Bobby Panzenbeck

Beltway Public Affairs Guy. VP @teamathos. Just a dad living the dream.

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

This is *the* problem with the film Kingdom of Heaven.

All the set pieces, actors, soundtrack, and interesting characters can barely hold up the fact that it’s a film made deliberately to convince White people that they “started it” after 9/11.

In addition to the poor writing choice to kill off all of the most interesting characters by the midway point, the film also commits gross character assassination of Bishop Heraclius, Guy de Lusignan, and Raynald de Chatillon. In reality, the films villains were, of course, actually heroes.

Heraclius co-led the defense of Jerusalem with Balian, insisted upon Balian being put in charge, sold all of his Church’s property to pay the ransom of the citizens Saladin enslaved, and along with Balian offered himself as a hostage to buy the freedom of other residents of Jerusalem.

(Oh, yes, Saladin enslaved a huge portion of the city’s population. They didn’t put that part in the movie…)

Raynald was guilty of the crime of seeing that Saladin was uniting the Muslim world specifically to invade Jerusalem and trying to stop him before it was too late. You might compare him in the modern day to Pat Buchanan.

It’s such a well made propaganda piece. It makes me very happy to see how much of it has been repurposed to tell the truth now two decades later.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

🚨 The American Medical Association is about to make it a lot more expensive to have a baby in America.

Since they have a monopoly over medical billing codes, they've decided to jack up hospital bills for new mothers by moving to an a la carte system for services instead of bundling them.

Why do we even allow medical bills to be priced like this?

[Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard]

How do you run a country where a random Libyan whose mother was in the US for 24 hours to give birth is now qualified to be the President of the United States?

[Jon Schweppe 🇺🇸 @JonSchweppe]

lol

[Bobby Panzenbeck @Panzenbeck]

@MillerStanIL Live in her district, he ran an aggressive campaign, and I saw her at the airport a few times en route to DC and nowhere else.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

I, for one, am shocked that people who were not guilty of murder received less jail time than a man who stabbed a kid in the heart for no reason.

[Bobby Panzenbeck @Panzenbeck]

What is the point of abundance without children? I'm not sure I have a definition of abundance that doesn't include them.

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

I have never once in my life encountered someone expressing this sentiment. Either I live in quite a bubble, or Ezra Klein does.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Typically, it’s not the knife that’s the problem but the stabbing

[Otto Von Tweetmarck @OVTweetmarck]

We’re now graduating to “murder children with cleft lips even though such a condition is easily treatable.”

[CASE @CASE_forAmerica]

Fixing the loopholes created by the Biden Administration is a great way to lower costs for all Americans and is in line with this administration’s efforts to curb waste, fraud, and abuse. https://t.co/k7ylKVGEoM

[Otto Von Tweetmarck @OVTweetmarck]

A full time Twitch streamer describing anyone else as a drain on society is truly something else

[Bobby Panzenbeck @Panzenbeck]

@RedditCFB Cc @wupton

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

It could be worse.

He could have introduced the President.

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

The primary function of the Democratic Party is to launder tax dollars to organizations run by democrats.

[Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard]

When the GOP establishment doesn't want to do something their base clearly wants them to do, they try to create a specter of inevitability over the outcome: "It's impossible. You're ridiculous for even asking. Manage your expectations. We know things you don't about why this can't possibly happen because YOU are a peasant and WE are Very Smart."

The Capitol Hill press (Punchbowl, perfect example) play a very important role in this process, "reporting" completely subjective leadership opinions (or their own opinions) as hard fact.

All the establishment excuses are usually fake or intentionally lacking context about what's possible. Usually the real reasons are a) they legitimately just prioritize other things (as Thune said: Russian sanctions, permitting reform, housing!), or b) it requires effort and the one thing the Senate hates most is working.

[Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard]

Trump should just take some leftover judgment fund settlement money and give it to a bunch of politically aligned nonprofits.

Oh wait, sorry, that was what Obama did with $380 million in the Keepseagle settlement.

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

Down Syndrome babies are created in the image of God and have a right to be born

[Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard]

Reducing the SAVE America Act to a talking point amendment is embarrassing. But a masterful display of Washington failure theater: a low effort/no effort way of trying to placate the masses that “we tried” without ever having any intention of trying.