This could almost be a campaign ad for her. Cramer doesn’t realize that CEOs and big banks and corporations are hugely unpopular in anything but the most abstract terms. People like the abstract idea of capitalism, they don’t like the reality, and the number of people who plan their votes based on who is friendliest…

“As a professor of strategic political communication, I could have told him that the only way for him to stop losing here is to stop playing,” Karpf wrote.

Stephens, like all other white men failing up, has never met a bad situation he couldn’t make even worse. I am grateful to Karpf for calling out the editorial board for continuing to publish so many bad takes. Even more grateful for Karpf branding this scandal “Bretbug”.

Not buying the NYT until they and the dopes that hired them are gone.

We’ve seen how this movie ends. Stephens and especially Weiss float to another media outlet with a martyr complex and an extra-large chip on their shoulders (my money’s on The Atlantic) and get book deals with the word “dangerous” in the title. Meanwhile, the Times just summons two fresh goblins to take their place…

What’s it gonna take to get Stephens and Bari Weiss fired from the NYT? 

Concur. I really needed something to keep the existential dread at bay after the 30 to 50 feral hogs thing ran out.

Maybe it’s because the rest of the news is a constant grind of awfulness, but I kind of love this ongoing slapfight between Actual College Professor and The Living Avatar Of The Dunning-Kruger Effect.