Kind: Reposts

"The elites lied to you about the vaccine" isn't some nuanced critique of precisely what the vaccine did and didn't do as hoped, in the face of new variants. It's an effort to stir up anger and suspicion aimed at everyone who was trying their best to save lives.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 12, 2022

Yes, that's how it works. What's so difficult about this for people to get? Be cool, we're cool. Be a racist piece of shit and you can't come to my parties. Seems so simple, but this idiot just can't put it together. https://t.co/pOne1U8LG4

— Andrew H. Sowards (@AndrewHSowards) September 11, 2022

I give @RepMTG a kind of credit for not adjusting her convictions or retreating into silence in light of Ukraine's successes. She is unmoved by the sight of nobility in the defense of freedom. This is what "America First' means today, as it is what 'America First' meant in 1940. https://t.co/74GA8Cw9Op

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 11, 2022

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the fact that this kind of demagogic rhetoric, in a memo to donors (!) from a sitting GOP senator, sounds kind of...semi-fascist.

“Any so-called Republican who aids and abets the enemy is...a traitor to our cause."https://t.co/35dCUyU9rY

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 11, 2022

I don't care if my freedom gives you the sads. #MAGAOffOurBodies

— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) September 9, 2022

It's amazing that for all of the "don't call right-wingers racist, it makes them ally with racists who show them respect" hang-wringing, no one seems worried that calling moderate Democrats satanists will actually cause us to ally with satan. https://t.co/LhTgzz9U1A

— Actually malicious, no actual malice (@apark2453) September 9, 2022

It's funny how the "respect the dead" crowd never says that to the powerful who ordered the digging of mass graves.

— Dwayne David Paul (@DwayneDavidPaul) September 8, 2022

Because, you see, it’s about the frustration with the international economy and their legitimate concerns about the border and stuff like that. https://t.co/tMlTgbswzF

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 8, 2022

They DID stake out a clear, unified position.

But it was "make teenagers birth their rapists' babies" and "let women die on the operating table" and "jail time for miscarriages"

Do try to keep up 🙄 https://t.co/rLCrFgNISj

— Silent Amuse (@SilentAmuse) September 8, 2022

I'll always take someone whose brain had a hiccup over someone who has chosen to be a ridiculous buffoon. https://t.co/hcTpwolsmX

— Actually malicious, no actual malice (@apark2453) September 8, 2022

Oh, good God. https://t.co/Dv7LNTX52b

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) September 8, 2022

I know white Republicans and conservative Democrats who initially cheered Obama's election. They thought it meant they'd no longer have to talk about racism in the U.S. When that didn't happen, they got angry and went the other way. We can't tiptoe our way out of this reality. https://t.co/VzWUlOzsWu

— @ijbailey (@ijbailey) September 8, 2022

Yes, at some point, Republicans need to clean up their own mess. They don't get to offload this task onto liberals and Democrats (who already are working to defuse authoritarianism more diligently by far than Republicans are). https://t.co/2bGy873RpZ

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 8, 2022

Voters to the right of center are being asked to support Constitutional democracy. Honor election results, peaceful transfer of power, rule of law. Contest policy within the system.
The only "concession" to make in exchange for that is to do the same. Anything else is extortion. https://t.co/9eM5Mp6pLT

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) September 8, 2022

He did it. He defrauded thousands of Americans. It's his whole business model. They used a guy that got blown up in Iraq as the "heroic" face and when he went to jail, Donald Trump pardoned his buddy Steve and let Kolfage rot in jail. Fuck him. Fuck Trump. Go to hell. https://t.co/bhSu2hMV3z

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 8, 2022

I am continually in awe of the fact that it was these two--these graceful and thoughtful, patriotic, inclusive, well-educated public servants--which ignited a firestorm of grievance from the Right which now threatens democracy itself.

Like, really? This is what you hate? THIS? https://t.co/yZPKsQEovx

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) September 7, 2022

so have any states with abortion bans expanded their welfare state to help families yet or is it just shit like this? https://t.co/HrNYRbxRQu

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) September 7, 2022

No one is going to make you eat bugs, weirdos.

— Jort-Michel Connard 🐘 (@torriangray) September 7, 2022

How about this: you can choose whether or not to provide health insurance to your employees. But once you offer it, you get to say f’k-all about which procedures, therapies, and medications they receive bc, it’s none of your gd business.

— ProTip (@alt_localgov) September 7, 2022

I don't think Barr wants to run for POTUS. He has below-Mike-Pence odds, which is to say none

Barr is taking a gamble that Trump is eventually going to be jailed, and he wants to be known as one of the "good guys" when Rs inevitably pretend none of them ever liked Trump anyway https://t.co/ZId000V4lb

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) September 7, 2022