Michael Connolly

Founder and Principal, Inkling Communications.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@Heminator @EWErickson Its influence on speechwriting is especially bad and bipartisan. So much of the mic-drop, aura-farming empty rhetoric we see today traces back to Sorkin monologues.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@TPCarney C Varitek 1b Hosmer 2b M Barrett 3b Tim Wallach SS Spike Owen OF Van Slyke, Trot Nixon, Ankiel, SPs Tanana, Boddiker, J Tudor, J Zim, Wakefield. RP Hrabowsky.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@TPCarney Butler is a correct choice.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

“What is the mysterious psychological/spiritual/intellectual reason why nerdy traditionalist young men are joining this church full of young single women who like nerdy traditionalist men?”

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

Aaron Sorkin unwittingly ruined an entire generation of Democrats.

[Blake Neff @BlakeSNeff]

Pete Buttigieg has a Kamala problem, where he says things to sound profound that are actually just stupid.

In this bit, he explains that the future of the Democratic Party is people who not only are from places, they know they are from those places.

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[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

It’s ok to be disappointed the Pope isn’t coming to USA this year. But it’s 100% not a snub. Given the climate, it’s a tremendous blessing to American Catholics, especially the devout, to be spared the political fiasco the media would turn a 2026 visit into.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@Brad49649135 @conncarroll Lol.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@Brad49649135 @conncarroll Nope. The gals are there, as amazing as ever. Guys are not stepping up. Lots of excuses, but only one reason. They’re afraid.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@Brad49649135 @conncarroll Cynicism sounds cool, like they’re jaded noir private detectives. The $$ excuse lets them blame boomers for dream hoarding or whatever. Cap. They’re just afraid. Cowardice is too strong a word, since in this culture most young men don’t know better enough. It’s just fear.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@Brad49649135 @conncarroll No, it’s fear. Young women don’t date because young men don’t ask. Guys don’t ask because they are afraid of their shadows.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@Brad49649135 @conncarroll Fear.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@conncarroll I am certain that’s what they said. But that is absolutely not the real reason.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

What he said…

[Eric Teetsel @EricTeetsel]

Ignore the hyperventilating from establishment Republicans over @rachelbovard’s proposal to rely on a long-neglected Senate procedure to pass the Save America Act. Everything you need to know here: https://t.co/vEEjp2n5En

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

This is so wrong it has to be sincere misunderstanding, not spin. It’s like someone calling Schindlers List one of Christopher Nolan’s best romantic comedies.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

Is it possible the entertainment-ization of politics has exploded in recent years just because Boomers retired and suddenly there was this huge audience of bored, politically engaged couch potatoes?

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

Whatever is going on with the WaPo sports page, I’m sure it’s nothing that another 1,000-word profile of a replacement-level woke athlete trashing America won’t fix.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@davidharsanyi @crazywalt77 @JonahDispatch “Ending zombie filibuster” means forcing Dems to conduct *real* one: call up bill, don’t file cloture, force minority to talk 24/7, if necessary enforcing 2-speech rule to physically and procedurally exhaust opposition. It’s the opposite nuclear option.

[Michael Connolly @ConnollyDC]

@KevinMaddenDC Kids today cannot comprehend. “Good team” meant future NBA all star was your second best player. Even Navy had a Hall of Famer!