Tuesday Tweets

Not a perfect film, but damn, are parts of this movie are prescient.

Certain irony in seeing it on Movies! which is one of the Fox divisions that stayed with Murdoch.

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) February 2, 2020

Holy hell. https://t.co/PKYnWI9fvn

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 2, 2020

Good. National coverage of Iowa and New Hampshire tends to set up unhealthy feedback loops and pushes them further into Keynesian beauty contest territory.

The NYT, WaPo and CNN homepages all have essentially nothing above the fold about the Iowa caucuses, which are in 2 days. It's still all impeachment.

(Although CNN does have a house ad up for its show(!) about the final Des Moines Register poll tonight.) pic.twitter.com/dAeQvDP5TI

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 1, 2020

We're all nerds here. We might as well embrace it.

There's arguably a Cretan's paradox aspect to 2016. If Trump won because experts were wrong (thinking he couldn't win), then he would have lost if they thought he could have won. https://t.co/FizJAzXyoX

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) February 2, 2020

Extraordinary footage from the front-line of the Australian fires. Watch how an apparently normal scene is transformed in 90 seconds into an inferno. https://t.co/8sdOeWRncL

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) January 30, 2020

Classic emperor's new clothes: Once the PR bubble pops, no aspect of a company's former "genius" is not subject to withering scrutiny, where it suddenly looks beyond ridiculous. https://t.co/vYsM3BehGr

— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) January 30, 2020

  

We'll be making fun of Quibi (and Vulture) later.

Because nothing enhances a sweeping epic like being chopped into 10 minutes chunks.

"Quibi tells Vulture it is working with Vikings writer-producer Michael Hirst on Charlemagne, a biopic about the historical icon Charles the Great." https://t.co/yYx3KcvS1o via @vulture

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) January 31, 2020

 

I really want to see how Carl's Jr/Hardees markets the cricket-burger.

"Crickets offer roughly the same amount of protein as beef as well as significantly more micronutrients since you're consuming the exoskeleton as well." https://t.co/u2z2XhfOxp

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) January 29, 2020

  


Still suspect that McConnell made the smart call for the party (not to be confused with the right call for the country), but it couldn't have been an easy calculation.

Support for witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial in recent polls:

Quinnipiac 75
Monmouth 80
Reuters 72
CNN 69
AP/NORC 68
Quinnipiac 66
WaPo 71

Support for witnesses even in positive territory among Republicans.

And these polls are almost all before the Bolton story broke.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 28, 2020

I wonder if there are new Festinger's already embedding themelves and working on their QAnon books.

QAnon conspiracy theorists are urging their fans to ward off the coronavirus by drinking bleach.
https://t.co/UYRT3mYN7F

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 28, 2020