bon vivant, !@#$ *occasionally paid* political strategist. etc.
May 30, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I'm gonna thread @FareedZakaria's "Last Look" frm his show yesterday- I hope he doesn't mind.
This is simple, and i believe, important.
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"For me, the most gut-wrenching aspect of this shooting, as well as all the others, is that what needs to be done is so blindingly obvious. Let me make some points about it that I have made 10 years ago after the Newtown massacre.
Nov 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Your entire take is predicated on fears and biases (f&b's) as a negative. In fact f&b's are- AT A GIVEN MOMENT- a reality. Take immigration:
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America is browning. There are fears and biases against that. Too often Democratselitesmoreurbanmoreeducated folks dismiss those browning f&b's, or even worse, judge them, labeling them w those f&b's as racist, alienating and leaving those folks looking to others (R's)...
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Jun 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just spoke to friends of mine here in Los Angeles, a cis married couple, both Pfizer vxx’d. He went to a bar last week w friends, sat indoors for one hour… this week they both have COVID. He’s in bed sick, she’s asymptomatic.
That Delta…. BE. CAREFUL. 😷
The last info I’d read frm experts says even with Pfizer or Moderna you have about a 12% chance of catching the Delta frm someone positive.
Trump wanted the poor & middle class to shoulder the lion's share of COVID burden, of DEATHS, so the upper classes could ride out the pandemic at lower cost. Think about that.
This is what a MAJORITY of the GOP leadership r still defending.
& come on, dont throw out songs, make a list of 5!!
May 4, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
i don't like doin' anecdotes, but this begs a story:
Last Friday I spent the afternoon w an old friend, a Republican, but not just a Republican, a Rush cum Trump cum Tucker Republican.
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We both love talking politics and country w each other... He believes all the things you'd think he would. He's not getting vaccinated but interestingly, was adamant we wear masks and be outdoors- he very much doesn't want to catch COVID.
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May 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Found a thrown-away wedding album the other nite here in the mostly Hispanic neighborhood i'm currently in in Los Angeles. I'm always affected by found fotos, always beautiful AND sad to me; I figure all our fotos are surreal & ridiculous to anyone else.....
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I'm gonna post a couple of pictures from it....
'Nuestra Boda'
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May 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Swartzwelder’s specialty on “The Simpsons” was conjuring dark characters from a strange, old America: banjo-playing hobos, cigarette-smoking ventriloquist dummies, nineteenth-century baseball players, rat-tailed carnival children, and pantsless, singing old-timers." i'm so in.
"When I told people I didn’t want to carry cement for a living, I wanted to write comedy and be a national treasure instead, I got some odd looks. Some people suspected I might be stupid. Others were sure of it."
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Apr 25, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The Life of Rock, a thread 😎
a painful birth
Apr 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Tweets like this make me wanna go postal on the coastal.
someone deserves a hat tip for this comparison, I saw it from someone on Twitter earlier, can’t remember.....
Mar 5, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
FINALLY got to read this entire wonderful @NickKristof piece. I'll thread some excerpts:
'How to Reach People Who Are Wrong' nytimes.com/2021/03/03/opi…@NickKristof "Another reason to recalibrate is that if Democrats want to get things done, they need to win over undecided voters in swing states. And there’s evidence that preaching from the moral high ground alienates those voters. President Biden..."
"While Richard Nixon did not invent the practice of misusing the powers of the Executive Branch to advance his own political fortunes, he did it on a broad scale and provided us with ample evidence and even a sound track..."
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Mar 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
“As Washington falters, Beijing is moving quickly and adeptly to take advantage of the opening created by U.S. mistakes, filling the vacuum to position itself as the global leader in pandemic response.”
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“...Beijing understands that if it is seen as leading, and Washington is seen as unable or unwilling to do so, this perception could fundamentally alter the United States’ position in global politics and the contest for leadership in the twenty-first century.”
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Nov 3, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
oh well now THIS is juicy...
"Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul."
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"A second source tells Cockburn that this is true and adds a crucial twist to the story. This source claims that Turkish intelligence obtained an intercept of the call between Kushner and MBS. And President Erdogan used it to get Trump..."
