Matt Taibbi

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7/3/2025, 9:06:04 PM
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Beau Forte
@Beau4Congress
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@ljenkins314 @mtaibbi Apparently Matt does, he keeps replying, ant keeps backpedaling.

Now at least he admits he did have some advantages.
Tsukkomi
@ljenkins314
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53d
@Beau4Congress @mtaibbi Ok, but have you considered that nobody gives a shit?
Beau Forte
@Beau4Congress
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@mtaibbi @ljenkins314 That's your father, that's not you. By the time you came around, your father was just fine. Especially if he was living in New Brunswick. Yes, there are parts of new brunswick that are not that nice, but I'd bet many dollars that that's not the part you grew up in.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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@Beau4Congress @ljenkins314 Eventually I had advantages, but my father was a Filipino-American orphan who had nothing when I was born and worked his ass off to make a career. You can dislike what I write without forcing a fake biography on me. Jesus, just take the L
Beau Forte
@Beau4Congress
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@mtaibbi @ljenkins314 Because much of what you say and write lately is bullshit. I used to really like your stuff, then you changed. You sold out really. Do not tell me that someone whose father is a TV news man, and was raised in New Brunswick grew up without major advantages. It's bullshit.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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@Beau4Congress @ljenkins314 Uh, why bullshit? There was no family money. My father was cut off from his adoptive parents and paying for tuition and a child at 20. How many young parents working two jobs do you know who have savings?

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