incredibly depressed that the absolute, obvious takeaway from the political fallout of biden’s economic management is “chronic mass unemployment is better than inflation”
Bouie called me an idiot because he's lost his power to dominate discourse. I feel bad for him because he clearly finds politics boring, but his ambition dominates him so thoroughly he can't actually pursue his real passions.
I wish stoller was high profile enough that every person on the other side of each request or inquiry knew to respond this way, but I’m still glad to know that from now on, any request for clarity comes with the nagging suspicion a stranger is clowning him.
I’m sure he’s just in his Twitter-honed instinct to drive rage engagement, and he’ll evaporate once he realizes there’s no monetary value in Bluesky clout and everyone has blocked him anyway.
That's some real projection there buddy. Perhaps because your asinine takes got roasted and rejected out of hand like they deserved instead of being taken seriously.
Alternatively, he called out obvious flaws in your arguments because they are, well, obvious—a conclusion for which one may find support in the ad hominem nature of your response.
IOW: hit dogs holler.
Boy it's a hell of a thing to accuse someone of not using their platform to influence discourse and in the next fucking breath try to insult them for having no power over discourse.
This is known as Fox News Syndrome, where the patient feels no accountability to be consistent to previous comments and instead jumps from one critique to another based on what happened in the last 30 seconds, hoping to overwhelm the audience so they won't notice it's just petty mudslinging.
We started off with “Matt has some idiotic opinions about American history” and now we’re at “Matt has thin skin and can’t read very well”.
So, congrats on making this worse for yourself.
Well, no, he said that’s the nicest thing he *could* say about you, because that’s nicer thing than the truth, which is that you’re craven cynic who will to endorse all sorts of dumb ideas in the hopes Hawley really means his occasional anti-trust rumblings (he doesn’t).
no, it’s because you’re an idiot. a rube. a buffoon. a fool. a halfwit. a nincompoop. a dolt. a dimwit. a bonehead. a ninny. a chucklehead. a knucklehead. a moron. a simpleton. a dunce. a blockhead. a muttonhead. a dunderhead. a chump. a dummy. a clod. a bonehead. a fathead. a nitwit and an imbecile