"If you're planning a $500 million project, you should probably figure out a way to make sure you can get the damn thing out of there."
@JayarJackson and @franifio react to a historic bridge in The Netherlands being dismantled for @JeffBezos' megayacht.
“Politicians focus on demonizing those who aren’t saying the exact right thing. Then we get distracted by the things that we dislike about our peers, instead of focusing on the things we need to fight for together.”
- @AnaKasparian & @_MichaelBrooks on Exiting The Vampire Castle
@AnaKasparian: “People say: Morales isn't so innocent. But my take is that we see in the US all the time. Stacking the court is normalized here.”
@_MichaelBrooks: “There is a childish tendency from some on the left where they discount those who weren’t absolutely perfect”
“You & I more or less agree that legally you don’t infringe on what people say.
But I know of almost no one who is a PURE free speech warrior & the 1st people to throw it out the window are those who talk about it most.”
- @_MichaelBrooks & @AnaKasparian dunking on Charlie Kirk
“Online punditry is infuriating because it's often a narrow analysis of a couple things they don't like about the leader, but what’s the 2nd part? What happens AFTER someone has been thrown out as part of a military coup?”
- @AnaKasparian & @_MichaelBrooks on the Morales coup
WATCH: @mehdirhasan on @BernieSanders and foreign policy, "Bolivia. He's the only presidential candidate to come out and call it a coup, to come out and even comment on it. Most of the candidates haven't even said anything, let alone whether it's a coup or not."
.@AnaKasparian on Warren, "If you're dealing w/ a candidate who wants to make some changes within a system that's corrupted so many left wing politicians, if she's willing to already preemptively cave on M4A then you don't have a candidate who's going to start w/ the real fight."
"Do you know who you'll be running against next year? It's going to be Donald Trump, who's not going to be holding back. So the idea that everyone has to be nice to each other on the debate stage, I think is absurd."
- @mehdirhasan
"I don't think anyone can seriously say with a straight face that Elizabeth Warren is to the left of Bernie Sanders... I think the debate really is, is the difference between them small enough to justify saying 'one or the other?'"
- @mehdirhasan
"Real estate money should be as toxic as fossil fuel or pharmaceutical money on the left because you're impacting local communities. It's an entire system that feeds itself & throws a lot of money toward the political system at a city, state, & federal level."
- @PeteHarrisonNYC
"...Rent control is the first lesson of supply & demand: how bad putting artificial caps on pricing is & it takes away the incentive to build new housing. This stuff has been ingrained in us, almost more of a religion than a science."
- @PeteHarrisonNYC
"There are so many people who have lost everything because of medical bills, so many kids who grew up in broken homes, and they just need someone to tell them, 'Hey, I believe in you, here's your chance.'"
- @AnaKasparian
"To say that somebody that doesn't have a job or maybe is disabled, has other addictions, that they shouldn't have a home, or we shouldn't provide them a home: a) that's cruel b) it's also kind of waste of other resources."
- @PeteHarrisonNYC on Homes Guarantee
"We have a financial system, a built environment, even a social pressure to drive people into home ownership, which given the scale of the housing crisis and the affordability crisis and the climate crisis, is obviously a bad idea."
- @PeteHarrisonNYC
"The housing crisis is not really just about housing. It's a crisis about capitalism in of itself. In fact, there's a lot of money to be made kicking people out of their homes, that will never change under a capitalist system."
- @PeteHarrisonNYC
"We see the homeless population really exploding over the last decade in LA. There are tent encampments all over the place. It used to be isolated to the Skid Row area but now it's everywhere. A lot of people are one paycheck away from ending up on the streets."
- @AnaKasparian
.@MattBruenig on Warren & Bernie, "She's kind of throwing punches at you, even if she may be diplomatic about it, what they're telling press is, 'Our plan doesn't raise middle class taxes, Bernie's does. I know what I'm doing, Bernie doesn't.' That is what the messaging is!"
.@MattBruenig on Warren's head tax, "It doesn't come out of your paycheck, it is paid before the money has a chance to get into your paycheck. The idea is that maybe you won't notice, but it's still something you pay even if in the way it's implemented, it falls on the employer."