Thread: Since election day, the NRSC has been sending fundraising emails touting Herschel Walker's runoff race. Yet donation settings for those emails have allocated 99% of the funds donated not to Walker, but to the NRSC and its chairman, Rick Scott.
Today should've been the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Instead, MAGA Republican officials are waging a war on women's right to make their own health care decisions.
But this fight isn't over.
I have been extremely critical of
@JohnFetterman
, but he deserves all the credit in the world for bucking his fellow progressives and demonstrating moral clarity at this crucial moment. It would have been easy for him to issue a safer, mealy-mouthed statement, but he eschewed…
Fetterman issues statement expressing unequivocal support for "any necessary military, intelligence, and humanitarian aid to Israel."
"I also fully support Israel neutralizing the terrorists responsible for this barbarism."
A few sentences of throat-clearing about the atrocities of October 7 and then a novel chiding the Israelis.
He knows exactly what he's doing, and it is insidious.
If, tomorrow, I tell the press that thousands of migrants will descend upon some small town in Texas, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that 50 might show up at Martha’s Vineyard, well then everyone loses their minds.
Can't remember who said it on here yesterday, but somebody submitted that bussing migrants to sanctuary cities was the most effective political stunt of all time and that's absolutely, indisputably correct
A plane carrying more migrants from Texas arrived in the Chicago area overnight, which
@ChicagosMayor
Brandon Johnson calls "a very dangerous task" by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and a matter of national security.
"Governor Abbott is determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos."
I think it is of concern that NBC’s featured disinformation reporter, whose work frequently touches on tech and related subjects, would literally fail the probability unit in 8th grade math.
When Farnaz spent her time around immigrants, she observed a culture of gratitude and respect for this country. Now that she knows mostly Times staffers, she’s surrounded by a narcissistic kind of entitlement and lack of perspective. Instructive!
Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar says she was "not aware that the word 'hypnotized' was a trope" and "wasn't aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money."
The Democratic Party's entire foreign policy brain trust spent a decade devoted to this inexplicable belief for which there was never any evidence. It's the most bizarre, embarrassing cult in the world.
$10k means tested forgiveness is just enough to anger the people against it *and* the people who need forgiveness the most.
$10k relieves most the people who owe the least. What relief is there for the most desperate? For them, interest will undo that 10k fast. We can do better.
It’s really, really disheartening that an ex-chair of the Intelligence Committee’s response to being booted from it for misconduct is to post on a Chinese spyware app
WaPo is leading with a piece on conservative rollbacks of DEI initiatives in schools — not the Kavanaugh assassin — if you’re wondering how the Somnez Regime is going.
Really glad Republicans threw a fit over
@RepMeijer
voting to impeach the outgoing president who had just sicced a mob on the Capitol, played into Democrats’ hands by nominating his unelectable primary opponent and lost the seat. Dem gain, nice.
If Candace Owens had only criticized the provision of aid to Israel, she would still be at The Daily Wire.
I wonder why Glenn isn't mentioning any of the nonsense about Jews drinking Christian blood or operating a small, sinister ring in Hollywood.
It was only a question of time.
There was no way an outlet founded by and built around Ben Shapiro could possibly remain associated with a vocal critic of US financing of Israel.
As I’ve said for years, claimed core conservative values come to a grinding halt for Israel.
.
@SenatorCardin
: "If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you're not protected under the First Amendment. I think we can be more aggressive in the way that we handle that type of use of the internet."
The thing about being a conservative is that you are immediately able to discern, at a glance, that the headline and image were explicitly chosen to deceive readers.
John Oliver on the U.S. responsibility in Israel’s actions: “I’m talking about America, because this country has emphatically picked a side. In recent years, we’ve given Israel $3.8 billion a year in military aid… it means we’re heavily implicated”
The Editors:
“People of good will can disagree about the best response to the last two months and especially last week, but about one thing there can be no question — it’s the recklessness and selfishness of one man that brought us to this place.”
Jeffrey Toobin on CNN:
"The rate of abortion does not go down when abortion is banned...what's different is that women die and women are horribly mutilated..."
Very grateful for people like
@JonahDispatch
and
@reihan
and their ability to articulate why conservatives oppose DEI in such a respectful, unapologetic, and ultimately persuasive way.
For the record, he’s accused of defrauding Trump voters who donated $25 million toward constructing a border wall Steve Bannon said he’s build. Instead, he spent the money on himself.
The absurdity of Yglesias’s position is that he holds civilians responsible for not understanding the precarious situation in Afghanistan while absolving Joe Biden of not only failing to understand it, but telling Americans it would be fine!
@McCormackJohn
Translators delayed by a dysfunctional SIV application process.
@mattyglesias
’s question works in reverse as well; why wasn’t the Biden administration focused on evacuation earlier? And why was it either unaware of or lying about the Taliban’s position?
Mark Joseph Stern is paid to provide accurate information and analysis to his audience.
Here, he’s deliberately misleading in order to try to get someone fired. Bad at his job, mouse of a man.
I hate to draw attention to this troll because attention is what he craves. But now that
@GeorgetownLaw
has hired him, I feel an obligation to condemn his overt and nauseating racism, which has been a matter of public record for some time. I am deeply ashamed of my alma mater.
CNN's
@jaketapper
to
@GovernorVA
: "I wonder if the events in your first year ... the more intense hurricanes ... the war in Ukraine & this week’s OPEC decision ... Doesn’t that suggest that you should be, that we should be leaning into more green energy, not less?"
The most recent Trump indictment is a clarifying moment. They’re trying to throw the former president in prison for saying “bad” things. The regime has crossed a line. If your response to this is to whine about Trump you’re useless.
This refrain is so tiresome. Reaganites don't argue that the challenges are exactly the same; we submit that the same timeless principles that mattered then — constitutionalism, moral clarity, and strong character, for example — still matter now.
WSJ poll: 74 percent of registered voters think inflation is headed in the wrong direction.
There is no reasoning with this many people being this wrong. It's not possible to shovel against that tide.
Tucker Carlson is the same person he was for his last few years at Fox. You may have pretended not to see it because it would have been personally inconvenient, but there were a select few of us on the Right who stated the uncomfortable truth out loud and were scorned for it.
Your argument wasn’t that Thomas wrote a wrong and dangerous opinion, it was that he, ACB, and Alito would “invent” a constitutional reason to permit states to ban citizens from seeking abortions in other states.
Anybody ever wonder: how can West Virginia and Kentucky have such powerful United States Senators repping them yet be so overwhelmingly poor? Somebody’s getting that money, and it ain’t ordinary West Virginians and Kentuckians… just a thought…
Adam Schiff was kicked off the Intelligence Committee for misconduct
He's responded by fundraising for his Senate campaign on TikTok, which Congress has banned from govt devices and the FBI director calls a national security threat
My latest
@Mediaite
Israel has the right to defend itself. We must make sure they have what they need to protect their people today and always.
At the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have discussed how Israel must operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as…
Scoop: White House *looking* at $10K or more of per-borrower debt forgiveness for earners under $125-150K single/$250-300K couples prior year, per sources
Overwhelming majority would qualify
***No final decision on amount canceled or means test***
Some people spend so much time in academia or DC that they come to believe that nuance is the highest good, or the surest sign that someone speaks the truth.
Not so, my friends. Exhibit A:
If women getting punched in the face doesn't fill you with a white hot rage, you forfeit your claim to manhood. If you actually celebrate it, you forfeit your claim to humanity.
I am intrigued by Adrian Vermeule. He’s a leading Catholic intellectual, and he has not yet commented on the arrest of a 90 year-old Chinese Cardinal by a genocidal regime this morning. He has, however, expressed his support for the Chinese takeout system. An interesting fellow!
.
@rweingarten
, do you think it was the pro or anti-slavery advocates at the constitutional convention who wanted slaves to count as a full citizen for representation purposes? This is basic history.
The American Revolution was about leaving Britain. If America’s founders questioned slavery there would not have been the heinous “3/5 compromise “ in the US Constitution, which was drafted and enacted AFTER the American Revolution. This is basic history…
Like many, my family’s been hit by drug-addiction. So many sleepless nights fearing a call saying your loved one is jailed or dead.
@JoeBiden
like any dad, keeps his son as close as he can and shows support. Attack him as POTUS, but not for being an unconditionally loving dad.
I'm sorry, but Mehdi Hasan's show getting cancelled before he could use it to dance on Henry Kissinger's grave is just fantastic. Thank you, MSNBC, for this one beautiful gift.
Mitch McConnell is not to blame for the GOP's disappointing performance in the midterms. And he's certainly not to blame for Blake Masters's failure in Arizona.
My latest in the Morning Jolt
@NRO
I am going to submit to you that Noah —and every other competent political commentator — knows that there’s not a single vote to overturn Brown on the Court.
Women in Berlin can now swim topless in the city's public pools if they choose to. It's being hailed as a step forward for gender equality in the German capital.
Lin should go to jail for what he did to Kyle.
I also fully blame him for why Georgia lost our Senate seats.
He’s from Georgia and we know him as a life long Democrat not a Republican.
He grifted off of Trump & told people not to vote on Jan 5th saying their vote would be stolen.
🚨Post-Licht CNN Update🚨
They invited the guy who wrote the “One of the Guys Who’s Gonna Die on the Sub Gave Money to Republicans” piece to talk about the sub. Awesome work, everyone.
And the point here is not that Biden is responsible for the deaths. It’s that he was being a cynical demagogue when he assigned responsibility for deaths to his predecessor.
It’s not really a “rush to the cultural right” to acknowledge that Obergefell is bad law, and I very much doubt that same-sex marriage will be much of an issue in the 2024 primaries (nor should it be).
Also, 3 Dem primaries ago, Obama and HRC both opposed it!
There’s the distinction. I’m a Never Trumper insofar as I will never support Donald Trump. But when you start thinking of your opposition to a candidate as being the stuff of “movements” around which you have your own doctrine, things are going to get ugly, as they have for Tom.
Pretty sure that I don't need a lesson from you about what "Never Trump" meant, Dan. Since you were never a part of that movement, perhaps leave it to the people who began it to define it.
What's the term for "government by smug fucks who love to say 'this isn't hard' about whatever new thing they've come up with to demand you do or say"?
Trump's coming to Virginia, four years after the Unite the Right rally, to get the "very fine people" on his side to turn out for Youngkin. This is just one reason Virginians shouldn't select Youngkin, and should instead choose the man who condemned the marchers, Terry McAuliffe.