Does it mention how the New York Times elevated her from campus troll to important national thought leader?

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

"Fascism actually good in many ways," says man wearing tie, unlike rabble in streets.

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I found the whole video. Very fun.

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I think your version might make the armed federal agents in helicopters feel bad.

What were those adults and children thinking, being pulled from their apartments?

I love the reference to Omelas. I think of that story all the time.

Well, nobody knew that it would be a vengeance tour. It's not like he — oh, wait, that's what retribution means?

I heard you talking about the Mikie Sherrill race on this podcast. As an NJ voter I see ads by her opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, just blatantly taking two parts of a quote by her out of context. It's outright lying. It's driving me nuts. I wish he were being shamed out of existence for this.

Side note: JD Vance’s whole shtick is that he has ownership over the country because his ancestors go back five generations here, and anyone newer than him is a guest here. Needless to say, fuck that.

I only disagree that it’s a “crucial moment.” If we had had any sane, boring, competent president after Obama, these would have been sane and boring times.

Sounds right.

Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”

New York Times Grants Race Science Enthusiast Anonymity in Mamdani Hit Piece The paper granted the source of the hacked documents anonymity. That person is a known enthusiast of race science.

The real "problem lurking beneath" everything published in the New York Times is your collaboration with a white supremacist "race scientist." You have not explained this and I have not gotten past it. Please explain how this happened and hold some people accountable.

The problem is the idea that journalists DIDN'T cover it, because they did.

But she didn’t just know about it by magic. She learned about it from the journalists who covered it. My guess is David Corn from Mother Jones — he’s the first one I know of who wrote about it.

This is just another example of “Why doesn’t the media cover [this thing I read about in the media]?”

How did you hear about Project 2025? From journalists, I’m pretty sure.

Thanks.

Same era:

Slouching Toward Gomorrah, Robert Bork
The End of History, Francis Fukuyama

You may have observed how history ended in the early 1990s and it's been smooth sailing since then, so it would be good to have an explanation of that.

Oh man, that book demands to be done. You're right.

Rock Hill, SC, where I didn’t understand why everyone in the dining room was staring at me until the very nice Black waitstaff whispered “our people take our food to go”

When were you there, 1955?

They're in the minority AND they're completely incompetent AND they're completely inadequate for this moment in history.

Chuck Schumer, you are worthless. Quit the Senate tomorrow.

DC Democrats are hopelessly lost, though. The people are way, way ahead of the politicians at this point.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Their smooching of the presidential ass will not be forgotten.

It is an extremely damaging perception, though.

I’ve gotten the same reaction when I point out that the high-quality journalism is behind paywalls and the right-wing propaganda is free, and that is helping distort what people say. I know journalism costs money — it’s just a reality that we have to realize is true and is hurting us.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.

Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?