I also think people want to avoid that because it's something that can often be outside of the control of government. Sure, measures can be taken to clamp down on it but sometimes shit happens and then you get inflation and no one likes being told you lost cause of something you can't control.

most people don't know this, but if you play these four chords with the right levels you can command millions of Americans to walk into the sea

i genuinely do think a big part of triangulation discourse is people avoiding that inflation was the biggest pain point for swing voters

why

reading comprehension: dead on X

it should be illegal to allow pundits to access social media for the same reason it is illegal to sell cigarettes to children

Almost exactly the wrong medicine

that IS weird. its like he wants to be a thought leader, and canxt recognize that being VP is approximately 10 gazillion times better than being a thought leader

You can really pick the kind of group chats he’s been hanging out in with that first post

His problem is that he's basically getting blocked like someone trying to go at Victor Wembanyama and that he somehow still feels the need to hedge because he doesn't get the free rain he does on Twitter

Obama broke their brains. This is insane.

a lot of folks have video podcasts but they should really have audio only podcasts

Tolkien and Edith met when he was 16 and she was 19 and rapidly fell for each other. They were both orphans under guardianship, and Tolkien's guardian, a Catholic priest, did not approve of the relationship for multiple reasons; he forbid Tolkien from seeing her until he was 21 and 'of age.'

the reason that there are several romances like this in Tolkien is not just because of medieval chivalrous norms and so forth - plenty of adultery in medieval stories, after all! - but because he had lived it.

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

Do NOT go alone when astral projecting into JD Vance's internal psyche

i suspect it's a lot like nixon's

honestly wonder what JD Vance's internal psychic life is like

"we have completed our project to create an office whose holder can never be held accountable for crimes. in completely unrelated news, we have placed a man who habitually commits crimes and has never been punished for them in that office"

Something I think about from time to time is that most of the current SCOTUS conservatives, conservative operatives writ large, would’ve been kids or teens (or adults in some cases) during the Nixon years, and 100% had parents who thought he was getting crucified

Laura Loomer has manically been tweeting about the NCTC for the past 12 hours. I would like to take this time to congratulate the NCTC as this is the first time in its history where it has ever been relevant.

It’s remarkable that the courts “separation of powers” jurisprudence has eroded… the separation of powers.

it is funny that SCOTUS basically said Nixon was right in Trump vs United States

yes! trump v. united states retroactively says watergate was A-OK

This catches people off guard, but it's an old story in right wing. Pat Buchanan, William Safire, Ben Stein, and Diane Sawyer were all unrepentant refugees of the Nixon White House. The story of the American right has been a 51-year campaign of revenge for the Passion of Richard Nixon.

I think Nixon would probably hate Trump but I think not for the reasons people assume he would

ferugson you get what the implications of that label imply about karp right

i still don't trust atlasintel, but....

i feel like we're learning why this is a mistake

I obviously was already against Trump in 2015 and 2016, but I remember when defense of Nixon first broke out of Roger Stone Confinement and was being muttered by some others, I was thinking “this could be bad.” If only I knew.

it's genuinely kinda wild how so much of post-Nixon conservatism has basically been constructed around never letting any Republican president be held accountable to the same degree

it's sort of fascinating how Nixon revisionism is basically fairly common with right "thinkers"

Hey! I did it! I wrote about national security! The thing I allegedly write about! othermeans.substack.com/p/going-down...

Many examples throughout history of civilizational regression. Take these people seriously. This is how you kick off a dark age.

hm.

it's cool that the Nixon presidential library tries doing Watergate revisionism using Tucker on YouTube, i guess www.youtube.com/shorts/twH-g...

feel like @quoproquid.bsky.social's thoughts on Nixon are just as relevant to Trump II, tbh broke: Trump is Bush II woke: Trump is Nixon II

who was president in 2019, ross

lol

It’s good to be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies for millions of reasons but the amount of “pharma greed” accusations leveled around generic medications (SSRIs, HRT, etc) that the companies just don’t care very much about anymore is very funny.

until someone makes a save button, i would really discourage people from making campaign trail scenarios longer than 30 questions

how is this man a leading light of national populism

one of the central figures in broadcasting this philosophy seems to be a field grade infantry officer in the US Army. Follow me on a TEWT that should sound familiar to any infantry field grade officer with combat experience

frequently this is a comprehensive world view that touches on everything from gender roles to crime and punishment. combat is a life altering experience, and it certainly clarifies *a lot* of things. but it doesn't clarify *everything*

look I don't know anything about these miltwitter guys aside from the screenshots I see here, but it seems to me that they are trying to articulate a vision for not just the role of the military in civil society, but a vision for civil society itself. A philosophy of life, if you will.

i feel like i'm insane when i'm the only one who remembers Tucker's brown M&M monologue

Posting the Yes Minister bit on National Service again:

does the Trump Foundation of 2040/2050 put out Trump grindset videos for Generation Beta or whatever they're up to by then