Tabby Monday
- The self-parody never ends. Via The Hill: Collins says she ‘strongly’ opposes White House federal layoffs. So, very, very strongly.
- By Seth Masket: When the right broke, according to the right. Spoiler. it was the Black guy’s fault.
- Via Wired: Nick Fuentes’ Plan to Conquer America.
- Via Politico: Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering. Given that the administration keeps talking about using military and law enforcement assets against “terrorism” and “the enemy within,” these kinds of statements are really awful, if not dangerous.
- Via the NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco.
- Via TNR: Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism. When Christian Nationalism rears its ugly head:
“If you are an Indian, a Hindu, coming from a different culture, different religion than those who founded this country, those who grew this country, built this country, made this country the beautiful thing that it is today,” he continued. “What are you conserving? You are bringing change. I’ll be 100 percent honest with you—Christianity is the one truth.”
- Just another example of how the mainstream press just sees all of this as a game. He’s just so accessible! (And BTW, I get it: their job is to get eyeballs and Trump is free programming, but all of this just continues to underscore that the media, for all of its crusading self-image, is interested in the bottom line more than anything else.)
- Since I am picking on the media, kudos to Stephanoplous for this (although letting Vance monologue first wasn’t great).
- Meanwhile, down in Argentina. See also, The Independent: Argentine President roars his way through rock concert after $20bn bail out from the US.
- A parting shot: don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Re the Seth Masket piece, I read the interview of Ben Shapiro by Ezra Klein the piece is based on. I was amazed at how many ways Shapiro could find to say Obama pissed us off by presidenting while Black without saying Obama pissed us off by presidenting while Black.
During and after Obama’s terms there was a lot of commentary that the right had radicalized in reaction to a Black prez. It’s fascinating to see rightists confirm it. Especially by claiming some bogus implied deal by which they LET Obama be prez. Shapiro et al are claiming they might have done what, exactly, to prevent it? Secession? Armed rebellion? A Brooks Brothers riot? Assassination? Impeachment for being Black? What is he claiming they refrained from doing?
@gVOR10: In spite of supporting other candidates during primary season, I do not regret for a hot second putting Obama in office.
We have flushed the bigots out into the open, and now we know who they are. And yeah, like they always said, it isn’t just, or even primarily, southerners.
OMFG, Benioff is late to the ass-kissing party, and is trying to make up for it. Did you notice how he hedged, “If they can be cops, then they should be cops. We need more cops.”
They can’t be cops. Benioff knows that. He isn’t a fool. He’s just trying to sound like one.
Meanwhile, I wonder why SF hasn’t got the treatment yet. Maybe the idea is to jump from one state to the next, because they will be more prepared the next time?
Or maybe it’s because Portland was a much bigger deal during the BLM protests?
I’m a bit late with this as it was announced last month but … Melvyn Bragg has stepped down as host of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time after 26 years.
I came across this show in the late ’00s. The format was dead simple, three academics and Melvyn exploring a rage of tops from history to art, science, philosophy, and more. He would breezily pose questions that were impossibly broad with apologies, “… could you “briefly” describe the first 4 billion years of earths existence”.
He had a great knack for getting to the heart of any topic that was easy to understand but never “dumbed down”. Absolutely my favorite podcast. I’m going to miss him but the show will go on and the new host will have very big shoes to fill.