Arnel Benoit

@JohnDalyBooks @rolandsmartin Touché. That’s absolutely true.

@ArnelBenoit @rolandsmartin Krauthammer would be a Dispatch guy, not a Bulwark guy.

Agreed. For those who don't remember how disgusted Krauthammer had become with Fox commentators carrying water for Trump, here's just one reminder:

@VanLathan Definitely 4 HRs. Triples are mostly about luck, and the field shape.

Would you guys rather hit for the cycle or hit 4 home runs in a game

@seanmdav It’s so interesting that French gets all this hate for being “virtuous”. But Joel Webbon will go viral for saying the most vile things under guise of religion, and these same people will say nothing of it.

If I were a gambler, I would bet every penny to my name that none of this happened. David and his other half are insufferable narcissists who lost their minds when Trump won, then became Democrats, then realized that they needed to be victims to be fully adopted by the Left. The two of them are white and wealthy and not actual victims of anything, hence the sudden onset of the chronic race card strain of Munchausen by proxy at the very moment they abandoned their core beliefs to become leftists. They also claim they had to leave their church in Franklin because people were allegedly racist to them during communion. A fact they never share, probably because it is both hilarious and evidence the alleged incident never happened, is that this allegedly happened at a notoriously left-wing church (the most left-wing in the presbytery—even more than the one which was previously led by a pastor who claimed Christians were obligated to do security at gay pride parades) helmed by a Trump-deranged lib. They then joined a liberal black church in Nashville. Because of course they did. But that wasn’t enough, so they left the state entirely to move to Chicago, or as Jussie Smollett calls it, MAGA country. The much more banal reality is their truly insufferable narcissism, made even worse by the constant need to be victims, drove away everyone around them in every aspect of life, leaving them nothing to do but leave. It was a win-win for everyone. They can now prance around not-at-all-crime-ridden Chicago while pretending to be Vanilla Nelson and Winnie, and everyone in Tennessee can breathe a sigh of relief that they’re finally gone.

@jemelehill @ChrisAlvino @reghud What pisses me off about this is that he was very aware of race when he adopted her. But to him, it was supposed to serve as a white Christian virtue signal to his peers. Her experience was never considered.

@ChrisAlvino @reghud This man was born in Alabama, grew up in Kentucky and lived in Tennessee and magically didn’t know racism was that bad. That ain’t naïveté. That’s just stupidity.

This is my issue with conservatives explained in a single video: They are COMPLETELY unable to practice any kind of empathy (neither cognitive nor emotional) with any out-group. Until they have first-hand experience with an issue, they cannot fathom that it even exists

@thefuzzybastard @CameronCorduroy But if you can’t see how number one and number three were uniquely related in Biden’s case then you aren’t being serious.

@CameronCorduroy But if you can’t admit how Biden dropped the ball on number one, you can’t fix the problem

this has been the Democratic platform for as long as i've been alive

@conor64 It’s also a tell that they know their positions are morally suspect.

Trump voters like this don't get that while many Trump voters *did* vote for what we're seeing on the streets of Minnesota, many other Trump voters either naively did not think this is what they voted for, or voted for this but have changed their minds, confronted w its horror

@7anguine @mobsteriam @MattWalshBlog The theme of the movie! The vampires and the church were just different solutions to the same problem. The structures of white supremacy that kept them poor and beat down. Outside of the KKK, you don’t see white ppl being racist to the characters. The prob is the system.

@ArnelBenoit @mobsteriam @MattWalshBlog what are you getting at amigo

It’s like when everyone pretended that Black Panther was some kind of cinematic masterpiece. Everyone knows what’s going on here. Almost all of the praise is exclusively because of the black cast and director. Easily one of the most overrated movies ever made.

@7anguine @mobsteriam @MattWalshBlog They were just evangelists with violent conversions methods. Notice how happy they all were once they woke up. And notice that they were free…

@ArnelBenoit @mobsteriam @MattWalshBlog yes... along with the klan members

@NegationF @CoreyWriting @JoelWBerry @MattWalshBlog You should think to yourself and ask if the vampires are actually bad.

@CoreyWriting @JoelWBerry @MattWalshBlog I wouldn't call it racist lol. But I mean, the white people are all vampires or KKK members. Meanwhile Blsck people, Natives and even Asians team up to fight the vampires. Not really subtle nod to "white people bad".

@7anguine @mobsteriam @MattWalshBlog You really think the vampires are the villains in the movie?

@mobsteriam @MattWalshBlog one of the movie's central themes frames whiteness as vampiric, both literally and metaphorically. Every white character in the movie is either villainous (klansman/vampire), or otherwise unsympathetic

@Magic_Logos @xwanyex You’re perfectly free to do that, my guy. I’m not putting a value judgement on either.

@ArnelBenoit @xwanyex Unless you refuse to allow the State to have unfettered access to your children for 6+ hours a day My children will be raised by my wife and I We won't boost the consumer economy as much, but we are happy and our children will be raised properly

Universal childcare is like the perfect issue because it’s both true that regular, everyday people who are just trying to live really do require childcare, that our society isn’t currently structured in a way that makes that available to many of them in traditional ways, that additional childcare options would for those people represent an enormous short-term benefit… But also in its implementation it points our society in completely the wrong direction over the long-term.

@St_Equanimity @xwanyex And our society should be structured to allow families to pick their preferred lifestyle. OP feels that there should be one lifestyle prescribed to everyone.

@ArnelBenoit @xwanyex Time vs money. Single income means the family, as a whole, will be less rushed; dual income, more money. Both have benefits. It depends on which lifestyle is preferred.

@Magic_Logos @xwanyex By rational, I mean most people tend to concentrate their child bearing years. So by the time the youngest is school-aged, there will be a lot more free time for the stay at home parent. It doesn’t make sense to arrange your entire home economic set up for ~5 year time span.

@ArnelBenoit @xwanyex If by rational you mean so you can prioritize more money so you can consume more, then superficially yes I contend that relegating child-rearing by parents to a “short period of time” is a flaw My children want for nothing though I am the sole provider

@olivia3boys @xwanyex Of course it would vary with the number of kids. But most families would probably average 2 - 3 children

@ArnelBenoit @xwanyex For those with 4 kids, it’s more like 10 years before the youngest is 5.

@Magic_Logos @xwanyex Isn’t having a dual income family in a 21st century developed country rational, though? The time of intensive child-rearing of small children tends to be concentrated to a relatively short period of time for most families.

@xwanyex The second part checks out The downstream consequences of further cementing dual-income homes into the culture are unbelievably bleak I’d much rather incentivize women to stay home and raise their children than try to accommodate the “line must go up” forever to our detriment

@zacharyzant @admcrlsn Good thing they have a chance to do that in this primary.

@admcrlsn Crockett can’t win the general election and the facts that some don’t even want to talk about that is insane. Dems need to nominate someone that can win independents and steal votes from Paxton. Not someone that says they can have some magical turnout of low propensity voters.

New Emerson poll of Texas Senate Democratic Primary (1/10-12): OVERALL: 🟣 47% Talarico 🟠 38% Crockett 🟣 Latinos — Talarico +34 🟣 White — Talarico +29 🟣 Independents — Talarico +29 🟣 Men — Talarico +22 🟣 Women — Talarico +1 🟠 Dems — Crockett +1 🟠 Black — Crockett +72

@Bourbon_Dem @xwanyex Are you? Think of all the resources that are being pulled in from other cities so 5 - 7 agents can detain one person in Minneapolis.

I think it’s fine to be critical of ICE when they behave in specific ways that we think are bad or unproductive, and I have tried to do that, if a bit weakly, but I don’t think it would be at all tolerable to give the protesters this much of a veto. This is what we voted for.

@LoveCodeTrade @xwanyex I remember when Obama was deporting millions and we didn’t have citizens getting killed in the streets by ICE over it.

@ArnelBenoit @xwanyex Any immigration enforcement would antagonize these extremists.