Terry O’Gara
@terryogara.bsky.social
Distilling modern complexities into mythopoetic modern fables and small acts of sense-making, in an attempt to find clarity within culture and chaos.
Investors seek prophets; markets reward spectacle over stability; corporations have morphed into cults. When historians write their chapter on Musk, it will read as a neoclassical fairy tale: a case study in the commodification of charisma intertwined with a profound loss of faith in the system.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Investors seek prophets; markets reward spectacle over stability; corporations have morphed into cults. When historians write their chapter on Musk, it will read as a neoclassical fairy tale: a case study in the commodification of charisma intertwined with a profound loss of faith in the system.
Ironic. Ramaswamy's GOP advice is to adopt classic, Clintonian, Democratic principles, while attempting to hold the line on culture. But however he may wish to define Democrats by identity politics and Republicans by merit, the racism on daily display from MAGA TikTok suggests the core won't bend.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ironic. Ramaswamy's GOP advice is to adopt classic, Clintonian, Democratic principles, while attempting to hold the line on culture. But however he may wish to define Democrats by identity politics and Republicans by merit, the racism on daily display from MAGA TikTok suggests the core won't bend.
Collins asked, 'Should THE president...' allowing Mullin to treat the query as a partisan attack. But if she'd asked instead, 'Should A president...' it would have shifted the question from one of party loyalty, to one of Constitutional duty, and there's no good answer for him.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Collins asked, 'Should THE president...' allowing Mullin to treat the query as a partisan attack. But if she'd asked instead, 'Should A president...' it would have shifted the question from one of party loyalty, to one of Constitutional duty, and there's no good answer for him.
Patience. If journalists and insiders are making book deals now, we'll be able to read about how democracy ended, as early as fall 2027, winter 2028.
October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Patience. If journalists and insiders are making book deals now, we'll be able to read about how democracy ended, as early as fall 2027, winter 2028.
With apologies to Christopher Hitchens: 'The search for Nirvana, like the search for Felontopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.'
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
With apologies to Christopher Hitchens: 'The search for Nirvana, like the search for Felontopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.'
I think we all know now that this ends with a cattle drive, more angry cowboys and farmers than anyone can count, a tractor traffic jam on Pennsylvania Ave, and about a hundred thousand pounds of the finest manure money can buy.
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I think we all know now that this ends with a cattle drive, more angry cowboys and farmers than anyone can count, a tractor traffic jam on Pennsylvania Ave, and about a hundred thousand pounds of the finest manure money can buy.
Like Latin, the language itself is elegant, but its practical utility in the current context has collapsed. Either the system needs new scribes, or the scribes need a new system.
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Like Latin, the language itself is elegant, but its practical utility in the current context has collapsed. Either the system needs new scribes, or the scribes need a new system.
Claim: USA founded on Christian values.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
October 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Claim: USA founded on Christian values.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
Weiss' question to 60 Minutes ("Why does the country think you’re biased?") is a power move disguised as sincere inquiry. 1) No one can answer why without first accepting the premise is settled fact; and 2) it re-frames Neutrality as Partisan. So, she knows exactly what she's doing or she does not.
October 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Weiss' question to 60 Minutes ("Why does the country think you’re biased?") is a power move disguised as sincere inquiry. 1) No one can answer why without first accepting the premise is settled fact; and 2) it re-frames Neutrality as Partisan. So, she knows exactly what she's doing or she does not.
An oligarch's invitation to debate on another oligarch's platform is a trap, not a conversation. The goal isn't to discuss the structural critique of power; it's to leverage a biased stage and an army of bots to neutralize that critique entirely.
October 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
An oligarch's invitation to debate on another oligarch's platform is a trap, not a conversation. The goal isn't to discuss the structural critique of power; it's to leverage a biased stage and an army of bots to neutralize that critique entirely.
I have seen the future and it is Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I have seen the future and it is Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
The post WW-II foundational political identity of modern America and its allies is anti-fascist. So if the present regime vows to treat citizens who identify as 'antifa' as terrorists, it confirms their intent to dismantle the United States of America.
October 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The post WW-II foundational political identity of modern America and its allies is anti-fascist. So if the present regime vows to treat citizens who identify as 'antifa' as terrorists, it confirms their intent to dismantle the United States of America.
When the opposition is not labeled as 'people with different policies', but as terrorists, illegals, and criminals, -then the logical endpoint is a one-party state where dissent is treated as sedition and political rivals are treated as enemies of the state. That is their strategy.
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
When the opposition is not labeled as 'people with different policies', but as terrorists, illegals, and criminals, -then the logical endpoint is a one-party state where dissent is treated as sedition and political rivals are treated as enemies of the state. That is their strategy.
Yes, a valid gripe: we shouldn't glamorize grifters by calling them supervillains. But not all supervillains are born in lairs or Ivy Leagues. It just seems that way. Whatever their origin story, their intelligence does make them super; it's the sociopathic lack of empathy that makes them villains.
October 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Yes, a valid gripe: we shouldn't glamorize grifters by calling them supervillains. But not all supervillains are born in lairs or Ivy Leagues. It just seems that way. Whatever their origin story, their intelligence does make them super; it's the sociopathic lack of empathy that makes them villains.
Schumer and Jeffries need to replace their messaging teams with Portland frogs, stat.
October 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Schumer and Jeffries need to replace their messaging teams with Portland frogs, stat.
Is he doing what he promised, and do you support what he promised, are two different things, indeed.
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Is he doing what he promised, and do you support what he promised, are two different things, indeed.
Speaker Johnson took an oath to defend the Constitution, a document designed to prevent a king. By denouncing a 'No Kings' protest, he reveals his true allegiance isn't to the Republic, but to a person he wishes to crown. This is Tory logic and a betrayal that will prove challenging to overcome.
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Speaker Johnson took an oath to defend the Constitution, a document designed to prevent a king. By denouncing a 'No Kings' protest, he reveals his true allegiance isn't to the Republic, but to a person he wishes to crown. This is Tory logic and a betrayal that will prove challenging to overcome.
Ethical reporting should do 3 things: Quote; Contextualize; Clarify. So, if a billionaire implicates human rights activists as the Antichrist, Journalism’s job isn’t to marvel at eccentricity. It’s to note demonization precedes dehumanization, which precedes and justifies any violence that follows.
October 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ethical reporting should do 3 things: Quote; Contextualize; Clarify. So, if a billionaire implicates human rights activists as the Antichrist, Journalism’s job isn’t to marvel at eccentricity. It’s to note demonization precedes dehumanization, which precedes and justifies any violence that follows.
The most fascinating part to me isn't the falsehood, but diagnosing its origin. Is it a lie, a delusion, or performative politics? Or is it simply part of an intentional narrative strategy to justify ratcheting up control and preemptively sanctioning violence?
October 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The most fascinating part to me isn't the falsehood, but diagnosing its origin. Is it a lie, a delusion, or performative politics? Or is it simply part of an intentional narrative strategy to justify ratcheting up control and preemptively sanctioning violence?
This is how we take Pepe back from the nazis.
October 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is how we take Pepe back from the nazis.
"No one is above the law" is the promise of a just society. But when the powerful & petty write and wield the laws in their own favor, justice is inverted, and it becomes their greatest weapon.
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"No one is above the law" is the promise of a just society. But when the powerful & petty write and wield the laws in their own favor, justice is inverted, and it becomes their greatest weapon.
Because if this case collapses, the DOJ will have accidentally created an angry martyr with subpoena power. One can only hope.
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Because if this case collapses, the DOJ will have accidentally created an angry martyr with subpoena power. One can only hope.