Teaches (law and society, political theory at SLAC in New England) and bakes. Occasionally writes on all things related to conservative movement.
What was Minnesota wearing?
Aaron RuparQ: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.
This is a really great history and current summary of why the right is after Fauci:
Pope Francis Invited Anthony Fauci to the Vatican. MAGA Wants to Throw Him in Jail.Fauci opened the Vatican’s 2021 “Unite to Prevent and Unite to Cure” summit, and Francis delivered its closing address. A contempt vote lands next week — and seventeen state attorneys general are hunt...www.thelettersfromleo.comThis is the prison boom argument recycled. Missing: “it’s going to raise the tax base to fund schools and public infrastructure.”
Aaron RuparHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
The problem with trying to explain how much porn, violent misogyny, has permeated GOP is you sound like a crazy person. There is a GOP House candidate who calls children “c*m trophies.” Royce White campaigned by calling women “c*nts” and got 40% of vote.
Brian BeutlerWrote about this. www.offmessage.net/p/andrew-tat...
This thread reminds me of this book and the politics of classes that want bonded labor.
Sarah TaberA very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
Watching MAGA speed run through every mass atrocity with themselves as victims is quite something. They've owed "reparations." They've been "gassed." They're experiencing "white genocide."
Aaron RuparRon Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
I'm glad we're talking more about how the parties are sorting on sexual violence. Let's get those Dem numbers down even more!
Poll: Trump’s MAGA voters would stick by a candidate through the most serious of scandalsMost of President Donald Trump’s MAGA base say they’d still vote for a GOP candidate when confronted with an array of scandals — more so than Republican voters writ large or Democrats.www.politico.comWould losing Mississippi cause GOP to course correct or go full fasc (purge factions that aren't fasc)? I hope we find out!
Sahil KapurScoop: Schumer stopped by a fundraiser last night in DC for SCOTT COLOM, Dem Senate candidate in deep-red Mississippi, per two sources. Colom is facing GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. (Fun fact: Colom was nominated by Biden for a federal judgeship and blocked by… Cindy Hyde-Smith.)
