In which we post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing - or neither - tweets

I read this and it was like reading a piece of wisdom pulled from an ancient text I'd never heard of.

Your solution here is equal parts brilliant and obvious. If we really cared about children and single moms the way we pretend to, as a society, this would be the law. We're so far from that perspective that this solution had literally never occurred to me.

 

I had to look up Dan Balz. I expected him to be a recent graduate who majored in Content Development (formerly Journalism).

Dude is 77.

 

Remember that black lady that was crying and thought Obama was going to fix everything because that's how much it meant to her to see a black president. It's like that but Fascism instead.

 

There's also a small but vocal contingent of the broader men's rights movement that is super convinced that tons of women are cucking their beta-bucks husbands with alpha-Chads and millions of dudes are out here unknowingly raising kids who aren't actually theirs. They want mandatory paternity tests on all kids at birth.

They always quote a study (which I'm not going to bother to look up) that showed 1 in 10 paternity tests proved that the husband was not the father of the child, and extrapolate that to the entire population. 10% of fathers are unknowingly raising another man's child!!!!11!!1!11111

Of course, the study didn't take a random sample of the population. It was just paternity tests ordered by men who thought their partner had been unfaithful and were actively concerned their child was not, in fact, their child. A better conclusion to draw from the study is this: of men who think their wife was unfaithful and got knocked up by another man, 90% are wrong.

 

Also that too many men spend too much time watching Maury Povich.

 

And those 90% are probably sleeping around fathering children with women who are not their wives, hence their suspicions.

 

Does playing Spin-The-Bottle with Susie, Shirley and Sophia in the 4th grade classroom closet during recess count?

 

Man, time to come out of the closet.

 

The more I read the tweet the more cynical I become. The "Require men to provide for their children as soon as it’s determined the child is theirs" sounds more to me that the man has no obligation to pay child support unless there is a paternity test.

 

Cynical? Yes.

Correct? Also yes.

 

I almost feel like just describing this and not posting it. In fact, that’s what I’m gonna do.

John Fetterman paid George Santos to do a Cameo telling Bob Menendez to stay strong.

Great sentence, or greatest sentence?

 

Thanks, WaPo. You’re definitely on the right track with this headline. Keep going and you’ll eventually get to “Comer lies.” pic.twitter.com/7dhiiaW9AC

— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) December 4, 2023

 

House Republicans are investigating mysterious payments made to Hunter Biden in the 1970s by a benefactor code-named “the tooth fairy.”

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) December 5, 2023

 

1731803548390686822 is not a valid tweet id

 

I really like how Fetterman and AOC mock the mockable.

Phillip: Mike Johnson has said that Republicans have a duty to bring an impeachment vote to the floor.

Fetterman: Oh no, please. Please don't impeach him. Oh my god, that bad, bad man. It is so scary. Oh no. pic.twitter.com/zNVbi2PgUA

— Acyn (@Acyn) December 5, 2023

 

I know people say the rationing was the pandemic, but guess what folks, so was the inflation of 2021-2022. It was a worldwide story. That point is too complicated for Donald Trump, but not for most voters.

— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) December 5, 2023

 

@superdave sent me this last night and I feel it's worth posting. An opinion piece, but it gives an idea of how stuck things were with the GOP ruling Michigan in some form for 40 years.

And the late 00s early 10s, just not a great time. I almost left MI in 2018 but stayed when a parent was diagnosed with cancer.

LGBTQ+ equality, abortion rights, climate change policy, voting rights, education investment, gun reforms, unions on the march — the Mitten State has it all.

My @MichiganAdvance column on how Michigan became the progressive powerhouse of the Midwest. https://t.co/r2oZwRacIV

— Susan J. Demas 🏔 (@sjdemas) December 4, 2023

 

I disagree. Recognizing that inflation was (is) a global event that connects to the pandemic is too complicated for most voters.

 

One possibility:

 

You don’t want to betray some friendly tourists to the deep state:

So they post these videos for "full disclosure" and then blur out the faces of their Republican friends who committed crimes? Wow. Just wow.

— Crazy Fenak (@CrazyFenaker) December 5, 2023