Uncle Slayton
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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I wake up every day and feel kind of insane because the guy who attempted a coup to remain in power after refusing to concede an election he lost is somehow president again after we all got him outta there the first time and it's not even a topic of news discussion. This guy should be in prison!
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I wake up every day and feel kind of insane because the guy who attempted a coup to remain in power after refusing to concede an election he lost is somehow president again after we all got him outta there the first time and it's not even a topic of news discussion. This guy should be in prison!
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I’m increasingly coming to view the Democrats as the Whigs circa the 1850s. We don’t need a third party. We need a new second party.
March 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’m increasingly coming to view the Democrats as the Whigs circa the 1850s. We don’t need a third party. We need a new second party.
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gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.
BREAKING: Sen. Mitch McConnell says he won't seek re-election in 2026, ending a 40-year Senate career. nbcnews.to/4i5uZ9p
February 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.
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For whatever it's worth, I feel like a lot of these people went for Trump because they respect perceived strength and authenticity, a kind of brazenness and willingness to say exactly what you think. Not obvious to me that they respond to a wheedling "we hear you" forced sensitivity.
i know there's a lot of data that making people who are members of a cult feel like credulous rubes just gets them even more into the cult but, with trumpism, i think the people we need to convince are not the cultists but the marginally attached low-info voters so maybe mockery is good?
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For whatever it's worth, I feel like a lot of these people went for Trump because they respect perceived strength and authenticity, a kind of brazenness and willingness to say exactly what you think. Not obvious to me that they respond to a wheedling "we hear you" forced sensitivity.
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Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference
February 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference
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Americans are about to find out the very hard way what we have denied or ignored since Ronald Reagan & his juvenile talking points won the day in the 1980s: that <every> set of societal institutions in 🇺🇸 depends on the state & massive amounts of federal money regularly flowing through the economy.
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Americans are about to find out the very hard way what we have denied or ignored since Ronald Reagan & his juvenile talking points won the day in the 1980s: that <every> set of societal institutions in 🇺🇸 depends on the state & massive amounts of federal money regularly flowing through the economy.
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There’s a lot of value in a humanities education, but being able to see through glib con men is a nice one.
The rise of Curtis Yarvin is a good example of the value of expertise and the problems when it's dismissed. People with philosophy and history training recognize him as an intellectual fraud. But he was able to convince enough VCs and software engineers who didn't have the chops to see his errors.
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There’s a lot of value in a humanities education, but being able to see through glib con men is a nice one.
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JD Vance has gone from warning that Trump could be America’s Hitler to excitedly supporting neo-Nazis in Germany.
To those asking, here's Vance's comments.
When news broke that the terrorist in Germany was a Saudi immigrant, Vance implied blame on all immigrants/Muslims.
When it came out that the attacker was an Elon Musk fan, AfD supporter, and anti-Islam, Vance defended AfD.
He's said nothing else about it.
When news broke that the terrorist in Germany was a Saudi immigrant, Vance implied blame on all immigrants/Muslims.
When it came out that the attacker was an Elon Musk fan, AfD supporter, and anti-Islam, Vance defended AfD.
He's said nothing else about it.
December 21, 2024 at 5:45 PM
JD Vance has gone from warning that Trump could be America’s Hitler to excitedly supporting neo-Nazis in Germany.