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Adam McKay Profile picture
@ZombiePanther2
Nov 6 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Who would have guessed lying about Biden’s cognitive health for 2 yrs, refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee,
never mentioning public healthcare & embracing fracking,
the Cheneys & a yr long slaughter of children in Gaza wouldn’t be a winning strategy?
1/
Anyone with half a brain?
But I thought liberals’ whole thing is being smart?
It’s not?
They actually just blindly cheer the parade of rickety optics wrapped up in New York Times fonts that is the modern Dem Party?
2/
Well at least it’s time for the dusty hacks & careerists to spread their feathers wide post election and blame Russia and third party candidates.

That should fix things.

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Adam McKay Profile picture
Oct 11
Ever wonder why Dems & legacy news media constantly refer to climate change as an “existential threat?”
It’s carefully crafted language aimed at the professional class to let them feel smart/good while limiting the possibility more plain spoken language might rile up the…
1/
… a larger portion of the country.

Can you imagine if every time an elected official said “existential threat” instead they said “climate change will destroy your home, access to food, water, & kill millions maybe even billions of ppl.”

By saying “existential threat”…
2/
It does a few things important to elected reps who are owned by big oil & banks.

1. Mutes the sheer scale and horror of climate breakdown.
2. Keeps the professional class feeling superior to the working class even though the professional class drives most climate delay.
3/
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Adam McKay Profile picture
Sep 11
The last two debates with Trump, Biden and then Harris have exposed how little either political party cares about actually representing the people with a clarity I didn’t think possible.

The whole red v blue franchise has become so shabby it’s more like…
1/
…a third tier pro wrestling show behind a strip mall. Sloppy, fake punches missing by a mile, cheap implausible villains eating cats or spying for China.

The only thing holding it together is a news media so servile to big Capital they make…
2/
… the media in the Hunger Games look like Michael Herr.
And of course the liberal professional class who have played dumb for so many years to maintain their knock off Amex commercial reality that “play” became “are.”

The good news?
3/
Read 4 tweets
Adam McKay Profile picture
Aug 23
I remember in the 2000’s when exchanges with Repub family & friends went from “The rich need tax breaks” to “Will you relax about the U.S. torture program. It’s fraternity hazing.”

It was a jump from a hard disagree to abominable.
I truly couldn’t believe it at the time.
1/
Now Dems have made the same jump.
It’s gone from “The DNC has to take dark money to beat Repubs” to “Will you get over the mass slaughter of women & children, naked corruption & extreme right wing border policies.”

From a hard disagree to “what the hell have you become?”
2/
I know both American political parties have always been opportunistic and fairly craven.

The shock for me is in seeing hard “this is what separates humans from animals” red lines like torture, genocide, corruption just melt away. Image
Read 6 tweets
Adam McKay Profile picture
Aug 20
I somewhat understand how certain people downplay or ignore climate breakdown, mass corruption & genocide in the U.S.
Our economic system & resulting culture rewards lack of curiosity & cowardice in the face of entrenched power.
But I will never, ever understand mask bans.
1/
Why possibly would someone care if someone else wears a mask?
Is it a subconscious “you must be willing to get sick and maybe die for the economy” loyalty test?
A thousand people died last week in the States from Covid.
2/
What is the possible downside of another person you cross paths with for five seconds wearing a mask?
Our collective culture is wildly dysfunctional but even for America this is f’n bizarre.
3/
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Aug 19
A lot of ppl on here defending Bill Clinton as a “successful President.”
Personal definition of successful aside here’s a review of Bill Clinton’s record.
1/
Clinton signing the crime bill that resulted in the mass incarceration of millions of people of color.

aclu.org/news/smart-jus…
Bill Clinton and Repubs Corp written trade deals (China MFN status, NAFTA, GATT) cost America between millions of manufacturing jobs and created fertile soil for the rise of the extreme right.
All so big Corps could pay slave labor wages & break unions.

epi.org/blog/nafta-twe…
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Jun 7
I've noticed a lot of capital D, Dems responding to honest expressions of anger & horror over ethnic cleansing in Gaza, escalating climate warming, corrupt Gov, predatory economy etc. with words like "nihilism" "doom saying" “not serious”
1/
But these feelings r exactly what drive mass movements like the rise of org labor, civil rights, Indian independence, AIDs action.

We need anger, fear, frustration now more than ever.

There are 2 kinds of populism. The bad kind (fascism) & the good kind …
2/
… that gave us the Middle class, the end of the Jim Crow era.

Big $ loves fascism. Labor gets wiped out, regulations overturned, etc. So it's no accident large swaths of a Professional class captured by monied interests consciously or unconsciously dismiss the good kind.
3/
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