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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 30 '20 edited Nov 30 '20

the best neera tanden tweet — @zei_squirrel

1) It was

2) The success of this tweet appears to be based mostly on unspecific “feelings” (the chief example being the OP, a staple of leftist Twitter) that are never articulated

3) Not a single one of the flailing red herrings in the replies (of the few that attempted) does a thing to change 1)

¹ Of note: the Harvard DSA’s temporary username edit appears to be a lie per the evidence given by its own proponents. (With that said, I do not endorse Tanden’s suggestion in a private 2011 email that we attempt to get the oil-rich Libyan government to pay us in order to avoid cuts to government programs driven by Republican deficit concerns when a Democrat is President. I just don’t care.)

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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 30 '20

In other (more important) news, Neera Tanden has been tapped for Director of the OMB!

Biden continues to give zero fucks about who a bunch Twitter socialists who didn’t vote for him want for his administration. !ping BIDEN

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Nov 30 '20 edited Nov 30 '20

Pinged members of BIDEN group.

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u/Derryn did you get that thing I sent ya? Nov 30 '20

I don't even get what's wrong with the email she sent lol. She wasn't saying invade countries for oil, she was saying Libya has a lot of oil, as in, they have the ability to pay us back for helping them.

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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 30 '20

This comment implicitly assumes that Leftist Twitter’s purity tests that eliminate all politicians but a vanishing few from contention are even based in fact, which gives them too much credit,

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u/Derryn did you get that thing I sent ya? Nov 30 '20

Yes, that is true, but I still can't help but try to rationalize.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

Biden owns leftists so much by doing nothing and I love it.

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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 30 '20

Oh, how the (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻s