Agreed that this is a remarkable and troubling feature of the contemporary right. But I'll also just say that on a 1974 episode of Firing Line (about 2 months before Nixon resigned) Bill Buckley said that Nixon should have burned the White House tapes publicly, on the WH lawn, on the 4th of July.

Roughly 95 million eligible voters didn’t vote for Trump in 2024. What a world in which the leader of a political party can give the middle finger to more than half of the electorate and still retain the full, enthusiastic support of that party.

The multi-billion dollar conglomerate of ABC/Disney/ESPN buckled to threats from the government, so they won't be getting my measly monthly payments as of today. Been pleased to see many other people doing the same thing. The bar was incredibly low...and still you failed to get over it.

Such comparisons also sit uneasily alongside the many angry calls at this event for retribution against and the vanquishing of their perceived enemies (roughly half of their fellow citizens). Not exactly what Jesus would do, but whatevs

No one could’ve seen this coming

Kirk’s phrase “false God of a race-obsessed modernity” has a certain ring to it, but I don’t think it accurately describes MLK’s vision.

if we could choose the way in which we die i want to die being smothered by puppies

youth bass youtube is the best youtube (JuliaPlaysGroove)

A real contrast to the carefully produced event inside the arena.

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

I couldn't resist the obvious.

Portland State U historian @catherinemcneur.bsky.social is doing a very cool series of local history posts on TikTok. Portland folks will be especially interested in them, but so might many others out there. This one is about the horseshoe courts in Laurelhurst Park. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SXnEWH/

BRB, working on a new version of Clue suited for the Trumposcene era. "It was the trans person with the wokeism in the Communist university." "It was the Soros-funded BLM protester with the cement milkshake in the elementary school's pornography library."

"Plutocratic populism" is a term that's getting noticed more and more these days.

Boiue makes good points, but it is David French who goes on to nail the central question surrounding the future of the US that means the midterms may be a crucial turning point. If this was any other country there would already be discussion of severe potential risks of civil conflict.

"The way out isn't about left versus right; it's about clean versus corrupt, reform versus a rigged system, the people versus oligarchs," writes @adambonica.bsky.social. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

A song for our times: "You tell me the Gods have all gone mad and they’re murdering the kids again The river’s running full of blood and the Devil’s coming around the bend I thought I told you to run along and stop messing with my head. Because I don’t believe you." youtu.be/tyqRkZV3K70?...

Update, this anti-violence January 6er who celebrated Proud Boys beating up Black protesters in DC has been told by God that he should run for Governor as the candidate of unity, love, and truth.

It seems fitting that when authoritarianism came to the US, it would express itself in the form of mad libs.

The most recent FB post from the administration that is manning the barricades of Western Civilization, defending it from the violent and barbaric hordes of radical left librarians, teachers, professors, scientists, and journalists who want to destroy it.

I’d completely forgotten that Homan spoke at the Moonie offshoot church that worships AR-15s. Remind me again, why did we stop calling them weird?

Who is Lindsey Halligan? - Former Florida insurance lawyer turned Trump defense attorney - Filed the special master lawsuit that delayed Trump’s classified docs case - Convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge of reviewing Smithsonian bc she didn’t like some of the exhibits

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Mike Johnson said this kind of rhetoric is highly inflammatory and incites people.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Brian (from Life of Brian) speaking to an assembled crowd: “You are all individuals!!!” Crowd, in unison: “We are all individuals!”

That mean and nasty deep state made Tom Homan accept bribes!

Jennifer Lawrence nodding and sarcastically saying "OK" dot gif.

Today I learned, thanks to @matthew.flux.community, that in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation.

The thing ya gotta understand is that when a President or a billionaire or a member of Congress tells incendiary lies in their official capacity, that’s fine. But when an employee of a school or university does wrong speak, then there have to be consequences. krcgtv.com/news/local/m...

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

Because I use FB primarily to see what Oregon right wingers are saying, it thinks I'm a 50-something white conservative. Because of this, my algorithmic FB timeline has been giving ever more intense, Radio Rwanda vibes this year.

This OR GOP activist, who was indicted for his actions in DC on January 6, spoke at an anti-political-violence/Charlie Kirk vigil last night in a Portland suburb.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I have long contended that Trump is best understood as a malevolent Chauncey Gardner (Being There, 1980.)

His good friend Vladimir assures him that sending troops into Afghanistan has historically worked out great in the past for empires who have global ambitions.

OMG, you need to stop what you're doing and watch this right now. A Dutch vision of M*GAfied Disney! 🤣

"Vaccine developers, if you're out there, I hope you're able to find....a vaccine for Dunning-Kruger syndrome. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by people...who don't like know-nothing fools making it more likely that you'll contract easily preventable diseases."

In the wake of Trump’s declaration that Antifa is a domestic terror group open to RICO investigation, Oregon Republican activists are now singling out elected officials for scrutiny. This particular GOP activist just spent about a week in DC meeting with a range of high level officials.

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism

One of the most influential founders of the US “new right” in the 1970s, Howard Phillips, described his work this way: “We organize discontent.” It didn’t matter what institution or cultural issue you were mad about (the media, race, sexuality, etc), all it took was one to bring you into the tent.

The message of this video is that people who went through the US public school system over the past 60 or 70 years have been brainwashed into wokeism, which would be almost every living American.

I hadn't yet watched the America 250 video, but it's a *remarkable* piece of propaganda. Everything on the culture war bingo card from obvious AI video, Drag Queen Story hour, Bill Ayers, AND the Gulf of America. There's even a WWE audio hit @ 1:03

They are allowed actually, there's even this document you sold copies of compiled with the Bible for some reason that says they're allowed

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

The Oregon Republican Party hasn’t been electorally viable statewide for a few decades now, so it appears their new approach is to have Poppa Trump declare Democrats to be Antifa and lock them up. That’ll make the GOP more popular with Oregon voters. Great thinking guys.

The GOP is no longer the party of "small gov't," even tho that's how many voters still vestigially think of them. There's an opportunity for Dems to say something like "they use big government to do bad stuff that hurts people, we use gov't to do good stuff to help people. That's your choice."