Brock Reish

Vocal supporter of crunchy peanut butter, quarter-zip sweaters, and the Oxford Comma | #BoilerUp

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Show of hands: who thinks “the Iranians” are privately telling Trump not just that they are desperate for a deal, but that they can’t believe how great their media coverage has been in the US?

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is unhinged. If a family member behaved this way, you'd worry about them. If a CEO behaved like this, the board would meet. He's living in an alternate reality and furious when a person won't indulge his fantasies.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Evil. Swatting is extraordinarily dangerous. There is no excuse.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

@RpsAgainstTrump Heritage Americans hardest hit.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Sigh. Authenticity is not necessarily a morally positive quality. People can be authentic assholes. A lot of people fake authenticity really well. Also, the whole cult of authenticity is Rousseauian-populist garbage whether from the left or right.

https://t.co/dVTvgWOFLt

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I think the Comey prosecution is pure nonsense on the merits and a clear abuse of power in intent. But I'm just wondering if it's dawned on anyone that Tucker floating the idea that Trump is the Antichrist probably puts Trump in more danger than Comey saying "hey look at these shells."You have an absolute right to call Trump the Antichrist, of course. But I keep hearing defenders of the Comey prosecution try to spin up scenarios where 8647 in cockleshells will activate deranged assassins -- and that was Comey's intent. That's absurd.

Again, this is not my circus, not my clowns, but suggesting Trump is the Antichrist strikes me as far more triggering. Would love to hear JD Vance asked about this.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

What an absolute joke — a plainly unconstitutional indictment.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I know it’s really hard for some people to grasp, but if any other president — of either party — put his face and name on so many things the exact people who like it when Trump does it would be throwing a conniption about it.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

There was an incredibly telling exchange between Chief Justice John Roberts and the solicitor general. “We’re in a new world,” Sauer said, because “eight billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who is a U.S. citizen.”

Chief Justice Roberts’s retort was perfect — “Well, it’s a new world,” he said, but “it’s the same constitution.” In that one moment you saw the contrast between the MAGA legal philosophy and the legal philosophy of most of the justices. MAGA wants specific results, the justices interpret texts. And when MAGA’s argument contradicts the constitutional text, it’s almost always going to lose — as it has lost time and again before this court. https://t.co/p6zcwQ90rF

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Sorry, Ari. I just saw your response.

I think it is hilarious that rather than actually respond to my point, you simply opted to double down on your practice of carrying water for Trump like a modern-day Gunga Din.
I think it's great that NATO is spending more on defense. I think Trump can be commended for encouraging it (though the turd-polishing of some folks on this front is often embarrassing. He primarily didn't do it to "save" NATO or even to make it stronger).

But all of this is irrelevant to the point you dodged. If you think Trump has handled the transatlantic alliance well since being elected to his second term, say so. Own it. Don't deflect.

But if that is your position, that's pure idiocy or dishonest spin.

Our NATO allies *should* step up. It would be in their interest. But Trump has made the politics of that near-impossible by threatening Greenland, claiming that our allies didn't really fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, (not Vance's Munich performance, dicking around with Ukraine) etc. Even the far right (outside of Hungary) parties hate Trump now.

Then, when Trump launched this war on Iran he said he didn't need any of their help because we already won.

Now, he's asking for help, but he can't concede error or even ask nicely. So he implies their all cowards who need to muster "delayed courage."

Defend that Ari. Hell simply acknowledge it.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Unlawful presidential action is unlawful. I'm sorry this hurts you.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Populists ask, "What has conservatism ever conserved?"

Well, it's about to conserve birthright citizenship.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Trump could do massive, indefensible damage, by simply saying this crap. But legally he cannot do it. Of course, Congress would need courage to stop him. So maybe he can. https://t.co/q4ZcIp9T4U

[David French @DavidAFrench]

The sheer scale of the corruption boggles the mind.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Often, when Trump does something truly vile and indefensible, I think of the intellectual poseur and Trump sycophant Tom Klingenstein who explained that real men, serious men, patriotic men, don’t support Trump for his policies, but for the “rest of him.” You know the part of him that does and says the indefensible things.

https://t.co/Efbw5G4ltY

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

The “Everyone is 12 now” theory truly is foundational for our times.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This is bonkers for a bunch of more troubling reasons, but the idea that Cuba isn’t in a hurricane zone was hilarious. I mean I looked it up. 37 since 2000. https://t.co/91opkI9zol.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Madison: "Because the proposed establishment is a departure from that generous policy, which, offering an Asylum to the persecuted and oppressed of every Nation and Religion, promised a lustre to our country, and an accession to the number of its citizens."

Madison > Ogles

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

@davidharsanyi Partly because 99.9% of them do zero reporting. They read mainstream journalism like it’s a prompt for a fiction writing class.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I’ve seen this meme a bunch of times. It’s just ignorant. The point is Iran was trying to get them. If they had them, there wouldn’t have been an attack.