Lars-Erik Larsson

Like Morès and Déroulède, he has no practical acquaintance with the world...whether of business or politics, but only the instinct of successful parade.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

JD Vance works for the most corrupt president in American history. So of course he wants you to believe Watergate was nothing.

Vance joked that if Watergate happened today it would be a “12 hour news story.” Let’s remember what Nixon actually did.

Operatives tied to his reelection campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant listening devices. Then Nixon personally orchestrated the cover up. The “smoking gun” tape caught him ordering the CIA to shut down the FBI’s investigation.

That is obstruction of justice, in his own voice, on tape.

The House Judiciary Committee identified 36 separate instances of obstruction. It approved three articles of impeachment, with Republicans joining Democrats.

Nixon weaponized the IRS and FBI against his political enemies, authorized burglaries of private citizens, and fired the special prosecutor investigating him in what is called the Saturday Night Massacre. When the Supreme Court ordered him to release the tapes, the vote was unanimous. Even his most loyal defenders walked away once they heard his own words.

Vance is telling us a president can break the law, lie about it, and turn federal agencies into weapons, and we should all just go along with it.

There is a reason he wants the bar that low. When you serve an administration this corrupt, the only way to look clean is to convince the public that crimes no longer count.

He’s wrong. They did then, and they do now.

History will not be kind to JD Vance.

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

"I know who I am. I'm not a mistake. It all makes sense. In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero... I should've known way back when. You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass."

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

“Look at all the shit we can get away with now, isn’t it great?” is what he’s saying here. Another rare moment of honesty from Vance.

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

Did he mean to tweet out this DM to Weiss and the Ellisons, the only intelligible point of which is reminding them he's onside?

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

Scott Pelley compared 60 Minutes dismantling to “death of a spouse.” Not to be outdone, his friend and former EP Bill Owens calls Viacom-CBS merger “more like a rape.”

Bit much?

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Not the insight Vance thinks it is. Can be both true that Nixon was a) entirely corrupt and b) not corrupt enough that anyone in Trump’s Washington would notice.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

As we approach the 250th, Jesse Wegman gives us "The Lost Founder," a biography of James Wilson, a pivotal yet forgotten architect of our republic. "I hope Wegman’s wonderfully readable book gets a wide audience," writes George Thomas in this rave review. https://t.co/ME86wKLQ7k

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

@TheStalwart @multasapientia Aren't these generally things that only 20 people ever read. some number of those being aggregator bots?

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

@MatthewEGunter @StephenKing As bemusing and ensorcelling as belle-letterist defenders of spelling can be, I feel even this lends too much an air of pulchritudinousness to their weak attempts at construing logic which they fein to address in favor of their silly contretempts of ruction over spelling.

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

Pizzaface is a paid actor in a foreign op. Why did the media wait til she left to come clean? Normal people knew she was agitprop even back in the Hillary days. Arrest her.

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

@NormOrnstein And disgustingly unfunny, truly.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

They call them “data centers” because calling them “mass surveillance centers” might cause an uprising.

[Steve Brusatte @SteveBrusatte]

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public.
And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired.
What a shame @sciam

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

The two greatest authorities on the 19th c. South, Eugene Genovese and C. Vann Woodward, were right wing if not reactionary. And if they were still with us they'd mercilessly bully the historically-illiterate cretin who wrote this, who definitely stupidly thinks they'd like him.

[Henry Vaughan @silexsc]

The Southerners are a great people

Confederate soldiers were heroes

The slaveowners were not evil

Leftists are subhuman

t. regards, New Englander

[Lisa Glass @LMplusG]

Are we ever going to talk about the fact that a lot of what is in the Haberman-Swan book is ...news? News that, you know, wasn't reported at the time? News that was saved for a book? The Bob Woodward School of Journalism.

[Michelle Kosinski @MichLKosinski]

I can’t believe there is this much corruption and nonsense over a REFLECTING POOL.
Let’s reflect on how much Trumpian corruption remains seen and unseen.
Grow the fuck up, America. Try electing decent, competent human beings instead of Russian pawn rodeo clowns.

[Richard Roeper @RichardERoeper]

Authorities have released a security camera image of a person of interest in the investigation into the mysterious 300-foot gash in the Reflecting Pool.

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

@MundaneDesolate Methaniel.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

I'll just say it again:

They know they're lying. We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying. We know they know we know they're lying. But they just keep lying.

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

@svdate There's a Peggy Hill-on-Black Friday quality to this insight.

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

Haberman in her 2022 book: after describing Trump's apoplectic instability, pathological manipulation, base cunning, weird, lonely personality, she pivots immediately to the false claim that his opponents copied his behavior. She credits this as his "peculiar ability."

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

A really preposterous claim here from Remnick that a single Netanyahu SITROOM anecdote reported in Regime Change "puts to rest the knowing online critique of these beat reporters that to get their scoops they engage in 'bothsiderism' or dampen their coverage for access."

[Lars-Erik Larsson @nicjabl]

@noahgittell