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Senior Writer National Review . Editor of . In the suburbs of New York or Dublin probably.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 16

    I have started holding back my Twitter opinions on things, because they might be dumb. But now I suspect my presence here is falsely taken as consent to all of your terrible ideas. I just want to reiterate. Your opinion is much dumber than mine, and probably shouldn't be legal.

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  2. 27 minutes ago

    I thought the charge was that he knowingly rehabilitated the Cardinal.

    The Vatican will soon break its silence on charges Pope Francis covered up sexual misconduct by a U.S. cardinal
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  3. 1 hour ago

    And the even dumber thing is I always fall for it at first. "Oh wow, so many people are saying McEnroe wasn't ever treated this way. I probably misremember the clips of his meltdowns ending in punishments."

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  4. 1 hour ago

    One of the dumber things about polarization is how confident it makes people say stupid fact-free things on topics. I've seen quite a lot about how John McEnroe was never criticized or penalized for his behavior. Easy search on YouTube

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Bingo

    Replying to @Cat_Painting @wupton
    it’s noteworthy to me that McCarrick and Burke both partied with seminarians: in different ways, and to very different reactions from the press
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  6. 2 hours ago

    Team Francis on Benedct's acton against McCarrick: "It wasn't a sanction, more of a light penalty. Not a light penalty more of a personal request. Not a request, more of a wish. No, it's not odd at all for a wish to be communicated several times by screaming diplomatic personnel"

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  7. 2 hours ago

    This thread is correct.

    If you were paying attention, you knew this retreat would happen. Behold the coming mitigation defense. McCarrick was indeed punished by Benedict. Waa ineffectual. Francis let the ineffectual punishment lapse. Once he realized the abuse involved children, he acted
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  8. 5 hours ago

    Would be useful for "de-industrialization" too.

    A concept: a Chrome extension that replaces ‘capitalism’ with ‘the industrial revolution’ when online screeds conflate the two
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  9. 7 hours ago

    It’s written with a spirit of candor about my suspicions but trust that they are probably wrong.

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  10. 8 hours ago

    It would be. Still, I’m just being candid about my suspicions.

    Replying to @michaelbd
    "I’ve always held the suspicion that the authors of Ecclesiastes and the book of Job were heretics." Wouldn't that conclusion itself be heretical, though? I mean, trying to toss out books of the Bible? A bit like Jefferson and his redacted NT, surely?
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  11. 19 hours ago

    Institutional Crisis in Church & Presidency: Long Time Coming | National Review

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  12. Retweeted
    Sep 9

    Folks if you watched the match, it's obvious that Naomi Osaka blew the doors off of Serena Williams, that it was never close, and that talking about the judge is a distraction from the reality that she got her butt handed to her by a younger star and handled it poorly.

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  13. Sep 8

    Verizon: "We were providing you that for free" Me: "No you weren't. I have been paying the bill." Verizon: "But we provided that part at no charge to you." Me: "Are you really going to insist on patronizing me this way?"

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  14. Retweeted
    Sep 8

    As you evaluate the various attempts to spin and discredit the , remember this item from March, 2018, for a little added perspective:

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  15. Sep 8

    If I was better at hacking, I would waste my talent and my freedom adding nuclear detonations to everyone’s Apple TV screensavers.

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  16. Sep 8

    Just like a paper tiger...torn apart by idle hands...

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  17. Sep 8

    Not entirely shocked given the conversations I’ve had with a Venezuelan cousin.

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  18. Sep 8

    Terms rather undefined. Not seeing calls for breaking communion with the pope. Calling for transparency on a grave matter cannot seriously be equated with rejecting the Mystical Body of Christ. But then modernists never define the terms of their sloganized theology.

    What is fascinating about the schismatic traditionalists is how modern, or even liberal, they are upon closer inspection. They feel entitled to reject the living Mystical Body of Christ for a postmodern retro-Church and a cloistered life of hyper-hipsterism in the USA.
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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 7

    Okay this is so metal. Central Europe is in the middle of a 500 year drought, and the dried up lakes are revealing ancient inscriptions from the *last* such drought:

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  20. Sep 8

    Yes, we all understand that the Roman tradition of taking sexual liberties with subordinates is so deeply rooted that two thousand years of Christianity has failed to extirpate it.

    You can understand better the present disconnect between Rome and the US Church about the McCarrick case if you were in Italy during the impeachment of president Bill Clinton was initiated twenty years ago. Different perceptions of morals, morality, and moralism.
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  21. Sep 8

    I seem to remember instructions to remove St. Christopher from the dashboard.

    About St. John Paul II and McCarrick: in the Catholic Church there is no procedure or precedent to de-canonize a saint.
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