Favorite Rejects 2022-05-16

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Me, 2005: What if we could put all the Americans who love to argue about politics in one room and just let them all fight it out? Me, 2022: ...No, not like that.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

A friend was applying to be in an amateur fashion show, and was confused by the political questions asking her about how fashion could change the world. I told her to just think of it as similar to her application to the Chinese Communist Party. She immediately understood.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s going to be the case that average US oil production was significantly higher during Biden’s term than Trump’s (or indeed any other administration ever), but I feel like neither party is going to want to acknowledge that. But Democrats maybe should.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think she wants people to call her racist so I think it’s worth just calmly pointing out that it’s not factually true that Democrats support open borders and that liars don’t have your best interests at heart. https://t.co/WdjjXEV1Ft

Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik

Democrats desperately want wide open borders and mass amnesty for illegals allowing them to vote. Like the vast majority of Americans, Republicans want to secure our borders and protect election integrity.

FreshMouthHat @Popehat

Everyone: Glenn Greenwald cannot possibly get more disingenuous Glenn Greenwald:

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I think people misunderstand Great Replacement Theory. The primary fear is not so much "Immigrants are going to replace white people". It's "Immigrants are going to vote for a party that wants to give more power to black people".

noahpinion.substack.comRepublicans and the Great ReplacementThe idea that they’re being “replaced” is now part of the core GOP ideology

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Europe decides that clean energy is more important than environmental review. Good. ft.com/content/870d9b…

James Palmer @BeijingPalmer

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Larisa Brown @larisamlbrown

New: President Putin is making low-level tactical decisions that would normally be decided by an officer in charge of as few as 700 Russian troops, western military sources say. https://t.co/20vVxHLePk

Jacob Perry 🇺🇦 @RealJacobPerry

Holy shit