Chris Cooper

American political consultant, English football obsessive; not necessarily in that order. #COYS

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Aha! So that’s why he talks like that!

[Nichole Remmert @nicholeaileen]

I once told this guy I was going to reach down his throat and rip his dick off through his mouth if he didn't stay the fuck away from the campaign I was running.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Should be memorialized in an SNL clip

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Moraff's combo of vocal fry and valley girl inflection is comically distracting. Feel there should be a national conversation about this?

[Yemisi Egbewole @yemisi]

Kenyan McDuffie is endorsed by Eric Holder, former Attorney General under Barack Obama.

DSA’s Janeese Lewis George is endorsed by Trayon White, who was expelled from the DC Council over federal bribery allegations.

The contrast tells you a lot.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

That’s a conservative assessment.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

If Ossoff holds his early advantage & wins re-election in such a pivotal state, with appearances this assured it seems highly likely he emerges as the biggest breakout star for Democrats in this election.

[Kurt @_kjs1874]

Quite nervous for the game tomorrow. By far the biggest game PSG have had since I started supporting them this morning

[FC Bayern @FCBayernEN]

Best striker in the world.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Interesting--all I've seen is him getting dunked on, including by the Mayor of NY, for saying that he could pay double in taxes and it wouldn't help a teacher in Queens. But he actually agrees with the Mayor! https://t.co/HGFaxQnc3H

[Kenyan McDuffie @kenyanmcduffie]

Accountability and opportunity must go hand in hand. Janeese Lewis George voted against giving DC a curfew tool to respond to youth gatherings that have, at times, erupted into violence. And when the Council had the opportunity to extend rec center hours, she shut it down, choosing politics over our youth.

As Mayor, I won’t tolerate this kind of disorder, and I’ll make sure our young people have safe, constructive places to go.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Dropping Things Off of Tall Buildings, 2026 style. Iconic.

[Tara Dublin aka Winona Spyder™️ @taradublinrocks]

This is GLORIOUS

David Letterman & Stephen Colbert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre bringing back the classic @Letterman routine one last time

This is how you go out, @StephenAtHome! 😂

And may @CBS implode literally the same way without you

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

2nd best last second winner in football history

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

ONE OF FOOTBALL’S MADDEST MOMENTS, 13 YEARS AGO TODAY 😱

Watford beat Leicester in the Championship playoffs after 90 seconds of pure chaos.

From Anthony Knockaert’s dive to Troy Deeney’s legendary winner, enjoy the purest definition of “Ball don’t lie.”

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

AND Louise Lucas, who boxed the Gov in on the referendum, under FBI investigation. A shit sandwich all the way round.

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

Spanberger is a GIANT loser here.

Didn't want to do this in the first place.

Felt compelled to do so because base wanted it -- in VA and nationally.

Now, it was all for nothing.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Same question applies to Brooke Pinto in DC. Best place to affect housing policy is DC Council.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

If she wants to make city or state policy, why is she running for congress?

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

There is absolutely something here for a clever '28 Dem pres candidate. Not life or death issues, but bricks in the wall for a ton of people. And a gov't could do something about all this, if it wanted to.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

I wouldn’t go to this game for anything less than $1,000 cash in my pocket.

[Ryan Glasspiegel @sportsrapport]

People who wait are gonna have some unbelievable bargains on World Cup tickets

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Typically brilliant stuff from @DKThomp

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: HOW THE 2020s BROKE OUR BRAINS

It's the Tragic Twenties, and Americans can't stop feeling like hot garbage.

- The UMich consumer sentiment survey is now at its lowest rate on record
- The Fed's job satisfaction survey is at its lowest rate on record
- Both the General Social Survey and the World Happiness Survey have found that happiness in the US plunged in 2020 and has since been mired at levels significantly below previous decades

You shouldn't assume that your favorite pet issue is the main culprit here. Conservatives might point to cultural changes, like the decline of marriage and religiosity, but those have been going on for decades. The left might reach for wage inequality, but that has actually narrowed in the last six years. This can't even primarily be about phones, since what's most clear in the data set is something that changed this decade, not last decade.

I spent a long time reading, talking to people, and doing my own research, and I think the most parsimonious explanation I can provide is this:

The Pandemic Never Ended.

This thesis has three parts.

TPNE 1: The biological antagonist of COVID gave way to the economic antagonist of inflation, and after decades of coming to rely on lowflation and meager wage growth for low-income workers, price levels have increased 3x faster this decade than in the previous 40 years, and economists simply have to accept that inflation makes people angrier than it used to. This isn't even a strictly American phenomenon. Around the world, incumbents have lost power faster than any post-WWII period, as affordability concerns bludgeon their electorate. The few countries where happiness levels have increased in the western world in the last 6 years have had some of the lowest levels of inflation.

TPNE 2: Institutions down, individualism up: The 2020s have seen trust plummet for practically every institution, along with growing distrust in strangers, and rising alone time and at-home time. At best, community offers a buffer in times of crisis. But today, the absence of community—and the triumph of a tech-enabled, hyper-introverted atomism—makes every crisis feel more existential and unsolvable. And that's a problem bc...

TPNE 3: The 2020s have been the permacrisis crisis decade. It's really been one fucking thing after another, hasn't it? Pandemic, inflation, interest rates, Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, AI. Meanwhile, phones give us constant contact with both the scary news cycle and the panic-inducing fears and anxieties of the commentariat.

Inflation makes today's life feel harder to live. The news cycle makes tomorrow's world scarier to live through. And the post-pandemic decline of institutions and acceleration of toxic individualism weakens our socio-emotional immune system to deal with all of it.

TLDR: The pandemic never ended, and it's left us with the Tragic Twenties.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

I was told he was a one season wonder

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Harry Kane now has 52 goals this season, helping Bayern Munich reach their first DFB Pokal final since 2020 🔥

He's scored 138 goals in 141 games for the club 👏

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Good thread--any option is better than the status quo.

[Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn]

I'm going to break my self-imposed social media ban to note something that I might write if I wasn't leaving on a trip tonight:
If you want to solve gerrymandering, it is a solvable problem.

[The Spurs Show @spursshow]

Here is this weeks Spurs Show opening monologue. Keen to know if you agree with anything I say?! #THFC #COYS

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

My kind of ASMR

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

An iconic swing by an iconic player.

Welcome to Tempo Town, through the years.

[Chris Cooper @ChrisCooperDC]

Insane. Welcome to Trump's America.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

NEW: MBTA confirm $80 return ticket Boston to Gillette Stadium during World Cup, after @TheAthleticFC first reported it would be over $75. Quadruple the usual price for NFL games. No concessions for kids, over-60s or passengers with accessibility needs
https://t.co/M9wKfNtjnU