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@thedispatch
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2 years
From ⁦ @stephenfhayes ⁩ & ⁦ @JonahDispatch :⁩ Why We Are Leaving Fox News
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From ⁦ @DavidAFrench ⁩ - American Racism: We’ve Got So Very Far to Go
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"If [Trump] fails to prevail in November against a man he describes as corrupt and weak, all the world will see him as a loser," @michael_steel writes. "Those who have hitched their wagons too closely to him clearly worry they will be, too."
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From @thomasjoscelyn (🔒): Germany Disrupts ISIS Plot Targeting U.S. Military
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"Ron DeSantis boasts—rightly—about Florida as a global destination for immigrants, tourists, and business. He’s very proud of Florida’s low taxes. If he runs for president on the promise to make America more like his vision for Florida, I’m good with that." - @JonahDispatch
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. @stephenfhayes SCOOP: Rudy Giuliani tried calling Sen. Tuberville tonight asking him to object to the election results in 10 states. "I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote."
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"The plot to overturn the election wasn’t just insurrection; it was also an extraordinary financial grift." — @DavidAFrench
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"If you're praising Hamas... that means you're pro-terrorist." @JonahDispatch got into a debate with @lourdesgnavarro on CNN about the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University:
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4 years
Did Steve Mnuchin say Americans can live on $1,200 for 10 weeks? No, he did not. A fact check from @Alec_Dent .
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. @stephenfhayes : "At Fox, the executives are afraid of the hosts, and the hosts are afraid of the audience. The result is you have these primetime hosts who just spill bull****, and did so knowingly in this case."
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"Tucker likes to make a really bold assertion and then add 'and no honest person can disagree.' That's how he always says it, as if there's no room for debate about something that demands reasonable debate, and that Tucker has the wrong opinion on." @JonahDispatch today:
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2 years
Patriotism says: “I love my country” Nationalism says: “My nation has this kind of culture, not that kind” Patriotism says: “I love my fellow countrymen” Nationalism says: “Only people who share my culture are my fellow countrymen” from @PaulDMiller2 :
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2 years
Uphill, from ⁦ @byrdinator :⁩ ‘I Remember Being Very Angry’ Rep. Liz Cheney reflects on January 6.
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From @JonahDispatch : Defending Conservatism—From the Right ➡️
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"That supposed libertarians such as Sen. Paul can be so easily buffaloed into accepting [Trump's] 'infinite crimes' model not only of the presidency but also of the post-presidency is a reminder of how easy it is to morally corrupt such a figure."
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"Conservatism ... cannot endure and still be called conservatism if it is openly, wildly, and insanely committed to the idea that our country is one vast conspiracy." | @JonahDispatch
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4 years
"The most depressing thing about the Trump presidency hasn't been Trump himself," @JonahDispatch argues, "but what it has exposed in others."
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. @JonahDispatch : "It’s fine to say Trump didn’t intend the utterly foreseeable violence. But that’s like a bank robber saying he didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt. The intended theft was bad enough. The violence only makes it that much more heinous."
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1 year
As Mike Lee notes, a conflict with Russia in Ukraine is dangerous. But so is not doing anything––it rewards the behavior most damaging to the United States' image and interests. This is why Russian chess grandmaster @Kasparov63 has argued against appeasing Iran (and Russia).
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. @RepMeijer to @declanpgarvey : "If you’re using the government to compel something you like, you’re setting the precedent for the government to be compelling something you don’t like."
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"To corporate America, many House Republicans' view is: We protected you guys for a long time. We cut your taxes, we lightened your regulations... And you turned around and on every issue of cultural salience, you sided with Democrats." @jonathanvswan , for @JonahRemnant :
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. @JonahDispatch : I remember saying to Charles Krauthammer, "This thing is gonna end in tears no matter what, so you might as well do the right thing. The takeaway from so many people at Fox was "this thing is gonna end in tears no matter what, so let's just make a quick buck."
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“He is lying—that’s what Putin does.” For the #DispatchPodcast , @NikkiHaley recalls her conversation with Donald Trump following his 2018 press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Check out @DavidMDrucker 's full interview with Haley here:
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Former President George W. Bush on parts of the GOP leaning into nativism: "To me, that basically says that we want to be extinct."
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From @JonahDispatch in yesterday's G-File:
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From @DavidAFrench : A Vigilante Killing in Georgia
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"I want to be exact in my phrasing of this. I have zero sympathy for Kevin McCarthy. This is the life he has chosen. People fantasize about being House Speaker for so long that they forget it's not worth selling off pieces of your soul for." @JonahDispatch for the Remnant Pod:
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"A lot of the problems that affect Fox affect cable news generally, including CNN––where I am at––and even more so MSNBC. This blurring of opinion and reporting is a problem everywhere. Fan service to audience is a problem everywhere." More from @JonahDispatch in #DispatchLive :
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. @rickhess99 : "It’s hard to think of a policy more threatening to minority kids than the insistence that it’s okay for them to graduate without being able to read."
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@thedispatch
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4 years
Some personnel news: Welcome aboard, @scottlincicome !
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Exciting news from @thedispatch ! Hoping @scottlincicome will share his favorite recipe for nachos, too.
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Today, The Dispatch published just the third editorial in our nearly four-year history—on the historic federal indictment of former President Donald Trump and the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
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Many have known him just as @allahpundit . We know him as Nick Catoggio, the newest Dispatch staff writer and a welcome addition to the team. He shares some spicy views on the media + why he decided to join The Dispatch in his first message for readers:
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. @DavidAFrench , in his latest French Press:
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. @JonahDispatch : "If you spend decades flip-flopping on debt and spending, depending on whether or not you’re in power, you shouldn’t be shocked if voters say, 'Yeah, yeah, whatever. Send me my money.'"
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The biggest news of the day isn’t what’s going on in Congress. It’s that @whignewtons now gets to determine the official Advisory Opinions position on Aquaman. We’re glad you’ll still be around, David.
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🧵 In tonight's Dispatch Live, @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes discuss Dominion's Lawsuit against Fox News. "My big peeve for 8 years now has been the tendency of people on the right to say things they don't believe to be true.... I kind of feel like, see I told you so."
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In our fourth editorial, we reflect on the choice America faces: "The American people should demand better than the decision our two decaying, corrupted parties—channeling the dueling forces of tribalism and inertia—are set to thrust upon them."
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@thedispatch
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. @JonahDispatch has a very simple explanation for why Juneteenth is a great American holiday: "Slavery was very bad."
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"If we know anything about dealing with insurrectionary movements centered around charismatic leaders, it’s that they have to lose," @DavidAFrench argues. "The narrative surrounding the leader has to shift, dramatically, once and for all."
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"I've been saying this for years now. Trump violates all sorts of norms, in response his enemies violate norms, and then people on the right say: "See? They're lawless. So we have to violate the law to punish them!" @JonahDispatch for the DisPod:
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"If there are people willing to try lab-grown meat (and there assuredly are) and there are people willing to sell it to them, by what right does the government interfere in that transaction?" Nick Catoggio:
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"One of my problems with the term homelessness is it homogenizes the plights of very different people. Some people are on the streets due to economic hardship, others due to really bad choices, and still others because they are mentally unwell." @JonahDispatch for @JonahRemnant
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"On the left, there's a denial of the idea of masculinity....but on the right, there's been this shift to boorish immature masculinity." Richard Reeves, on today's episode of @JonahRemnant
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TONIGHT: Live podcast recording at @AEI . Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Chris Stirewalt Pre-show prep
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. @JustinAmash dropped by #AdvisoryOpinions this week to talk with @whignewtons & @DavidAFrench about his candidacy's rationale, whether he views himself as a spoiler, the government's coronavirus response, & the intersection of libertarianism and race.
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"I'm probably going to get shot for this, but I don't have a problem giving the IRS more money. They need resources to modernize. Right now they manually type up your 1040. You can't get anyone on the phone if you call the IRS." more from @Brian_Riedl in today's Remnant Pod:
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We're thrilled to announce the prolific and talented @allahpundit will be joining The Dispatch this month with a new bi-weekly newsletter and plenty of extra commentary for the site, all part of an @thedispatch membership. More from his last Hot Air post:
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#MLK did not merely teach us not to judge one another on the basis of our skin color; he offered a rich account of the content of character, one grounded in the virtues of self-control, humility, courage, and love,” writes @JohnRWoodJr #MarchOnWashington
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"[A documentary maker] was sent to jail because [he] depicted the British in a bad light.... The German language was essentially criminalized in the United States. Whenever this stuff starts to happen, Wilson just kind of vanishes from the narrative." from @JonahDispatch
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With just days to go before #SuperTuesday , @DavidMDrucker spoke with @NikkiHaley about the GOP primary and the fractured state of the Republican party in the latest episode of the #DispatchPodcast Check out the full interview here:
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"The real source of the lies and disinformation wasn't Fox. The real source of the lies and disinformation was Trump, and they were bending to Trump. It gets to the corruption of Fox News' editorial leadership that they let Trump dictate their position."
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“Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and a Clinton-supporting con-artist, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.” 7 years after Kevin Williamson wrote these words, @allahpundit has the same message:
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"[Nikki Haley] utterly decimated Vivek on Ukraine. She called out Trump's profligate spending. She gave a pragmatic pro-life answer. She was composed. She was prepared. She was conservative." Watch @DavidAFrench on yesterday's #DispatchLive (🔒) here:
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The French Press, from ⁦ @DavidAFrench ⁩: Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection
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"If the federal government is going to announce - without legislation - that it's getting rid of something a lot of people have and a lot of people like, blaming the people who oppose it as the aggressors is just such cheap, bad faith politics." @jonahdispatch for @jonahremnant :
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"When historians study this period's politics, they'll find a lot more explanatory power in the breakdown of organized religion than in ideological and economic arguments. Human beings cannot turn off their hunger for meaning and belonging." @jonahdispatch for @jonahremnant :
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"Nikki Haley has become the 'no peace' candidate. Her voters are using her campaign to show that the American right isn’t united behind Trump after all, and Haley evidently feels an obligation to continue to provide them with that outlet." | @allahpundit
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For @allahpundit , the recent Trump indictment out of Georgia is like a favorite child, one that has a special connection with critics of the former president. 🧵1/10
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"I think everyone on this podcast has been denounced more passionately and more frequently by Donald Trump than any of the people who were at the Kanye Mar-a-lago dinner." @JonahDispatch for the Dispatch Podcast:
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"The tragic thing isn’t really that a former president of the United States is so morally depraved, it’s that so many Americans—particularly self-styled conservatives—like it." @JonahDispatch yesterday:
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In the latest episode of the #DispatchPodcast , @NikkiHaley tells @DavidMDrucker that Donald Trump has ignored two key policy priorities: fiscal discipline and peace through strength. Check out their conversation here:
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4 years
Today's Morning Dispatch (🔒) took a look at why the wildfires raging across the West Coast are so much worse this year.
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🚨We’re thrilled to announce John McCormack is joining The Dispatch today as a senior editor covering campaigns, the courts, and Capitol Hill!🚨 Give him a follow at @McCormackJohn and keep your eyes out for his work in the days and weeks ahead.
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"Everything that you just saw happen over the last three or four days are war crimes. That does not mean that Israel can commit war crimes in response. It does give Israel the authority under the law of war to respond—to defeat Hamas," explains @DavidAFrench in #AdvisoryOpinions
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"We are suffering the consequences from generations of Americans who are both undereducated and miseducated," @ChrisStirewalt writes. "This many millions of nincompoops didn’t show up overnight."
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"The Jan 6 commission got too caught up in selling a narrative, but that doesn't mean the narrative was wrong. The narrative was that a bunch of goons were encouraged by the president of the United States to do great violence at the Capitol." More from today's @JonahRemnant :
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2 years
By your own logic, Herschel Walker committed a murder for hire. If you say, "people change" when he isn't even apologizing...what are you broadcasting to the world? You're broadcasting, "I don't believe my own rhetoric." @DavidAFrench , for today's Dispatch Podcast:
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"While some U.S. lawmakers are digging in their heels on sending additional aid to Ukraine’s beleaguered defense forces, troops The Dispatch spoke to in the Donbas region over the past week are pleading for more help." @BDMurray reports from Ukraine:
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. @declanpgarvey sat down with @justinamash last week to talk about Amash's decision to leave the GOP, his reflections on the Freedom Caucus, the future of partisanship, and whether or not he's running for president.
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"Everything about our constitutional order screams 'Wrong!' at the idea that a president has—or should have—absolutist, monarchical power, unaccountable to the rule of law." | @JonahDispatch
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From ⁦ @stephenfhayes ⁩: What Kind of Leaders Do Republicans Want?
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Coming to your #DispatchPodcast feed tomorrow...
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. @JonahDispatch : "A 'law and order' conservatism that says, 'As long as liberals fail to condemn thuggish violence for their side, we feel no obligation to condemn thuggish violence on our side,' cares neither about law and order nor conservatism."
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From @JonahDispatch : Sometimes the status quo is worth defending.
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"It is a very nice thing to grow more powerful relative to one’s enemies and rivals. Growing more powerful relative to one’s allies is, in its way, a kind of burden." Kevin Williamson today:
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In the latest episode of #TheRemnant , @JonahDispatch talks with Allen C. Guelzo about Abraham Lincoln and the resilience of democracy. Check out the full episode here:
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"Forget the boycott for a second. How about every chief judge of every circuit in this country joining in a letter to Stanford saying, "That's unacceptable." How about the Chief Justice of the United States?" Judge Kyle Duncan speaks out in AO:
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"Cowed by the president and with their eyes fixed on their own political futures, Republican members of Congress have picked up this seditious torch, including trained lawyers who know exactly how they’re violating the Constitution yet press on anyway."
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"This is not the sort of thing one expects from a man who was, until about 5 minutes ago, the U.S. president. It's precisely what you'd expect from a delusional bedlamite who invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York Post about his sex life."
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"What if Ted Cruz found Newsmax wasn't "deplatformed" because it was speaking truth to power, but because it was unprofitable? Hell, even if DirectTV's decision was politically motivated, it has the same free speech rights as Newsmax." ✏️ @JonahDispatch :
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. @BenSasse : "Only about 14% of the American public pays attention to political news on a daily basis. 86% of people don't want politics to be the center of their life." #WhatsNextDispatch
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From ⁦ @MartyMakary :⁩ FDA Career Staff Are Delaying the Vaccine As Thousands of Americans Die
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. @RepLizCheney on today’s #DispatchPodcast : “You’ve got another fundamental problem, which is our leadership, Kevin McCarthy, going to Mar-a-Lago, rehabilitating the former president.”
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"Americans don't seem to understand scale very much. They tend to think that Twitter is real and someone with a million Twitter followers is influential. We call them influencers, but there's no evidence they influence anything." @rcbl for @JonahRemnant :
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No, the Heritage Foundation never said the 2017 tax cuts ‘didn’t grow the economy.’ A ⁦ @TheDispatchFC ⁩ from ⁦ @Alec_Dent ⁩:
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"Creating cadres of elite investment bankers or successful knee surgeons isn’t why people go to work as education bureaucrats. Instead, creating cadres of educated activists... committed to social justice is why they’re there." @JonahDispatch :
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From ⁦ @declanpgarvey ⁩: Ben’s Chili Bowl Founder on Civil Unrest—In 1968 and Today
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From @DavidAFrench (🔒): No, Michael Flynn Isn’t ‘Exonerated’
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