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Psaki-bashing, teh burn

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:32:41 +0000

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Psaki-bashing, teh burn

New sheriff in town with no time for your nonsense pic.twitter.com/EarCEL14JA
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 5, 2021

Clinton & Blinken podcast

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:20:28 +0000

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Clinton & Blinken podcast

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Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Hillary Clinton, “You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton” Podcast - https://t.co/HxVKUxMklb pic.twitter.com/BlTe1mk8JZ
— The Daily Fodder (@TDFodder) March 2, 2021

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.@SecBlinken con @HillaryClinton - Ascolta il podcast "You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton"

https://t.co/F5KsF9rbWa

https://t.co/dXMtOjSoeg
— Ambasciata U.S.A. (@AmbasciataUSA) March 2, 2021

Oh, I'm a changed man - i

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:42:00 +0000

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Oh, I'm a changed man - i love her for her shrill, her cackles, she's the Baba Yaga who you threaten your kids with if they don't finish their peas, the anti-Joe Marie Clintonette, "Let them eat shit." As Bogie said in Casablanca, "We'll always have Benghazi". And the X-Files: "the emails are out there. Somewhere". Buffy the Zombie GOP Vampire Killer mixed with Heathers/Mean Girls. Yep, i like how even channeled through Neera Tanden she can still make the pigs stampede to the water to drown themselves. Somehow "Serial Mom" might have even been modeled after her. A fitting denouement to a weird political career.

https://youtu.be/zV9GfYsKpjY?t=80&autoplay=1

it prolly wasn't you, I

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:23:07 +0000

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it prolly wasn't you, I figured there was some brouhaha over it when I saw this on Ezra Klein's feed, as it was affecting the meme he was trying to get across in his op-ed

I've watched a lot of Biden speeches. The refusal, particularly among political leaders, to wear masks, gets him angry in a way little else does. I don't think you need to reach too hard to understand why. There's little as real to him as the possibility, and pain, of loss.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 4, 2021

Biden buried two children, and a spouse, who died because of disasters he couldn't stop.

So if he gets a little sharp when politicians undermine something as simple as wearing a mask to save the lives of other people’s parents, spouses, and children, well...
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 4, 2021

Personally I don't think it's going to resound. I know you don't agree that Hillary was sort of a shrill personality, but I do, and that's why that kind of smearing stuck. Biden's not at all the same.

edit to add: Read this again: up to 50% now don't like the angry partisan fighters. Keep that in mind. Tender caring dad who gets upset about a few choice things is a very good personality meme for a president, it really is.

Oh oh, now i did it

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:02:37 +0000

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Oh oh, now i did it

top story on fox news dot com pic.twitter.com/AS8eRHFW2X
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 4, 2021

Not the only one apparently

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:06:08 +0000

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Not the only one apparently

The party of "Freedom Fries" would like you to know that "cancel culture" is a very serious problem.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 4, 2021

[personal aside: Your last

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:00:09 +0000

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[personal aside: Your last line is basically what I have trying to do on Twitter since becoming active there. I'm trying to read the tea leaves of how long it will last and when the counter-reaction comes. And so are quite a few of the smart people who follow me and vicey versa. I appreciate your opinion as well, you're a trendy global cosmopolitan after all.]

p.s. a reminder that this

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:52:38 +0000

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p.s. a reminder that this throws all that out (and yes, it's kind of amazing how little non-rare-book-collecting and non-scholarly people care about controversial publications when they are no longer owned, eh? it's like the capitalist gods are in charge of our culture or something)

Columnists who flee less and

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:18:09 +0000

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Columnists who flee less and less tolerant newspapers and magazines for Substack also are largely making decisions based on the current market. Professors who resign are also gotten facing reality and their current college market. Yes, you can pressure and boycott people using market conditions or one common market power, social media, which can quickly bring the power of the market to bear in extremely difficult to withstand ways. If I were a lawyer, i might be telling this foundation to dump this shit quick, as it's a major liability, can doom the whole foundation if a little spark triggers it, and it just isn't worth it in 2021 - save what's easy, they're already noting Dr Seuss as racist & dropping him off the kids reading list, and they'll be lucky if he hasn't ended in the scrapheap of culture within 5 years. Evaluate anything in your art world under the same terms.

as long as you keep in mind

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:37:00 +0000

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as long as you keep in mind it's just a rhetorical exercise. As you have no power here unless you are willing to lay out cold hard cash to order the books the publisher has decided to stop printing. Or start some boycott or something that pressures them. (at least I hope not, I like the system we got).

It's all market driven! They have made a decision based on their analysis of the current market. It's risky like all markets are. Maybe they're wrong, maybe they're right that the market has changed.

The difference between the Seuss thing (capitalists betting on culture having changed) and where Woke ideology does real damage: they have infiltrated our academic institutions, scholarship and educational system and use unfair tactics to get others to bend to their wishes. None of these should be profit based if they are to work properly. (Though as an aside, we do have a major problem with colleges sort of moving towards a "profit-based" mindset in a way.)