He really is dim. It's not like the US didn't threaten to "bring an end to it". 

well, it's not like Russia would do some insanely stupid act of aggression. so we can rule that out https://t.co/bQyMbhL3Fm

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) February 17, 2023

personally when someone claims to be the left of Bernie Sanders and tells an *outlandish* gender story that just happens to line up with right-wing agitprop, I know what to do: believe them

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) February 17, 2023

"It's like arguing with Zionists."

A Stanford endocrinologist advocating for the castration of 10 year olds. 

Cooper's spent the last few days focusing on the fantasies of a subset of a subset, while downplaying the disaster in Ohio. Contempt for the trash is the corollary of the intellectual liberal imperative—Moyn and Balkin—for civility among the elite. The intellectuals play footsie with fascists while the middling pundits piss on their followers.

Pete Buttigieg on the Ohio train derailment disaster: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing." pic.twitter.com/5NFtZnlDmg

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 16, 2023

🚨NEWS: Responding to @LeverNews reporting and pressure from Democratic officials, @SecretaryPete now insists he has no power to improve safety and reduce the risk of derailments.

Legal experts & former regulators say that's false. https://t.co/mrkM2BOvxm

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) February 15, 2023

[I misread the @USDOT tweet. That was stupid. It happens] 

Sirota's new rag has been good. Jeet Heer is a putz, but he's smart enough to keep his priorities straight.

"Buttigieg’s Paralysis After the East Palestine Disaster Is a Gift to the Hard Right" 

The Big Short hasn't aged well; moralizing stockbrokers doesn't work in the long run. Someone needs to make a feature length mashup of The Big Short and Margin Call. That would be an interesting project.