Every few months we get a profile of the "maverick" Republicans who will push back against the party's radicalization and every single time the author blithely acknowledges that they will not, in fact, be pushing back against the party's radicalization. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... - ThreadSky

michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Every few months we get a profile of the "maverick" Republicans who will push back against the party's radicalization and every single time the author blithely acknowledges that they will not, in fact, be pushing back against the party's radicalization.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/marty-makary-rfk-jr-fda-commissioner/681956/

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scruffopone.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh hold up though did we get another Florko banger?

litzz11.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why is @theatlantic.com so consistently terrible?

hsticka.bsky.social•1 day ago

*gestures at everything*

audioworm.bsky.social•1 day ago

At what point do we just label all these writers as fascist PR people

kantbemyself.bsky.social•2 days ago

I keep a (used) copy of RFKjr's book in my bathroom. Literally every page is insane to read. Laughable if you have even a science nerd's level of literacy.
I mean, he's a dangerous HIV denialist moron with power, so it's not like "lol" laughable.

bigstevey.bsky.social•2 days ago

When the bar is set at sex criminals and people who are currently drunk, Ol Marty looks like a fucking super hero.

joulesbyrne.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here are the "Hail Mary" outside shots... we're wishcasting, but read our articles about what we'd like to happen.

texaskrusty.bsky.social•2 days ago

The press loves to think the GOP is a country club of rational businessmen when it is really the guys rolling with Humongous in the Road Warrior

williamslauram.bsky.social•1 day ago

Had my fill of this with all the early coverage of Ben Sasse.

michaelhobbes.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh my god this would make such a good episode

williamslauram.bsky.social•1 day ago

Send me a link if you do it. I still get an eye twitch thinking about all the glowing coverage of him. He was the cool dude of the hour for a while, but spine of jello did him in.

hsticka.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a Nebraskan, I salivate for a Sasse takedown. Fortenberry, too. He had a professor fired for calling him Fartenberry via changing a letter on a sign.

saneenglish.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Maverick Republican" means they haven't done the Nazi salute (yet)

mikeocon.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's some pitch black cynicism.

televisionaryzw.bsky.social•2 days ago

They push back only in the way that Goring would push back more than Himmler.

fanofthecritic.bsky.social•2 days ago

At least Goring could sit on Himmler and crush him.

michaelhobbes.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another flavor of this same shit sundae is the "conundrum" of political figures who have straightforwardly far-right views.

Remember how they did this with the Tea Party for the entire Obama administration?
https://bsky.app/profile/larryglickman.bsky.social/post/3ljukdz67wc2o

mistuhbull.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a conundrum because it's "biased" to identify fascism so there must be something else animating the fascist

i-sing-of-olaf.bsky.social•1 day ago

"just might" !!

with this approach just about everything could be a story. "humans just might be relocating to Uranus next month!"
"dogs just might cook spaghetti when humans are out!"
"you just might be able to retire comfortably!"

lmhinh.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the Atlantic? Shocking /s

hankdillon.bsky.social•2 days ago

They said "might," Mike. What more do you want from them?

brdw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or the ones about "Maverick" Dems who are gonna moderate our way out of this nightmare like this bleak article where Seattle's own Adam Smith BRAGS about hanging out with Chris Rufo and about how he has some good ideas?! This is not it, folks! https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

wellsbe.bsky.social•2 days ago

They are desperately trying to resurrect a mummified John McCain- the Maverick who never deviated from an authoritarian norm but who made good copy.

frankgrimesiv.bsky.social•1 day ago

Republicans get insane mileage out of any slight deviation from the party orthodoxy even if they barely ever act on it. Look at how often we have to read about Susan Collins being "concerned" as she never actually votes in a way that would hold up Republicans in any meaningful way.

arosoff.bsky.social•2 days ago

The only person who could sincerely have wrktten that headline is someone who never actually paid attention to Marty Makary. He's just another Covid contrarian, among other things.

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