mr. bernie

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@thomasknox @danwilliamsphil That is completely illogical and stupid, actually

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@lwoodhouse Agreed but isn't it better to further encourage the pendulum of public opinion swinging, even if it means letting these losers take some credit here? I think once the overton window has shifted dramatically enough the conversation about factory farming becomes inevitable

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@KFCBarstool I don't like the guy much and the officiating against him was laughable but yall need to relax. He's 22 and it's kinda fun having drama & big personalities in sports

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@HAPocketSand @denimneverdies One thing (among many) that I love about my marriage is this - we'll hoot and holler over the dumbest reality TV shit imaginable then go watch limited release indie flicks in theaters that same day. It's cool sharing in that stuff together, a seismic gap sounds kinda annoying tbh

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@RyanGirdusky @grahamformaine Ryan what wars have you fought in besides pissy online twitter arguments

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@ContraPoints @adamlumly Calling him a "self-evidently terrible person" is proof that you just accepting allegations (the most damning of which come from a literal GOP operative) as facts which I think says more about you than anything else

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@JamesPetigru @mattyglesias Except Platner has no SA allegations? What are you talking about

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@ABC Advocacy groups get a bad name for being quirky, extreme, etc but these guys and all others forwarding animal welfare are undoubtedly heroes of our time. Huge, huge respect to all of these ppl

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I really like that animal well-being is an issue that many on the right and left agree on.

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@sarthakgh Silly & reductive to suggest that the awareness that comes from the digital/social media age is why ppl are economically miserable. Not only are essential assets & commodities really expensive, American life is also just hyperindividualistic, hypercynical, & hypercommoditized rn

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@SiobhanV74297 @BlueBob53 @wideofthepost why is there some believability crisis with Platner, a guy objectively far closer to these issues and was protesting against the Iraq War and for Palestinian rights when he was 18, but not every other buttoned up disingenuous Ivy league loser that currently runs our politics?

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@mtracey We also have enough data on Fetterman and Platner to know that there is a genuine throughline to Platner's politics that was NOT in Fetterman's campaign. Fetterman latched onto positions opportunistically to win in a way that Platner does not

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@mtracey I mean it really doesn't sound that chaotic? And frankly, if you follow your logic that chaos & personal issues are disqualifying then congratulations on having a political system run entirely by prepped-from-birth out-of-touch suit-and-tie-wearing Harvard grad McKinsey corpos

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@SarahLongwell25 Yes although I want to pump the brakes and make sure we aren't equivocating a troubled guy doing some selective fucked up, careless things that affect him and his own personal life to trying to overturn a major federal election amongst other heinous actions committed with power

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@Area224 This is an incredibly reductive comparison of both campaigns and the composition of the electorates (in 2018 vs now)

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Here's what the pork industry doesn't want you to know about the way it sneaked a provision into the 2026 farm bill that would nullify ballot measures that improve animal welfare, while helping Chinese companies torture American pigs. The issue is personal to me, because we once raised pigs on our family farm, and I saw that these are not commodities but animals rather like dogs: smart with very distinct personalities. A naughty boy who punishes a single animal may be punished, but an adult who presides over the systematic abuse of hundreds of thousands of pigs as a business model is hailed as a visionary CEO -- and voters get that, and that's why they have backed laws that improve animal wellbeing. This is, remarkably, an issue that unites many liberals and conservatives alike; @TomiLahren, @Cernovich and @IngrahamAngle are among those who have been outspoken on this issue. I hope R and D members of Congress alike will stand firm, for the stakes are immense, with four pigs slaughtered around the clock on average all year. Here's a gift link to my piece: https://t.co/NWQbJK6JTc I welcome your comments.

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@ZaidJilani This whole vegan thing should've been an absolute layup to just note he's not vegan but respects everyone's individual choices & their freedom to do so and then turn the conversation on Paxtons relatively awful corruption as a foil against the fake vegan allegation

[mr. bernie @col_janus]

@ZaidJilani Eh I sorta disagree, I'm getting nervous about Tallarico. This is steering into being actively disingenuous in responses like this. Red state voters *despise* inauthenticity and would prefer a freakish adulterer than someone inauthentic & he doesn't have room for error here