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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJD Vance: "Nicki Minaj is a far more reputable source of information than Rachel Maddow."
Link to tweet
Ocelot II
(115,705 posts)And it's surprising that the deep end is still deep, considering how many people have gone off it.
highplainsdem
(48,981 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,672 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Slug in Alex Jones for Niki whatever, and you have a tweet of his from a week or so ago, word for word.
It's like he's got a form tweet set up with a single blank for wingnut mad-libs....
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)attention whore - that man is. He must be going for the black vote - or the death of many black Americans. Can't figure out which one.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,992 posts)irisblue
(32,975 posts)He has the deepest pockets, dark money and compared to Mandel looks like a normal human.
Jane Timken seems a very long shot despite her gop good credentials
Diamond_Dog
(32,000 posts)leftieNanner
(15,101 posts)Got a Bachelors Degree from Stanford and a PhD at Oxford.
Thanks for that reminder JD.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)With Sarandon, Chachi, Moore, Turner, and Maher. ( had to look up how to spell Maher.)
struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)bahboo
(16,339 posts)Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Maddow for all her quirks, has her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in PUBLIC POLICY and her DOCTORATE in POLITICAL SCIENCE from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Now all of that doesn't ensure that you will be a reputable source of information. I mean Hawley and Cruz went to Harvard and Bush Jr. went to Yale.
I have never heard Rachel Maddow say, "My cousin's, sister's neighbor from down the street's son's nephew, told me something something, therefore, base a really important medical and public health decision on it".
Vance is squarely aligning himself with anti-intellectualism here. The whole "do your own research" bullshit is just an excuse to believe what feels good to you without accepting what PROFESSIONAL, EXPERT researchers turn out.
What is Vance's vaccination status? Does anyone know? Has anyone asked him?
Also, censored? Regime? What do those words mean? He needs to explain that. Minaj is not being "censored" she is receiving pushback on stupid information that she is using her large platform to disseminate. Regime? You mean the scientific consensus? Like, reality? The best information that it is humanly possible to gather? Is that the regime?
Lovie777
(12,265 posts)Bashing Rachel is a very bad idea.
live love laugh
(13,110 posts)Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)Moebym
(989 posts)He's far from stupid or crazy - he's a strategic thinker who's carefully crafting an image that will appeal to Trump voters and right-leaning independents.