I’m trying to imagine explaining to myself in 2008 that I come from the future and Bill Kristol is better than Matt Taibbi - ThreadSky

vituperativeerb.bsky.social • 34 days ago

I’m trying to imagine explaining to myself in 2008 that I come from the future and Bill Kristol is better than Matt Taibbi

Reposted from GPT-Ern Malley

Any "who goes MAGA" essay which does not grapple with Ryan Grim going Fash and Bill Kristol saying he will die for America's Gays simply is not worth the photons to reach your eyeballs

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mourn-the-weenie.bsky.social•34 days ago

Look, a democrat is a democrat is a democrat

jasonfrantz.bsky.social•34 days ago

No shit, jesus

jimc5.bsky.social•34 days ago

As fucked up as 2008 was, I would say, no way, you’re lying.

dhpljm266.bsky.social•34 days ago

Kristol had recently been fired from the Times oped page for being too boring…

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Do you mean Krugman

edwinmix.bsky.social•34 days ago

Krugman quit because the Times kept trying to censor his columns.

jimc5.bsky.social•34 days ago

Pretty complete story here

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

dhpljm266.bsky.social•34 days ago

But, tbc, the original comment was about Kristol’s disastrous year at the op-ed page in 2008

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Right we cleared it up

dhpljm266.bsky.social•34 days ago

Kristol had a column for the NYT from Jan 2008 to Jan 2009. Everyone agreed it was a disaster.

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh lol sorry I read “has” instead of “has”

akgrrrl.bsky.social•34 days ago

😵‍💫 💯

dmlundeen.bsky.social•34 days ago

A lot of us saw through Matt Taibbi’s shit back then.

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Send me your address I’ll get that trophy in the mail

dmlundeen.bsky.social•34 days ago

I’m not shaming anyone; the signs were there is all, from his lazy, Tea Party overlap
claims about the financial crisis to his gonzo journalism basically sex tourism rink in post Soviet Russia. He’s always been about being a contrarian dick.

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Ok!

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

“No, I’m serious, future-us would 100% rather do shrooms with Kristol”

jmteo.bsky.social•34 days ago

I would low key love to get a beer with Kristol. His trajectory is very interesting.

rainsurname.bsky.social•34 days ago

He's always been smart & funny & interesting. I'd have enjoyed shooting the shit with him 25 years ago too. Sure, we'd have argued about politics, but in a civil, thoughtful, well-informed way that left room for fabulous conversations about other things.

jlindy.bsky.social•34 days ago

I think it was known in 2008 that Taibbi was a serially sexual harasser or worse.

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Not to me

dmlundeen.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yeah he only wrote a book in 2000 boasting about it.

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•34 days ago

And did I read that book, Dave?

jlindy.bsky.social•34 days ago

Me either. Replace "known" with knowable, and shame on us that the environment was such that the news about him didn't spread.

nateo.bsky.social•34 days ago

Genuinely deranged that he's followed me here and on twitter for years and I'm just a random leftist poster, I swear, what has happened to the timeline?

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