John Self

Evaluating settlers, colonialists, and even oppressors on a case-by-case basis

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

To those who paid attention, the “ceasefire now” crowd was never about a ceasefire. It was about ending Israel’s right to self defense, cutting off weapons to them and allowing Hamas to wipe Israel off the map. It’s even clearer now with their silence as a real ceasefire begins.

[John Self @john_self1]

They really should regulate that flaring

[John Self @john_self1]

@nobodyknows2322 McClellan probably took a few birthdays off, but maybe not specifically because it was his birthday

[John Self @john_self1]

@BNightengale Mookie is an amazing player. I wish the Sox kept him. But:

BOS years (excluding 2014 -partial year): 8.0 WAR/year
LAD years (excluding 2020-COVID): 5.8 WAR/year

[Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969]

Wow.
(Powerful reminder that vandalism is not speech.)

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

Nearly one-third of Democrats support Hamas, per the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll. The party is being taken over by violent extremists. https://t.co/s0ZoCIwvam

[John Self @john_self1]

@notgaetti Remind me -- what's Mel Hall up to these days?

[John Self @john_self1]

@ArtemisConsort That, and the flexibility of the word "bother" is doing a lot of work here....

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

When you hear Democrats say our healthcare system is broken. It’s worth remembering all the Democrats who insisted Obamacare would fix our broken healthcare system.

When you hear Republicans say our healthcare system is broken (because of Obamacare), worth remembering that they vowed to repeal and replace it a zillion times and that Trump insisted he’d have a much better plan in “two weeks” nine years ago.

[John Self @john_self1]

@maxwelltani

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

Dems sold this as a temporary subsidy to get people through the COVID economy. It didn't exist five years ago, but now the entire health care system will collapse without it. Every new subsidy is a baseline. Until the next time. This was the entire point of Obamacare.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

If Israel's war *in response to being invaded* is "genocidal," most of the wars fought in the past century would meet that standard on the part of most of the combatants, even those resisting the conquest of their country & the enslavement or extinction of their people.

[John Self @john_self1]

@nobodyknows2322 Or you can neuter the county governments to the point where they serve no purpose beyond being a line on a map, which is what Connecticut did.

[John Self @john_self1]

@PeterDClack I generally prefer nat gas as the best and most reliable, but it too receives some subsidies. I'd love to see an objective apples-to-apples accounting of how much each energy form receives in subsidies, because all of them receive some.

[John Self @john_self1]

@PeterDClack I'm not sure what math you want us to do, but I don't see anything wrong with what you stated. Solar was subsidized and now its costs have come down and are competitive. Wind was subsidized and costs have not come down, and it is going away. Both are fine as a part of the mix.

[Ari Lamm @AriLamm]

Today of all days is a perfect one to listen to an absolute banger of an @EliLake podcast for @TheFP. This one’s got everything:

George Wallace; the first Black woman elected to Congress; the Lubavitcher Rebbe; repentance; political assassinations…

Unstoppably awesome!

[John Self @john_self1]

@IanMBrowne I was slightly alarmed at that statement at first. But considering that he refused to talk about contract status and was staunchly focused on the loss, I don't think we should read anything into it - unless you want to say it was an unconscious admission.

[John Self @john_self1]

@FDSportsbook @JeffPassan Echoes of the Pedro game with the Chili Davis HR

[John Self @john_self1]

@NESN @WebsterOnTV Love how his entire demeanor is like "yeah, yeah, yeah -- this is just one win."

[John Self @john_self1]

@SawxSouth At the same time, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Aaron Judge's elbow that prevented him from getting to that ball a little quicker