CrazyBot420

Fetterman and Sinema are interesting case studies in centrist brain. Here you have the two examples of centrist politics that actually exist and both are massively despised and have failed at moving anyone from the right. Yet groups like third way pretend they don’t exist.

The past 2 weeks, the same Dems who forced Liz Cheney on us, refused to have a single Palestinian speaker at the DNC, and continue going on Bill Maher's show without ever once pushing back on his racism and Islamophobia, have been OBSESSED with Hasan Piker. They realize they no longer control the majority or the party. Curious if they will adapt or try to burn it all down. I predict the latter.

Since 2010, the United States has spent ~$84.6 trillion in total federal outlays. During that same period... using the most generous, all-inclusive accounting possible... roughly $140 billion went to Israel. Every dollar. Direct aid, off-the-books military operations, war reserve stockpiles, state-level bond purchases, tax-exempt charitable flows. All of it. That's 0.16% of federal spending. One-sixth of one percent. The U.S. government spends more than that on interest payments every five weeks. Medicare loses more than that to improper payments in a decade. We printed $6.5 trillion in a single year for COVID. But somehow this 0.16% is the line item that dominates foreign policy discourse, fills entire news cycles, and drives campus protests coast to coast. The intensity of the outrage has no mathematical relationship to the actual expenditure. None. So, what's actually fueling it? Because the budget numbers sure aren't.

"This was a country that defeated the Soviet Union, unfortunately..." Hasan Piker is a psychopath.

“She’s worried that she might not have space in the party. She’s worried that a party that has me in the tent is going to not cater to her – it’s going to cater to us.” — Hasan Piker on anti-Trump Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who has backed Democratic candidates in recent elections and argued on The Bulwark podcast that Democrats should shun Piker, reacting with outsized alarm to some of his standard progressive foreign policy positions.

Over the last eight months, I've sadly had to deal with a certain kind of person. They're in DC, they think they're political geniuses, and they view us up in Maine as a malleable mass to be manipulated, messaged to, and tricked. And their time is over.

I want everybody defending Hasan Piker to see the moment he shocks his dog simply for standing up. This is the cruelty he owns. It's not just what he says, but also what he does.

Centrists: ‘It’s us or Hasan’ Voters, without thinking: ‘Hasan’ Centrists: ‘This debate is pointless. Who even cares about Hasan, really?’

I just don't think there's a whole lot of appetite among Democratic voters to be nagged and wokescolded by a GOP lobbyist using quotes that she herself admits were taken out of context when they aren't simply 100% true. 🥴

This is The Bulwark. We don’t all think one thing! I think Tim is wrong on Hasan Piker, so we hashed it out. Listen to us work through it in a format much more conducive to a productive discussion than Twitter dunks.