Maybe they should be on the receiving end.
Was only a matter of time
https://twitter.com/dashaburns/status/1526184172208914432?s=21&t=7cbPvUcvUxHS70D-7Us8HA
https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/1526230698859941890
https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/1526231518162702341
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Thatâs a cable thing, not a Fox thing right? Iâm sure ESPN, et al are just as bad.
Whenever something terrible happens (mass shootings, insurrections, etc.) the GOP goes silent until they get their talking points then they all fall in line like fucking clockwork.
Yup, ESPN is by far the most expensive. By far.
If youâre any kind of half-diligent observer of the American Right of the Trump and post-Trump era, youâll encounter the name âClaremont Instituteâ regularly. But when you begin to tally up the California think tankâs tanks accomplishments, things start to appear a little eerie: just about every illiberal, anti-democratic, and demagogic project attempted by the Right in the past few years is connected to Claremont in some way. The sheer amount of villainy engaged in by its members and associatesâwho like to ironically refer to themselves âClaremonstersââstarts to verge on the self-parodic and camp. Without flattering their vanity too much, they can appear at times to be something like SPECTRE, the shadowy organization in the James Bond novels and films that turns out to be behind every crime and calamity in the world. But, more seriously, itâs hard to avoid the impression that the Claremont Institute, rather than being an ivory tower or staid policy shop, constitutes a veritable conspiracy against the American republic.
The article then goes through the Clarmont alumni and their role in this apocalyptic anti democratic turn of Republican politics
Itâs this theme of Western decline and decadence that can be found repeatedly in the works of Jaffaâs contemporary epigones at Claremont Institute and forms the central justification for their radical political actions. Things are falling apart, or have already so fallen apart, that therefore anything goes: We donât really live in a democracy or a constitutional republic anymore or even âAmericaâ anymore, thereâs nothing left to conserve, so out-and-out counter-revolution is the only remedy. Trump, who they admit is not the ideal vessel for their counter-revolution, is at least something. They are both openly cynical and totally delusional here; for them, Trump is just a means to an end or a mere symbolic representation. And if any American citizens donât agree, they arenât really citizens. One can see here how all this could create a thick atmosphere megalomania for the self-appointed high priests. (My simile here is not original, nor even clearly just a metaphor. âJaffa behaves like a high priest who detects impieties in the proceedings and denounces those involved as heretical,â writes Ken Masugi, a fellow at the Institute. Only Jaffa and his disciples really get the deep meaning of what Masugi calls Lincolnâs âcosmic poetry.â)
Here we begin to get into truly eerie, Orwellian territory. The Claremonters often like to imagine their opponents as a cabal of bureaucrats and intellectuals plotting against American democracy, armed with a tendentious, ideological reading of the American past, allied with the mob, and subverting national institutions for their own power and prestige. But what could better describe their own project today? So far, they have ably used the disorder brought about by Trumpâs rise within the GOP to greatly extend their factionâs power and influence, propelling themselves from a fringe sect into the very heart of conservative thought and politics. Perhaps now we can begin to see the deep affinity of their pretensions to high philosophy and their allies in the mob: both are equally involved in a vulgar religion of power and its current primary idol, Trump.
And maybe itâs worth being a bit concerned about the theological significance they give to calamities like the Civil War. On the metaphysical level they, as initiates, apparently have access to, weâre at an even more cataclysmic point than the Civil War itself. In an interview with the Atlantic, Claremontâs President said, âI think weâre more divided now than we were then.â They hope, they wish, and they are working to make it so. Like much else today, it can be difficult to tell where absurdity ends and real danger begins.
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Yeah it sucks. But at least my ESPN bucks arenât going towards promoting Great Replacement Theory.
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what the actual fuck
Sharp knees, I thought it was sharp elbows that was esthetically unappealing?
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If you donât know who she is. Letâs just say that photo is cropped very misleadingly.
I had the same reaction as you and then went down the rabbit hole. Itâs still a dickish thing for him to say, no doubt.
I stole the image from Popehat, blame him for the cropping
If Daniel Dale fact checked SI-swimsuit-issue-related hot takes, heâd definitely take issue with that cropping.
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https://twitter.com/OG_McDuck/status/1526310702360797184
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Iâd hit it. Elbows not too pointy.
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