Former economist | Tennis junkie 🎾 | Guitar player 🎸 | Cat dad 🐾 | Charlotte-based, NYC at heart 🗽 | Columbia & UMD alum 🎓 | Mets ⚾️ & Raiders 🏈 fan
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Jay D retweeted
Even among Republicans, there is little support for annexing Greenland, seizing Venezuela’s oil, waging a cold war with Canada, cutting off Ukraine, insulting and indiscriminately tariffing allies, fawning over authoritarians, buying diesel from Russia, launching a war on Iran, blowing up alleged drug boats and making lucrative deals abroad that benefit the first family.
It’s just possible that out of the wreckage of the MAGA party will emerge a chastened group of lawmakers who are willing to work with Democrats to reorient U.S. foreign policy in a direction that actually puts America, rather than Trump, first. wapo.st/4BSnqNO
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In just the past two weeks, the pro-Palestine movement tried to burn down my neighborhood synagogue and organized a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia on the eve of Kristalnacht.
So please, spare me the “anti Zionism isn’t antisemitism” nonsense. Yes, it is.
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Philly’s massive pushback against the antizionist hate movement today is a shining example to those who actually care about brotherly love, social justice and civil rights.
Bravo.
This is called stomping out hate.
Jay D retweeted
To the WSJ ed board: Trump didn’t steal this election only because our coalition stopped him for 21 months.
We beat 8 major sabotage schemes—culminating in our election-eve SCOTUS win in California.
Read the inside legal story in my column 👇 -TN contrariannews.org/p/contrar…
Jay D retweeted
This is so wrong
The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months
Here’s how: a thread (1/x)
Jay D retweeted
Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore defied the odds, winning the race for South Carolina’s First Congressional District. Lacore was fired by Pete Hegseth without cause after 35 years of service to our country. She could have retired, but Lacore wasn’t ready to stop serving. Now she’ll represent South Carolina in Congress, and VoteVets is proud to have had her back.
Jay D retweeted
MAGA built a fantasy world in their online echo chambers, and then they just assumed that that fantasy world was real and that the rest of the country lived there too.
"The truth is that the average American does not see “Western civilization” as a fortress under siege. The average American does not spend all day in a state of panic that brown immigrants...are invaders bent on subjugating the white race."
noahpinion.blog/p/normal-ame…
Jay D retweeted
S.E. Cupp: Voters rejected the culture wars. Kneeling football players and Sharia law and white replacement and the caliphate and transing your kids that didn't put food on anyone's table. It was only good for the grifters who profited off of that utter bullshit.
Jay D retweeted
I’ve come to think @elonmusk ended up doing Dems and progressives a huge favor by turning this place into a fetid swamp of feral right wing freaks where the most prominent members of their coalition post like cartoon movie villains and think it makes them look cool.
Jay D retweeted
For traditional conservatives, burning the MAGA GOP to the ground was the best possible result. Sure, Trump beat two flawed Democrats, but he's been a a disaster for free markets, rule of law, civility, and Reaganite foreign policy. May the GOP rediscover principled conservatism.
Jay D retweeted
Virtue. Honor. Integrity.
There are still enough people who believe in those attributes and tonight South Carolina proved it. Congratulations, @AnnieAndrewsMD.
Serve us well.
Jay D retweeted
From a long ago campaign - thinking of my dad today and of the incredible blessings of freedom handed down to us by all those who have defended it. It’s up to us to elect people who are worthy to lead. Vote like our freedom depends upon it because it does. 🇺🇸
Jay D retweeted
My one hope for election day is that we get enough of a backlash to make clear that white nationalism is not viable in American politics.
It's not just the Bo Frenches. Nearly every Republican message to mobilize their base is some variation of immigrants are killing you, making you poorer, outvoting you, taking your country away, clogging traffic, imposing Sharia law, stealing your job, etc. They occasionally take a break from being anti-immigrant to be anti-trans, but there's little of what we used to consider normal ideology.
It's getting quite ugly, and threatens the future of the country through cutting us off from foreign talent and pursuing population degrowth. The point of democracy is to provide corrections in moments like this. We need Republicans to engage in soul searching, but that's only going to happen if they lose badly, hopefully thanks to the groups they've targeted. richardhanania.com/p/why-non…
Jay D retweeted
In 2019, during the first Trump Administration, I wrote: “One day in the not too distant future, Republicans will wake up and say, ‘We did this for this man?’” It’s taken longer than I thought, but I think that day is finally coming.
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CBS = Cat Bringing Smiles
One of the most famous addresses in the world, 10 Downing Street in London, is home not just to prime ministers, but also to a 19-year-old tabby cat named Larry.
@HollyMAWilliams looks at how the official pet of the British leader’s residence and Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office has become a favorite to the press — and a political fixture whose nine lives have so far outlasted five prime ministers.
Jay D retweeted
Reminded again of how Jordan Peterson's counsel to young men differs from the alt-right's.
Peterson: Life is hard. Clean your room. Take responsibility. Bear others' burdens.
Alt-right: Everyone is against you. Your problems are caused by women and foreigners.
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I have spoken out against anti-Muslim hate in the Michigan Senate race. I will speak out just as loudly when the target is Jewish people.
Let me state a little-known fact: ISRAEL GETS LESS THAN 0.1 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET. That’s less than one tenth of a percent!
But there is an ad running that tells voters they can’t afford groceries because the United States gives so much money to Israel. In reality, the United States spends money in and on countries all around the world – but this ad singles out the Jewish state. The ad is as dangerous as it is dishonest.
You can disagree with how the United States spends money abroad. But telling hungry families that the Jewish state is the reason they are suffering is wrong and shameful.
Blaming Jews for people’s problems is an old story. Anybody who has read the last century of history knows where it leads. It is a dark pathway.
This ad is anti-Jewish hate and should come down immediately. Abdul El-Sayed should denounce it today.
