Jim Leff

Former musician, former writer, former entrepreneur, former corporate sellout, presently exhausted.
Founder, Chowhound

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

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[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@BruceMc93768441 @DailyMail @SecRubio Being a dick is not the hypermasculine signifier you imagine it to be.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

This could be the worst thing, and that’s saying a lot.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

There are many reasons that you don't do this.

Specifically, one reason for such compartmentalization is to make sure that a spy inside the USG never gets a full list of such things.

Why would the administration need such a list?

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

Well, that's reassuring, I guess. A very slim majority of the Supreme Court finds the Constitution constitutional.

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Fourteenth Amendment protects birthright citizenship, blocking Donald Trump's executive order to end it.

Roberts has the opinion for the court, which is 5-4 on the constitutional question and 6-3 on whether federal law protects birthright citizenship.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@anders_aslund A democracy where it's easy to remove a president the majority dislikes couldn't last long.

People had lost the basic ability to flip scenarios the other way, and it's worrisome. We've become a race of one-way togglers.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

This guy’s so good. There’s something about telling the truth clearly and sincerely.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: I never want to hear these two pretend they give a damn about working people again.
Because while hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their health care, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom. They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever did lowering your grocery bill.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@AlexStoneGaston @anders_aslund Thinking is hard, catch phrases and tribal momentum is easy.

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@LexusvNexus @DavidShuster Nice adjective cluster there

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@Csmcnctn @DavidShuster Ah, the nukes again.

Yes, when defeat is imminent, a retributive fiery incineration of everything and everyone Putin loves is the logical course.

Sorry, dude, he’s a KGB shithead, not a madman, and it’s way too late for him to make us wonder.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

@ruthbenghiat We will drop pallets of cash on them until they capitulate

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Lmz420Andy800 @anders_aslund You could have googled in the same time it took you to post a snarky mess. 62%, vs 2% for Russia. Rest undecided.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Dark____Water @anders_aslund FFS. You're worse than the MAGAs. Bye now.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Dark____Water @anders_aslund How beautiful that you feel a sense of superior ”we” as you mindlessly and petulantly hector someone sharing your view. I cower at your intellectual and moral fabulousness while you snottily and imperiously snark me on Twitter. Kudos.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Dark____Water @anders_aslund It sounds like you've spent about 5 seconds studying and processing the facts. I can't correct you in 280 chars except to note that the real world is not an easy cartoon, and snark is the ultimate laziness.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Dark____Water @anders_aslund You make a valid point. But this isn't 1951. There are other means of expressing dissent.

That said, the Hungarians and the Iranians certainly managed to take to the streets, and under great peril.

But don't mistake our shameful laziness for approval.

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@Dark____Water @anders_aslund That’s not the only metric. Trump would not resign if every American screamed every waking moment. His absolute lack of shame is his superpower. He didn’t even want to leave when voted out. Its hard with someone with a loose hold on reality. We‘re not equipped for his psychoapthy

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@PozdnoLow @anders_aslund Stupid people are everywhere.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Jakobd9282 @Jacques09913817 @anders_aslund Oh, I am. Quite well. You see me here, talking sincerely to people on social media while you snarl and scrape like some malicious bitter animal.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Jacques09913817 @x__patricio__x @anders_aslund They didn’t vote because it seemed unlikely he’d win. Even he didn’t expect it.

And I agree with your thesis. Democracy doesn’t mean my favorite guy wins. Both left and right have lost touch with this, even as they claim to be super democratic and patriotic.

[Jim Leff @jimleff]

@Jacques09913817 @anders_aslund The same way as Hitler or Mussolini: by a highly motivated minority of gullible people, while the majority was too complacent, figuring the psycho couldn't possibly win.

Now even that minority is starting to turn away from him. America overwhelmingly supports Ukraine.