Dru

Labor Attorney

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@NachoQuixotic @Patrickwebb Lmao you all WANT to believe the deranged stuff you believe. It’s the only way anyone could be this gullible

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@wideofthepost Everyone who’s ever worked service industry or retail nodding in agreement

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

what stage of oppo is this

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@iamno1s2hold He is a recovering crack addict that has now found a new addiction- it’s apparently called shit posting.

[A ৻ꪆ @doemisu]

I got in an argument in her comments because she made a video about how unhappy she was with all of her material privilege so I said she should probably try volunteering and maybe giving up some material and everyone said I was being ableist and didn’t understand depression

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I ran more than a few GOP smear campaigns in my past.

I know one when I see one.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@IDormido @danceyrselfdean You either weren’t of age during this era, or your definition of hipster music is “any band that isn’t top 40.” There is a difference between “hipster” and “trendy.” People from your small town may not be trendy, but many, many people are.

[22 U.S.C. § 2304 @RefrmDemocracy]

Graham Platner should have instead said "Not nuking these fucking animals is the only restraint I expect and that's only because the cloud would hurt Israelis" and then the media class would deem him acceptable.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

NYT published uncorroborated accusations against @grahamformaine of “unsettling” and “toxic” behavior that came from a Heritage staffer who previously worked for a conservative org that backs Collins.

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@nervewing There’s someone trying to argue with me on here that Radiohead is hipster music and it normie music. Some of these bands rule, but come on lol MGMT, vampire weekend, the strokes, modest mouse??? Those are just extremely popular bands. But not top 40.

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@kilerorigin @Mayfuel That’s a very cool distinction you’ve made in this world you’ve imagined. The gov of the last 75 years that turned a country from feudal backwater to the 2nd most powerful country in the world are rebels, and the island occupied by a defeated party are the main gov. Fascinating!

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@Rapnonono2 @danceyrselfdean Radiohead was and is normie music I’m afraid. They just aren’t top 40. They’re one of the most popular bands of all time lmao. And they’re good, but imagining them as “hipster” music is akin to thinking the Lumineers were

[ℝ𝕀ℤℤ ℂ𝕆𝕄𝔼𝕋 @Shr00msy]

Any minute now I'm going to wake up at 2 AM to this on TV and realize the last 20+ years was a dream…..any…minute….now…

[Alexander Thatcher @ThatchEffendi]

You guys are such cliches. He has no idea what he's wearing. He's buttoned both buttons on a two button jacket, which is basically never acceptable. He's wearing a tie pin with a waistcoat. The collar is wrong and it's unbuttoned. Combining 1920s hair with a Victorian moustache is gauche. He looks like a waiter at a try-hard artisanal cocktail place in 2014.

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@pampilo81 @estro_yonqui lol

[Dru @shinydiscontent]

@kilerorigin @Mayfuel Yes that’s true. And the U.S. government is currently in rebellion against England. Many don’t know these facts because they can’t use logic