Kennedy Apologizes For Calling Tanden A ‘Whack Job’ Amid Faux Outrage Of Her Tweets | Talking Points Memo

[cub_calloway]

@heirball

hey’re running footage of BLM protests with a burning trashcan in the video while talking about January 6th.

Have you ever priced one of those “landscape architectural amenities”? It’s as if they are made of palladium.

[kimaanderson]

Thank you!

[douglashh]

You better take a long hard look in a mirror Senator Kennedy. You are crazier than a peach orchard bull you fucking conspiracy idiot.

[Volvo_Birkenstock]

OT: CNN is reporting that Biden is commemorating the 50 millionth vaccine dose provided during his term. Funny, but I can’t find one for money or prayer and I’m well above 65.

Are you also having outrageous difficulty setting yourself up for vaccination appointments?

Trump sure did a great job setting up vaccine distribution. /s

[communistagronomist]

I knew John Kennedy. John Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no John Kennedy.

[cervantes]

@ncsteve

I’m very confused. To Republicans she’s “a neo-socialist, left-of-Lenin whack job.” To the brogressives, she’s a union-busting, neoliberal corporatist schill (when they’re not using “w” word). It’s almost like the real problem here is that she’s a woman who dared to call all of them out on being assholes.

So if two people object to something on roughly opposite grounds, you conclude that both must be wrong?

Seems a little eccentric to me!

[philmore]

It’s like getting Springsteen or Neil Young tickets, real hit-or-miss. Next week I have to drive four hours to get my daughter vaccinated, then four hours back, hoping for no blizzards.

[Volvo_Birkenstock]

Carry around a bucket full of piss.

Any Republican who complains about anyone else’s tweets should get a few buckets dumped on them. Maybe that will slowly rinse away their past sins of tolerance and current sins of hypocrisy.

[garrybee]

@ncsteve

It’s almost like the real problem here is that she’s a woman who dared to call all of them out on being assholes.

Not almost, is. If it were a man. Np.

[zlohcuc]

Ergo…I will spend the day repeating the term “whack job”…graduating to extremest and I’ve grabbed a thesaurus to use later in the day when the repetition gets stale…

[chelsea530]

I read this morning (can’t remember where) that 37% of Americans over age 65 have received the vaccine. U-M announced today that it’s going to start sending invitations for the first dose this week and partnering with the county health department to make sure that teachers also receive the vaccine, which will not come from that supply. Looks like things are starting to improve and hopefully, people above the age of 65 will be vaccinated soon, including my husband.

[garrybee]

Law of averages lands Tandem in the centre.

[mattinpa]

Welp, I detest him as much as all the rest of them but if he still believes there are some things you shouldn’t do and if you do them anyway you should apologize, it’s rare enough, and perhaps useful enough as a good example to the rest of the scum, to say it was appropriate for him to do that and let it go at that. This whole project of attacking every nominee for whatever paper-thin reason they can dream up in an effort to paint Biden as a wild-eyed radical and crummy president generally himself is absurd, but God love 'em it’s easier than trying to retool themselves as rational legislators.

[george_spiggott]

@bonvivant

But Kennedy is okay with all of Trump’s tweets?

But T**** has already been “cancel cultured”. So there!

[heart]

He’s neither stupid nor uneducated (Vanderbilt, U of VA and Oxford). What he is is disingenuous and hypocritical.

[heirball]

Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, anyone hosting or calling in at Breitbart, the list goes on.

[the_loan_arranger]

@bonvivant

But Kennedy is okay with all of Trump’s tweets?

Of course. But Trump is a well-known whack job. So it proves Kennedy’s point.

[agnesbee]

@heart

He’s neither stupid nor uneducated (Vanderbilt, U of VA and Oxford). What he is is disingenuous and hypocritical.

No argument, but never confuse educated with being unstupid.

[maximus]

But she mean tweeted…

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[agnesbee]

@mattinpa

but if he still believes there are some things you shouldn’t do and if you do them anyway you should apologize, it’s rare enough, and perhaps useful enough as a good example to the rest of the scum

Doggone it, you’re kinda right, & my righteous hatred of this so-folksy-you-wanna-vomit asshole does NOT thank you for it.