The Apocalypse Never Dies, It Just Gets Weirder
Thomas Leacque on the mix of right wing conspiracy theories and evangelicalism, and why it is becoming more toxic.
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All hail the sudden death wild card game!
Apparently, people hate it! But Iām among those who love it. While Iād prefer, as an Indians fan, to pretend the 1997 season never happened, the Cardinals are one of four teams to win the wild cardā¦ and then win it all. That 2011 World Series was one of the best Iāve ever seen. Heck, so were the Nats in 2019.
Even though the result wasnāt to my liking, Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, which I got to see in person, was one for the memory books. Wild card teams make things interesting. And tonight, Iāll be celebrating my birthday watching my college-town Cardinals, home of my wife and my late grandmother, cheering on the red birds. Should they pull it out, perhaps I can orchestrate a friendly bet with ou
Letās Go Cards!
Leading The Bulwarkā¦
The Apocalypse Never Dies, It Just Gets Weirder
THOMAS LECAQUE: Steve Bannon is talking to a gun cult. Dozens of QAnon adherents are running for Congress. The mix of conspiracy theories and evangelicalism is becoming more toxic.
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From The Bulwark Aggregatorā¦
One partyās bubble is about to burst in Virginia - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
āI Was Part of Something Unusually Evilā - Olivia Nuzzi, Intelligencer
What We Lost When Gannett Came to Town - Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic
Biden Team Seeks to Pare Back Economic Agenda in Strategy Shift - Nancy Cook and Billy House, Bloomberg Businessweek
Democrats' infrastructure delays squeeze an endangered species: GOP centrists - Chris Beavers, Politico
Bidenās Approval Rating Isnāt Bouncing Back - Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
National Cathedral bell to toll 700 times to mark 700K COVID-19 deaths - Olafimihan Oshin, The Hill
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On the jukeboxā¦ Really looking forward to the Richard Ashcroft album next month.
Weāre gonna see a lot more of this. Sadly.
OANās Sugar Daddyā¦ Itās AT&T. Heck, it might even be you. Or me. I pay for FIOS and they carry this insanity. And full disclosure, I went on the channel probably 5 dozen times in the pre-Trump era for precisely $0 and a lot of free hatemail. Which is why I donāt do TV anymore. See if you can guess what went wrong here:
āConversations like this can be intenseā¦ā I wish Twitter issued this warning for all of my tweets.
WTF is going on in Idaho? Idahoās Lt. Gov. is making Al Haig blush.
Boooooo! This is what happened when Lindsey Graham promoted vaccines to GOP voters. Why do the leopards keep eating my face, he wondered?
10 years laterā¦ Weāre still at it!
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