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Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Trump is fundamentally stuck in the 1980s, tailored his message for the 1980s, and oriented the party around interest groups of the 1980s industrial Midwest. So this is what you end up with. The tragedy of it all is that it worked as long as it did
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells reporters that he will talk with his members about bringing a new impeachment effort against Pete Hegseth in the next Congress after Massie’s articles failed tonight
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
The Hegseth impeachment got blocked because 11 House Democrats didn’t show up for the vote. Disappointing and unacceptable.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Jack Nicholson refused payment for a 2‑minute cameo in Broadcast News, one that openly mocks multi‑million‑dollar salaries.
His surprise, uncredited appearance was kept out of every promo. One condition: wrap fast so he could ride back to L.A. and catch the Lakers that night.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Starting in January, denial or downplaying of the January 6 coup attempt should be an automatic disqualification for every Trump nominee. No exceptions.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Seriously not sure Democrats could have scripted a better Republican response to last week’s historic midterm defeat than Stephen Miller becoming White House chief of staff and Jim Jordan taking over House Republican leadership.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
I think the reason we so often depict the medieval era through fantasy is that depicting it realistically gives modern audiences an uncanny valley feeling.
Its institutions, cultures, and religion are immediately recognizable to us. What’s harder for modern people to accept is how seriously medieval people took their beliefs in the supernatural.
Modern audiences can easily understand a ruthless, politically calculating king using religion to justify his actions. What we struggle to comprehend is that the same king might genuinely fear for his immortal soul.
To communicate how real the supernatural was to medieval people, authors make it physically manifest through dragons, wizards, etc.
Fantasy can make the medieval worldview more comprehensible than realism.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
This seat is likely going to flip.
That would be #261 for Democrats.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Hegseth has killed at least 199 people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. Not one was charged, tried, or even named. After one strike, the military went back and killed the survivors.
Under your logic, anyone suspected of touching drugs can be executed without a trial. Your own mother would have qualified. teapawt.net/JDVance/status/2120193…
Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.
Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).
The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.
This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Putting Stephen Miller & Jim Jordan in charge is like putting matches and gasoline in the hands of an arsonist.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Jim Jordan has defeated Steve Scalise to become the next House Minority Leader. It's not a surprising result. Scalise had a very distinct disadvantage in today's GOP, as he has never been alleged to have committed or enabled sexual abuse.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
Of course it's Jordan. I never expected otherwise. The party is smaller, "purer." And the response of a party to an existential threat is always to become more like itself.
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
The Dixiecrats tried to hold their convention in Houston in 1948 and they got run outta town by the Longshoremen and the Pipefitters. -OS
Jacques Reilly-Gillic retweeted
This is an insane choice. The vote was 106-73.
Between Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and minority leader Jim Jordan, one does not get the sense the GOP learned literally anything at all.
