Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Tuesday Tweets -- Hype and Glory

We start with a reminder that much of the world's trouble is caused by profoundly damaged people who desperately want attention.

Laura Jedeed has the disturbing details.
Project Veritas’ 2020 voter-fraud allegations are the organization’s bread and butter: likely the biggest reason for its $22 million haul that year. Yet O’Keefe uses the allegations solely to lead into his blood feud with The New York Times. His voiceover provides intricate legal arguments for the defamation lawsuit recently filed against the Times while O’Keefe himself — the real one, not the actor — dances onstage. The dancers in haute-couture newsprint dresses contort themselves as Lady Gaga replaces Jamiroquai and here we are, back where we began.

“You and me are like a bad romance,” Gaga sings, and I have to say, she’s not wrong. As the song reaches its crescendo, O’Keefe’s voiceover describes a 2021 encounter with the executive editor of The New York Times, who refused to acknowledge O’Keefe’s existence, which the real O’Keefe acts out onstage.

“In that moment, the muckraker had to come to grips with the fact that this supposed paragon of investigative journalism would never give him the time of day, and would never acknowledge his very humanity,” the voiceover says, referring to himself, as he does throughout his latest book, in the third person. The New York Times dancers claw at the real O’Keefe as he staggers to the front of the stage, heartbroken. “That small part of him that still hungered for recognition and acceptance from the ‘legitimate press’ — he once read The New York Times every morning — would never be satisfied.”

 

Segue to politics...


Worth noting that Trump is now going after DeSantis for his stand on Social Security and Medicare (a position shared by most of the governor's fellow Republican politicians but by few of their constituents).

All of this may be having an effect.

2022

Orlando CNN — Walking out to a slick hype video and tossing hats into a raucous crowd as he approached the microphone, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday demonstrated for the Conservative Political Action Conference the bravado and fighting attitude that has made him the most popular elected Republican in the country among conservatives.

2023


"Dems in disarray"



Just a reminder, the only clear policy difference between the two leading GOP candidates is that Trump has not gone anti-vax.


Putin and MAGA


Long thread.


And another.

Marshall reads the NYT for us.
Karl Bode also reads the NYT for us.


OpenAI may be the most overhyped company in living memory.


 

One more from Grady.



And taking us full circle to the  first sentence of the post...

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