Brett D. Wilson 🍂

Professor of ye 18th century letters. "I have been in such a Twitter my self before now" (S. Centlivre, 1707). Opinions mine + at no one's behest. He/him/his

[Brett D. Wilson 🍂 @ProfBrettWilson]

Not sure the ancient Greeks never came up with this but a nation ruled by assholes would be a "proctocracy"

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@TaritaC Remember when the lefty heroes du jour were Anthony Weiner and Alan Grayson? I wonder where this guy has been keeping his skeletons.

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@magi_jay I actually think it's the reverse, and that's why they don't condemn them. Not uniformed but something brave and patriotic as opposed to religiously inspired terrorists.

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@prem_thakker Yes, interlocking attention-grabbing stunts for clout-farming doofuses are definitely "interesting"

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@TaritaC Whoever Don Leonard is, he sure knows how to get attention from loudmouths and grifters

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@atrupar It reminded him of that famous Afghanistan movie, Apocalypse Now

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If this had been a Democrat people would be holding it against the entire party 20 years from now

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Hey, thanks for popping back up. Want to see the perfect representation of how completely disingenuous the 'left' response to the election is/ how hard the goalposts have shifted? Just take a look at this guy.

The argument pre-election was 'these people will over-perform because everyone loves their anti-establishment/anti-Israel shtick and they have moral clarity that Establishment Dems lack'. And then that didn't happen. In fact, all of these candidates unperformed the environment. The opposite happened.

So then, without any sort of reflection, they pivoted to 'lol you think it matters by how much someone wins? Who cares if they underperform? They faced a lot of money. A win is a win.'

Just zero shame.

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@selise @PeteIsRightWing @MajorityDems The way it saves people the most money is if they move onto the "M4A" program from the insurance they have now, and that prospect has agitated millions of people every previous round of policymaking. Which is why we are where we are.

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@PeteIsRightWing @MajorityDems True but that's why "this thing should exist for other people," "you will want this thing for yourself," and "you will be happy with the cost-reward proposition of this thing" are all different questions to make sure people realize are on the table

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@peterawolf

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Won't get a fraction of the coverage that Obama's Cheesecake Factory quip received. That friends, is among the worst indictments of the modern media environment I can think of. Bouncing poor people off food stamps? BORING! GIVE US MORE POLITICAL SLAP FIGHTS 🙃

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@PeteIsRightWing @MajorityDems I take the point but the thing is a lot of people *will have to have that explained to them* and in the face of a lot of noise being spewed the opposite direction. People got pissed at politicians about, like, DoorDash.

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@speechboy71 What about everyone who went wild for Francesca Hong

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@yhdistyminen Further evidence that for many people "gentrification" means "moving to my neighborhood slightly after me"

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@RonFilipkowski He thinks the country is his company and he's Signing Deals that he could use to give out year-end bonuses if his employees, us, kiss his butt enough

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@RonFilipkowski Sort of, but IMHO it was actually dumber than that. He was viewing his (also bogus) "foreign investment" number as one big pile of money that he already had access to, and he was promising to divide it up among the citizenry.

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@magi_jay @tify330 And clearly the person who has been "best" at that kind of role in recent years, maybe since the advent of cable news, is Mitch McConnell, who looks funny, sounds funny, and is in general a creepy presence. That should indicate how much it matters to be popular and/or inspiring.

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@magi_jay @tify330 Yeah I think you're right. But I'm thinking it's not a bad idea in spirit to have some sort of "outreach guy" who does media hits. Make that person separate from the leaders who deal mostly internally with the caucus.

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@JacobRubashkin And people would be saying that he should be thrown out for being part of tHe DeMoCrAtIc EsTaBlIsHmEnT