@varadmehta For all the talk about the pre-2016 GOP's dead-enders, the same could be said about libertarians. For about two weeks in the Spring of 2013, libertarians were having their Moment. Never to be repeated.
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These people really are going to keep playing stupid about why Massie was defenestrated, aren’t they?
Eric Boehm@EricBoehm87
If this is how the Republican Party treats the libertarian-leaning lawmakers in its midst, then libertarians should take note and act accordingly. There appears to be no space for liberty-loving candidates or voters in the contemporary GOP reason.com/2026/05/19/tho…
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He’s being heavily promoted this week on More Perfect Union, the Lincoln Project, and elsewhere.
I’m told the remaining hard opposition to the bill regards him as the most knowledgeable and telegenic figure they can put up. He’ll likely show up at the markup.
Zack Guzmán@zGuz
Who could have predicted that the star of The OC would be the guy actively working to block crypto’s crowning moment in the US
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@RealSamRoberts @jaycost @MichaelWatsonDC Maybe she hates that his signature phrase is part of her book that nobody read, who knows?
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@jaycost @MichaelWatsonDC And the funniest part about that election is that Mike Castle would go on to serve as campaign chair for Trump in Delaware during the 2016 primary and Christine O'Donnell became an ardent NeverTrumper.
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@neontaster It's literally the same logic a lot of people use to support Trump....and it makes perfect sense!
"He's an asshole, but he's *our* asshole."
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I don't buy Sarah Longwell's "Platner apologized and deserves grace" argument because if the person apologizing for a Nazi tattoo were running as a republican, she would have used his politics as evidence that he wasn't contrite enough to earn that same grace.
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@foster_type @BarackObama Because it didn't go far enough. That's the angle the plotline was going for.
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SE2E04 of "The Pitt" has a great plotline about how @BarackObama signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is a disgraceful failure.
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@CatholicSmark We performed this song at our Spring concert in my senior year of high school, it is such a banger.
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Still think its hilarious an American strategy game needed a theme and someone said "what if a Gospel Choir sung the Our Father in Swahili?" They responded sure, made a cinematic, and it was the hardest open/ad for a game ever.
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Woke up to see that 300,000 people are now suddenly dead from hantavirus.
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He has to be unfathomably bored if he's talking about state supreme court candidates. Maybe he needs to replace Durbin so he has something to do.
Barack Obama@BarackObama
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@michaelbd There were about 15 scenes last season where I was half expecting the writer / show creator to break the fourth wall and yell at the audience:
"So that was a pretty crazy scene, right? RIGHT? Amazing performance right? SAY IT'S AMAZING"
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@JoeMobes90 Everyone is so talented. That’s why it’s crushing to tune in and watch them do this finger sniffing stuff.
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Never have so many talented creatives needed a firm TV executive to reign them in. There will be no scenery left. Watch it get chewed into cud, as we blow the budget on the craziest new-wave through alt to emo soundtrack ever, this June 25th
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
The final season of ‘THE BEAR’ will release on June 25. All episodes will release on the same day.
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I know as a journalist we don't express opinion. But it is disgusting for a United States Senator to make a joke like this about a colleague.
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@redsteeze @ChimpWithMoney It cannot be overstated just how *bored* Obama has been since 2016.
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@ReubenR80027912 Also - Bernie Sanders deciding not to launch a primary campaign against Obama in 2012 is an underrated reason of why progressivism is more ascendant today and not consigned to an ash heap for another generation in the Democratic Party.
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I suppose it’s true that Obama did not personally lead Lloyd Blankfein down the Westside Highway in fetters
…but if that’s your political litmus test (as it appears it is for Mr Kulinsky) I world simply adjust down my expectations b/c I am not a child
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What’s funny is Obama did the realistic version of this fantasy…and Kyle & progressives HATED him for it
For 8yrs there was ceaseless Wall St bashing (which is why smart millennials went to tech), healthcare became *the* central policy of Ds & foreign policy was appeasement
Secular Talk ([email protected])@KyleKulinski
Euphoric. We thought the Bush regime criminals and wall street criminals would go to prison, we'd get universal healthcare and college. We'd tax the rich and revive the new deal. We all believed "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"
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Which journalist attending the WHCD would be the one mostly likely to take a shot. Go.
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@CTIronman @varadmehta Of course they have. But they can’t come out and admit it or the TV hits dry up immediately.
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@JoeMobes90 @varadmehta Those folks have mostly been voting straight Democrat for years already
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The Bulwark did what those in its line of work have done since time immemorial: decamp for whatever sidewalk and street corner had clients willing to pay for their services.
Benjy Sarlin@BenjySarlin
I also think time changes all 3. It feels increasingly ridiculous in 2026 to go “Yep, once this storm passes our bastion of Reaganism Classic will take the party back and we can resume our old fights.” Bulwark’s preparing for generational war on Trumpism. NR looking for peace. Dispatch going the Benedict option.
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@varadmehta “Never Vance” is just not going to have the same effect, no matter how hard they try it.
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@JoeMobes90 They will define post-Trump conservatism as "Trumpism" and carry on. Same with the GOP.
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@BenjySarlin @SeanTrende @EggerDC Fun little thought experiment - if Rubio is somehow the nominee in 2028, does the Dispatch support him? Not even going to entertain the possibility of the Bulwark doing so because they’re functionally an arm of the left even if they cannot admit it.
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I also think time changes all 3. It feels increasingly ridiculous in 2026 to go “Yep, once this storm passes our bastion of Reaganism Classic will take the party back and we can resume our old fights.” Bulwark’s preparing for generational war on Trumpism. NR looking for peace. Dispatch going the Benedict option.
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Honestly I don't find this psychological explanation compelling at all. The big difference is positional.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
@charlescwcooke The difference between the Bulwark and the Dispatch I think is this: The Dispatch treats Trump as a bad president who should be opposed when appropriate. The Bulwark treats him as the Satan of a Catholic Baptism, where you're morally bound to reject all his works and promises.
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He's the new Thomas Jane (though will never be the new Bruce Campbell). Only takes weird pulpy shlock roles.
DiscussingFish@DiscussingFish
First look at Jack Quaid as Max Payne in the new Live-Action 'MAX PAYNE' film. Only in theaters May 2027. (Source: remedygames.com/games/max-payn…)
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