Which could explain why it looks like a DeLorean hatchback -- Tuesday Tweets

The real reason for the unpainted stainless Cybertruck decision is *hushed voice* disruption.

This is unprecedented innovation, folks. Nobody has ever tried to justify this exact decision in misleading ways, only for the truth to end up in their obituary https://t.co/KaxUABkWrX pic.twitter.com/lTHL59xEZR

— E.W. CYBERMEYER (@Tweetermeyer) November 27, 2019

🚨🚨🚨 (found it, yeeha)
That would mean that when Elon Musk announced the reveal on November 6, Tesla engineers had yet to start building the damn thinghttps://t.co/VY4OiIWVrU

— Rob Forth (@robinivski) November 28, 2019

Always enjoy it when Josh Barro weighs in on a nepotism debate.

I dunno, why didn't Joe say anything to Hunter when he took the stupid job? It's Obama's job to clean up the mess now? https://t.co/SjRwwriSFv

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) November 26, 2019

 


Worth it just for the use of the phrase "controlled detonation."

1/ Less than six months ago, on a joint call with Morgan Stanley's high yield analyst, Adam Jonas referred to Tesla as a "controlled detonation" and used the word "restructuring" numerous times. The high yield analyst spoke of the crushing burden of liabilities. https://t.co/3uwLnv5QS5

— CrowPointPartners (@cppinvest) November 27, 2019

Good quote.

You have to be tenacious to investigate anything, but tenacity alone makes you a conspiracy theorist. The really hard part of investigative journalism is pursuing a story tenaciously while remaining open-minded about what the story actually is. If this sounds like a zen koan...

— E.W. CYBERMEYER (@Tweetermeyer) November 30, 2019

So I did a deep dive into commas a few years ago and discovered that almost every comma rule you know was codified or invented by Strunk & White in 1918 or the editor of the New Yorker in 1935, and that's how I learned to stop worrying and love commas-as-rhythm. https://t.co/Ojo4yZd6L7

— David Thomas Moore is still in the EU (@dtmooreeditor) November 26, 2019

We'll be revisiting this.

Hasn't happened yet, but political journalism in the US will have to rethink it's relationship to the Republican Party, as conspiracy thinking, attacks on the press, and, to use an academic term, making shit up become not what the GOP does, but what it is. https://t.co/p9QR4OCvwM

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 29, 2019

For the cult of personality thread.

Lou Dobbs: Trump is "already the greatest president. And if you look at any other president and what they are able to accomplish in 3 years, without a Congress, without the help of their own conference, their own party, it's extraordinary" pic.twitter.com/CmRO0sHCpG

— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) November 27, 2019

Rick Perry 2015: “Let no one be mistaken - Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”

Rick Perry now: https://t.co/Q0dtbfUNzk

— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) November 25, 2019

My question is how big is that 1/3 next to Trump's thin margin of victory?

yes https://t.co/epcPDtDdh5

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 27, 2019

My current rule. Adapted from @ThePlumLineGS.

All discussions of "Good lord, why are we so divided? America can't even agree on common facts" (very popular these days) should be framed instead as: how did the Republican Party arrive at this place? https://t.co/UCunJhK5qD

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 27, 2019

I wrote in Trumpocracy:
“The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.” https://t.co/Re2fv4hpZL

— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 25, 2019

If you read press coverage of the Democratic campaign, you'd get no sense at all that Democratic voters are quite happy with their field, even though those numbers are as high as they've ever been.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 25, 2019