Mid-week tweets

Arguing on Twitter.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/NKh9Gt517r

— The Feel Good Page 🌻 (@FeeIGoodPosts) May 26, 2021

This undercuts our solution phobia thread, but credit where credit is due. Kristof has long been one of the few bright spots in the NYT opinion section,

Here's the best investment in the world right now, and the West is not taking it: Spend $50 billion to vaccinate people in developing countries worldwide, and, the IMF says, this will generate $9 trillion in economic returns. I hope Biden reads my column https://t.co/iGYeVEmvF8

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) May 26, 2021

The Ohio lottery is another example of solution-focused thinking. Moynihan is right. Turley is... Turley.

The beauty of lotteries is that they are a cheap way to motivate people. It would be more costly to pay people to take the vaccine. And you would have to build an expensive implementation infrastructure to set up payments.
(As a prof in Maryland I endorse Ohio's lottery) pic.twitter.com/oVIA1WW57d

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) May 28, 2021

Silver is making an important point here. It's difficult to claim we're living in unprecedented times then to base your next argument on precedent.

I still think there's a little bit of tension between the notion —which I largely agree with—that the current GOP represents an unprecedented (at least in modern American history) threat to democracy and the CW that Democrats will surely suffer the usual midterm penalty in '22.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 28, 2021

Anyone else remember the wave of "this is not the Dick Cheney I know" quotes from about 2 decades ago? https://t.co/R7LUSI4V0b

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 31, 2021

You can find the full here (but it really doesn't help).

"When you start to confuse government research and development with actual research and development..."

Mike Lee is a fool.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 28, 2021

Good advice

Take note of journalists who pretend to believe conservatives when they pretend to be outraged about things we know they aren’t outraged about.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 30, 2021

And while we're on the subject.

Correction: Meghan is at a casino in Maryland honoring American’s fallen by yelling “whooooo” between Jello shots and blackjack.

May we look to her example during this most solemn of weekends that no one should enjoy in any way. Don’t even think about it.

— Mike Redmond (@theredmond) May 31, 2021

From 2019.

If we start with the compound hypothesis that conservative movement propaganda and disinformation has driven a significant portion of the population (let's call it 20 to 40% just to have a ballpark) into a highly unpleasant state of stress and cognitive dissonance and that these people gravitate toward and reward anyone who relieves this emotional tension, either through message, affect, or language.

And sometimes they just drive into people.

WTF? Driving your car through a vaccination tent isn't a "protest". It's attempted murder and probably best described as terrorism. https://t.co/3C5F1leVrX

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 27, 2021

The flawed notion of equating caving to pressure with "protecting our credibility" is a big part of what got us here. https://t.co/HK7O4cyNkN

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 30, 2021

Take a minute. It's worth it.

Bird's eye view of juggling. pic.twitter.com/gOgH2dAHMw

— Strictly (@StrictlyChristo) May 29, 2021

And to bring us full circle.

Twitter versus real life... pic.twitter.com/kmAZF91YJz

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 20, 2021