Joe Biden: I want to run against Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders: I want to run against 1990s Joe Biden
Christopher Orr
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Christopher Orr
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Editor, writer, film/TV critic. Atlantic, NYT, TNR, WaPo, etc. If you are anonymous, I'll likely ignore you. Experimenting with @orrchris.bsky.social
- It's a little bizarre how pretty much every conservative plea for leniency in the wake of the insurrection is accompanied by an explicit threat of further violence.Replying to @benshapiroThis action to punish all Trump supporters -- and any outlet that hosts them -- for the actions of fringe criminals won’t calm the waters. It will unleash all the worst forces in American life on all sides.
- The fact that Elon Musk thinks it’s *obvious* that it’s better to publish only what dictators want than not to publish at all tells you everything you need to know about Elon Musk.
- "Will Biden pack the courts" is the new "Hillary's emails"--a way for journos and others to demonstrate a false "balance" by wildly overweighting a small qualm on one side so that it appears as significant as huge scandals on the other.210k Americans are dead, god knows how many will suffer long-term health problems, kids are out of school, people can't visit family, people are out of work & losing their homes, food lines stretch for miles...yeah, let's definitely spend more time on court packing hypotheticals
- A Pentagon OIG report found that Ronny Jackson was drunk on the job and harassed women. His nomination for Vet Affairs Sec was pulled and he was busted down from Admiral to Captain. But sure, give this drunk, out of control harasser the nation's most sensitive intelligence.NEWS -- @SpeakerJohnson has named Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to the House Intelligence Committee. The Intel Committee oversees the entire intelligence community and gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the U.S. and its allies.
- If Joe Biden had two ex-wives, and failed to recognize EITHER ONE correctly in a photo, it would lead the news for a week.
- This photo of Trump Jr holding a bloody piece of dismembered elephant may be the best accidental metaphor ever.
- Unbelievable. Duncan Hunter says of his wife: "Whatever she did, that'll be looked at.... But I didn't do it."Incredible interview with @RepDuncanHunter on Fox News. 1. He throws his wife under the bus 2. Sweaty 3. Defensive 4. Without question, he lies many times 5. Calls his opponent a "socialist Democrat" after his opponent says that Hunter lost his way in Washington.
00:00 - Obvious point, but during the YEARS Trump slandered Steele as a malicious evildoer specifically aiming to harm him, he clearly knew that he was actually a family friend who’d visited his house and bought Ivanka presents.
- "Pete Buttigieg any time he is on Fox News" is my favorite new show of the fall.
- Actual verbatim exchange. Navarro: "We all know about the billion dollars that [Hunter Biden] took from the Chinese." Stepahanopoulos: "That's not factual, sir. That's not a fact." Navarro, literally shrugging: "Be that as it may..."George Stephanopoulos was not having Peter Navarro's lies about the Biden family
00:00 - Bill Barr: "My attitude was get it done, but I didn't say 'Go do it.'" I'm not sure it's possible to sound any more like a mob boss.“I’m not involved in giving tactical commands like that,” Attorney General Barr tells AP. “I was frustrated& I was also worried that as the crowd grew, it was going to be harder & harder to do. So my attitude was get it done, but I didn’t say, ‘Go do it.’” apnews.com/1a993a6e99b4ec…
- Notable also that this is the party whose longest-ever-serving Speaker, Denny Hastert, went to prison *less than 5 years ago* for molesting boys. It supported Roy Moore, continues to support Matt Gaetz, and gave Jim Jordan the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
