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@whignewtons Good God! You read Jeffrey Rosen and yet you still don’t get it. Trump’s appeal is not strength and greatness, which rest in virtue, but about cruelty, abuse, and bullying. Trump is a more venal and ignorant Aaron Burr than he is a Washington or a Jefferson.

This is VERY worth the read. Humans are attracted to strength and greatness—heroes, feats, and accomplishments. Yet for decades our culture has been all about elevating the opposite: humility, victimhood, oppression olympics. Then Trump came along….

@whignewtons Says the person who calls herself a “Unitarian” absolutist in hiring/firing, and mostly a “Unitarian” re: wide discretionary latitude on managing the purse. No one has made it harder for “Congress” to “do your job” than “Unitarian” apologists like you. Think on that.

You’re right. The presidency is way too powerful. But where have you been the last 15 years? Extra-constitutional power isn’t a problem only when your enemies wield it.

@whignewtons I beg to disagree. I will like it simply because my blue vote in a solid red state will matter and my confidence in the justice and equity of elections will be stronger. That’s what matters most.

If you don’t like Donald Trump, you will not like presidential elections sans electoral college. Popular vote will highly advantage celebrity, self funding, populist candidates.

@Act_Forward @JonahDispatch Your childish insult about literacy aside, I will engage you honestly here. It seems that the way you speak of the “left” here as a monolithic group precludes any consideration or understanding that some leftists know and approach Trump supporters earnestly and in good faith.

@nolaphile22 @JonahDispatch 🥱 Actually I didn't - but I understand that literacy is a hard skill for some people. No worries.

C’mon. I know Trump voters who fit this description entirely. I also know Trump voters that defy this entirely. And there are Trump voters all across the spectrum between the two extremes. If you think they’re all alike and all unreachable you’re just telling on yourself.

@Act_Forward @JonahDispatch Do you not see the irony in your post? You just straw-manned massive groups of people (i.e. the “left”) yourself. Seems like this “ridiculous and nasty habit” you complain about is not ideologically exclusive. Maybe you could do with some “habit unlearning” yourself.

@JonahDispatch Unless the left unlearns this ridiculous and nasty habit of desperately trying to straw-man massive groups of people INSTEAD of engaging in REAL and honest debate. They will simply continue to lose. I am here for it, either way.

@cenkuygur Kinda bullshit. You just don’t like any pushback from left leaners who deign to disagree with you. But rest assured the broad left tolerates you even when your hubris shines. Welcomes you, even! Your anarcho-sindicalist populism would never be platformed on the right.

When I became a Democrat, it was the more tolerant party. Republicans were run by religious nut jobs and corporate robots. Now, the Democrats are in a lot of ways the less tolerant party. The least tolerant part is actually the establishment wing of the party that says anyone opposing their anointed leaders is committing heresy. If you try to give constructive criticism of the party to improve it, they drive you from the party while screaming, “He’s not a real Democrat!!” They hate populists. They have become the corporate robots I couldn’t stand. They hate their base. They insult our intelligence by pretending that the donors are not in charge. They think we should be controlled and learn how to follow orders. And they have no idea how elitist they sound. Predictably, their unironic reaction to this post will be, “Heretic!!”

@whignewtons At the 5:30 mark, what do you mean by Trump taking a risk w/ SCOTUS and hope that the result of the court’s decision in the Tennessee transgender case would “make good law”? Sounds to me like legislating from the bench.

Engagement rings! 1. It’s an inducement to say yes? 2. It’s a gift upon saying yes? 3. It’s a conditional gift for getting married? thedispatch.com/podcast/adviso…

@mkhammer You don’t “have to” do anything. Now, if you want to do something, how about just saying what you think about his comments, not his critics? That would be enough, unless you are really just looking for an excuse to defend him.

The Trump news cycle arc. I woke up yesterday and was like “wow, that sounds like a terrible thing he said.” History being a teacher, I thought “Lemme research, okay it’s being distorted. It’s not nice and I don’t agree w the argument, but why y’all gotta lie when he says plenty of bad things?” Then, “Well, now I gotta actively defend his right to say this bc his political adversaries think he should be investigated for political speech while they’re lecturing me about Trump wanting to jail people for political speech.”

@whignewtons Love AO, but you are not moderate. You arrive at your “moderate” positions from a conservative line of reasoning. It’s not where you land that makes you a moderate, but how you get there that would do so. And you always take the conservative road.

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@KaareJohnson @goTULANEt @GreenWaveFB @TulaneAthletics @Tulane @TUFitts Tulane does not have an enrollment of 25,000 students subsidized by public funds, and as massive an alumni base produced by this inequality. Tulane cannot “compete” at the level you think it needs to without impoverishing all the non-athletic things that make it a school.

@nolaphile22 @goTULANEt @GreenWaveFB @TulaneAthletics @Tulane @TUFitts It is an arms race. Willie Fritz said as much when he got to Houston. That’s exactly what it is. And to answer your question, where does it stop? We live in a capitalistic society. Whenever the competition stops. Or never! That’s Tulane’s problem. They want to “let up”

“I’ve been places where we’ve talked about that, and it hasn’t materialized.” - Willie Fritz #Tulane #Houston @GreenWaveFB @TulaneAthletics @Tulane @TUFitts #facilities #commitment #power5 🏈

@KaareJohnson @goTULANEt @GreenWaveFB @TulaneAthletics @Tulane @TUFitts I thought this was a football competition, not a facilities competition nor an arms race. The facilities are fine. The necessary armament is top notch. Good football doesn’t need individual heated massage chairs in the locker room for each player? Where does it stop?

@nolaphile22 @goTULANEt @GreenWaveFB @TulaneAthletics @Tulane @TUFitts What guys are you referring to? The coach or the recruits? It isn’t about Tulane’s facilities being “beautiful and more than adequate”. It’s about competing with other programs that have better facilities Simple as that. Fritz said it best. “it’s an arms race”. TU is slow

@EdKrassen It really doesn’t matter whether he bought it or not. The fact that he said publicly that he wanted to buy it, knowing he was under indictment, is one more example of his contempt for the rule of law.

Did Trump just break his bail agreement? Trump is heard on this video saying he wants to buy this Glock. The owner of the store hung up on reporters when they called. Trump’s campaign aide specifically said that Trump did buy the Glock, before he deleted his post making that claim. An employee at the gun shop said that Trump did not buy it. So what’s the truth, and was he allowed to do it?

@DavidAFrench In other words, a cult. I would suggest that the “joy” you speak of is perverse and comes from the titillating (to them) bullying and dehumanizing attitudes that result from their shared rage. It’s psychotic, frat boy hazing “fun” and is unmoored from reason and decency.

Why is Trump support so durable, still? He channels rage and joy. His movement features fury and fun. It creates a sense of camaraderie and belonging that no other GOP politician can yet match. What's toxic to outsiders is a band of brothers to insiders: nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opi…

Using only food, where did you grow up?

@Joe_Burrow10 Prof. Mann & any La. citizen are entitled to the fruits of your labor because you’re an out of state student getting a free education that our state tax dollars are helping to pay for. In short, as long as you “work” for LSU, the citizens of La. are your boss, hoss.

Love NOLA.

@BikingOnBaronne The bike lane should be on Rampart, not Baronne. There's more space on Rampart and less traffic congestion. Why Baronne?

Do hat, #WhoDat #Saints go 5-0!!!

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