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Jonah Goldberg

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Editor-in-Chief, @TheDispatch (), LAT columnist. AEI Fellow. Host Remnant Podcast. Majordomo for Zoë and Pippa.

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1Dec 30, '24View post on X121×7.2M317k21k8.5k
2Oct 14, '24this doesn’t surprise me. People who love Trump don’t want to see or hear anything critical about him. People who hate Trump don’t want to see anything nuanced about him. And most 62.5×3.7M119k4.8k2.3k
3Mar 18, '25This is a very old joke that used to be edgy because people in positions of power and responsibility would never say it. Now, senior spokespeople for America think it’s fine to ins58.9×3.5M12k8601.6k
4Mar 29, '25FFS. “We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.” Gotta be one of the most pathetic things a vice president has ever said.36.4×2.2M78k6.4k1.5k
5Nov 29, '23If there was a city council meeting at which rightwingers said anything remotely as evil, stupid, wrong, and indefensible as this every single major media outlet would run it const36.4×2.2M8.4k1.4k594
6Oct 20, '24At this point it seems not entirely unreasonable to say that a vote for Trump ends up being a vote for Vance.17.4×1M12k1.5k133
7Jan 20, '25Biden is leaving office dropping one lawless, norm-defying, justly impeachable un-democratic transgression after another. That’d be bad enough. But these are all precedents for the15.6×938k12k2k569
8Oct 19, '25Again, this No Kings thing is not my bag. But the almost cultish refusal to understand the point by Trump’s usual apologists is bizarre. Yes: He was lawfully and legitimately elect14.8×890k9.4k1.7k1.3k
9Jul 7, '25It says something he’s not deleting these tweets.14.8×889k9.8k504278
10Jul 5, '25America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans acro14.5×868k11k1.4k759
11Mar 30, '25Difficult to exaggerate the utterly disqualifying ignorance of this statement. “You violated the law, you don’t get due process.”14.2×852k16k2.5k741
12Mar 1, '24Just worth pointing out that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, among other founders, thought this was bullshit.13.4×805k9.1k1.3k131
13Jun 9, '23This would have been a great tweet on January 6, 2021.13×779k9.6k1.3k50
14Nov 29, '24Nothing more awesome than drinking alone at an empty bar when everyone else is hanging out eating well with friends and family. Congrats.12.8×766k11k326113
15Mar 9, '25Look, I think Trump's position on Ukraine is immoral, unwise, and dishonorable. But people can disagree. But I do have a question: If Trump's position on Ukraine aid is so solid, w12.6×757k12k1.5k627
16Jul 22, '24Kinda feel like Biden needs to, you know, say something to the American people pretty soon. Like on camera. This is getting weird.12.5×748k13k961115
17May 17, '25I’m old enough to remember — because I’m not a newborn infant — when Trump said tariffs were paid by other countries. How can Walmart eat tariffs when they’re not already eaten by 12.2×732k18k2.9k605
18Nov 13, '24I cannot imagine why someone would vote to confirm Matt Gaetz for host at Red Lobster, never mind Attorney General of the United States.12.1×728k9.1k1.1k156
19Jul 24, '24No double standards for this crap. Jan 6 goons who attack cops should go to jail, and so should these thugs.10.5×632k9.8k1.5k181
20Oct 6, '25If you don’t understand why this insanely partisan language in front of uniformed servicemen is beyond the pale and deeply dangerous, I’m not sure I can explain it to you.9.6×578k15k2.2k815
21Feb 17, '24This is something that only people who know nothing about New York City say. Well, and liars. Liars say it too.9.3×556k9.8k76557
22Mar 28, '25Start the clock on wages and price controls.9.2×553k11k730392
23Aug 16, '25LOL. Vladimir Putin: Election Integrity Expert.9.2×550k13k1.7k258
24Aug 22, '25Just fyi, it is the long held view of the current president that he is, in fact, above the law.8.9×536k19k1.6k161
25Oct 17, '20I watched my brother’s addictions take a brutal toll on my Dad. It aged him physically and spiritually. The idea that Joe Biden’s text of encouragement to his (obviously messed up)7.9×062k6.1k175
26Jun 15, '23Kid left for Alaska this morning, but not before she gave me my hand drawn Father’s Day card as per tradition. I might frame this one.6.1×368k7.7k15267
27Apr 29, '25If including a line item in receipts for the included taxes is a "hostile and political act" then we're kinda in uncharted waters.6.1×366k11k1.1k262
28Oct 10, '25FWIW, I’m literally in a CNN studio right now. I’m a CNN contributor. The first paragraph of this CNN story is just wrong. As a factual, legal, and moral matter, Hamas started the 6.0×362k11k1.5k361
29Apr 22, '25For decades I’ve been complaining about the cheap talking point that the president — any president — “runs the economy.” But never in my lifetime has a president been so singularly5.8×350k9.7k1.3k244
30Jun 8, '24Maybe don’t take hostages in the first place. But if you do take hostages, don’t hide them among civilians and then act like it wasn’t your fault civilians got killed in a rescue o5.7×340k8k979106
31Oct 11, '20Rejecting a remote debate, Eric Trump said on @ThisWeekABC that debating your opponent, face to face, is how we've handled presidential debates for the last 200 years. FWIW The fir4.7×029k6.5k159
32Feb 10, '21It should basically be impossible for Officer Goodman to pay for a beer or meal for the rest of his life. He should just have an open tab wherever he goes.4.7×039k3.4k75
33Nov 19, '20BTW, just a reminder that the Trump we're seeing right now is perfectly consistent with the Trump some of us saw all along. Let's not pretend otherwise.4.7×036k3.5k82
34Mar 1, '25The guy who hasn’t stopped whining about every slight and insult ever directed at him thinks it’s totally weird that Zelensky talks too much about the guy who ordered the murder an4.5×273k9.3k1.3k266
35Jul 14, '19What a stupid time to be alive.4.4×035k3.6k59
36Dec 7, '19Friend: "Biden did the same thing they're accusing Trump of doing." Me: "He really didn't, but ok let's say he did. Is what Biden did okay?" F: "No! It's outrageous!" Me: "And if T4.0×028k4.7k131
37Apr 15, '25Forget the immorality of this, and it is immoral. The idea that we can’t condemn a Russian war crime because it will make the Russians mad at the negotiating table is solid evidenc3.4×206k9.9k2.4k337
38Apr 22, '22I think there would be no more fitting end to Kevin McCarthy’s dream of becoming speaker than the “scandal” of him being exposed as privately believing the right and moral thing.3.0×023k2.8k132
39Feb 23, '21Imagine how many people would starve if grocery workers had the same clout -- and attitude -- as teachers unions.3.0×019k3.1k112
40Sep 26, '25I have seen a lot of Bad Twitter over the years. Didn’t expect to have such an impressive new category: Mocking widows for being caught smiling Twitter. It’s just evil.2.9×171k11k65089
41Jun 5, '18The attempt to make the Eagles event cancellation about the national anthem is just a complete act of deceitful propaganda and conservatives should have zero to do with it. If that2.7×016k3.8k21
42Feb 10, '21Mike Pence could completely overturn and improve his place in history if he offered to testify and came out in favor of conviction. I mean he's not going to be president anyway. Mi2.6×020k2.3k50
43Jan 15, '21Having just heard the 5,000th Trump apologist pundit make the same argument(s), I feel like venting. So, as the say, thread: 1/2.1×012k2.3k983
44Sep 7, '18You know what would be interesting? If instead of asking senior officials whether they wrote the op-ed, reporters asked them if they believed it was accurate.2.1×014k2.6k10
45Mar 16, '22I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to shoot one of these animals for entertainment.2.1×017k1.3k233
46Jan 3, '21This tape of the Trump phone call is amazing. Unless you’re drunk on the Kool Aid, it’s glaringly obvious they just want to cheat. That’s it. Nothing clever. Nothing about patrioti2.0×013k3k160
47Apr 23, '20I understand why Kemp and his supporters are pissed. But here’s the thing: If you let Trump influence your decision at all about opening up your economy you deserve to see the unde2.0×016k1.9k43
48Jun 8, '22Look. I’m on record rolling my eyes at a lot of “if this was so and so” stuff. But if they caught someone wanting to assassinate RBG if she were still alive or Sotomayor today beca2.0×013k2.3k102
49Feb 10, '19Just admit you committed one of the greatest Kinsley Gaffes in decades: Your office obviously released what you actually think. And now you’re scrambling to pretend something else 2.0×012k3.2k36
50Oct 12, '17If you call yourself a conservative and deny that you’d freak out if a Democratic POTUS said anything like this, pick a new label, please.1.9×011k3.4k1
51Aug 8, '22As someone who has been audited by the IRS twice, all of this "If you did nothing wrong, it's no big deal" stuff is infuriating. 1/1.9×014k1.3k277
52Aug 15, '21I'd like to see a lot of resignations.1.9×014k1.2k28
53Sep 28, '21This is amazing. I mean it's just a thing that happens. If a restaurant has a profit margin of $9K a month and you raise its taxes by $10K a month, do you think the owner will say 1.9×012k2k129
54Apr 13, '20So. Trump said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total." This is antithetical to everything conservatives have argued for 50 years. 1/1.9×012k2.3k167
55Oct 23, '19"It was outrageous for Hillary Clinton to refer to people she disagreed with politically 'deplorable'!" Same people: "Hooray for Trump calling people who disagree with him 'human s1.9×012k2.5k63
56Nov 3, '21All of the people on MSNBC convincing themselves that all of these VA voters — who voted for Biden a year ago! — are idiots, racists, and/or dupes is pretty wild.1.8×014k1.6k104
57Jan 6, '2125th Amendment now.1.8×013k2.2k27
58Jul 4, '20People dunking on the founding should appreciate that they’re taking a sledgehammer to the very soapbox they’re standing on. No founding, no free speech, no right to assemble, no d1.8×011k2.3k121
59Apr 23, '22I’m just trying to imagine what folks on the right would say if a liberal politician said they might back off Hobby Lobby if they changed their politics.1.7×010k1.9k113
60Aug 16, '21Biden: the Buck stops with me and I take full responsibility but my hands were tied by Trump and this is the Afghan military’s fault. We were prepared for this, but we were caught 1.7×012k1.7k119
61Aug 12, '18The real story is how the Deep State got Omarosa inside the Trump campaign and then the White House by embedding her in The Apprentice all those years ago. But MSM won’t cover it!1.7×011k1.8k9
62Jan 20, '18It's like the siege of Stalingrad over there.1.7×011k2.5k0
63Dec 6, '18You were literally the single most dishonest, unethical, and career obsessed asshole to the Bushes in the last 40 years. Sit out a play jackwad.1.6×011k2k20
64Oct 31, '18This sentence is like a snake eating its own tail.1.5×09.1k2.1k40
65May 26, '21I’m not normally a “Let’s get X trending” Twitter guy. But I think it would be good if we got #TaiwanIsACountry trending. Because, you know, Taiwan is a country.1.5×09.5k2.2k24
66May 13, '18If you don't read books, you can say just about anything with confidence.1.4×010k1.7k30
67Jan 23, '21Very sad news. This AM I found our cat Ralph in the basement crying. He couldn't move his back legs. He had a blood clot and congestive heart failure. My wife, who loved him dearly1.4×011k17719
68Mar 20, '20Good lord.1.4×07k2.3k75
69Jun 8, '18I knew this was coming, but that doesn't lessen the agony of this announcement. Charles Krauthammer is one of the most brilliant, decent, humane, impressive people I have ever had 1.4×08.7k1.8k11
70Jun 22, '19I long thought the sexualization of little girls in beauty pageants had become gross, and until recently there seemed to be a growing consensus about that. Now the sexualization of1.4×09k1.7k46
71May 19, '19“The Nation” doesn’t pay the baseball players or the teachers. Everything that happens in America isn’t done by the “nation.” That’s kinda how freedom works.1.3×09.3k1.6k39
72Nov 17, '19I haven’t changed a single position on conservative issues and principles since the days you used to kiss my ass. I like how you say *I’m* trying to stay relevant while you’re watc1.3×09.2k1.1k33
73Aug 12, '22Just remember: if these reports are true that means that if they can search an ex-president’s home for vital nuclear documents and signals intelligence they can do it to you too.1.2×08.7k83353
74Jul 29, '18Look, maybe he has no factual reason to worry about what Mueller might find. But he’s spent a year talking like he’s stone cold guilty of something.1.2×08k1.2k7
75Dec 8, '18Hearing fewer people insisting tear gas is a chemical weapon/war crime than I did a couple weeks ago with the caravan.1.2×07.4k2.1k17
76Apr 12, '19Except he’s neither an American nor a journalist1.2×09.2k1.2k17
77Nov 19, '20A serious political party that took its role in American life and its own reputation seriously would abandon Trump before disseminating this garbage. Why wouldn't you resign rather1.2×07.8k1.2k91
78Nov 9, '17As the father of a 14 year old girl, this “What’s the big deal?” crap enrages me.1.2×07.5k1.4k0
79Nov 21, '17There’s a reason it’s an unpopular opinion: It’s neither intelligent nor moral.1.2×07.8k1.7k0
80Oct 14, '19If the video was of Biden shooting a bunch of MAGA types in a church, I'm sure the "lighten up, it's a video" crowd would hold the same position.1.2×08.3k1k21
81Dec 6, '20If you’re watching it, and you don’t find the president’s rally at least a little embarrassing, you’re part of the problem.1.2×09.2k63118
83Apr 26, '21This isn't very complicated. India is an ally and a democracy in a vital region. New strains are likely to emerge the longer we wait. Some could be vaccine resistant and/or deadlie1.2×09.1k96031
84Apr 13, '20The president of the United States' authority is not "total" in this or nearly anything else. If Obama ever said anything like that, talk radio conservatives would set themselves o1.2×07.5k1.4k25
85Oct 30, '17Breaking: "Paul Manafort Admits 'I've Lived My Life as a Gay Man,' vows to go after NRA."1.2×07.5k1.6k0
86May 23, '20To the folks who think Bill Gates wants to use a vaccine to implant locator chips in you: I’m really pretty sure he has no desire to know where you are or anything else about you.1.1×07.9k92524
87Oct 3, '17It's not a photo.1.1×07.6k9400
88Oct 27, '22The news is now out there. So, I should say something here. My beloved mom, Lucianne Goldberg, passed away yesterday. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by people – and pets! 1.1×08.2k15641
89Jan 28, '20The idea that only violations of criminal law are impeachable is logically, legally, morally, constitutionally, historically and factually absurd.1.1×07.3k1.2k29
90May 7, '18I have political disagreements — from quibbles to more significant — with John McCain. But all of these self-described conservatives using the man’s funeral wishes to piss on his w1.1×07.3k1.2k3
91Oct 14, '19At some point this country is going to experience a crisis so grave, a challenge so existential, that Jim Jordan will find it necessary to wear a jacket.1.1×08.7k6288
92May 11, '20My daughter complaining: “I was the only person in that whole store wearing a mask.” Me: “What a weird coincidence, you were also the only person in that whole store I really care 1.1×09.3k48418
93Apr 27, '21If you’re triggered by strangers wearing masks — even if you’re sure they don’t need to — to the point of saying something to them, never mind calling the authorities, you’re the p1.1×08.6k73629
94Jan 5, '21The claim that the founding fathers invested the Vice Presidency with unchecked unilateral power to void a national election is very funny to me. I just love the idea that all of t1.1×08.2k89562
95Nov 10, '21He didn’t really lose $50 billion, but this is a good illustration of why the idea of taxing unrealized gains is so ludicrous.1.0×08k1k27
96Jun 10, '19This is so wonderfully stupid. It’s stupid from every angle. It’s stupid in every regard. It’s so pure in its stupidity it’s like the fentanyl of stupid.1.0×07k1.1k19
97Aug 22, '18So brilliant of the Deep State to lay down the long con by embedding Cohen and Manafort in Trump World so early.1.0×07.3k1k15
98Mar 12, '20Welp, I got her a plane ticket. She's gonna spend several hours at Heathrow, which means I'm gonna see a thousand giant Toberlone bars on my credit card. But -- fingers crossed -- 0.9×08.4k11911
99Nov 23, '20Correct. That is exactly what I am saying.0.9×07.2k44624
101Oct 15Pippa has expectations.0.2×10k759125

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