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21
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
14%
3 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans strongly right
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66/100
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With a little under seven weeks to go until the midterms, Democratic campaign surrogate and professional meathead Hasan Piker just committed a costly “Kinsley gaffe.”
That is, he told the truth about what he and the ascendant wing of his party believe.
asserted
he → go → party
During a disastrous sit-down with Axios’ Alex Thompson, the journalist reminded the meticulously manicured Twitch streamer that he had once deemed the United States “the top dog in terrorism” before asking: “Do you think America, then, is worse than al Qaeda?”
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America → remind → Qaeda
We have caused tremendous terror all around the world,” replied Piker.
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Piker → cause → world
This silver spoon-fed playboy is deserving of scorn and pity in equal measure.
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playboy → feed → measure
To submit that jihadis who revel in their murder of innocent life are the moral superiors of a flawed but well-meaning democracy that saved the world from Nazism, then communism and now stands in the breach against both Russo-Sino authoritarianism and Islamic extremism is to chant “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” like the witches of “Macbeth.”
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foul → submit → Macbeth
To excuse evil and revile good is, well, evil.
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excuse → excuse → good
On the other, Piker very well might just be too stupid to understand what he’s saying.
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he → understand → what
After all, the same guy who cited bloodshed as the reason for his virulent anti-Americanism pranced around in a Mao costume earlier this year.
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who → cite → costume
It’s a truly painful experience to watch his gears turn, slowly.
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gears → ’ → ?
For the Democrats who have used and defended him, however, there can be only contempt.
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who → use → him
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and received his medical degree from Columbia.
What’s his explanation for campaigning alongside Piker?
And what about Bernie Sanders, the Senate elder who prefers Piker not just to his Republican colleagues, but to the likes of legendary Democratic strategist James Carville?
Or Zohran Mamdani, the mayor who has bonded with Piker over their shared, myopic hatred of the world’s only Jewish-majority state?
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who → receive → state
Or any number of the grasping congressmen and -women, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Ro Khanna to Ilhan Omar to Rashida Tlaib who have sought to capitalize on his rising star?
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who → grasp → star
El-Sayed has repeatedly brushed aside questions about his voluntary association with Piker, complaining that “politicians and pundits” are trying to make his race “about a Twitch streamer.”
But he’s the one who introduced Piker into the contest in the first place.
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who → brush → place
It’s not anyone’s fault but his own that the benefits of whipping his rotten base into an anti-American, antisemitic and indeed anti-civilizational fervor might be outweighed by the costs.
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benefits → ’ → costs
And it’s not anyone’s fault but his own that he won’t disavow Piker.
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he → ’ → Piker
See, El-Sayed won’t draw a hard line between himself and his troublesome backer because fundamentally, they believe the same things.
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they → see → things
El-Sayed might differentiate from himself on discrete issues for political reasons, but that’s just for show — a phenomenon Piker himself (he can’t seem to stop himself from saying the quiet part out loud) has acknowledged.
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he → differentiate → part
If you don’t believe it, remember that El-Sayed himself commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in 2021 by submitting that he would “mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”
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he → believe → country
Vanishingly few Democrats are willing to call him and his worldview what they are, and those who do earn withering rebukes from their peers.
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who → call → peers
A major party composed of Americans who hate the country they want to run.
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they → compose → country
He’s a stand-in for the most important one of all: Which side are you on?
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you → ’ → side
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