Keith Talent 🇺🇦
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This, but I’d add slightly. It’s not just eliminating friction, it’s that almost everything you hear is pure sycophancy. We really can’t process what it’d be like to have everyone in your orbit adore everything you do and say, all of the time.
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This, but I’d add slightly. It’s not just eliminating friction, it’s that almost everything you hear is pure sycophancy. We really can’t process what it’d be like to have everyone in your orbit adore everything you do and say, all of the time.
If you’re a Republican in Congress, you really do actually want the Epstein files released, because it’s a potential off ramp from the below that you can’t possibly be held responsible for by MAGA.
Trump's Net Approval On:
🟢Israel-Hamas: +34%
🟢Border Security: +8%
🔴Immigration: -10%
🔴Tariffs: -26%
🔴Economy: -28%
🔴Russia-Ukraine: -34%
🔴Inflation: -44%
🔴Epstein: -48%
🔴Shutdown: -50%
🔴Argentina Aid: -58%
Read it for free here: usapolling.substack.com/p/republican...
🟢Israel-Hamas: +34%
🟢Border Security: +8%
🔴Immigration: -10%
🔴Tariffs: -26%
🔴Economy: -28%
🔴Russia-Ukraine: -34%
🔴Inflation: -44%
🔴Epstein: -48%
🔴Shutdown: -50%
🔴Argentina Aid: -58%
Read it for free here: usapolling.substack.com/p/republican...
Republicans Are Staring Down A Midterm Bloodbath
Three major polls show Democrats opening commanding leads as voters revolt over soaring prices
usapolling.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you’re a Republican in Congress, you really do actually want the Epstein files released, because it’s a potential off ramp from the below that you can’t possibly be held responsible for by MAGA.
Once again, the red threat of MAGA is unselfconscious stupidity. They have no interest in interrogating what they perceive to be common sense.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Once again, the red threat of MAGA is unselfconscious stupidity. They have no interest in interrogating what they perceive to be common sense.
Trump thinks about words as having something akin to monetary value. He layers on superlatives and garnish to get him closer to the deal, like bidding up an auction. So when he posts an exhaustive list of his policy “wins”, know that he thinks you’re going to take a LOT of persuading.
“I don't care when the Senate passes the House Bill, whether tonight, or at some other time in the near future, I just don't want Republicans to take their eyes off all of the Victories that we've had…”
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Trump thinks about words as having something akin to monetary value. He layers on superlatives and garnish to get him closer to the deal, like bidding up an auction. So when he posts an exhaustive list of his policy “wins”, know that he thinks you’re going to take a LOT of persuading.
My political strategy take is that it makes perfect sense for Rs to walk hand in hand with Trump all the way to the ledge. If he’s not in there, they were loyal. If he is (he is), it’s big enough to be a clean break, and they can say “I trusted him, I’m as shocked as anyone” and throw him overboard.
Nancy Mace: "You can see in the Epstein emails that he's clearly targeting President Trump as retribution for him being a good man ... he's a good man who protects women. That's what real men do."
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My political strategy take is that it makes perfect sense for Rs to walk hand in hand with Trump all the way to the ledge. If he’s not in there, they were loyal. If he is (he is), it’s big enough to be a clean break, and they can say “I trusted him, I’m as shocked as anyone” and throw him overboard.
Anyone who even intimates this sentiment should be cast out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Anyone who even intimates this sentiment should be cast out.
Democrats will mildly annoy you at work.
Republicans will impoverish, beat, or starve you to satisfy the God of their death cult.
Republicans will impoverish, beat, or starve you to satisfy the God of their death cult.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Democrats will mildly annoy you at work.
Republicans will impoverish, beat, or starve you to satisfy the God of their death cult.
Republicans will impoverish, beat, or starve you to satisfy the God of their death cult.
I’ll never understand business leaders in this moment. You bend the knee to Trump, so Dems hate you with a burning passion. So you kowtow to the right, only to backtrack when reality bites, so now they hate you too. What was accomplished? This is the fruit of cynicism.
Nexstar has joined Sinclair in ending its Jimmy Kimmel blackout. The show will return to all ABC stations tonight. https://cnn.it/3IiUZSB
September 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I’ll never understand business leaders in this moment. You bend the knee to Trump, so Dems hate you with a burning passion. So you kowtow to the right, only to backtrack when reality bites, so now they hate you too. What was accomplished? This is the fruit of cynicism.
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The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly
Trump: FDA will be updating label of existing drug
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly
I think the calling card of MAGA-thought (and to some extent, today’s republicans generally) is the inability or unwillingness to interrogate ‘common sense’. If it feels right/intuitive, they have no interest in looking deeper.
Q: Outlets are reporting you plan to tie Tylenol to autism
TRUMP: It's a big factor, but you'll see tomorrow. We want things to take effect immediately
Q: Links between vaccines & autism?
T: Children get these massive vaccines like you'd give to a horse. I've said spread them out over 5 years
TRUMP: It's a big factor, but you'll see tomorrow. We want things to take effect immediately
Q: Links between vaccines & autism?
T: Children get these massive vaccines like you'd give to a horse. I've said spread them out over 5 years
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I think the calling card of MAGA-thought (and to some extent, today’s republicans generally) is the inability or unwillingness to interrogate ‘common sense’. If it feels right/intuitive, they have no interest in looking deeper.
Look, I understand the journalistic importance of getting people on the record, etc. but at some point, CNN et al ought to decide whether having admin lackeys on to a) lie incessantly with little/no pushback and b) saying exactly what Trump says 100% of the time has any value whatsoever.
Mullin: "When 97% of the news stories are negative about him & 99% about Pete Hegseth are negative, it is cheating, bc you're putting out a narrative that isn't true...there's a thin line between free speech & when it crosses a line and causes violence. And when you start calling someone fascist..."
September 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Look, I understand the journalistic importance of getting people on the record, etc. but at some point, CNN et al ought to decide whether having admin lackeys on to a) lie incessantly with little/no pushback and b) saying exactly what Trump says 100% of the time has any value whatsoever.
I never really hear Swalwell as a 2028 name, but every time I see him he’s clear, courageous, and informed. Have I missed something major with him?
Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I never really hear Swalwell as a 2028 name, but every time I see him he’s clear, courageous, and informed. Have I missed something major with him?
A rare case (but increasingly normal under Trump) where both leaders utterly humiliate themselves and their countries in the same moment.
❗️We have settled the war between "Aber-baijan" and Albania - US President Trump
September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A rare case (but increasingly normal under Trump) where both leaders utterly humiliate themselves and their countries in the same moment.
In my administration, Bill Kristol would chair the Department of Government Excess (DOGE), which seeks accountability for human rights abuse done in the name of the USG. Its reach will extend to ICE, DOJ, the State Dept, and wherever Nayib Bukele decides he wants to hide from swift American justice.
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In my administration, Bill Kristol would chair the Department of Government Excess (DOGE), which seeks accountability for human rights abuse done in the name of the USG. Its reach will extend to ICE, DOJ, the State Dept, and wherever Nayib Bukele decides he wants to hide from swift American justice.
Notice how the media ignores standards when they immediately jump to “reported trans/antifa messages on bullets”, but becomes suddenly blind to content and context when they say “shooter was critical of Kirk’s views” without saying from which vantage point he was critical.
September 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Notice how the media ignores standards when they immediately jump to “reported trans/antifa messages on bullets”, but becomes suddenly blind to content and context when they say “shooter was critical of Kirk’s views” without saying from which vantage point he was critical.
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the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
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As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
September 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
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It’s not great if your only objection to political violence is self-interest
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It’s not great if your only objection to political violence is self-interest
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Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”
September 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk will have almost exclusively extremely negative consequences for American society in general, the stability of society in specific, and the safety of everyone living in it.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The shooting of Charlie Kirk will have almost exclusively extremely negative consequences for American society in general, the stability of society in specific, and the safety of everyone living in it.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
I’m so tired of triangulation. For my money, it’s as simple as this: we will not fund this lawless government, and we will never afford it the benefit of the doubt on any topic. Let the chips fall where they may. End of story.
September 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m so tired of triangulation. For my money, it’s as simple as this: we will not fund this lawless government, and we will never afford it the benefit of the doubt on any topic. Let the chips fall where they may. End of story.
When this national humiliation is over, the elites who presided over it are going to try to return to the fold. You’ll see them at the next inauguration, and they’ll say “we did it all out of respect for the office and the hope that we could influence a bright future.” Don’t fucking let them.
September 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
When this national humiliation is over, the elites who presided over it are going to try to return to the fold. You’ll see them at the next inauguration, and they’ll say “we did it all out of respect for the office and the hope that we could influence a bright future.” Don’t fucking let them.
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The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter
September 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter