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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that Democrats remain overwhelmingly against impeachment is nuts.

It is the equivalent of saying "Sorry everyone, the law is non functional and you need to operate outside all legal boundaries if you want to remove a fascist child rapist from power."

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

I did some pointless yelling-across-a-paradigmatic-divide with one such reader recently.
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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 8d

This is a serious question, Mr. Yglesias: Why do you get to be the pundit? It's not because you're possessed of any special training, expertise, or insight, and it sure as sugar isn't because you have a long track record of being right about anything.
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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · Mar 3

"I think that the United States is *not* under siege from a neo-fascist movement personified by Donald Trump… the old post-2012 consensus that the GOP would either diversify or die remains intact." —Matt Yglesias
www.slowboring.com/p/fake-crisis

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Especially as those very tactics have been used by the GOP to hammer Dems for some 30 years!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I don't have to share the delusion that this wasn't the first fucking thing her agent talked to her about regarding this role.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Sunstein himself notes that this "My goal with the book was not to discuss current events…" and this "is not a book about President Trump or contemporary politics." It's disingenuous to market it as such.
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Can Liberalism Be Saved?

The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

What single shred of *good* does Sunstein's insipid take on liberalism do for the world? Justice Thomas has taken millions in bribes from Harlan Crow, but Sunstein deems him "a liberal in the sense of believing in the rule of law"! Cass' liberalism makes room for monsters—and its own destruction.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

"Righteousness Olympics." Now that's a mouthful!

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Nah. You're an adult. You can do it.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you just get used to it?

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 2d

Bari is NOT a puppet! She's a statue a clown college.

Bust of Bari Weiss at the alleged University of Austin. A sign on the plinth reads, 'Bari Weiss: Founder & Trustee, University of Austin. Donated by Joe Lunsdale, founding chairman, UATX, 2025.'

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 3d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 4d

I thought she had no fecks left to give.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think effective altruism was ever designed to be, you know, effective.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 4d

Think outside the Cox.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5d

republicans saying "no, actually, we like health care" hits the ear wrong. and its the same problem dems have when they try to be gop lite with shit like "we need strong borders" and "we fund the police" and "there are legit concerns about boys playing girls sports."

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 5d

This is an asinine plan for many reasons, including that there won't be rural ERs if this is the plan.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 5d

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Stephen Miller Says Trump Has 'Plenary Authority'

YouTube video by HuffPost

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6d

So I return to my original provocation: Why is he the pundit again? What use is he?

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6d

In short, he's not—and never has been—the neutral commentator he makes himself out to be. I think history's judgement of him will be that that he was just a self-interested reactionary who did little useful to warn us about the horrors that are to come. If anything, he hastened them.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6d

Telling people to "not panic" about encroaching authoritarianism wasn't just an "oopsie!" It wasn't just dangerous and irresponsible. It was complicity.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6d

And punditry isn't just voices in the wind: Yglesias was well-read within the Biden administration. His schtick is persuasive to many. I cringe to think how much his palliative, conciliatory pseudo-analysis did to weaken my party. He's also taken money from the Abundance astro-turfers.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6d

Especially now, I'm not sure how to see his life's project as anything but ideological—I'd even say reactionary. He helped deliver us to this moment by giving support and the cover of respectability to conservatives. He helped make things cozy for the reactionaries and subversives bedeviling us.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6d

I contend that's actually a much more dangerous posture to assume than a naked ideologue whose self-interest is on clear display. Re-read what King said about white moderates in his letter from a Birmingham jail. That's Yglesias.

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