Time to Opine

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[Dave Thul @davethul]

Dems need to be reminded often that one of the few sane and sober voices in their party in 2024 was cast out of their party for telling the truth.

Had they listened to Phillips back then, we might not have Trump in the White House today.

[Time to Opine @TimetoOpine]

Would love to hear the @nytimes justification/excuses for their unprofessional, biased article. And also the Democrat leaders’ excuses for their predictable hypocrisy.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Exactly. This shouldn’t be so hard.

[Mark Penn @Mark_Penn]

Nazi Tatoo

It looks like the campaign of Graham Platner is over with Democrats throwing in the towel after another accusation of sexual assault.

If only having a Nazi tattoo had been enough — as it should have been.

Instead they stood behind him and welcomed his victory even as evidence of his complete lack of character mounted about his extreme views, antisemitic and misogynistic comments. And now they will scramble for a candidate to be chosen by party leaders.

If only a Nazi tattoo had been enough…

[Kristen Soltis Anderson @KSoltisAnderson]

Been thinking a lot this afternoon about this exchange from @kasie's @TheArenaCNN last month.

I try to stay pretty even-keeled on air, but was pretty aghast at the way the allegations against Graham Platner were being dismissed.

[Time to Opine @TimetoOpine]

Pretty pathetic that Democrats required this “green light” to do the right thing when there were flashing red lights everywhere for months.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

They have until July 13th (one week from today) to replace him on the ballot. This appears to green light that process.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Just putting this back out there for no particular reason: https://t.co/chfmWbqJPV

[Jan Unstad @unstadj]

Senator Klobuchar is a master at both sides. h/t @morningtake

[Time to Opine @TimetoOpine]

Such great perspective from @KenBurns

[POLITICO @politico]

The U.S. has been “way more divided” throughout history than it is now, argues documentarian @KenBurns.

“We can't be Chicken Littles sitting around fretting about the sky is falling all the time without ... doing something about it,” he told @DashaBurns on #TheConversation.

🔗https://t.co/1FwOEvhBUv

[Time to Opine @TimetoOpine]

Do better @nytimes

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

Not an accurate headline. The Court allowed states to ban biological males from women’s sports regardless of their gender identity. A biological girl would be welcome to play on a girls team even if she identified as a boy.

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

5 things re SCOTUS:

1. If you don’t like a decision, it’s very possible you’re right and they’re wrong. It’s also possible they’re right and you’re wrong. After all, Plessy was 7-1. Sometimes the Court and the political majority are wrong. Be less sure.

[Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @FiringLineShow]

Justice Neil Gorsuch has a message for young people who are losing faith in democracy.

“Where else would you rather be born and what other time in history would you have more opportunities?” says Gorsuch. “This country has never been wealthier or freer compared to other places in the world. You've been given a great gift.”

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I get what you mean here, but saying "the socialists" will have the "new ideas" is like saying "the Shakers have all the fresh thinking." Socialism is not new. The label is about 2 centuries old, give or take. The idea is thousands of years old. There's not a single major idea proposed by the DSA crowd that wasn't an old idea before I was born. From price controls and rent-freezes, to wealth taxes, or shunning Jews. It's all old, old hat. You can agree with it. Or admire it's newfound energy or something. But the ideas are old, tried, and failed.

https://t.co/t5hiVeryGW

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

This is also true of voter ID and a slew of other things. If they pursued some of their goals incrementally, they’d have better success.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

So is the Supreme Court still a rogue, far right Trump court that must be immediately expanded to include more Democrats? Not sure where we are on this today.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

For those keeping score: That's the same Supreme Court that, three weeks ago, Jeffries said was a “Trump Court” that was trying to “rig the midterm elections” and needed to be packed. Now it's stopping Trump from rigging the midterms. He's a cynical clown. https://t.co/Tc35kFY49n

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

455 people just got charged in a $6.5B healthcare fraud takedown.

Independent physicians need 14 passwords, 3 portals, prior auth, chart audits, recoupments, and divine intervention to get paid $87.

Fraudsters apparently just needed a billing company and confidence.
That’s the system.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

My feature on CBS news today.

[Jason N @thetruthhurtz8]

This will be overturned and bring into question the entire policy of rent stabalized building . No judge is going to say that expense and cost are allowed to go up 5% a year but the landlord is not allowed to raise the rent. Basically every utility, insurance company , state and federal are allowed to raise cost ever year but the single person not allowed to raise is the landlord ? It comes down to either you freeze all the landlords expenses and find a way to make it work or it will get voted down in the court 100%