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[Babo @rbc2222]

@BasedMikeLee Loser

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

I think about this line by F. Scott Fitzgerald all the time:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

[Babo @rbc2222]

@hovah76 @DentinoDuz WTF is wrong with you?

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

As a Danish and European politician, I am not accustomed to deliberate public falsehood as a political method. But it is probably something we will have to get used to.

Take, for example, Jeff Landry’s blatant falsehood that Donald Trump was the first major politician to truly place Greenland on the world map.

If we confine ourselves to this century alone, Colin Powell was co-signatory of the Igaliku Agreement in 2004 while serving as Secretary of State. John Negroponte, then Deputy Secretary of State, represented the United States when the Ilulissat Declaration was signed in 2008. John Kerry visited Greenland in 2016 while serving as Secretary of State. And Antony Blinken visited the island in 2021.

Greenland was also visited by Angela Merkel in 2007, when the purpose was to study climate change.

And the island has continuously received visits from American politicians who genuinely take an interest in Arctic affairs. The foremost among them is undoubtedly Lisa Murkowski.

So Greenland has long been on the world map - partly because of climate change, and partly because of the question of Arctic security. And Greenland has continuously been integrated into Arctic cooperation, not least as a consequence of the Igaliku Agreement.

There was a time when I read a great deal of Jürgen Habermas and believed that the norm of truth was an unbreakable norm among civilized people. I believed that, as Habermas put it, the better argument exercised a kind of “forceless force.”

What we lack today is a new Habermas for the twenty-first century - someone capable of describing the performative role of the lie.

Because the reality is this: to someone who knows nothing about Greenland, Jeff Landry’s statements sound perfectly plausible. But they are simply a fabrication. A good story. Something designed to generate support without any ambition toward truth. Harry Frankfurt argued that this is the very essence of what he called “bullshit.”

We no longer merely disagree about values. Increasingly, we disagree about reality itself.

Jeff Landry is part of the post-truth culture that permeates American politics. But it is also something we in Europe will increasingly have to adapt to, simply because of the influence the United States possesses.

It is difficult to say where this post-truth strategy will lead the Western world. But I will be honest: I have reached an age where I preferred the world shaped by the ideals of the Enlightenment - by truth as a moral norm and obligation.

That world is gone. Perhaps permanently. I understand that. But I cannot pretend to admire the replacement.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

The Truth About E. Jean Carroll https://t.co/EroVW4AZ3B

[Babo @rbc2222]

@ByronYork And you believe his bullshit as usual.

[David Hume Kennerly @kennerly]

This is an extraordinary piece of writing. I started reading it and couldn’t stop, and neither should you. @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip

[Babo @rbc2222]

@DouthatNYT Oh, for Christ's sake....

[Babo @rbc2222]

@willchamberlain @jonfavs You are an embarassment even to your fellow right wing toadies.

[Babo @rbc2222]

@NormOrnstein Yes, he's that bad. At math and everything else.

[Babo @rbc2222]

@mschlapp @CPAC Molesting any campaign boys today Mattie?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

On every important vote that matters, Susan Collins votes with Trump.

Every time her vote could stop something he’s trying to do, she votes with him.

She is a fake moderate with a MAGA voting record.

A vote for Susan Collins is a vote to give Trump more power.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

4 months after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Forbes reports that Binance now holds $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion supply of Trump’s World Liberty Financial stablecoin. That is 87%. It is the largest corruption scandal in the history of the US presidency.

[Babo @rbc2222]

@BreitbartNews oy.

[Babo @rbc2222]

@megynkelly Shut up and don't dribble.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families"
extraordinary reporting from @WSJ
https://t.co/I0CT7blJFw

[Babo @rbc2222]

@Acyn Ingraham is a slightly whiter version of Megyn Kelly.

[Babo @rbc2222]

@christopherrufo Do you own a mirror?

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Puerto Rico has America’s largest number of Medal Of Honor recipients per capita.