Staying Tuned

This is the network Mayorkas went out of his way to legitimize today https://t.co/GzhW75Yx8r pic.twitter.com/nVGZyfIqc5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2022

He's the Secretary of DHS. He should have called in a drone strike on FoxNews studios instead.

It's the only way to be sure.  And it would sure delegitimize FoxNews.

Huge news. This is big. pic.twitter.com/j81JnE6p0m

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) May 1, 2022

Is re-tweeting this re-tweet legitimizing the original tweet? Explain your answer in at least five paragraphs. Neatness counts.

This was quickly deleted. pic.twitter.com/2kjrdEtZsW

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 1, 2022

"Paranoia strikes deep..."

"Steve Simon, you maybe better check out to see if you look good in stripes" -- during a speech last month, MN GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen suggested Secretary of State Steve Simon should be imprisoned for no good reason.

"Lock him up" is mainstream GOP thought now. pic.twitter.com/fSxZGi0nMU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2022

"Into your lives it will creep..."

The entire right is uniting around comical overcompensation. https://t.co/XaIJ7sUBHo

— David Roberts (@drvolts) May 1, 2022

"It starts when you're always afraid..."

The British Ministry of Defense has reportedly seen indications that Russian President Putin is preparing a Statement for May 9th during the Victory Parade in Moscow, which its expected a General Mobilization and a Declaration of War against Ukraine will be declared. pic.twitter.com/jOSvmMkDrw

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 29, 2022

For no particular reason, I want to lay this from April 29, alongside this, from the next day:

April 30 Assessment Highlight:#Russian forces appear increasingly unlikely to achieve any major advances in eastern #Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces may be able to conduct wider counterattacks in the coming days.https://t.co/uKDlg9yUCk pic.twitter.com/uVUCm3RyWa

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) April 30, 2022

Meanwhile, back among the pundits:

In case you forgot for a moment what scum like Lavrov are, read and remember all the cheery photos of him with foreign ministers and heads of state. And what that says about our failure to recognize and face evil. https://t.co/pcxfhLiIMk

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) May 1, 2022

So I guess the "West" "legitimized" Lavrov by not shooting him in the face or isolating Russia decades earlier? Because refusal to acknowledge the leadership of a country worked so well for the U.S. against Cuba? And unlike Cuba, Russia sits on the UN Security Council? And while we're legitimizing:

Big Roy Moore energy. https://t.co/5x11dE2NK4

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 1, 2022

And Herbster is gonna go house to house in Nebraska makin' sure the wimmen folk is sexually edumacated!

Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Political Scientist Dmitry Kulikov argued that Joe Biden has been trying to overthrow Putin since 2012. He claimed, Biden's plan to use Ukraine to destroy Russia might have worked—if not for Trump: "Trump gave us those 4 years. Thank you very much." pic.twitter.com/sAqCzvPeC8

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 1, 2022

In all seriousness, I'm having trouble distinquishing between Russian state media and FoxNews.

I’ve always respected @Trevornoah so much but this closing speech from the White House correspondents’ dinner is particularly spectacular. pic.twitter.com/k8GmBOAoYB

— Mike Birbiglia (@birbigs) May 1, 2022

Are they going to pat themselves on the back? Or are they going to listen to what the guy from South Africa (the non-white, non-richest-man-in-the-world guy, I mean)? We'll see....