She's also an extremely, extremely bad writer trying to be David Foster Wallace or something, which is another critical part of the job she has weirdly been forgiven for not doing

Politics has taken over entertainment for so many people, and being into the Democrats is being into the Chain Smokers or whatever. If you expect artistic fulfillment from the day-to-day governance of our lives, you'll never get it and be forced to settle for Trump. This is a huge problem

I always found him--his old Jewish man voice any time anyone was vaguely Jewish, his black minstrel muppet impression of Michael Steele, his wild vacillation between self-righteous truth telling and being a helpless comedian on a network of puppets--very annoying, shocked age only made him more so

I keep thinking about listening to comedian podcasts after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock with the comedians being very serious and like, society has gotten to a dark place. That's how this feels to me

Flirting with political violence is deeply wrong and it was one of the reasons Charlie Kirk was not a good dude, because he did that. I get not wanting to dwell on faults after his tragic death, but with people lying about those faults and attacking others over those lies, it becomes necessary

Part of the cult. The doc has him angrily defending Peter Thiel than freezes on his face and says, look at the look in his eyes, he's got suey eyes, indicating he's given up his soul. Like Theo said, it's pretty good!

Don't forget that hot young act Ted Nuggets

MAGA is NFTs

I think it's only fair that Jerusalem Demsas let me take over her Substack to discuss my theories of controlling gravity with a wooden stick once a week. Is she afraid of rigorous debate?

If you listen what he yells, while almost so outraged he can't speak, is has anyone ever heard of the MN lawmakers before they were killed. That's the moral value of life for him, if he had a parasocial relationship with someone, they were a person

Something about night posting, can't do commas for shit

I think in the medium run, if we can get there, this will hopefully work out as those institutions will be replaced by newly born ones dedicated to actually upholding actual principles for at least a generation. The problem is getting to the medium run while so much of society quakes

This is a profound truth about American politics. Not just these guys, but Biden was a redo of Obama's response to great recession, Obama a redo of the 1994 health care fight, W a redo of his dad in Iraq, before that is before my time, but I would not be surprised if Clinton was Carter fan fic

I was slightly too young/too ignorant in my youth to be a regular reader of the news in the lead up to Iraq era, but when I did start regularly consuming it, there were a lot of mea culpas for Iraq and torture. I thought this was normal, not a thing I would only see once more about Biden being old

The one thing they think they got carried away on is feeling bad about running Tom Cotton's shoot BLM protestors op-ed, which has led them to kind of tacitly endorsing that piece, even if they can't say it aloud to themselves

This feels like when you find out about the existence of Zero Hour! But for American letters

Damn. I had no idea Melville was making fun of an actual pamphlet. I thought he was just making fun of pamphlets and the over-torqued know-it-all-ness of enlightenment era pamphleteers in general.