Christian Rector retweeted
Did Seantor @ElissaSlotkin say people should be prosecuted just for working for the Trump administration?
As with the Talarico in a mental hospital story, something going viral on right-wing twitter is based on lies. This happens again and again.
She's talking about prosecuting people for the unprecedented corruption that this administration has engaged in.
Of course that's what she was talking about. This administration is so corrupt and so lawless that there aren't enough prosecutorial resources in the world to pursue every case. They'll get away with almost everything. Slotkin is talking about bringing justice to at least a few of the criminals.
Here's what Slotkin said shortly before the selectively edited clip.
"Number two, we do have to have accountability for the unbelievable corruption that we are living under right now. But you can’t just make that your whole personality, right? So you have to pick signature cases and you have to go after people and projects that are just super egregious. So everyone knows the East Wing of the White House, right? And people feel that in a way that’s different from a nameless contract at the Pentagon or whatever. So, you need to pick those signature cases and go hard on accountability, not just Trump, right? Because of course there will be moments of like, let’s go after Trump himself as someone who voted to impeach him twice. Like, he’s still there, right? But the people around Donald Trump who are doing his bidding and enabling this have no such immunity. They have no immunity the way the president does. And to me, he couldn’t do any of this stuff without all those people saluting and and supporting it. So you go after the people who do did his bidding."
It's amazing to me these people still have a victim complex. Trump barely pretends to care about the law. He fires prosecutors until they bring him the cases he wants. Trump supporters simply refuse to accept the truth about what this administration is. So of course, they need to constantly lie.
Christian Rector retweeted
Every "follow the money" obsessive works at an NGO with totally opaque finances. It's bizarre to me.
Christian Rector retweeted
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
Christian Rector retweeted
20 years ago smug boomers watched TV and laughed at NINJA loan welfare queen home buyers
“Nobody has the RIGHT to a home” they sneered
Today they’re rioting over property taxes and claiming they have a *right* to live in their homes indefinitely regardless of appreciation
Christian Rector retweeted
People want violent protests so that *they themselves* can watch them from the comfort of their phones & talk about them on social media. They don’t actually want the violence to disturb their lives and communities, they just want to feel like they’re watching the movie Divergent
Christian Rector retweeted
A good reminder that mass-coordinate lying is a central fieature of MAGA. What she actually says is widespread criminal conduct and corruption around Trump shld be prosecuted. So people will know there is accountability for crimes and they won't participate. Anti-crime agenda.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
Christian Rector retweeted
congratulations, French rioters 🙃
📊🚨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞 𝐥’𝐞́𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 :
🔵 Marine Le Pen : 68 % ☑️
🔴 Jean-Luc Mélenchon : 32 %
🔵 Marine Le Pen : 55 % ☑️
🟣 Raphaël Glucksmann : 45 %
🟡 Édouard Philippe : 66 % ☑️
🔴 Jean-Luc Mélenchon : 34 %
🔵 Marine Le Pen : 55 % ☑️
🟣 François Hollande : 45 %
🔵 Marine Le Pen : 52 % ☑️
🟡 Édouard Philippe : 48 %
(Yougov/Le HuffPost)
Christian Rector retweeted
I wish people who embraced loopy crime ideas in 2019-2020 would issue groveling apologies to people who were right all along, but genuinely the most important thing about this is we have won the argument.
slowboring.com/p/dont-get-co…
Christian Rector retweeted
We should double property taxes for people over 65 to encourage downsizing and free up inventory for young families
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Christian Rector retweeted
They break the law, they should be prosecuted. That's how deterrence works. She's not saying prosecute people for nothing.
"Intellectual" conservatives have to pretend that the Trump regime is non-criminal for their own psychological reasons.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
Christian Rector retweeted
I wrote a column advocating for a lower deficit to deliver sustainable reductions in inflation and interest rates — ie, a comprehensive approach to addressing the public’s number one demand — and this guy says I’m saying “nothing better is possible.”
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Christian Rector retweeted
Most Americans wants answers on who made the order to throttle back Starlink and intel sharing. And we want them out of the government.
Bessent warns Zelenskyy to 'be very careful' about claims U.S. is throttling Starlink cnbc.com/2026/10/18/bessent-…
Christian Rector retweeted
Los que mandaron al rey a la guillotina fueron los burgueses puto retrasado
Porque la primera revolución francesa se consiguió con amor y palabras bonitas a los burgueses
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
La Revolución francesa fue una revolución burguesa.
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Christian Rector retweeted
I’m skeptical that this will result in improved staffing in French classrooms.
Christian Rector retweeted
No Kings will mobilize turnout and destroy Trump's trifecta
France's protests will boost the far right
It's incredible how much performative actions mean more than actual power to these people.
Christian Rector retweeted
I think it’s pretty telling that these folks measure their success based on how much damage they caused, not based on any actual political or policy change. They literally just want to see the world burn
Christian Rector retweeted
I'm writing 14,000-word economic studies proposing to rein in Social Security & Medicare benefits in order to prioritize younger people instead.
Instead, I should just circulate people like this guy - he's doing more to undermine big boomer benefits than any studies I publish.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
































