Brian Siano

Currently demolishing The West Wing,

[Jim Cummings @jimmycthatsme]

Steven Soderbergh made an app that chronicles each shot in JAWS and it's unbelievable. Entire shooting days never made the final cut, and some scenes were assembled from footage that was shot months apart. Every filmmaker should spend a few hours with it.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

This week on _The West Wing_: women being stupid, Lyndon LaRouche, this show's grudge against political activism from non-lawyers, the shittiness of mainstream environmentalist groups, carbon-tax credits, and a limp non-story with a comedian.
https://t.co/k199RDvcUm

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

You just know that Carville and Dershowitz have had drafts of their "I didn't leave the Dems, the Dems left me because they became Woke Islamist Nazis" statements on their hard drives for _decades_.

[Hasanabi Productions (fan account) @HasanabiProd]

🚨BREAKING: James Carville is now expected to LEAVE the Democratic Party after Abdul El-Sayed won his Michigan Senate primary.

He promised to leave the party if Hasan's endorsed candidates continued to win their races.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

"There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings."
Charles Kinbote, foreword to _Pale Fire_.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

I'm very frustrated right now. Stevens is obvs the better general election candidate than El-Sayed. Her supporters were bullied into submission. Then I'm over here being like, "These polls. . .I dunno." And there is literally a mass harassment campaign to call me mentally insane.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@gmgeiko More on that treacly drama here:
https://t.co/eqG2HnEScz
It's worse than treacle.

[Jess Harvell @cheaptrickrules]

i know this is just a dumb twitter joke, but charles schulz's unit was at the liberation of dachau, cmon man

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@briebriejoy @GlennAndTonic Me too. My third grade teacher was rattled because I'd draw hearts for Valentine's Day. _Anatomically correct_ hearts. Thanks, World Book!

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Elite universities have also shattered their intellectual integrity. A Harvard prof told me a few months ago that no one at Harvard studies private equity out of fear.

Academia is increasingly not respectable.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@JebFain Or, they think Dems will stay home because centrist party consultants won't be motivating them with flyers, robocalls, or celebrity events.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@JebFain Strategists say this because they believe that Dem voters are actually obedient morons who will respond to the borderline racist anti-Left shit they'll be circulating during the general.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

Surprise! It works by making you ejaculate tumors!

[National Cancer Institute @theNCI]

Early research suggests that sildenafil, the erectile dysfunction drug commonly known as Viagra, may help stop cancer from spreading, not through its well-known effects on blood flow, but by disrupting how tumor cells manage cholesterol.

Read more: https://t.co/frmD2Gg2B1

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

It's as if consultants sell campaigns as a "turn key" system. Buy it, turn the key, it's up and running. They sell convenience more than anything else.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Just got back from Michigan.

Haley Stevens’ campaign does not exist IRL. She has an army of online bots making it seem like she’s sweeping the nation. Those people are not real. Her voters are not real.

AES has a genuine campaign driven by the people of Michigan. Once you see his rallies and canvass pre-launches, you will see that he’s going to kick Mike Rogers 🫏 this November.

Medicare for all, money out of politics. Let’s go Michigan!

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@BigMeanInternet "No, son. Say "Jesus _H._ Christ.""

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

I bet they staged this moment for the McCain echoes.

[Sam Robinson @samueljrob]

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens had her John McCain moment earlier today when a man told her, “we know you’re gonna kick that Muslim’s butt.”

“Look, that’s not what my campaign is about…” Stevens told @GrantSchwab.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@mcbyrne @AbdulElSayed Then tell Haley to knock off the scary-Arab shit.

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

@davidsirota Even winning in 92 ain't much. Do we listen to David Axelrod because he struck gold with Obama?

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The last national election James Carville ran was 1992.

Constantly putting him on TV today as Democrats' political guru of the 2020s is the equivalent in 1992 of putting Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign manager on TV as the anointed expert of Democratic politics in the 1990s.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and in this series we are exploring its long history. It was first referred to by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC when it was known as Ghazzati....

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

Not surprised. Party leaders love to think campaigns are a matter of pushing buttons and deploying messages to obedient NPCs. Preserves their self-image as clever and savvy.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Just got back from Michigan.

Haley Stevens’ campaign does not exist IRL. She has an army of online bots making it seem like she’s sweeping the nation. Those people are not real. Her voters are not real.

AES has a genuine campaign driven by the people of Michigan. Once you see his rallies and canvass pre-launches, you will see that he’s going to kick Mike Rogers 🫏 this November.

Medicare for all, money out of politics. Let’s go Michigan!

[Brian Siano @BrianSiano]

There is _always_ a risk of defeat. But el-Sayed is the best bet for victory, and his opponent would waste a victory on enacting bad policy.

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

Is there a single el-Sayed supporter with enough self-awareness to admit they're willing to accept a higher risk of defeat to elect a left-wing candidate?