I was this close to exposing myself ... wait, why are you all looking at me like that?

But why would anyone ever try to pursue independent journalism? Better to leave this kind of thing to the experts from the subpage of a snark-based sports blog.

He gave credit (and made multiple disclosures like this) after being called out for misrepresenting himself as a Times reporter in his bio (or at least for accidentally misleading people to believe he was). A lot of people thought he was one of the Times writers on the big stories this week!

It does not really matter if Sexton was telling the truth or not. The reason Orange Jr did this was to try to “get out ahead” of the NYT story so her could control the message. And Sr even congratulated him on his initiative.

I realize this will require the reader to do more research but simply pulling up the Twitter account and scrolling through the tweets reveals that he gives credit to the NYT and never suggests it was he alone who was scooped. Calling him “a bit of a fraud” is a bit dickish when he gives credit to the people whose work…

I was this close to exposing that guy until you published this article.

The California economy has a bit more going for it than oil exports. But facts never got in the way of someone scare mongering about socialism.

You’re hoping that a large segment of the US population suffers and a large portion the US economy goes under?

JMHO, California will probably still be the biggest state economy in the country in about 20 years.

only in your fevered prepper dreams

JMHO, Venezuela now = California in about 20 years.

Always funny to see conservatives attempt to conflate populist-socialist dictatorships like Venezuela with robust social democracies like the Scandinavian countries in an attempt to denigrate the left.

Except Kansas is not libertarian, just tea party Republican ideals taken to their logical conclusion (failure).

Right, except Venezuela is a dictatorship with an oligarchical economy supported entirely by oil revenue (that fell apart when the price of oil fell), and California is a modern democracy with a diversified economy that just by itself would rank in the top 10 countries by GDP, and top 12 by GDP adjusted for cost of…

One of the best state economies in the country, but sure keep hoping.

Because California 20 years ago had a shortage of food, was a police state, and had people exiting the state in droves to escape violence and seizure of property?

JMHO, you have no clue what you’re talking about, but clearly you don’t like California, lol. Ever been here? It’s kind of nice...

Because California’s entire economy is based on oil revenue and its government is controlled by a dictator?

Okay, I’ll bite. Because of California’s reliance on petroleum for its income? Because of its reliance on its military to prop up the state government? Because Golden State Warriors fans are insufferable? Because Stan Kroenke’s wig is one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World? What is the reasoning here?

Your opinion = literally nothing.

Meh. Won’t be the first time smart guys like you said so.