Andrew Markham

thwarted philosopher king

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@janecoaston What these chimps did in this instance--and countless others-- transcends questions of belief or sincerity. It's like asking someone in a street fight whether they believe the tire iron or the broken bottle will do the trick--it's just what's at hand within their limited vision.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Russia has been trying and failing to conquer Donbas since 2014.Almost 5 years after the "3 day" invasion of Kyiv, 1.5 million Russian soldiers are dead and wounded, and the frontline is frozen. Yet trolls still think that if they write "Putin is winning" that will make it true.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@TheTNHoller @Lis_Smith @MajorityDems If you're insisting a thing that you can't prove, and whose outcome is undetermined, is hubristic, rather than merely something you think ill-advised, or a bad political read, you might be a bad-faith, full of shit centrist apparatchik.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@LoinDuTribu The term is deployed now with such cynical promiscuity, it's really more of a DARVO obfuscation.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@keithedwards She stuck a wet finger to the wind yesterday and tacked Van Hollen's way--this is the problem with the moderate crowd, they default to 'ya can't fight City Hall', to such a smugly pathological degree, so the human prerogative of changing one's mind looks like cheap opportunism.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@gillibrandny https://t.co/UUZUvGWDIo

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@samhaselby https://t.co/UUZUvGWDIo

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@_bezpilotnik She's Stephen Fry in drag--cultivating that persona of the tough-minded, 'get over it' Authenticity Warrior, when her arguments are every bit as self-flattering and reductio ad absurdum as the movement excesses she fulminates against.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@edzitron If there's anybody I trust to assess this matter with probity and dispassion, it's David Fucking Sacks.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@NathanJRobinson I love when pundits imagine that their rhetoric generates some kind of Wizard Robe, clothing them in Unassailable Premonition, when it's just some dude in a fucking necktie with a confirmation bias a mile wide.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

Chris Van Hollen is a close colleague and dear friend. He has my full support to be the next Senate Majority Leader.

Minnesota made it clear, they’re tired of the status quo and ready for real change, and that starts with new leadership.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@brhodes Not just authenticity, but energy--some indication that you're fucking PRESENT, that you're in the political moment. That's what Schumer and Jeffries both so calamitously lack.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@amazingatheist Speaking as a White Dude, whatever the prevailing general mood towards us is, I'd say we're getting off light.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@edzitron "another data point". Lex Fridman is self parody in real time.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@ReporterOriana It's appropriate that King would use the same lame analogy that Gallego used the other day because these old guard types are incapable of an original thought.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people & fueled by political corruption.

To deliver, we need new leadership. This isn't about any one person – it’s about answering that call.

That's why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@jameskann @AaronRegunberg Ah--in the quote I saw a couple months later in an interview with MPB he had changed it to just say he believed in 'fairness in girls sports.' He's pretty sophisticated, I doubt the language change was accidental.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@jameskann @AaronRegunberg His response is far more carefully calibrated--note he just says ' fairness', without the sleazy 'biological male' trope, and he says 'surgery', rather than 'care', because he knows the latter is the far more salient right.

[Andrew Markham @andycatmary]

@mrtelevoid @MattLech Busting out hoary cliches about "5th columns", and assuming messaging and legislative failure isn't healthy skepticism, it's reflexive and defeatist. Arguing for a happier warrior stance isn't sleepy, although I'll grant you there's precedent for thinking it's naïve.

[Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein]

Jon Chait: if I were he, I could hardly look in the mirror every morning, let alone summon the will to b open a laptop and type.

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