politico wrote a report about who Harris should pick and why, it couldn't find any plausible reason not to pick Buttigieg even as it seemed to find a litany of reasons not to pick Shapiro. And yet every DC political consultant seems to be telling Harris it should be Shapiro.
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