Some of you are more mad about Fani Willis going on trips with a coworker boyfriend which both of them paid for than you are about Clarence Thomas going on trips that billionaires with business before the Supreme Court paid for.
The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
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- She had a consensual love affair. He has been found liable for rape and accused credibly of various nonconsensual assaults and rapes. She is a flawed human being who messed up. He is a fascist charged with racketeering to end American democracy. Hope this perspective helps.
00:00 - I was invited to speak to The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council about democracy. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't voice the truth about my host, the Murdochs.
- When people step down or die, there is pressure to speak well of them, to toast their service and longevity in power, and overlook the substance of what they did. I will not be participating in that, because Mitch McConnell disemboweled America.
- I tried to do a public service by teaching @andrewcuomo how to pronounce @ZohranKMamdani’s name. You can’t lead a big, diverse city with Mayflower mouth.
- The fallacy guiding Democrats is that you can beat fascism with logic and facts. Democrats are great at speaking about and delivering policies. But they fall short in addressing the spiritual and emotional crises enabling fascism. That must change.
- Bob Mueller was never going to save you. The Supreme Court was never going to save you. The special counsel was never going to save you. Only you, plural you, organizing and voting, have a chance of saving you.
- Three theses from my discussion with @chrislhayes last night about 2024. 1. Tens of millions profess to be as mad as they’ve ever been about Trump, but if we’re honest, we don’t have a national pro-democracy movement commensurate with the threat or with the professed passion.
00:00 - David, my friend, just say welcome. Politics is not record collecting. It’s good when people find out about your favorite band.Huge congratulations to the Pod Save Guys, the Abundance Guys and all the Democratic pundits who suddenly discovered Mamdani and started saying nice things about him less than 36 hours ago as soon as the Polymarket odds shifted - this victory is all you guys, great work
- Heading into 2024, we have one party that is all story and no governing. And another party that is all governing and no story. If Democrats want to win in 2024, they have to let go of the fantasy that policy and economics speak for themselves. There must be a galvanizing story.
00:00 - In a nation full of grateful immigrants, Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the most ungrateful immigrant of all: He came, he profited, he served to destroy.Anand Giridharadas was invited to speak at a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event, and used the opportunity to lay into the Murdoch empire. "This is an extraordinary newspaper — owned by one of the most destructive men on Earth." - @AnandWrites
00:00 - Replying to @AnandWrites3. When you dig below the day-to-day issues, this is a country full of anxious, unmoored voters, of every background. To me, the central problem in American politics right now is that the bad guys know how to speak to the psychologically adrift, and the good guys don’t.
00:00 - America is a country made of the world, and if you don’t get that, that’s on you.
- This is the optimistic truth at the heart of politics: a lot of seemingly deep convictions are, in fact, pretty shallow. And if you reframe and help people make different meaning, new possibilities quickly arise.Great news! 71% of Americans think the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor" ... but call if you call it "welfare" that number drops to 30%
