Extremely funny details about this from Matt Levine’s newsletter today. (The background here is that this payout is mostly Tesla stock and is about helping Elon control the company more than any specific amount of money.)

I’m old enough to remember when people thought the New York case against Trump was weak and then the jury came back in like an hour

I have to give Tucker credit for managing to inflict more pain on Fox News and the Heritage Foundation than any Democrat ever has.

Something weird I’ve discovered in my life is that this poem, which I thought everyone learned in their high school English classes, seems to be unknown even to the more literary people I know.

Uncle Sam put your name on his turkey and cheese And the Statue of Liberty ordered ten BLTs And the sandwich will fly and it’s gonna be hell When you walk near a Subway or a Taco Bell And it’ll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you Brought to you courtesy of the red, white, and blue

Posts like this are why, for all his faults, I can never hate Bill Kristol. It would be hating myself.

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My favorite comment on the FT story

John Fetterman : Zohran Mamdani :: F-150 Lightning : Hyundai Ioniq 5

I guess when you control the media and message, a permanent unalterable record of what you previously said and did is a threat.

Isaac Chotiner please interview Ross Douthat for us

HELEN ANDREWS And so what the statistics show, Ross, when you look at it ROSS DOUTHAT Yeah, let’s dig in ANDREWS What they show is that, okay, 98% of boys go to college to get more knowledge DOUTHAT Wow. ANDREWS And almost 97% of girls, in contrast, they go to Jupiter to get more stupider

good comment from someone I know on the dumb column of the day

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

I’m Ross Douthat and today I’m here with Hitlerina Chunk who’s here with a provocative theory. HITLERINA Thank Ross. Woman sad, bad at math. Man smart, good at math. Man big strong while woman small weak. Big man protect weak woman. Also want rape weak woman. Must forgive. DOUTHAT Say more.

My respect to Nancy Pelosi for retiring, proving once again that she is the only member of the current generation of Democratic leadership who cares about keeping the party alive.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

lol

Cry more

If I were a Supreme Court reporter I would make it my mission in life to record Sam Alito saying Zohran’s last name. You just know he’s saying “Mambumbi” or something like that.

I’ve posted stuff like this before, but the more time goes on, the more I think the Cuomo campaign was the canary in the coal mine for the Biden/Schumer gerontocracy era of the Dems. People who are capable of running that guy have completely lost touch with reality. 2022 GOP-level candidate.

They’re renaming it “the defamation league”

Obviously the idea that Zohran wants to impose “Sharia law” is absurd and racist. But I also love the idea that it could actually happen if he even wanted to do it. “Women must wear a burqa due to my religion.” They’re calling it “the easiest first amendment case in history.”

FIFA doing what they do best: sucking up to dictators

Well, have you heard about what young men are into now?

between z*hran, his ex-bffs in the senate, the ungrateful justices from hell and general chumpfuckery, this has been a cromulent fuckcrustable of a day. donnie needy drinky

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Haha and then what

sdklfj Gorsuch asked a question like, so if the pres unliterally declared a 50% tariff on all gas-powered vehicles to respond to the unusual & extraordinary threat of global warming? DOJ says well we'd say that's a hoax & not a threat Gorsuch dripping w condescension goes I'm sure you would lmao

Lmao

50% of this administration is run by guys who like “brutalist web design” and the other 50% is the kind of people who think those wedding invitations that say “we do” in giant handwriting/script are nice rather than incredibly tacky

Mamdani is going to run a very competent administration. The big threat to him to my mind is that the right (that includes “centrist Democrats”) is going to be trying to make sure his programs don’t happen.

What last night proves, above all else, is that centrist Democrats like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC can work together with moderate Republicans like Abigail Spanberger and Gavin Newsom to push back on MAGA fascism.

Lots of bad things died last night. I’m cautiously optimistic that among them will be the word “vibe” and the phrase/concept of the “vibe shift.”

He’s Glenn Oldkin now.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Never want to hear the phrase “reach out” again. “Call,” “email,” “send a message,” all good alternatives. No reason to use this weird metaphor.

Going in search of a copy of the NY Post in Philadelphia this morning

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Guy whose name is halfway to a slur for Italian immigrants: demographics is destiny

Every time Trump wins we get a round of takes that this is because American are all Nazis deep down but all the evidence is that Americans are morons who think “crime” is out of control and we just need to take down all the criminals, but don’t want it done to their neighbors.

Trump won in 2024 by 1.5%pts and the press acted like he got a mandate to be god-emperor, can’t wait for them to be dismissive of victories in places the Democratic Party hasn’t won in 20 years

Gen X suddenly regretting getting an order of Hitler with a large side of fries

Every time Democrats lose the media assures us it’s because of trans people and then the Republican run on hating trans people and get their asses handed to them

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Out of Virginia's 75th District tonight: Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner — the one who shared the texts that ignited Jay Jones' scandal — was defeated by her Democratic opponent. #VAPolitics