Lance Agan

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[Lance Agan @aganlance]

Maybe Spring/Summer 2020 will be the one where I don’t buy into all the @TexasFootball offseason hype. Probably not, but maybe.

[Lance Agan @aganlance]

The tl is on one rn, ngl

[Kevin Clark @bykevinclark]

Oh just one more thing, Belgium.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Sweet dreams tonight everyone

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The idea that you could abandon the settled constitutional doctrine of birthright citizenship with an *executive order* is particularly absurd, this was barely even a proper case at all.

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

Yo I’m DYING 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New pod: THE TRUMP 2026 CORRUPTION DRAFT

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. That’s not just my personal opinion, or the NYT’s conclusion, although it is both. Several conservative commentators, including Ann Coulter, have said the same. Between the multi-hundred-million-dollar crypto rug pulls, the pardons offered to convicted crooks who give Trump money, the bribes accepted from foreign governments, the billions of dollars of Pentagon contracts awarded to firms that are openly paying the president’s family, the market manipulation on social media, and the wholesale firing of inspectors general to look into this whole mishegas, it’s hard to keep track of the entire corruption picture.

So, today, I thought we’d do something a little Ringery and Bill Simmonsy to guide people through, and fully explain, the worst corruption scandals of the administration.

I brought on Tangle founder @Ike_Saul—an eminently fair journalist who has written tens of thousands of words covering Trump’s corruption scandals—to have a Trump Corruption Scandal Draft. You know how it works. He picks the worst scandal. I pick the worst remaining scandal. And back and forth we go, working out way down the Big Board of Trump scandals, to share and explain what the administration is getting away with and what matters most.

It was incredibly fun and incredibly depressing. Other presidents have a Teapot Dome scandal, a Crédit Mobilier scandal, shameful pardons, family members cashing in on influence, and patronage machines. Trump and his family seem to have taken each corruption scandal in American history as inspiration to do something 10x bigger in each case.

https://t.co/ve8MdiEJ1O

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

I can’t ever tell if these people are comically evil or comically dumb

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Axios should just make this a pinned tweet.

[Lance Agan @aganlance]

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[Lance Agan @aganlance]

@VanLathan Mr Brightside called, said he wants his crown back.

[Lance Agan @aganlance]

@CryptoMikli Red alert, red alert...Paging @DKThomp this is an emergency!

[Lance Agan @aganlance]

JGDFC

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Lifetime immunity for doing tax fraud for anyone with the last name of Trump!

Levels on levels on levels of corruption. Pre-emptive corruption!

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Yesterday, in a NYT piece titled "I'm a Democrat. My Party Has a Double Standard on Antisemitism," @RepJoshG cited as evidence Democrats who "increasingly excuse, or join, feverish denunciations of Israel, our longstanding, democratic and strategic ally."

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

THE BOYS LITERALLY DID THE SAME BIT FOR HOMELANDER THIS WEEK

You can’t make this shit up

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Shambolic stuff from Schumer/DSCC. They chase a mainstream businessman/outsider out of the race, pressure people to rally behind Lobster Biden, go neg on the populist guy that is obviously gonna win, and their candidate doesn’t even make the finish line. Woof.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Every so often (I mean frequently) I see a voter articulate their rationale in such a way that makes me want to smash a whole whiskey bottle across my head.

[Justin Wells @justinwells2424]

This is still my favorite Caleb Downs play.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I know it's a bit downmarket these days to point out Trump's crookedness and hypocrisy but MAGA simply cannot stop speedrunning the plot of Animal Farm, becoming everything they claimed to despise about the previous regime, except more so.

Like, for four years, a central attack on Joe Biden was that Hunter was trading on the family name. They even launched a congressional investigation, iirc.

Now they either say nothing or enthusiastically cheer on the president's kids as they run a cryptocurrency exchange, a bitcoin mining operation, a luxury real estate brand, and a social media company, all of which are getting money from foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds.

Here Eric Trump is appearing on TV as an adviser to a company that just won a $24 million Pentagon contract! And Fox Business is like: "way to go, Eric, we're proud of you, you really knocked this one out of the park."

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I assume every Republican who’s bitching and moaning about Virginia tonight fully supports legislation to eliminate all gerrymandering nationwide, right?

Look forward to the next president signing that into law!