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Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social |
Prosecuting al capone for tax evasion was good actually
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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That’s the one I was looking for
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Michael Markowitz
@markowitz.bsky.social
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Thank you!
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Ali Messer
@freereed59.net
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Exactly! That headline writer does not know history!
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@dubbyshuffle.bsky.social
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“Below the law”?! This is a dressed up “better to be pissed off than pissed on”
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Chris Guanche
@cguanche.bsky.social
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Has he ever written a single thing that isn't the dumbest possible take?
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@anonpostingdisease.bsky.social
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He had to balance his surprising pushback against jk rowling with an awful take
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@matrixschmatrix.bsky.social
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You see as an important man trump should be protected by not bound by the law, unless it’s an important law
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BearPondBoy🍦
@bearpondboy.bsky.social
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Any port in a storm!
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rone
@ennui.org
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"shouldn't be below it" what the ever-loving fuck is that supposed to mean
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Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecox.bsky.social
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Should have just let him continue criming, for justice.
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Madame Hardy
@madamehardy.bsky.social
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Actually, many people think he's getting respect more and more. I'll never forget when he said, "Don't bootleg uphill, me boys!"
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Ozma
@rowyourbot.bsky.social
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You don't know this legal principle? 'If you done BIG crime, it's just insulting to get you for a SMALLER crime. Bigger crime erases littler crime.'
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Tim Pierce
@unchi.org
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Just trying to imagine the level of absolute dullness that it must require to take the position that it was inappropriate to prosecute Al Capone if the only thing they could get him on was tax evasion
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Dan Houston
@johnbrownwasright.bsky.social
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Has Chait ever been right? Ever?
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Robert Black
@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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Committing Big Crimes actually doesn't give you a get out of jail free card for the Small Crimes! Who knew!
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Joe Streckert
@joestreckert.bsky.social
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People write this shit as if tax evasion wasn't a crime in and of itself.
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zenosAnalytic
@zenosanalytic.bsky.social
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what on EARTH does he mean here? "He shouldn't be below it"??? HUH????
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Byrd Turgler
@byrdturgler.bsky.social
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BOFA'd so hard lmao
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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Reading that headline made me dumber.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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folks, it is more like jonathan shite. im sorry to have to be the one to say it
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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as always, no ingenuity or imagination for how to actually do anything, but infinite creativity in rationalizing why doing nothing is smart and wise
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
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I believe it was in a situation much like this that Edmund Burke said "fuck Jon Chait, seriously, fuck him right up the nose" 🤔
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msvelour
@msvelour.bsky.social
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Omg is this even real?
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Diet Coke Afficianado
@litigator53.bsky.social
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Jonathan Chait, Dispenser of Lukewarm Takes©️
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@alexdel.bsky.social
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Chait is a joke that writes himself. smh
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@la-crystal.bsky.social
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I'll wait for someone to explain to me what was 'below' the law in the case. What a dumbshit headline.
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Kat
@kat86.bsky.social
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@peterkurze.bsky.social
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I’m not going to read it but I am curious if the article is as dumb as the headline makes it sound.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Chait is such a reliable idiot.
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@leonceg.bsky.social
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What is the matter with that man?
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Timothy Burke
@timothyburke.bsky.social
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It must be hard to be Jonathan Chait, really. "Today I must be contrarian against something very good happening, because the wrong kind of people are pleased. I must never let the wrong kind of people think I would agree with them."
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Skrrt Russell
@cidmcdp.bsky.social
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So he admits Trump's a criminal in this linear sort of way?
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Simon
@thedenature.bsky.social
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Will this lead him to re-evaluate his Bayesian priors?
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David Mohring
@nzheretic.bsky.social
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Like adding extra contempt of court charges?
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Psy Costanza
@ganondalf.bsky.social
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What is even his point lol. is there a group out there that's been complaining about justice for al capone
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ceej
@ceej.online
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if you do a big enough crime, you get to do any number of smaller crimes for free
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Ersatz Haderach
@striderhlc.bsky.social
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Chait sucks ass but I am kind of sympathetic to the take that Trump tried to overthrow the government and everything else seems ticky-tack by comparison.
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Stephen Schiavone
@stephenschiavone.bsky.social
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No, please stop! If you keep this up Chait will have no choice but vote Trump again!
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Norbizness
@norbizness.bsky.social
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And they both lived syphilitically ever after
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Tired Art Goblin
@spaceturtleart.bsky.social
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I mean he SHOULD have already been in prison for inciting a coup attempt and/or stealing (and probably selling) state secrets but I'll take what we can get.
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Microplastics Sommelier
@leastactionhero.bsky.social
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feather in chait's cap: employing the same linguistic flourish as ron desanctimonious over here
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Sid Oozeley
@oozeley.bsky.social
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chait has a crush on trump
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Thomas Most
@thomasmost.bsky.social
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hahahaha insane take
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Angelo Zanola
@angelozanola.bsky.social
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Famously innocent man Al Capone.
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Jerome Nicolas
@jeromenicolas.bsky.social
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By Johnathan Chait, who's been a national laughing stock since 2011.
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Allie, black Cat
@ofvick.bsky.social
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If Jonathan Chait posted a good take I'd punch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming
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Tim
@7amkickoff.com
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Jonathan Chait: world's 2nd biggest asshole.
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Jono
@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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First, they came for our mistress payoffs, and I did nothing
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Atrios
@eschatonblog.com
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Haha amazing shit
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L'affettapalle
@arissarox.bsky.social
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What in the white cishet privilege is this? We have people serving life in prison for weed possession, but 34 felony counts for fraud is "below the law"?
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H. Chaos
@hchaos.bsky.social
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, as a class, people who commit financial crimes should get more prison time than they currently do.
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Jeremy 🇨🇦
@thatgeoguy.ca
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Everyone reads a post or 700 a day and thinks "man I could be a poster" until you read some Chait headline and then you think "I really shouldn't do this to myself" and log off
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Stopped clocks, etc
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hobgoblin of little mind
@bigblueguitar.bsky.social
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For some reason, I didn't process that this was a Chait excretion the first time I saw the screenshot, and now the arrogant idiocy makes more sense
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KenObee
@kenobee.bsky.social
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Pretty sure Tr*mps tax evasion cases are lining up... Capone showed that you can defraud, launder, traffic and kill, but don't ever try to avoid giving the government money.
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Carl Ballard
@carlballard.bsky.social
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I would really like these jamooks to let us know what type of crime is OK for Presidents before they commit them.
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Nate Bowling, نيت بولينج
@natebowling.bsky.social
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This feels like a good time to reshare this piece. Chait spends a lot of time and energy being wrong.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Stefan D.
@s3rp86.bsky.social
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Get the criminal for the crime you can get him for and sort out the rest later. Thats just a fact.
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Elizabeth Dynan
@lizdynan.bsky.social
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Yeah, fuck him and hip hip hooray to Daniels, the woman he literally fucked over, and to all the voters misled by that slimey, recidivist douchebag.
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Mike Gallinari, Pentagon Psyop
@weigard.bsky.social
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"Who's been a New York political columnist since 2011" has a very unsaid "and should know better" after it.
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Beth
@thisbethlife.bsky.social
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Yeah. They *checks notes* should have let Capone continue to terrorize Chicago rather than lock him up for whatever we can.
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
@wrongbottom.bsky.social
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You chait to see it. Or at least he does.
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kth
@ktheintz.bsky.social
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Also they shouldn't have convicted OJ of armed robbery, even though he robbed some guys while he was armed
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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch
@tinavstammy.bsky.social
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Also apparently Chait forgets these aren't the only criminal charges Donald is facing? It's the *first* conviction. Nothing says there won't be more.
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Ian Rennie
@theangelremiel.bsky.social
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Jonathan Shart
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Steve Uncle
@the-barely-jew.bsky.social
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If we're lucky one day we'll have no idea where Trump is buried either
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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He had the bad hot take ready!
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NativeMichigander
@jcoblentz.bsky.social
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How can this possibly be a conclusion drawn from this event. Just out of this world crazy.
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@sirkowski.bsky.social
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Brittany Wilson
@sameoldstory.co
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does anybody sincerely give a fuck HOW we get him, it’s a real crime and he got got for it
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New Leaf
@newleaf.bsky.social
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New TV talk show idea: Chait, Todd and Cillizza
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New Leaf
@newleaf.bsky.social
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I move to make "Chait" an epithet, but a fairly pathetic one; like grade schoolers can use it without getting in trouble but it means "fucking nitwit".
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New Leaf
@newleaf.bsky.social
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What the fuck is he even saying? "Yes, he is a total criminal and a liar but can't we get him on Treason or something serious?"
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Mark Snow
@mark-snow.bsky.social
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@qjurecic.bsky.social I see someone got there several hours before me 🙄
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Asher: Hopefully Springing Eternal
@asherd.bsky.social
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what is "below the law" supposed to even mean, especially here
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