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Zaid Jilani
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Dec 17 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Dec 14 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Nov 15 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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
Nov 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Nov 10 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Nov 8 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Nov 8 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Lefties are not liking this tweet from Lee but consider this. After progressive spent years talking about “toxic masculinity” and humiliating average dudes they were still lionizing creeps like Bill Clinton and Doug Emhoff as great men.

Why should men listen to progressives? AOC herself who is always on the latest wave of feminism campaigned with Emhoff and singled him out as a positive role model. Someone who cheated on his wife, impregnated someone else, and then reportedly assaulted his girlfriend
Nov 7 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The referendum where Kamala Harris thought it was too risky to weigh in I mean game set and match to my argument about Kamala’s competence.
Nov 6 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
By the way, JD Vance isn’t a bad candidate and that was another stupid thing Democrats convinced themselves of because they live in a closed information environment. In fact, he did far more media in more hostile environments than Harris did, making her look weak.. He’s probably the sharpest person on a presidential ticket since Barack Obama. He ran circles around Tim Walz, who really didn’t seem to have any success improving any aspect of Kamala Harris’s campaign.
Oct 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump understanding Arab voters better than Kamala Harris was not something I would've told you four years ago, but here we are. Image I love how Trump is trying to lean into this now Image
Oct 21 • 50 tweets • 12 min read
NEW: I spent months looking into a miraculous technique parents are using to help their nonverbal kids communicate. Everyone from RFK Jr. to the NY Post to Salon to Teen Vogue has played a role in promoting it.

But is this miracle actually a mirage?

theamericansaga.com/p/parents-with… The story starts with a young adult named Jason Jacoby Lee. For the first two decades of his life he struggled to communicate. Doctors told his parents that he had an IQ of just 40. Image
Sep 10 • 37 tweets • 10 min read
I want to apologize. I've been saying that the GOP cooked up these fake Haitian stories a week ago as an election ploy.

But this young man was discussing issue as early as August 27. He attended a town hall meeting to speak out.

He's a leader in the Neo-Nazi group Blood Pride. I've been told everyone who attends a town hall is speaking the Gospel truth. You can't ask them for evidence, photographic or video or a police report, for anything they said.
Sep 6 • 33 tweets • 9 min read
Tucker and Daryl Cooper also went on a long tear about how England is being wiped out by Muslims and that wasn't the controversial part of the interview because you're allowed to say just about whatever you want about Muslims in America, contrary to conservative victim complex. Basically the only prejudice that conservatives (claim) to care about is antisemitism, except when their presidential nominee repeatedly insults Jews for not voting for him, that's just oh Grandpa Trump.
Sep 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If you want to learn about how life is like as a nonviolent, peaceful protester in the West Bank under Israeli occupation, watch the Oscar-nominated film "Five Broken Cameras." Israelis regularly shoot innocent people and there's just...no prosecution. Nothing. Jim Crow in 2024. It is not for all militarized zones. IDF does not have the same rules of engagement and system of accountability of a modern western military. In these wild west locales they may as well be the Syrians or Russians.
Sep 5 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Small town sees large number of refugees arrive. The refugees proceed to...work and contribute to the community.

This is everyone's greatest fear? I'm hearing a lot of this in theory. You brought these people in, then this culture was wiped out, blah blah. Why don't you show me in practice. Springfield, Ohio, what's wrong with it now that it has a lot of Haitian-Americans?
Aug 28 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Why should Kamala Harris sit down and take questions from the press and public?

Not because it's good for her. It probably isn't.
Not because it's good for ratings. Who cares?

Because it's what you do in a democracy. Do we want one or not?

theamericansaga.com/p/kamala-harri… What is a threat to democracy? What is democracy?

Democracy is rule by the public. When has the public had a chance to ask her questions about anything?

If you like democracy, prove it. Act like it. Don't just do what's good for yourself.
Aug 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
IMO they shouldn’t consider anything but academic performance. These are schools finding the best performers so we can have the best scientists, engineers, doctors, etc.

We can do the redistribution via tax code and other things later but let’s not hold back our best. I didn’t go to MIT, I’m not that smart. That’s fine, the best people need to go there for everyone’s sake. It’s not MIT seats that need to be redistributed like they’re tax dollars.
Aug 14 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I have no idea what’s going on in the first paragraph, but the second paragraph is just true.

Secular lib folks do not understand this about marriage among desis, you’re not marrying one person you’re marrying a whole extended family. Image It’s disappointing enough that Kamala Harris is too PC to make Indian jokes despite being Indian, don’t censor the truth from everyone now
Aug 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I think this is a perfectly fair fact check, but it sort of begs the question of why Kamala Harris had her own set of independent positions in 2019 but doesn't seem to be able to develop any in 2024, she can just pick up Biden's. I really have no idea what she will do as POTUS. Image Also all her walk backs are being done by an army of aides. She is not doing any interviews to explain her own worldview or what she will do when Joe Biden is no longer there to give her direction.
Jul 30 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
As far as public perception goes, I don't think GOP's problem is being weird, that's kind of turned into an online thing. Their problem is being mean. They've gotten too hooked on Limbaugh-ism.

Brian Kemp has a 60% approval rating and is extremely conservative, just nice. Glenn Youngkin, same thing. Brian Cox? Also same. In fact, all the most popular Republicans are just nice. Nice goes a long way. Especially if you can say the opponents are mean and you're the nice one.
Jul 27 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
When is this Blueanon stuff finally going to go away? Do I have to hear that america is on the verge of dictatorship for the rest of my life? America's on the verge of a dictatorship where the media, universities, much of corporate America are aligned against the dictator and make a lot of money doing so while facing no personal risk at all? World's lamest dictatorship.