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Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
I think it’s small potatoes compared to the watershed moment in Democratic politics when Kamala Harris lost to Trump in part due to many Democrats trying to hurt her, but hey, maybe my priorities are weird.
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
So many people, including the richest man in the world, have never read Matthew Stover's novelization of "Revenge of the Sith" and it shows...
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The intelligent, sober-minded, and conscientious criminal is a cliché at the heart of so many fun movies that I sometimes wonder if people realize it’s totally fake and in the real world crime is almost all dumb guys with poor impulse control.
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Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
Why are you such a piece of shit? Neera supports Abdul! She’s been quite explicit about it. The incessant need to dunk on Democrats who are actually helping out your guy is something else man.
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"You mean the Chaos Emeralds"
Elites, even ones who think they’re good, lose the plot- people like this help Republicans and hurt poor people in the name of “holding Dems accountable” meanwhile they’ll be fine regardless. This guy got so weird.
I argue for a living. I just did three long interviews with Neera Tanden, Matthew Yglesias, and Sarah Longwell, all of whom have politics not dissimilar to your own, and they all criticized me just fine and there was no mention of racism by them or me.
Why lie like this about me? Just because you don’t want to come on my show, or debate me anywhere other than quick Twitter dunks?
And why mock the idea of racism when there is so much of it about right now?
Strange.
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
Stevens has totally disgraced herself but I don’t understand the impulse to exaggerate the extent of “establshment” hostility to El-Sayed rather than tell people they should vote for the guy who Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Elissa Slotkin, Gary Peters, etc are all endorsing.
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Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
Midterms arguably signal the end of not only the Trump era, but also the long 2016:
• The Dem left agrees Obama was a good POTUS who faced real constraints and that median voter is mod;
• The Dem mods agree to pursue class polarization and concede party’s prog establishment/seniority system is broken.
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
Yglesias is voting for LBJ in 1964 and you're staying home because you believe US cold war policy is committing mass genocide under LBJ.
Not hard for him to win this argument on your terms.
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.”
I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
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Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings
news.gallup.com/poll/3427/most…