Jonathan Rick

Enlightened discourse proscribes arguments that are weak or imaginary, like straw, set up only to be confuted summarily.

[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

“We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.”

—J.D. Vance

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Texas has become the country’s foremost laboratory for Christian Nationalist policy.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

"A level of skill and shamelessness few in his party have pulled off."

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

When word leaked that Sam Altman was looking for trillions of dollars, he was mocked for seeking investments equivalent to roughly a quarter of the annual economic output of the United States.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

A party that supposedly venerates law and order is re-upping with an actual felon.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

A party that cherishes freedom is willing to a candidate who says he would be a dictator on his first day in office.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

The party that allegedly revers the Constitution is going all in for someone who has called for termination.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Trump is a maniac. If he feels wronged at all, he goes for the jugular.

For example, he thinks the debate moderators were not nice to him, so he wants the government to penalize their employer:

“They ought to take away their license,” he said.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

“In the panoply of U.N. agencies, there is nothing else like it. No other agency is dedicated to such a specific group of people.”

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

For any think tank chief, the idea of publishing a paper that three-quarters of likely voters have heard of would seem like a dream come true, not a P.R. disaster.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

In politics, blood is thicker than water.🩸💧

🙅Trump.

🙅R.F.K.

🙏Tim Walz.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

“There is no better proof that we still can’t quite define what we require of women in public life than that we demand that their faces be either vibrant and expressive or cold and dead.”

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

The Trump-Kennedy alignment, one of the strangest in modern political history, brought together two men of extraordinary ego and unpredictability.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Kamala could have chosen the Arizona senator Mark Kelly as her running mate — an astronaut.

Instead she chose the high-school football coach.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

The self-mythology that Joe Biden had long engaged in — an attempt for the Bidens to have standing and meaning like that of other American dynastic political clans — would blind him to his brother and son’s own attempts to trade on that name.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

New York’s self-described “not traditional” mayor has a tendency to portray just about any challenge as existential.

“There is a demonic energy that has engulfed our planet,” he said during a Christian “day of prayer” earlier this year.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Hitler was a hateful demagogue who happened to arrive at the right place and the right time to seize power.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Deliberate and disciplined, cautious and at times risk averse, Kamala saw trapdoors around her and wanted to avoid them.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Meet the most-outspoken pro-Israel Democrat in the Senate.

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[Jonathan Rick @NoStrawMen]

Hollywood is like an A.T.M, for Democratic politicians, who air-drop in to schmooze at celebrity-packed fundraisers and court wealthy entertainment moguls.

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