Eric Mack

Music guy. Movie guy. TV guy. Sports guy. Sometimes, I'm just a guy.

[Eric Mack @EricMackAttacks]

As much as I agree with this tweet I’m sad at how little of it is worth celebrating. Even the stuff that is positive (e.g., Ukraine) comes after 4+ years of a war that never should have happened. The 2020s decade has been the most miserable one since the 1930s.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Iran won and Trump surrendered.
Moscow is burning and Ukraine will win.
Treasonous Tulsi is out.
Trumps name is off the Kennedy Center.
The Reflecting Pool is green.
Donald Trump is riddled with dementia and is rotting before our eyes.
MAGA is in a civil war.

Happy Friday!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

What the actual F are you talking about dude

[Eric Mack @EricMackAttacks]

@realsashastone They also should have never gone to more than 5 BP noms. Every year is always about 2-3 movies potentially winning, so why are the other 7-8 movies there (especially when some don't have many noms)? It was more interesting when it was harder to get a BP nom.

[Eric Mack @EricMackAttacks]

@realsashastone The Oscars are a relic of the linear media era. Once consumers get used to watching movies on demand it gets a lot harder to care about the "best of the year" stuff since the context of when you watch movies becomes lost.

[Eric Mack @EricMackAttacks]

@realsashastone Yeah I can see what you’re saying about the kid playing dress-up thing. A lot of what he does is sort of too self-consciously formal, you know? I remember Ebert saying “Citizen Kane this is not” or something in his review of TWBB and laughing out loud.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

As many as 400,000 people were killed. Thirteen million displaced—the world's largest displacement crisis...Inside Sudan's hidden genocide: Eyewitness accounts from the world's worst humanitarian crisis...https://t.co/tL3fIYINGg

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela?

60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable.

Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

What a relief that those warmongering neocons are finally out of Washington

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Really disappointing to see this from the recipient of the prestigious FIFA Peace Prize

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Maduro is a tyrant, who ruled Venezuela illegitimately. Yet there are a raft of questions about the legitimacy of the U.S. operation to oust and arrest him, and what comes next.
We've learned this before.
You invade it. You own it.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Several contradictory things are simultaneously true:
1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region.
2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate.
3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled).
4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them.
5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This:

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

This is a great point by the VP. Let’s arrest every president who has been indicted multiple times in the US. The next possible target is speaking at 11 so we know his location.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

"From now on, what you see and hear on the news will reflect what you see and hear in your own life."

In other words, just tell us what you want us to say, and we'll say it back to you, instead of trying to inform you.

[Eric Mack @EricMackAttacks]

I much prefer this Vivek to the obnoxious demagogue that was on the debate stage a couple years ago. Gotta admit this is a realistic diagnosis of the GOP problem, even if he conveniently leaves out that the solution will never happen given that Trump is Trump and MAGA is MAGA.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

Lessons from tonight, no sugar coating.

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

Excellent point.