Actually no. You don’t get a pass for being a public figure. On the contrary, if you’ve done evil, you should be remembered for such. We need more shame for public figures. More damnatio memoriae.

Why does anyone give a shit about what David Brooks thinks, a mystery as true now as it was 30 years ago.

Taking the whole return to the 19th century way too far now

There are at least two examples of this in US history: the end run around the AoC, which was both illegal and extra constitutional, legitimized by ratifying conventions ex post, and the civil war which was basically war time exception to usual legal order.

This continues to be insane to me given that we know, eg, that Fox News roll out is correlated with conservative swing as it was rolled out in the 90s-00s. Propaganda works!

lmao who wrote this

Could not pay me to listen to this crap

Which one?

The next dem administration should disappear every trump affiliate to black sites starting with John Roberts and Clarence Thomas. As a start. They opened the door, I say we return the favor.

As the wiseman once said, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand to him

We need more battle of hymn of the republic energy from our electeds. More Righteous lightning and swords to smite the enemies of the republic please. As he died to make men holy, let’s die to make men free? I’m intrigued. None of this friends across the aisle crap.

A man of taste and culture

Not only is this a troll from him, but he is also signaling to prestige reporters that’s he’s a good boy who knows and plays by their rules. And it will be well-received.

Relistened to Perlstein on KYE recently and so many examples right wing activists employing this strategy successfully.

The emphasis on beating your peers by like 2 minutes is just emblematic of the deep rot in that business.

I get it. The perverse incentives. It matters for clicks & views. But it doesn’t matter at all for informing the public-ostensibly the goal-and what they lie to us and themselves is their job.

Rufo knows there’s no higher praise to offer a prestige reporter than congratulating them on the scoop they beat you to.

We really don’t hate the prestige press enough. Pure contempt.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I am happy to smack this guy in a face with a pizza slice or burger or ribs. How bout a sloppy wet Italian beef or po boy.

There are so many reasons to despise the Roberts court but the naked embrace of corruption is near the top of the list.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

The most insightful thing he has ever said was admitting on some podcast that a big reason he was pro Iraq war was because his Harvard classmates were against it for the simplistic reason of war is bad

This whole hysteria on the right about under representation of cons in academia drives me crazy. It is endogenous and self selecting. Free inquiry into the liberal arts is inherently left coded. Material rewards are lacking. Why go into academic STEM when you could make more money in industry, etc?

Less patronage per se but member of the club vs outside the club very much part of it, no? This is a huge problem in dem politics more broadly, as seen by this recent clyborn endorsement. Reformers of all types jeopardize this in particular

NYC politics are so patronage based that people outside those channels are shut out. Especially reformist types who might be be against that.

I think 2000 takes it. Definitely an ultimate/proximate cause situation though.

It’s absolutely disgraceful and makes my blood boil.

I truly hate algorithmic feeds and avoid like the plague.

They’ve been refusing to acknowledge this for years

Team trump clearly spills secret info and dishes off the record in a way no dem admin would

Yes. And DC press cares about their own privileged insider access. If they can be knowers of exclusive gossip, even off the record, they will play ball. It’s clear from tappers recent performance that’s he mad that no one let him know it’s worse than it looks. He’s an insider, damnit, he is owed!

He’s deserved a kick in the nuts and worse since his smarmy, ostentatious “defense” of Fox in 2009, which he continues to peddle to this day.