Favorite Rejects 2021-08-17
The idea that Biden could have pre-announced an expected August collapse and then have a weeks-long orderly pre-collapse evacuation without accelerating the collapse does not make a lot of sense to me. https://t.co/dOlvbhWklg
Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand
People would be saying “of course they surrendered without a fight, the president all but told them to do it.”
The bet that the ANA would hold out if encouraged to do so did not pay off, but of the two options it seems like the more reasonable one by far.
I’d been thinking of doing a piece arguing that the old, less competitive media landscape wasn’t better just so uncompetitive that nobody could see its flaws.
But @Bernstein says it here way better than I could have.
harpers.org/archive/2021/0…
Journalist while masked suggesting new countries the US needs to threaten, helpfully suggests troops Tajikistan to pick fights with China and Iran.
Biden administration: No, it’s ok.
This is what they’re dealing with daily.
The distinguishing characteristic of the Blob is not the presence of dumb stuff, but the absence of debate.
Cable hosts on all three networks just ignoring contrary voices, straight news reporters firing-off takes rather than quoting a range of views.
Justin Logan @JustinTLogan
In keeping with my pro-appropriation stance, I demand that Purim become a cheesy national holiday in which gentile twentysomethings put on yarmulkes and get drunk in the streets of every major city and frat house, singing in fake Hebrew
Interestingly Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who lived and traveled in the US extensively, considered diversity an American strength and thought that if war really broke out Japan surely would lose.
Christian Vanderbrouk @UrbanAchievr
See this I don't get, if I were president I'd be in multiple World Leaders Group Texts constantly shooting the shit.
Josh Rogin @joshrogin
@mattyglesias TFW you accidentally send the hilarious Putin gif to the UN Security Council group text instead of the NATO group text
Too much Biden shilling today?
I can’t believe they haven’t appointed someone to run the FDA! That’s botched.
Imagine bragging about taking space away from people and giving it to pollution spewing machines while wildfires borne of climate change rage just a few hours away
openthegreathighway @openthegreathwy
