Tim Miller
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Host of The Bulwark Podcast | msNOW analyst | Author “Why We Did It” | Jokic обожавалац | Weak and Gay | Never Trump
Remember libs always shrieking THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL?!? And we mustn't Normalize Trump? Most of that was overwrought silliness, but making these insane apocalyptic threats once or twice a week, amid active war, seems like something to be legitimately concerned about "normalizing"
“For all the legacy media’s obsessive warnings about far-right extremist Nick Fuentes, it has shown far less interest in confronting a dangerous left-wing counterpart: Hasan Piker.” @Ingrid_Jacques @USATODAY usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
NY-12, which includes both the Upper West and Upper East Sides, is the smallest and most population-dense congressional district in the country, one that candidates can crisscross several times over in an afternoon. It is among the wealthiest and oldest districts in the United States and is also the district with the most college graduates. If you listen to the candidates, the battle for NY-12 is not just about who will be the next member of the city’s congressional delegation but a contest among factions of the island’s Democratic base: the old-money elite, the anti-Trump resisters, the tech-world crusaders, and the old-school party Establishment. While nearly a dozen candidates are vying for the district’s congressional seat, the primary is coming down to just four: Micah Lasher, a state assemblyman from the Upper West Side and a longtime political hand who is Jerry Nadler’s anointed successor; Alex Bores, an assemblyman from the Upper East Side whose calls for AI regulation have led to millions of dollars being spent both for and against him; George Conway, the onetime Republican lawyer who has achieved notoriety as a leader of the #Resistance; and a previously little-known social-media influencer who is trying to rewrite the rules of New York City politics. “It’s New York-sized,” that social-media influencer, Jack Schlossberg, said when asked why this campaign is different. Schlossberg’s presence in the race proves the point. For our Cover Story, David Freedlander reports on how four liberal-but-not-left Democrats are racing to be the face of Manhattan: nymag.visitlink.me/Os2_Oz
Good grief. California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton refuses to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
AG Todd Blanche tells Kristen Welker that individuals selling 86 merchandise or posting messages similar to Comey’s seashell post will not be prosecuted: “Of course not. That’s posted constantly. That phrase is used constantly.”
$3.69 a gallon in Austin this morning
Tucker Carlson tells the NYT he doesn't use writers or notes. Says his monologues are ad lib.
Mehdi, I genuinely don't understand why you think in this binary way. That in order to be allies with someone on an issue, you have to vouch for that person in their entirety and every policy position they have. No, you just have to be an ally on that issue. Martin Luther King, Jr. became allies with Lyndon Johnson, who was often viciously racist behind the scenes and got countless people killed in Vietnam. Should King have canceled Johnson instead of working with him to pass the Civil Rights Act? If you're house is on fire and someone comes with a hose, you don't ask him about what his policy is on the carried interest loophole, you thank him for the help. If you hadn't noticed, Israel lit our house on fire.
Doocy: "Would you consider backing Ron DeSantis for a cabinet job?" Fetterman: "It used to not be very controversial to absolutely vote for these kinds of people just because it happens to be the opposite party, you know. Right now our entire party's been defined by TDS."
