Writer and consultant who loves 🇺🇸 and resents its reinvention as a system of presidential hagiography, congressional disempowerment, and judicial distrust.
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Chris Deaton retweeted
Making Stephen Miller Chief of Staff shows that the administration still thinks it's supposed to govern Twitter rather than the nation.
Chris Deaton retweeted
Every anti-Paxton Republican I talked to was sick of exactly this kind of crap. They want the party to grow up, stop acting like Biff from Back to the Future, and actually try competence and integrity for a change.
Sen. Curtis calls on Republicans to stop doing Twitter politics and go engage with the world as it actually exists
After the Biden era, Americans wanted an economy that worked for them. Instead, they received a hastily executed war, headline after headline of scandals, a ballooning $40 trillion debt, and unpredictable tariffs.
It’s time for Republicans to return to the principled conservative values that once defined us—and that we've steadily abandoned over the last decade.
poasting poasting poasting poasting poasting poasting. keep going guys. so much fun. our political class totally gets it. teapawt.org/SenSchumer/status/2117…
Chris Deaton retweeted
I get the responses to this, but one thing the old Netroots were right about is the internet makes it impossible for the old gatekeepers to function. In a country where opinion ranges from Trump to Bernie, you can no longer impose a politics that ranges from Romney to Clinton.
The responses to Isaac are the epitome of a pernicious fallacy in politics called relative privation. What many call "whataboutism" is actually this oftentimes: A guilty party minimizes its behavior by judging it against the behavior of its opponent instead of a neutral standard.
It's incredible watching people on the left defend the Dan Sullivan stuff in Alaska.
Yes, Republicans do dirty politics, too!
Yes, Trump denies the results of elections!
Yes, it might even be legal!
But you just handed Trump actual, legit ammunition to further undermine trust in elections.
You are abandoning the moral high ground.
Peltola now has to answer for this, which may hurt her odds in an election, so it's going to cost you politically also.
Which on top of it being immoral, scummy, and unethical, makes it bad politics and a total own-goal.
If you want to talk about the sanctity and integrity of the democratic process, don't go recruit candidates for the sole purpose of fooling voters!
There's no defense. Just condemn all of it.
Fundamentally anti-social people ironically invented I.T. called "social media," where today's users share survival guides for doomsday caused by the next-gen inventions of those same people and their peers. In-between, the technology was used to ruin ordered political society.
Chris Deaton retweeted
This is my new favorite @NRO article. I am very curious as to see how many people don't click any of the links. nationalreview.com/corner/a-…
Americans do not appreciate the extent to which the primary constituency of federal-level politics will continue to be "highly active social media users" no matter who is in charge. Everyone who is part of the market benefits. Those not in the know complain about government.
Congress has a serious, ultimately vital oversight role that has been undermined by cameras in committee rooms and increasingly is being done in by poasting.
Chris Deaton retweeted
1) this isn’t California wide. This is Ventura County.
2) there are lots of ballot styles, and they position different races, differently, so where this ballot lines up different from other styles in county.
3) the envelopes are purchased and made well before the candidates are determined. Sometimes over a year in advance.
4) the hole is a common design feature and serves two purposes: a) so when election workers take ballot cards out of envelope, they can quickly look to see if grabbed all of them, b) it’s an alignment mark that visually impaired can use to know where to sign
5) as the narrator says in video, you can easily fold your ballot so nothing shows
6) what’s the theory of fraud here? That postal employee is gonna throw your ballot out after looking at that hole? You think the election office wouldn’t notice if hundreds of ballots thrown out?
7) also, you can track your ballot to make sure it arrives an election facility
8) or you can drop off at a drop box and then picked up directly by election workers
9) I know this is your profit model — posting videos like this — but it’s an immoral and idiotic profit model.
Chris Deaton retweeted
there's evidence that the use of AI in schools is delivering the opposite of "intellectual flourishing"—maybe in some bubbles the use of these models is leading to more reading and philosophical debates but I'm inclined to think that's an exception to the rule
this is actually one of those things that needs to be called out if you merit being taken seriously as an American political commentator. hiding, even out of a well-meaning motivation to focus on the inside game, doesn't cut it with this. your country's envoy is fluffing a despot
it doesn't matter if the president is trump, Obama, Marvin the martian, whatever. the United States does not fawn over bad guys. and to frame it as a masterstroke of negotiating genius is so naive and insultingly stupid that it befits X, The Everything Is Insultingly Stupid App™️