Clay Cooper
tclaycooper.bsky.social
Clay Cooper
@tclaycooper.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Twitter refugee. History, culture, sports (Braves, Vols, Titans, Falcons, F1, WRC), politics if I feel like staring into the void
Hooray!
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Whatever culture war issues distracted the base while he made billions for his former company Halliburton and American oil companies. Lie about Iraq, kill hundreds of thousands of people, create endless war, but hey, at least Citizens United lets companies and superPACs buy elections like he wanted.
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
And he was one of many establishment Republicans who knowingly threw open the doors to the lunatic fringe to take over their party and only tried to kick them out after they’d ransacked the place and long after he had any political capital left.
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In so many ways his piloting of W’s presidency became a model for every Nazi incel working for Trump. Even if they disagree on policy points with him, he normalized being the unscrupulous man behind the curtain who wielded expanded executive power and furthered unethical corporate interests
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Calling defensive timeouts between 2:00 and 2:39 only makes sense if you are going to get the ball back before the warning. Otherwise coaches should have been awake in math class.
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM