Oliver Willis
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of all the dumb guys on fox news, greg gutfeld is among the dumbest. quite an accomplishment.
Greg Gutfeld: Women can be turned into revolutionaries because they “can have their compassion and their emotions hijacked”
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
of all the dumb guys on fox news, greg gutfeld is among the dumbest. quite an accomplishment.
the mainstream media regurgitates the lies of the regime as if we havent watched donald trump lie about politics since at least 2009 when he said obama was from kenya. it fucking drives me up a wall.
Of course.
DHS lied again.
Right after they murdered Renee Good, they shot a young couple in Portland.
Then lied about it.
They were *not* gang members.
And she wasn’t “involved” in a shooting, she was a victim of sexual assault.
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DHS lied again.
Right after they murdered Renee Good, they shot a young couple in Portland.
Then lied about it.
They were *not* gang members.
And she wasn’t “involved” in a shooting, she was a victim of sexual assault.
apple.news/AeMvL-19yS1S...
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘a smear campaign’ — Guardian US
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
apple.news
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
the mainstream media regurgitates the lies of the regime as if we havent watched donald trump lie about politics since at least 2009 when he said obama was from kenya. it fucking drives me up a wall.
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elections are important but if you focus on winning elections as the only way to stop the fascists who are undermining elections—there are problems there.
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
elections are important but if you focus on winning elections as the only way to stop the fascists who are undermining elections—there are problems there.
my mentions a mix of people accusing me of making excuses for establishment dems along with people accusing me of unfairly tearing down dems.
February 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
my mentions a mix of people accusing me of making excuses for establishment dems along with people accusing me of unfairly tearing down dems.
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turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan
just noting that notorious pee drinker todd starnes apparently has a show on "newsmax2"
TWO?
TWO?
Nancy Mace: "I had to come out with a genetic condition I've had all my life. I'm not allowed to drink or consume much in the way of alcohol. It's called hemochromatosis. If you do, it'll destroy your organs and you'll die at an early age, and I love life."
February 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM
just noting that notorious pee drinker todd starnes apparently has a show on "newsmax2"
TWO?
TWO?
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In retrospect we should have known we were cooked when people started saying "Mr Beast" and they weren't just being respectful to Marshawn Lynch
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
In retrospect we should have known we were cooked when people started saying "Mr Beast" and they weren't just being respectful to Marshawn Lynch
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Imagine your sweet, little 9-year-old girl was abducted and taken to a torture mill.
This is happening in our name on our dime.
Children are being abducted, detained, deprived of medical care & given moldy or worm infested food & foul water.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
Congress: 202-224-3121
This is happening in our name on our dime.
Children are being abducted, detained, deprived of medical care & given moldy or worm infested food & foul water.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
Congress: 202-224-3121
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Imagine your sweet, little 9-year-old girl was abducted and taken to a torture mill.
This is happening in our name on our dime.
Children are being abducted, detained, deprived of medical care & given moldy or worm infested food & foul water.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
Congress: 202-224-3121
This is happening in our name on our dime.
Children are being abducted, detained, deprived of medical care & given moldy or worm infested food & foul water.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
Congress: 202-224-3121
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Jeff Bezos paid $75 million dollars for the Melania documentary, which made $8 million opening weekend (a generous estimate).
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Jeff Bezos paid $75 million dollars for the Melania documentary, which made $8 million opening weekend (a generous estimate).
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
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They're not going to fire Megan McArdle, right? Probably giving her a raise.
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
They're not going to fire Megan McArdle, right? Probably giving her a raise.
gotta love the corporate suit euphemisms for "youre fired"
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
gotta love the corporate suit euphemisms for "youre fired"
this is why the trump team holds pressers like this. they know the msm will just regurgitate the spin and ignore the core -- that homan said thousands will remain in minnesota and that mass deportation policies will continue. msm is useless.
The Trump administration is removing 700 federal immigration agents from Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan said. The move comes weeks after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by agents, sparking protests around the country. nbcnews.to/3MkjPDo
February 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
this is why the trump team holds pressers like this. they know the msm will just regurgitate the spin and ignore the core -- that homan said thousands will remain in minnesota and that mass deportation policies will continue. msm is useless.
after democrats took office in 2009 and 2021 they told the left to go suck eggs. sorry, but thats what happened. after they win, dems never want to listen to the left. so this idea that these concerns can be tabled until after the election so they can be addressed is a lie.
So fucking sick of this lie.
The entire point is that you cannot demand better until Democrats have power. The constant ultimatums are why Dems keep losing. They can’t help from the minority.
You get them elected, you support their campaigns, then they listen to you.
The entire point is that you cannot demand better until Democrats have power. The constant ultimatums are why Dems keep losing. They can’t help from the minority.
You get them elected, you support their campaigns, then they listen to you.
Leftists have this thing that purity outweighs practicality and that’s dumb. But liberals have this thing that we can’t demand better and just have to accept the suck. That’s stupid too.
February 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
after democrats took office in 2009 and 2021 they told the left to go suck eggs. sorry, but thats what happened. after they win, dems never want to listen to the left. so this idea that these concerns can be tabled until after the election so they can be addressed is a lie.
I think the 2016 and 2024 elections showed that leftists have a lot to learn about just sucking it up and choosing the better option and liberals have a lot to learn about listening to the people to their left who say “everything is not perfect.”
Yeah, like these nitwits still haven’t figured out the way to avoid being here is not to spend 18 months poisoning the well against the one option to prevent fascism.
Now that we are here, yes, maybe start listening to us since that was too much to ask before, and you fucked up.
Now that we are here, yes, maybe start listening to us since that was too much to ask before, and you fucked up.
"None of us figured out how to avoid being here."
IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."
IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I think the 2016 and 2024 elections showed that leftists have a lot to learn about just sucking it up and choosing the better option and liberals have a lot to learn about listening to the people to their left who say “everything is not perfect.”
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Exactly. There is no evil “Other” — no immigrant, trans person etc is my enemy.
But if human nature requires an evil “Other,” let it be the ultrarich. They are the ones dividing and conquering us. Their wealth is the root of all harm.
But if human nature requires an evil “Other,” let it be the ultrarich. They are the ones dividing and conquering us. Their wealth is the root of all harm.
Bezos, Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Ellison and a few others are like straight out of comic book villainy. These people make Lex Luthor and Dr Doom look sane. We should be talking about them the way they demonize immigrants, women and the poor. Be bigoted towards evil billionaires.
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Exactly. There is no evil “Other” — no immigrant, trans person etc is my enemy.
But if human nature requires an evil “Other,” let it be the ultrarich. They are the ones dividing and conquering us. Their wealth is the root of all harm.
But if human nature requires an evil “Other,” let it be the ultrarich. They are the ones dividing and conquering us. Their wealth is the root of all harm.
Bezos and Musk got hit by the lucky stick and our leaders and institutions act like they’re Moses walking down with the Ten Commandments
these people are morons who overwhelmingly were simply in the right place at the right time and they had rich family to back them up, for some reason we put them in charge of everything
February 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Bezos and Musk got hit by the lucky stick and our leaders and institutions act like they’re Moses walking down with the Ten Commandments
The GOP and Fox have run a multi decade campaign to make the public think undocumented immigrant and criminal are the same thing. And it is identical to what Nazis did with Jewish people. And nobody calls them on it.
I'm watching Tom Homan speak and lost count how many times he said "criminal aliens." Like it's one word.
Which I assume is the point.
Which I assume is the point.
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The GOP and Fox have run a multi decade campaign to make the public think undocumented immigrant and criminal are the same thing. And it is identical to what Nazis did with Jewish people. And nobody calls them on it.
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It's a massive open goal just sitting there.
Campaigning on 'I will shove these nerds into lockers them dump the lockers into the sea' would be a 1932-style FDR landslide.
Campaigning on 'I will shove these nerds into lockers them dump the lockers into the sea' would be a 1932-style FDR landslide.
Bezos, Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Ellison and a few others are like straight out of comic book villainy. These people make Lex Luthor and Dr Doom look sane. We should be talking about them the way they demonize immigrants, women and the poor. Be bigoted towards evil billionaires.
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It's a massive open goal just sitting there.
Campaigning on 'I will shove these nerds into lockers them dump the lockers into the sea' would be a 1932-style FDR landslide.
Campaigning on 'I will shove these nerds into lockers them dump the lockers into the sea' would be a 1932-style FDR landslide.
My pov is the dem establishment wants nothing to do with them
The people that helped run Mamdani's campaign should be hired to teach the DNC & dems how it's done & the DNC should be searching for candidates like Mamdani who actually care about people & have a vision to help people instead of corporate, GOP light candidates.
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
My pov is the dem establishment wants nothing to do with them
I think that like the gop from bush to Trump the post had underlying problems that existed before Bezos. I think pretending these things were pure as snow until a few minutes ago is silly.
OMG, you mean problems existed before Trump?.JFC!
Can you honestly not see a change in The Post over time? Or you just liket gaslighting us as much as MAGA?
Can you honestly not see a change in The Post over time? Or you just liket gaslighting us as much as MAGA?
February 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I think that like the gop from bush to Trump the post had underlying problems that existed before Bezos. I think pretending these things were pure as snow until a few minutes ago is silly.
Jeff Bezos had $75 million to bribe Trump for the Melania movie but cut 16,000 jobs at Amazon and is cutting more at the Washington Post today.
And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.
And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Jeff Bezos had $75 million to bribe Trump for the Melania movie but cut 16,000 jobs at Amazon and is cutting more at the Washington Post today.
And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.
And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.
I’ve noticed a consistent trend of people insisting its easier to sell hate and greed than empathy and collective improvement so that’s why the GOP can be better at politics. I think this is a shit excuse for Democrats sucking.
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I’ve noticed a consistent trend of people insisting its easier to sell hate and greed than empathy and collective improvement so that’s why the GOP can be better at politics. I think this is a shit excuse for Democrats sucking.
Possibly an unpopular opinion but I dislike the narrative that things suddenly got bad at the Washington Post when Bezos bought it. The Post was cheering on the Iraq war and both sides-big the news to favor the GOP decades before Bezos thought of buying it.
February 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Possibly an unpopular opinion but I dislike the narrative that things suddenly got bad at the Washington Post when Bezos bought it. The Post was cheering on the Iraq war and both sides-big the news to favor the GOP decades before Bezos thought of buying it.
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They've been terrible at this for a LONG time
I remember the first time I saw a Democrat start arguing that "life doesn't begin at conception" to justify pro-choice and I (a teenager) was thinking, "You've literally already accepted their framing and given away half your position for no reason."
I remember the first time I saw a Democrat start arguing that "life doesn't begin at conception" to justify pro-choice and I (a teenager) was thinking, "You've literally already accepted their framing and given away half your position for no reason."
Democrats don’t understand the art of the deal is starting out from a maximalist position THEN you make concessions. You don’t start by conceding half the fucking argument.
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM
They've been terrible at this for a LONG time
I remember the first time I saw a Democrat start arguing that "life doesn't begin at conception" to justify pro-choice and I (a teenager) was thinking, "You've literally already accepted their framing and given away half your position for no reason."
I remember the first time I saw a Democrat start arguing that "life doesn't begin at conception" to justify pro-choice and I (a teenager) was thinking, "You've literally already accepted their framing and given away half your position for no reason."