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Professor of ye 18th century letters. "I have been in such a Twitter my self before now" (S. Centlivre, 1707). Opinions mine + at no one's behest. He/him/his
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@DaveMazella
If Twitter were to be a zoological phenomenon it would probably be "lekking":
"To attract a mate, male kakapos toddle up a mountain, dig a hole in the dirt, and then 'boom' into it for up to 8 hours straight, each night, for up to three months."
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@agraybee
In what mental universe does JD Vance seem more like a helpful, neighborly person than Tim Walz? Vance is more like the person using NextDoor to alert the development to the presence of a Black kid selling candy bars.
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@jaycaspiankang
This is the first time I have ever heard of you. I'm a little surprised. Being this vacuous, cynical, faux-savvy, and mediocre, you should be a famous media personality by now.
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@adamkotsko
My theory, for which I have no basis, is that test-prep culture trains students to practice all the testable reading skills on gobbets of text rather than whole/immersively read texts. If you've only sprinted, you won't know what to do if one day you have to run cross-country.
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@opinonhaver
It will never not be ironic that an entire conspiracy theory appeared, centering on elite pedophilia, and yet its adherents N E V E R acknowledge this character
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@notcapnamerica
What they think "abortion" is, is the termination of a well-developed fetus on the verge of delivery because the would-be mother decides she doesn't feel like being a mother after all. So they will always Oppose Abortion because that's what they understand abortion to be. 😱
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@oneunderscore__
It will always amaze me that so many so-called Christians have no idea what the Bible actually says about anything. Wasn't the whole point of Protestantism that you're supposed to read the Bible yourself?
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@magi_jay
Also, somehow every Republican move is evaluated on upside and every Democratic move is evaluated on downside. *Zero* reporters ask if what Republicans are doing will cost them support. Ever.
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@vijayvinyl
Despite the whole purpose being in the name, I'm not sure everyone knows what a nominating convention is or does
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@EricBoehlert
"Will the Republicans' embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse alienate suburban moderates?", asked no one in the media for some reason.
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@agraybee
@MC_Hesher
It’s also funny to see that their reaction is “oh yeah well you’re gay, trans, trans, and gay, so there!” Dude THAT’S WHAT WE MEAN, YOU’RE SO WEIRD
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“What difference does it make if a guy running for president lied about being hit by a bullet?” is not a thing anyone would ever have said until Trump came along and prompted whole new levels of cynical detachment that apply only to him. Good God.
@ProfBrettWilson
He's said a bullet pierced his ear and went through. If instead it just barely missed him, and instead he was injured by stuff around him exploding, what difference does it make?
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@scarylawyerguy
If either of them "retires" under a Democratic president it'll be feet first on a gurney
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@chrislhayes
"As a law student at Harvard, [Cruz] refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: 'He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.'"
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@ImNotOwned
Uh I'm pretty sure people have been giving candy to kids in war zones for more than a century
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@ndrew_lawrence
Probably realizing that Florida Republicans vote for the Republican no matter how dim or nasty the Republican is. Val Demings ripped up Marco Rubio and still lost by 16%.
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@RottenInDenmark
My Gen X brain isn't as up to date on the minutiae as it was once, but IIRC didn't Matt Yglesias, college student at the time, say that one of the reasons he supported the Iraq war was that the people who were against it aggravated him?
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@RottenInDenmark
"It was my lifelong dream to compete in boxing at the Olympics but then someone... punched me!"
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@Mikel_Jollett
I'm less sure about the class angle. But I think there *is* an unspoken assumption by people who make their living through writing and podcasting that the way to win at politics is to be quippy, rousing, and oratorical. And that's not Biden's strong suit. So they scoff at him.
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@InternetHippo
@ilpomodoro2
The one thing I appreciate about Donald Trump is his utter contempt for the people who support Donald Trump
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@Caldroids
You do know that the annual US budget is 6 trillion, TRILLION, T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N dollars, right, making this .2 percent of the budget? A very SMALL number, not a very BIG number?
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@ok_post_guy
"For some reason being an abrasive ass and glory-hog online may be hampering my ability to land a job in an insanely competitive field."
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As a scholar of 18th century English, trust me when I say that determining what an 18th-century text means, in both small and large ways, is not a straightforward process. If you, like Amy Coney Barrett, think it is, I can send a few hundred students your way to disabuse you.
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@clmazin
Thanksgiving break, 1988: "You wouldn't BELIEVE this guy I have for a roommate. He leaves this film on everything he touches, and we call the film 'cruzz.'"
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@ClistonBrown
Corollary, though: a lot of Democrats like to see themselves as the kinds of people who care about policy. That old Adlai Stevenson quip about the "thinking man" vs. "the majority." Policy specifics may not be worth much but policy generalities are another story.
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@torriangray
"It may not be LITERALLY true, this time. But it's the kind of thing Those People WOULD do!"
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@magi_jay
"Sen. McConnell, why do you think Americans will reward Republicans for repeatedly blocking public health, economic relief, and civil rights?" It's not a hard question to formulate, and its answer might be newsworthy.
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@jamisonfoser
Why does the headline refer to "Democrats" but the subhead to "America broadly"? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "JD Vance's Combative Style Turns Off Many Voters, but Pleases Trump"?
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@MuellerSheWrote
Is it just me or does Ronny Jackson in that clip look like he just sneaked a line of something behind the poster
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@MEPFuller
They see it as a way to become a celebrity in a shallower pool. The more dire part is how many of their voters are perfectly content with that.
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@agraybee
It's frankly astounding how so much of this discussion just skips over the 10/7 murders and mutilations. It's NOT THAT HARD to say that what you want is for Palestinian civilians to live in peace, safety, and dignity WHILE ADMITTING THAT terrorists did hideous terrorism.
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@agraybee
George Costanza : What were you saying to the Rosses over there anyway?
Jerry Seinfeld : Oh man, I don't know. I told them her death takes place in the shadow of new life. She's not really dead if we find a way to remember her.
George : What is that?
Jerry : Star Trek 2.
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@What46HasDone
It's up there with Craig T. Nelson saying that when he was on food stamps and welfare he got by even though nobody helped him.
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@agraybee
"Oho, your son knew a guy who knew a guy who did a thing that led to this other thing with this other guy and his thing that he did, which was very bad, the worst scandal in American history."
"So, are you ever going to do something about the deadly disease ravaging the country?"
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@imillhiser
@washingtonpost
Reporters need to stop riding the "conservatives made a thing go viral on social media" -> It's Out There -> "why can't the president make his critics stop talking about it" -> "what does it say about the president that he can't make us stop covering this story?" conveyor belt.
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@AngryBlackLady
Biden's really jeopardizing his support from the vital pro-looting demographic 🤔🙄
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@_Jason_Dean_
IMHO when he had a couple of respiratory illnesses in a row he was breathing through his mouth, and between being sick, looking old, and having a literal "slack jaw" he *appeared* not all there.
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@ChrisDJackson
@jonstewart
"Did you hear about this thing, Joe Biden being old? Heheheh" is Leno Tonight Show level comedy
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@JamesSurowiecki
What would it have to do with the “DNC” anyway? What do people think the DNC is??
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@piper4missouri
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@boydmazzie
This “it’s funny that you’re so easily offended” shtick might have a better chance at landing if not for the fact that Republicans have been offended at beer cans with stripes and M&Ms with low heeled shoes for like a year straight
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@agraybee
Also, I mean, I know the rules are different for public men and public women, but it's damn hard to take seriously "For shame! Your candidate has a sexual history!" when her opponent is Donald F. Trump.
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@JoannaMang
I'm old enough to remember that Biden did an event immediately following the debate and was filmed hobnobbing with people at Waffle House into the wee hours of the morning
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@canderaid
I hate the word “cringe” but every one of the media figures of this age cohort all think alike, all think they’re funny, and all are so banal and so, SO cringe
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@NGrossman81
I'm not 100% positive about this but I suspect whenever Trump uses the word "nasty" it has overtones of "uppity." A "nasty" person doesn't Know Their Place. Has he ever called a straight white man "nasty"? Someone like Adam Schiff gets different epithets.
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@aliciaandrz
FWIW you don't have to view them tomorrow. You don't have to view them *at all*, really, until you have to submit them for annual merit. I always put it off.
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@canderaid
SCOOP: Biden wears a garment aides call "pants" to conceal his nakedness. "If he made an appearance without the 'pants,' he'd look ridiculous," a person close to the president's inner circle said. "That's the kind of thing we're dealing with these days."
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@EricSchultz
It's also because when you poll Republicans they answer based on what makes Republicans look good, which the poll-obsessed media has either never understood or chosen to ignore for being inconvenient for The Narrative.
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@djrothkopf
Kevin McCarthy had the look of someone who’s going have to answer questions about why his people are so hideous and rude
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@joshtpm
The upper echelons of Big Media appear to be dominated by all-purpose take-havers who aren't insightful or funny, despite constantly attempting both, and yet they're all tremendously impressed with themselves and each other.
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@JamesSurowiecki
Seriously, you don't care whether a candidate claiming he was shot in the head is... true? What the hell has happened to political reporting?
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@GoldwagNathan
I'm old enough to remember that it was supposedly The Lesson Of The Obama Stimulus to go big. This is what happens when you do that. And instead people want to piss it away because eggs
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@fawfulfan
Also, it's pretty funny they're hung up on NeW yOrK still when you could run a similar hypothetical with Republicans running up the score in Texas and Florida
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I used to think the problem with the media and Trump was that they were addicted to his tabloid-i-ness. But they won't even show interest in what would have been a classic tabloid story for 150 years: that his wife obviously hates him and won't be seen with him.
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@NGrossman81
Also, it's kind of built into the phrase that you have to grapple with the "necessary" part, not just handwave it away. It's not "by any means you feel like."
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@JMartinAuthor1
@funandnormal
Next week: "I can't believe the Brothers Grimm think it's OK to lure children into gingerbread houses."
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@What46HasDone
"It seems like after I'm done paying for stuff I have less money than I did before. So unfair. Does this happen to anyone else?" 🤡🤡🤡
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@Wilson__Valdez
Uh if Democrats were out of power and opposed to it but Pres. Trump supported it, how would it... stop
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@constans
The Dukes of Hazzard is going to get rebooted in the year 2101 and have a car with Trump flags all over it
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@BeijingPalmer
Hey, I remember this logic from high school in the 1980s! "It's no big deal, we just all call things we don't like 'gay.' 'Gay' doesn't mean, like, sex-with-men gay. It just means anything that's bad, dumb, or weak."
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@Wilson__Valdez
The amazing thing Sanders accomplished in 2016 was to wipe out everything he’d done or said before and replace it with a myth that he’d been consistently, oracularly right about everything for 50 straight years.
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@MaxKennerly
This is what they have been doing *from the beginning*. "Do voters still like Trump? Let's ask people at this Trump rally." It's astounding.
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@JuddLegum
@edroso
Conservatives have been recruiting followers with “Those People Are Completely Out Of Control” since, like, Edmund Burke. It’s not about evidence, it’s about a vibe.
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@joshtpm
IIRC David Sirota is his Yoda and all of the anti-anti-liberal ranting that now consumes him stems from that
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@RTodKelly
Have you considered the alternative theory that Olivia Nuzzi is a pick-me wannabe cool kid who mostly cares about virality and is willing to act stupid to get it?
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@EricBoehlert
I wonder if Joe Biden has a child and, if so, if he's been criticized in any way by Republicans.
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@EyesOnTheRight
It's the first time something eccentric has ever been spotted in New Orleans, apparently
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@agraybee
"Cyberbullying" appears to be a disproportionate amount of what wannabe-lefties think leftism is
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@trouble_man90
"Since Biden became president I've noticed that there are a lot fewer Blockbuster Videos than there used to be. For shame."
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@EricBoehlert
For young people out there, “obsession with details” was a running media criticism of Jimmy Carter.
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@cowabungatime
"The activists attached an [adjective] [noun] to a [noun] in the name of [cause]" is a pretty solid Mad Libs template
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@tacticalchancla
Imagine that the person in need was, say, Matt Yglesias. Then imagine the CTH reaction.
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@atothe_d
@canderaid
“I always knew ‘Orange you glad I didn’t say banana,’ but what I only just learned was that ‘orange’ refers to the colonization of Ireland. Not for children.”
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@HotlineJosh
Because none of these people are actually talking about education. They're using the *word* "education" to mean a combination of "wokeness" and "oh yeah and screw masks too." They're not talking about the same issue. Why are bigtime reporters so gullible?
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@What46HasDone
The presumption that The Youth Vote is The Left Vote has been screwing up political strategy and communication *a lot* lately
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@JamesFallows
My hypothesis is that reporters who came of age in the heyday of Jon Stewart internalized his snarky cynicism and "nothing matters lol" attitude and would rather impress each other with a quip and a moue than get to the bottom of anything or write with a conscience.
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@Ally_Sammarco
I hate that it sounds conspiratorial but I kinda feel like this was part of a backup plan: if the kid had voted and Youngkin had lost, he'd carry on about how it proved the whole election was untrustworthy.
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@agraybee
Didn't Biden *literally say* that Israel needs to heed the lessons of the Iraq War? I feel like I'm going insane.
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@What46HasDone
I don't understand why this particular kind of guy is so intent on seeing the world with dystopia-colored glasses, or on making it seem like recent history is so much worse than, say, the years of the Vietnam War and the assassinations of everyone.
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@fawfulfan
And AFAICT almost everything Trump thinks about the purposes of government stems from NYC in the '70s and '80s. It's all about having tougher cops inflicting more pain on Black and brown bad guys.
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@torriangray
Given the number of child-mol3sting pastors in the Republican base it might only galvanize their support
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@JRubinBlogger
@BrianDeeseNEC
It's always funny when reporters badger politicians for not doing a better job of making reporters tell other stories. Guys, that's you.
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@atrupar
The Trump act is SO MUCH LIKE one of those past-their-prime bands playing county fairs to aging fans trying to recapture their youth. "Wow, he's playing 'Grocery Store ID,' I remember the first time I heard that. Can't hit the notes anymore but, man, it takes me back."
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