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CNN’s “NewsNight” descended into squabbling on Friday after a panelist was called out for echoing transphobic rhetoric in a heated post-election exchange.

The white smoke can only go up when one of the cardinals receives a 72-vote majority, and shepherding this bunch of squabbling, power-hungry backstabbers to that number is going to require a herculean feat of delicate diplomacy, maybe even an act of God or two.

Day in and day out, it treats the divisions about basic facts and democratic rule as just so much partisan squabbling.

All of the candidates seem to want to put a summer of squabbling, bickering and anonymous briefings behind them.

Of course, the Gallaghers’ disagreements were nothing new — a 1995 single “Wibbling Rivalry” detailed their squabbling during an interview and just missed the Top 40 in the UK — but the brothers were rather adamantly anti-reunion: In summer 2024, Liam even embarked on a tour celebrating "Definitely Maybe" on his own.