EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

heh

McElwee told @bterris that he'd placed bets against JOHN FETTERMAN, whom he was working for, saying "I think he's fucked." McElwee showed Ben a spreadsheet of bets he'd made on the midterm --most AGAINST Dems. “I think I’m going to make a lot of money on election night,” he said

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) April 26, 2023

this section is killing me

She had “drunk the Kool‐Aid” that Sean had offered, but part of being 25, she said, is “drinking lots of Kool‐Aid and figuring out what flavor you like.”

Now Marcela was 26. And she wasn’t sure if any amount of Kool‐Aid was healthy.

When I was 25, it was a very good year. It was a very good year for Kool-Aid men who broke through the walls.

lol

trying all kinds of kool-aid hmm what was the deal with the kool-aid originally idk

everyone yelling at me to not drink the koolaid whats their deal

its very funny how this guy who everyone on the left was deeply suspicious of turned out to be completely worthy of suspicious

ARE YOU KIDDING ME SEAN MCELWEE HAD A SECRET FAMILY https://t.co/MtrwxdbnFU pic.twitter.com/6TJDdsDZlH

— tom mckay (@thetomzone) April 26, 2023

lmao

this is worse than making bets pic.twitter.com/JMGC8likdP

— rain (actual speed) enjoyer (@notnotnuanced) April 26, 2023

oh, tweeting "abolish ice" all the time had nothing to do with ice. got it

amazing

“All of the Zoomers that work for me are bisexual, and all of them have long covid,” Sean McElwee said. “I’ll believe long covid is real when someone who is not bisexual has it.” https://t.co/cOufE8zD2M

— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) April 26, 2023

The Crypto Council for Innovation

I'm gonna start some conspiracy theories about this org

that quote would be kind of funny if you had a veep-style show about these dorks

my one sean mcelwee story is i ended up at his media happy hour by accident once and he apparently recognized me as someone who made fun of him and kept pulling people away from me mid conversation, which is baffling on like ten different levels

— 30 minute review of amtrak as a rollercoaster (@Boringstein) April 26, 2023

don't give attention to the mean man he say bad things

getting strong vibes that this man had a lot invested in being a 30-ish knowledge master who staffed his office with impressionable youth and rubes, and wanted to make sure they only ever heard things about him from other swindlers and rubes

one of the biggest freaks out there for sure

“I’m like Radiohead for donors — you can’t really explain why I’m good but everyone knows that I’m good at it,” McElwee shouted over the din of bar talk

is the answer because rich people feel kinship with vacuous amoral weirdos

trying all kinds of kool-aid hmm what was the deal with the kool-aid originally idk

tbf it was framed

new one seems like it might be even worse than Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Substack Pivot

Temple of the Woke Agenda

"What I remember from my economics textbooks" is the most likely beginning of an answer from this crowd in historyhttps://t.co/1iZpAMF7D8 pic.twitter.com/kKDvmWXtKb

— David Dayen (@ddayen) May 6, 2023

To all the Russia stans who are like "Yes we are in Ukraine, because we spend a bunch of money trying to help them", by this standard we're also in your grandma

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 17, 2023

Lol

I feel myself negative polarizing against the rightwing dreck in the “for you” tab and wanting to do more progressive columns.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 9, 2023

THEY ARE FORCING ME LEFT

loooooool

Coupla tweets away from making underwater basket weaving jokes

I feel like history departments would attract more students to their classes if they taught more “old fashioned” military and political history like you hear on podcasts or see among popular press books.

Maybe nobody cares but… https://t.co/XPFVmGKDY5

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 25, 2023

Sure thing, matty. education should always be managed as market-driven capitalism.

if they made college courses more like the books dads read they might attract more dads

Ph.D in Airport Bookstore History

For the Love of the Game by Michael Jordan, autographed by Scottie Pippen

A lot of factors have contributed to the decline in public discourse, but we have reached a point where people who don't know much on an issue think it's a "waste" of time to talk to people who have devoted their lives to an issue if the person rejects a few key premises. https://t.co/U3d5uEv0fH

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) June 28, 2023

Matty really just wants to talk about inventing cheaper cages that are also carpeted.

blocking Matty is one of the best twitter moves

you can still click through and see what sort of dipshittery he's up to though

https://i.imgur.com/Ea1uQBX.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0CeOc7XwAEk8oA?format=jpg&name=medium

https://qz.com/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-nauru-court-case-money-laundering-1850662899

Do you think Sammy would have made room for Matty and Ezra in the bunker?

Isn’t Nauru threatened by sea level rise (and all it’s guano is depleted)?

lmao perfect

Its a guano replenishment program

horrified by this post by josh barro titled "Grilling Is Still Bad — Here's What to Do Instead"

it's not so much the anti-grilling stance--which i disagree with but also whatever--it's the recipes he recommends to cook for a summer backyard instead

on a hot summer day, make a platter of roast pork tenderloin

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F490665c6-23ca-4936-bd9e-60fe162b1db2.heic

"What could say ‘summer’ more than that?" <- actual quote

next up is...baked fish

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff022fcb3-0e62-46ef-a315-76e284a2e4bd.heic

he also recommends pork stew and chickpea stew lol

i'm sure these taste fine, but they all seem really heavy and dry, and using your oven in the summer is just insane

luv 2 write columns that include the phrase “A lot of people mocked me”

always funny when pundits decide to talk about cooking

i always thought of josh barro as the poshest of the centrist wonks. or at least on the opposite end of the spectrum from slovenly yglesias. gay, manhattanite, clean-cut menswear style, seems to be a bit of a socialite. so it threw me off that he was like "come to my place in august and i will serve you baked fish"

he really twisted around the words in that podcast that were specifically about hamburgers and then didn’t make one himself. sus

by far the most popular sport in the world

I’m sure this is a simpleton take but just like MLB made baseball more popular this year by finally taking crude measures to speed up the game, I feel like soccer would be more exciting if the pitch were somewhat smaller so there were more shots.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 29, 2023

dont get me wrong i have some soccer rule change ideas but theyre for making the sport better not more popular

that's the most blatant troll for engagement i've seen recently

i guess it's made him rich but he also kinda seems to get off on being called an idiot

I still think about this quote from that WaPo profile of him a few months ago:

"I find it relaxing to work. I put things out. People yell at me. I will write again the next day."