Seth Masket

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Political scientist. Author. Amateur cake decorator.
Director, Center on American Politics. University of Denver.
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Um, no, we are not closer to Armageddon today than we were in October of 1962, and this is a stupid hackish thing and always has been.
Occam's Leafblower
This tweet is perfect and may be enough to lure me back to that hellsite.
We're not gonna fall for the old "cooperate fully with investigators" move, see?
"I have proof of election fraud!"
"Meh."
"No really, I made 64 Excel sheets!"
"Oh well in that case!"
Richard Nixon was nowhere near the most popular president in American history. He did win reelection with one of the largest popular vote shares in history, but that’s hardly the same thing. Also being popular should not exempt you from being investigated for crimes.
Alito rn
Speaker McCarthy with radical new vision that Congress should be in charge of federal spending.
Economists: You know, the federal government isn’t really a business, so it doesn’t make sense to liken it to one when talking about budgets and deficits.
McCarthy: Okay, what if I likened the government to children?
Hard to understate how irresponsible it is for a Speaker to just vaguely imply a colleague has done something criminal by citing a secret briefing.