John the Haterade Baptist

From what I've seen from the MAGAsphere, Jay Jones' victory is the one that has rattled them the most. His scandal would have ended any Democrat in the before times, yet he won by 6 points. That says something, and they really don't like it.

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

Bill Clinton may or may not (i incline to may) have had women provided for him by Epstein but unlike all those dumbasses he definitely had the basic common sense to break off social ties with a convicted pedophile.

I am putting my bets on Summers being the first Epstein correspondent to be interviewed by Chotiner: he has exactly the right mix of arrogance and self-righteousness

It's really funny that he seems to have taken the criticism about his unreadable sentences somewhat to heart, but he was only able to maintain focus on that issue for ~1-2 paragraphs before his true self burst through

Dropping this the week of some more Epstein news is bananas.

How about you chatter none, Thomas

I know. I’m such a scold because I think you shouldn’t rape any children at all, and if you knew about the rape of children and didn’t say anything you’re officially a bad person.

i, for one, embrace the moral clarity of not raping children, embracing fascism, and using state violence to terrorize both citizens and non-citizens

"They don't call him Thomas Thinkerton Williams" remains a dunk for the ages

this could easily have been that Tyler Austin Harper dork - but no, Thomas Chatterton Williams retains the dunce belt

reading this prose is like being suffocated with a pillow

My wife just referred to TCW as "that guy who writes opinion pieces from the Carlton Banks point of view"

I can't believe I used to have a paid subscription. I can't believe Coates used to work there.

This motherfucker needs to Chatterless

Mfer linked to his own “the right has embraced cancel culture” bullshit.

maybe it's true that we live in a nation where moral clarity is unhelpful. if you think that is true I would suggest reading about the life of John Brown instead of writing for prestige magazines.

Didn't even need to click to know it was the Atlantic's very special "I used to beat my girlfriend, now I live in the south of France" boy

It is truly incredible to watch centrist writers whose stock in trade is to blame the left to operate under right wing authoritarianism

This paragraph especially!

If I understand him right, he's saying "moral clarity it good" and the right has been utterly immoral so it might sound weird to criticize moral clarity. HOWEVER, because the left is bad [unspecified reasons], "moral clarity is an obstacle to insight." ???

Clinging to this schtick like a drowning man on a toothpick

I’m sorry, what year is it?

Somebody remind me why I'm supposed to consider the "opinions in America" of a guy who lives in Paris and is married to a French woman.

This won’t help your cause!!!

-guy who hates you and your cause

Ok but it is very funny to run your "leftist moralism run amok" take the same week we learn the sitting Republican president's dead pedophile friend was planning to blackmail him

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Looks like it’s time to break out Old Reliable again.

Fundamentally, it is the belief a Nazi can fool God by rules lawyering like a particularly obnoxious Warhammer player.

It's not hard to figure out what the @nytimes.com ownership and editors care about and believe, we're just all supposed to pretend otherwise because they've convinced you that being willfully stupid is an important journalistic norm.

It is very funny that Ken Starr shows up in these and Bill Clinton doesn’t