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@bananaboat41434 @mattyglesias If a politician calls out Qatar lobby or the CCP, they don’t instantly have millions of dollars dropped against their campaign

@mattyglesias When AIPAC is singled out at a time where the government of Qatar, China and various other countries are buying influence via university donations, and media orgs, I think he has a point on the assault on the Jewish identity

There's a set of anti-woke Jewish center-right people who can't see the extent to which their discursive modes around Israel just recapitulate everything that's pathological about left-wing identity politics, just with a somewhat arbitrarily different valence.

@bgabriel80 @WhickTv Mamdani wasn’t radical. He won by focusing on kitchen table issues here at home and ran a pro-NYC, pro-America campaign. Hasan will say things in that vein then starts going off the rails about Mao and Putin, which kinda undercuts the whole pro-America thing . Mixed messaging

@WhickTv Hasan…..isn’t really that extreme if you listen to him. He’s not our Nick Fuentes at all. People acting like Mamdani is a radical are missing the point of the moment here. You don’t get what you want by half measures. The timidity of the Democrats has been our downfall.

We don't want to become like MAGA. That is a fail state. Hasan is not 'anti Israel' he is Anti AMERICA. What are YOU doing? This is madness. If we want to win, we have to excise our extremists. The first party to effectively do so wins by a lot for a long time.

@bballbreakdown @lukebuer @NateDuncanNBA Probably 75%? Devin Booker and some others have started abusing this also

@lukebuer @NateDuncanNBA Having just watched SGA's last 60 drives, would u like to guess how many of them he either jumped quickly into defender or hooked the defender's arm or used his own arm bar to push off?

I asked Steve Kerr about ball-handlers using their off arm, and he gave an illuminating demonstration:

@_WorldMonitor_ @unusual_whales Much of the money doesn’t actually go towards manufacturing anything. It’s a slush fund for defense contractor CEOs like Peter Thiel & co

@unusual_whales Does the US military not have enough funding already😳

@EBTtok @unusual_whales The neocons got him elected. Last cycle alone he took close to $500 million from pro-Israel warhawks like Adelson and Ellison. Why would he listen to us peons over the people in his ear giving him that much cash?

@unusual_whales He’s betrayed everyone who got him elected and sided with the neocons.

@agitpopcorn @envisionedluna You just listed numerous negative consequences that came about because Trump won the election. Why didn’t Hasan use his influence to motivate his followers to vote and prevent those outcomes?

@NBAMatic @envisionedluna Democrat voters were demotivated because of Kamala's refusal to hear constituents of the Palestine war. Democrat voters were demotivated because they wanted Biden out of the race from day one and the best they could do was a hail mary 4 months before the election. I can go on

The case for Hasan Piker as a Democratic asset assumes he -is interested in political power -is willing to help Democrats Neither are true Hes made no effort to build a movement, fight for a cause, mobilize his base. Nothing. Politics is to Hasan as $1M is to Mr.Beast: content

@agitpopcorn @envisionedluna He was actively demotivating voters so Dems would lose the general election. The people who cared about winning were trying to get out the vote

@NBAMatic @envisionedluna Hasan was sounding alarm bells. He like many leftists are right. Liberals and Democrats don't care about winning. They care about optics of the worst kind.

@agitpopcorn @envisionedluna Hasan worked against the people who were warning about all of those things before the ‘24 election.. now that it came to pass he’s trying to slither his way back in

@envisionedluna "Guys it's so important to shit on Hasan right now because he hated Kamala... No we don't care that the Trump admin Supreme Court ruled that conversion therapy is legal... No we don't care he's trying to end birthright citizenship... No we don't care that Republicans are pas..."

@JoveOnX @ImGinnyRobinson The guy literally had a 40 year track record of being a crook. When he first announced he was running for the Republican nomination I thought it was a joke

Everyone who tried to warn us about Donald Trump was right and we were just wrong.

@NickyFrank30 Even now, his recent pod with Dave Smith was probably 60-70% straight MMA talk. Stuff like that is why he retains his core audience. Hasan exclusively makes “narcissist ranting into a camera about politics” content which is more on the Fuentes or Asmongold spectrum.

Rogan is mostly political now, but that's not what attracted his audience at the start. It was that he would interview fascinating people who did fascinating things completely unrelated to politics. It's not like Hasan Piker is doing three-hour interviews with distance runners, or venture capitalists funding a way to listen to fish speak or something.

Oh FFS. His listenership does not overlap with the manosphere, and he is not nearly as well known as everyone thinks he is. Piker’s own audience survey shows that over 40 percent of his viewership is LGBTQ, and a plurality of his audience are millennials, not even Zoomers. The American Man Project, which was launched to study podcasts like Rogan and the entertainment popular with men, shows that only about half of Zoomers even know who Piker is, and only 20 percent of young men hold a favorable view of Piker. His favorability ratings with those who know him are negative. He is not the liberal Joe Rogan. He is the anti-Joe Rogan.

@politvidchannel This is the real definition of America first. Good job Virginia

BREAKING: DEMOCRATS JUST PASSED PAID SICK & MEDICAL LEAVE IN VIRGINIA.

@NorthWoodsFred @business Yall said this about Obama too, was there a Marxist revolution when he won? Maybe I missed it..

@business So the choices in the midterms are GOP - military dictatorship DEM - Marxist dictatorship Nobody has any better ideas?

Trump is preparing to release a 2027 budget plan that will frame his party’s midterms message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cuts to domestic agencies and health-care entitlements bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@JonnyRoot_ @dekker I’d guarantee the NBA has a higher % of evangelicals than the NHL.. I’ve been to games and many teams form a prayer circle after the buzzer. Ivey got cut for his general conduct and being a disruption who wasn’t worth the trouble, not only that comment x.com/thenbabase/sta…

90% of the NBA is not Christian. People may proclaim Christ, but they don’t actually believe what the Bible says. If that many players were Christian, they would be defending a persecuted brother, and would stand against pride and the celebration of it, just like Jaden Ivey has. The NBA is the most godless, left-wing men pro sports league in America. Justifying this act of clear Christian discrimination, is beneath you.

This isn’t meant to come off as a knock to CE. I’m a Christian - and a basketball player. 90% of the NBA is openly Christian. What I find maddening in all this is Christians online twisting the story into “Ivey got waived because he is a Christian.” That’s just a false statement and you’re pushing drama even further. There are guys that proclaim their faith all over the NBA - it’s a shared faith. There are pre-game Chapel services in EVERY arena where guys come together to worship. There are post-game prayer communities that are visible to fans and cameras. This isn’t an intolerance issue by the NBA. Far from it. The league wants guys to proclaim what they believe. With that; You will be fired in ANY job where you become a workplace nightmare. If you continually disrupt the peace and happiness of your colleagues, you will be held accountable. It’s as simple as that.

@Timodc @mbyrnes37 I think commenting on people going on his stream or whatever is just stupid. But in this case he’s going to be on the ground in Michigan campaigning with Sayed, fair game to hit him on it

@mbyrnes37 I don't think it was a major error but I probably would've sat it out.

2028 Dems should tell every interest group with a blog trying to corner them on their random obsession to eat shit. Equally true for centrist and progressive groups. Ossoff does not need to weigh in on Hasan discourse or trans prisoner surgeries unless he wants to.

@AdamKinzinger @NBCNews @BenjaminPDixon Turning Point USA. Erika drafting the employment letter as we speak

@NBCNews @BenjaminPDixon I’m sure he’ll be hired somewhere

The founder of a Texas megachurch who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s was released Tuesday after serving six months in an Oklahoma jail. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r…

@hi_im_six @brad_polumbo He had a career altering injury and hasn’t really produced for a few years now. Truth is if he was balling like Luka, the team would have him do some “sensitivity training” then brush it under the rug

@brad_polumbo Look at his minutes played over last few months - something was going on in the locker room and the office

I would never support someone being fired from a sports team for just their religious views. Yet I suspect there’s more to the story than this. The guy is clearly not well if you watch his 40+ minute rambling Instagram videos.

@Great_Chumpion @admcrlsn Who is most likely to hold the seat vs lose after 1 term in a red wave year

@admcrlsn The two trains of thought are Who is more likely to win it in the general? (Probably McMorrow, I doubt this stuff she's just pulled hurts her much but we'll see) Who is more likely to help Dems long term given they win? (Probably El-Sayed, who is likely to *do* more)

2024 Senate: 🔵 Elissa Slotkin won by 0.34% (19,006 votes) 2020 Senate: 🔵 Gary Peters won by 1.68% (92,335 votes) Before Obama won Indiana in 2008, no Dem presidential candidate had won it since 1964. Complacency or overconfidence with this much on the line is ridiculous.

@Xenoimpulse Looks a lot like that “third worldism” we’ve been hearing so much about..

the people who used to talk endlessly about high trust society are the same individuals who will call blatant corruption like this based

@Dave27326830201 @FirstSquawk They can excavate and repair the tunnel entrances over time

@FirstSquawk They do not have to completely penetrate. This supposed subway system you mention has to have an entrance - that entrance can be collapsed.

B-52 bunker busters ‘can’t penetrate’ Iran 1,444ft-deep missile subway system Granite dead zone higher than Empire State Building