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Jul 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Taibbi gonna spend four years of Trump ignoring the people who control the White House, Congress, state legislatures, Supreme Court, half of cable news, and most of the Fortune 500 to write the same post owning the libs over and over, eh? I’m not against owning the libs as they are easy to own. But if that becomes your sole beat while Republicans have so much power, what are you doing? You’re just a court jester.
Jul 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The culture war is really getting played out if now we have to pretend we are mad about James Gunn stating that Superman is an immigrant who preaches kindness. Yeah, that’s kind of the whole point of the character since the two Jewish liberals who created him originally. The Snyder version also had Superman as a Jesus-like figure who battled aliens who believe in eugenics, it wasn’t subtle.
Jun 28 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
What specifically has he said about the Jewish people? Every day someone on here accuses me of supporting Hamas or terrorism or similar. But they can never point to an example.
Jun 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is also not going to happen 💯

Jun 22 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump promised to end two wars America was funding (Ukraine and Gaza) and they haven’t ended in some aspects they’ve gotten worse. I expect they will retcon this and say his promise was no boots on the ground. But that’s not what he said, he vowed to “stop the killing.” The only place in the world his administration can claim any credit on this is India/Pakistan and really only some credit as their nuclear weapons did a lot of the lifting.
Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In 2003, opponents of the war in Iraq chanted no war for oil but it was pretty unclear why America acutely went to war there.

But why did America attack Iran, a middling regional power that is no threat to America? America did it at the behest of Israel. For most boomers, Israel may forever be represented by the 1967 war and post-WW2 guilt. But for millennials and zoomers across the West, Israel is now synonymous with occupation, expansion, and dragging America into endless complicity with wars. Clocks ticking.
Jun 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This tweet itself seems like an IQ test because we have a substantial population of Haitian Americans here in the U.S. and they have for the most part prospered. Never can accuse genetic racists of being smart though. Median Asian income is above median white income (quite a bit actually). If we deported you and kept me, would America be way better off? I mean what kinda point do you think you're making lol.
Jun 1 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Glenn is a very doting father to his children. If you’re going to accuse a man of being a bad father then do it with your chest out Matt. Address him directly. This is cowardly. You sure you’re from the South? No sense of honor. Is Matt celibate or something of course not. What does that have to do with his children?
May 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
VP Vance reportedly played a real role in the India-Pakistan diplomacy that led to the ceasefire.

This made me wonder, did Kamala Harris ever do anything similar? I’ll take that one as a no
May 13 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The website set up to help white South Africans come to the United States boasts about how much government assistance they can get and how you don't have to prove anyone persecuted you at all. Image
Image This whole website is a hoot. Here's what it's like to be a janitor in America, if you're interested, Afrikaner. Image
May 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The last week has been the most nativist I’ve ever felt. Because when I saw Indians or Pakistanis in America or Britain cheer on a stupid war — and to be clear many didn’t — I did think those people aren’t integrating well and are fixated on old world ethnic hatreds. Me and Stephen Miller finally found something to agree on.
May 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pakistan should stop. What will killing some poor Indian soldiers do for Pakistan? Just save face? Both countries should work on basic literacy and development for their countries. Their problems are not their neighbors. Pakistan shot down their prized fighters they spent hundreds of millions on. Thats deterrence enough.
May 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Contrast Louis Theroux with Douglas Murray. Both have beeeeeen to Israel. Murray "reports" from government-funded and guided junkets where his words are indistinguishable from Benjamin Netanyahu's. Theroux goes into the occupied territories and has soldiers train guns on him. There's a reason Theroux is seen as one of the greatest documentary filmmakers in the world and Murray is seen as a lapdog who had to self-deport to America to accrue an audience again.
Apr 27 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Wow so there are a fair number of mosques in Dallas, Texas. What’s the problem? What have they done to you? Blaming your problems on some minority group is the sign of a weak man. Not a factoid I keep in my back pocket but if you don’t like the First Amendment and the vision of Thomas Jefferson and the Founders why don’t you move there?
Apr 19 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1) Immigration officials tell Japanese college student they’re deporting him. He has a fishing violation.

2) Media covers story

3) Immigration officials say never mind

kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcasts… Notice he never gets any explanation why they changed their minds. Does Stephen Miller just wake up every morning and throw darts at the photos of students here on visas?
Apr 17 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
The problem for MAGA is that Americans don't like immigration chaos as it occurred under Biden, but they actually like immigration in general and are fine with legal immigration. They overinterpreted their mandate. They have to realize it's not a white nationalist country. If I was Trump I couldn't imagine losing my political edge on immigration just months into my administration but at this rate he will. Mostly because he won't contain the more extreme elements of his administration.
Apr 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Nayyib Bukele, the El Salvador president who Trump is fawning over, imposed some of the most extreme COVID-19 measures in the world. He had his police mass arrest people who violated government-imposed quarantines and turned the country into a police state. What Bukele did in El Salvador made Canada or America during COVID-19 look like Ron Paul was running them. Image
Apr 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The man who RFK Jr. just hired to run his autism study

1) Doesn't have a medical degree
2) Ran experiments where he injected autistic children with a puberty-blocking drug
3) Was fined $10,000 by the state of Maryland for doing all this without a medical license Image Read the full story here: theamericansaga.com/p/rfk-jr-taps-…
Apr 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Stephen Miller once explained that the reason he wants to cut immigration is because he doesn’t have a family or anything else to give him purpose in life. Perfect encapsulation of nihilism of the post religious right. Image Literally if Stephen Miller had kids or a relationship with God maybe he wouldn’t be such a sadistic person.
Apr 16 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: The GOP has been outlawing the use of puberty blockers for minors who want to transition, arguing that it's reckless and dangerous.

BUT: RFK Jr. just hired a man who disgraced himself by trying to use puberty-delaying drugs to cure autism.

theamericansaga.com/p/rfk-jr-taps-… Last week, @RobertKennedyJr told those of us with family and friends on the spectrum that we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

By September, he will have cracked the case on what causes autism. Image
Mar 30 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Does reducing the role of testing -- or getting rid of it altogether -- reduce bias and expand opportunity? An interesting study out of India shows us that maybe we shouldn't be so quick to throw baby out with the bathwater when it comes to testing. 🧵theamericansaga.com/p/does-reducin… In 2020, a bunch of American colleges and universities dropped their SAT and ACT requirements. For that year, the choice was obvious: the pandemic made it pretty much impossible to administer the tests.

But some argued that the tests shouldn't be used in the first place. Image