A Practical Man of Convenience

EMS-medic/rescue tech Town Councilor Progressive for the People

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

She’s talking about things like the cost of living, building housing, the child tax credit, the right to choose.

He’s talking about political violence—approvingly.

Only one candidate is fit to be President. Let’s make sure she wins.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Live from New York, it's Saturday night.

[A Practical Man of Convenience @TylerGGeorge]

This is incredibly disheartening and the only way to stop it is for Kamala to win by an incontestable margin. https://t.co/p2jUKboWm7

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

🚨As a new KFILE story on Kamala Harris' campaign ads gains traction, it's critical to remember what she's up against.

Elon Musk is running a MASSIVE, unprecedented disinformation campaign with shady tactics meant to mislead Americans.

Paid media is necessary to counter it.

[David Shuster @DavidShuster]

In PA, women are outvoting men by 13 points. (Usually it's 10%). Among seniors, PA has equal number of republicans and democrats. But 58% of senior vote cast so far is democrats, only 35% GOP. Dem enthusiasm is way ahead, as is voting enthusiasm of women. Harris will win PA.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

"Liz Cheney is a warmonger" is code for "I will betray Ukraine and Taiwan."

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

"What we’ve seen in a host of other countries is that where you get an oligarchy in control, you also have a more autocratic leadership. You start to see the chipping away of the rule of law." https://t.co/AfE4wK8HVz

[RiotWomenn @riotwomennn]

There are so many reasons Trump left office in disgrace w a 29% approval rating, his Cabinet quitting & threatening removal under the 25th Amend

These were the headlines about the Trump tariffs.

Suicides and bankruptcies

It's unfathomable that people would rehire Trump

[Renee Libby @ReneeLibby95084]

I never believed Trump was an evangelical until I found out he groped a teenager.

[Morning Joe @Morning_Joe]

"Trump's plan would cut the GDP by 8.9 percent. Let me put that in perspective for you: This is roughly twice the amount the GDP went down during the financial crisis. So we would be looking at something between a recession and a depression." @SteveRattner https://t.co/8yi1fQtAdE

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A central difference between me and the many people who will reply angrily to this thread is that I don't think suits are automatically "good" and casualwear is automatically "bad." A good casualwear outfit is better than a bad suit (and this happens often). I don't hold disdain for everyday people, so I don't use suits as a political cudgel.

Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump—two figures featured in that original thread—both dress badly to me. It matters none that one is a suit.

I mainly take umbrage with the idea that Trump's style can be in any way described as "aristocratic" or "noblesse oblige." These words refer to specific classes of people who had specific dress habits. Trump's attire has nothing to do with that practice.

You can say he never dresses down, which is true, but you can then just make that point without acting as though there's anything aristocratic about his dress. He's simply a businessman entertainer. Suit salesmen also never dress down, and if their dress habits were similar to Trump's, their style would also have no relationship to "aristocratic style."

"Twitter trads" often want to be patted on the back for simply liking suits (I doubt many of them wear them with much regularity), despite not appreciating the fine details or nuances of various styles. Yet, they also complain about the slipping of standards in schools—people are graded on a slipping curve, they say.

But is this not also just a slipping of standards? You want to label anything with revers and three pockets as "aristocratic?" Put on any old suit and suddenly you're King Charles. Give me a break.

Just make your point: Trump doesn't dress down (this is true). And you hate the modern world. You fancy yourself as being above other people, despite the fact that, the very signaling of this thing, shows you are irreparablely middle-class.

To state the obvious, you can like suits, tailoring, and Old Money style without LARPing in this way (I know many menswear enthusiasts who love Old Money style and are very forthright about their class status and hold no grudge against everyday citizens). If you must LARP, at least know what you're talking about.

[A Practical Man of Convenience @TylerGGeorge]

@VanLathan @minnesotalynx @annemarie_wiley Love the pod, that interview was tough tho. Among other things, the borders are not just completely left open by the democrats! Roving gangs of illegals? Please.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Reporter: A brand new analysis finds that Social Security would run out in six years if Trump's agenda is enacted

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Why Musk will sacrifice democracy and maybe even jail, in one convenient chart @nytimes

[A Practical Man of Convenience @TylerGGeorge]

@samstein Prolly don’t want the fraternities to vote if you’re a Dem supporter.

[A Practical Man of Convenience @TylerGGeorge]

@VPrasadMDMPH Always the victims.

[A Practical Man of Convenience @TylerGGeorge]

Not serious people.

[Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch]

Just imagine how delusional Alina Habba must be to say this with a straight face: "We've forgotten how to be polite. We've forgotten how to be respectful of different opinions and I know that President Trump will get us back there. He really will."

[A Practical Man of Convenience @TylerGGeorge]

@emmab929 @MaddowBlog @kattenbarge @BenjaminGoggin The only Immigrant who’s actually a threat to democracy.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

We just posted this on Truth Social

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

In Arizona, older people recently received a mailer declaring Kamala Harris canceled Medicare. (Not true, obvs.)

The doc was courtesy of a Trump Super-PAC, whose goal is to portray Harris as “the most radical liberal ever to run for President.” https://t.co/M8eEqSJYZJ