Something happens to people when they decide to go work for The Bulwark. Something bad. And it's not like most of those people can really afford it, because you already have to be kind of bad to begin with in order to be able to sell your soul like that.
Anyway, Tim Miller seemed fairly innocuous there for a while before he joined The Bulwark. We didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to what he said or did because, quite frankly, it didn't really matter. But it's not necessarily bad for him that we largely ignored him, because maybe it just meant that he wasn't saying or doing anything that really warranted getting called out and dragged.
Once he saw those sweet, sweet Resistance dollar signs, though, that was it. He pledged his allegiance to The Bulwark and from that moment on he was destined — or, rather, doomed — to vomit up garbage take after garbage take.
And that brings me to this. In response to Nancy Mace saying yesterday that she passed on an opportunity to have sex with her fiancé in order to attend Tim Scott's prayer breakfast, this was Tim's two cents:
Cute story and hope she gets hers soon enough…. but I notice there is never a Christian baker that wants to decline making cakes for weddings between straight people who publicly discuss pre marital sex. https://t.co/fz1WLnnsNd
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) July 27, 2023
Tim would notice that, wouldn't he? He loves few things more than noticing things that aren't actually things. Especially, it seems, when it comes to who's baking what cake for whom.
Honestly, that sounds like something Tim Miller would do. He's weirdly obsessed with trying to make Christian bakers uncomfortable.
Do you think bakers do background checks on prospective customers, Tim? Scour the socials to find out what they might’ve said in the past?
— Will, supporter of those things you don’t like (@spudhawg) July 28, 2023
Do you think bakers dig into their customers personal lives? If the cake is for the Bob & Doug they have all the info they need, they didn’t need to hire a PI to check them out
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) July 27, 2023
If the cake said “We’re Schtupping! (And We’re Not Married!) I bet the baker would be a no as well
And you know what? That's their prerogative. Just like it's Tim's prerogative not to write a story about how Donald Trump should not be the GOP presidential nominee. Tim and The Bulwark need Donald Trump to be the GOP presidential nominee, and having to say otherwise would completely violate Tim's principles, you see.
But I digress.
Today’s failure of basic cognition… https://t.co/pVrdKrUue9
— Hooch (@CompanyHooch) July 28, 2023
Gawd, he’s still pissed about the baker. https://t.co/eZC2wCalZC
— BloomStreetBlues (@grenwuld) July 28, 2023
The “looking to be offended” crowd is so goddamn tedious. https://t.co/KNPjGTO9oA
— Scott Paterno, Just a Guy (@ScottPaterno) July 27, 2023
I can’t get over how dumb this is. https://t.co/aEgrDkmrof
— EEE (@EEElverhoy) July 28, 2023
It's pretty dumb, y'all.
This has to be one of the dumbest talking points ever (though it's plausible he's never read past a headline re Masterpiece case.) https://t.co/ARJH5keLgJ
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 28, 2023
In fact, the argument completely undermines the intended point. Phillips would never design a cake celebrating premarital sex, because his actions are consistently in line with his beliefs (and not aimed at gay customers.)
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 28, 2023
Even if they weren't, of course, no one should coerced by government to say something they don't want to say.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 28, 2023
This is not a difficult concept to understand. And yet, it eludes Tim's grasp.
Jack Phillips won’t bake Halloween themed goods because it offends his Christian faith. But please keep enlightening us with these spicy takes on why we should force people to violate their conscience to affirm your beliefs, instead of just finding another bakery. https://t.co/b5fc3kgq8K
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 28, 2023
That's not how that works... that's not how ANY of this works. Seriously, what are you even trying to communicate with that?
— Lance 'Doc' Pearson 🅙 (@DocLanceP) July 27, 2023
Well, I can tell you what he did communicate ... which is that he's a chronically unserious, chronically shameless, chronically terrible person.
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