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If inciting a rebellion didn’t turn MAGAs off of Trump, nothing will

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Quite true, but virtually all of those mentioned don’t think it’s good to have a leader like Trump on any level anyway. But what we hear most from the media is about the 10 year Epstein fixation on the Right, as if that might be impacted by all of this. It won’t. My only

IN THE END, no matter the evidence, MAGAs aren’t going to give one shit about the #EpsteinFiles. The rules of their cult can’t allow it. The only people who think otherwise are pundits who pretend they understand what people on the Right will do next. They’re usually wrong.

Low-information voters are less dangerous than those drunk on lots of bad information.

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generally like and trust get by with minial criticism of their output. I think that’s harming us in multiple ways. But like most challenges we face as a society, the only way we will change it is to start caring about it. And we can’t do that if nobody talks about it. We should start doing …

much more than this, but I am absolutely certain that I’m on to something here. And I think way smarter people than me should be writing about it. The last 20 years has seen a complete collapse of serious commentary about other commentary. Bari Weiss makes an easy target, but the people we …

thoughtful journalists and pundits who occasionally buck this trend get almost no amplification whatever among average citizens. A few thousand likes on Substack may keep their careers on track, but does little to move any popular narratives.

I’m not a talented or patient enough reporter to say …

blogging went south in the ’00s , we’ve created a world of cascading echo chambers, each amplifying the reverberant rhetoric of the other, but with serious and informed criticism of most points of view going completely unnoticed, or sliding by without thoughtful comment. The most serious and …

synthesizing complicated information. They’re just very good at marketing themselves as being very good at it. And their brand and output is almost always targeting their ideological opponents, but no one on their own team who might ultimately up their game with more scrutiny. Since serious …

lives only have so many minutes in them. But the danger is that in believing they’re so open-minded and well informed, they become too very easily influenced by a very same stable of go-to influencers on most issues. And the fact is, most self-described “analysts” aren’t very good at …

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

I have this theory that most people who maintain that they read and listen to diverse sources, are fibbing to themselves because they want to believe it. It takes a lot of work to stay informed from many sources and most simply don’t do it. They just say they do. And that’s understandable. Our …

reminding of this every day. We should make their families and children terrified about the disgrace they will come down on their lives. Republicans have made their wreckage a family affair for millions. We should start returning the favor.

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

A hallmark of the Left’s failure to do little well (except shit on Democrats), is there are no NGOs spending a dime doing anything to make the White House stooges fear what’s going to happen to after this administration is deposed. Pam Bondi should be trembling in her Jimmy Choos. We should be …

Ugh, even Mark McKinnon and I are on the same page about the shut-down and ACA. Yep, a lot of folks will be hurt. Millions. But Republicans were going to hurt them anyway. Now it’ll be easier to make them pay for it. If we ever have another fair election, anyway. A big if.

Heck of a balancing act they pull off 2x/week.

or control of their moral compass. I’m not impressed by many or much, but that one trait always inspires me, and reaffirms my faith in the rest of humanity. And it has sure needed some reaffirming of late.

I’m not generally one to praise theists or theism, but two of the most moral people I ever read or listen to are @bluegal.bsky.social and @driftglass.bsky.social (@proleftpodcast.bsky.social). They can consistently be disgusted and enraged by almost everything around us, yet never lose sight of, …

don’t know how we recover from structural insipidness.

taking most of us seriously anymore. We all became so determined to defend our claims of righteousness, that we fell straight into corny cliches and platitudes to do it. And the Right was quick to make it all so easy to mock. I worry more about this than I worry about Trump or MAGA. I just …

I know this isn’t easy to hear, but believe we’ve become so utterly predictable on the Left. And it makes us easy targets. Our outrage, humor, narratives, and even what we pretend to care about can be as scripted as any 2nd rate Hollywood film. It’s gotten so bad, I don’t think any of us are …

Agree. It’s dumb to act the fool you chafe at in others

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the Left has followed the Right straight into the gutter. Few speak of decent behavior anymore. And those who do get little amplification. We have allowed the Right drag us down to their level. I fear we may never rise back up again.

Not going to single out any one offender, but if the Left keeps using AI like this, we lose any moral standing to criticize the right when they do worse. Please tell creators you follow to stop this idiocy. It’s not how we win. We just look as morally bankrupt as they are.

to that reality, the sooner we will stop worrying about who gets hurt, and start thinking about how we can hurt them first. By any means necessary. #planB

country. It’s about the pure exercise of power as long as they have it. And none of them is bright enough to figure out how they’ll survive if they lose that power. They don’t think that far ahead, and they don’t think they have to. These are dangerously stupid people. And the sooner we wake up …

Republican has anything like what you could call a strategy. Which is why all you ever hear is blithering and babble about the issue of the moment, with absolutely no long term game even suggested. Because it’s not about game plans, or strategy, or getting something for constituents or the …

bullies. They are cult of elected sociopaths who driven out anything resembling a reasonable person in their party, and are completely committed to extracting any benefit they can from this MAGA insurrection, as long as they can.

And please stop thinking they have “a plan.” Not one single …

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We need to collectively wake up and realize that we are dealing with a slow-rolling coup d’état that has been in progress since the election and no amount of pretending that it isn’t happening is going to make a single bit of difference. These people are not politicians. Nor are they …

election, or that Trump will simply fix the elections for them. Every single thing they do or have done since January confirms this premise. The only people that don’t seem to get it is the American left and the media (most of which is GOP complicit anyway, so they don’t work too hard to get …