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Tune in next week!
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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It's OK as long as it's anonymous
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...
The Worst Magazine In America
The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Exactly, it was cordial until Vance jumped in and then Trump piled on.
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Chekhov’s Trump Gun
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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micheleharmon41.bsky.social ChaosGremlin @micheleharmon41.bsky.social · 9d
Via .@politico Senate Majority Leader @SenJohnThune said he expects the Senate will pass the bill to release DOJ files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as soon as Tuesday, a move that would send it to @POTUS @realDonaldTrump for his signature
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Agreed. Now do what YOU have under your control and REDISTRICT!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Not much different from Mark Cuban, who sold a dumb radio-streaming site for $5.7B at peak bubble, then (wisely) hedged his Yahoo stock as insurance against a crash. Yahoo killed Broadcast.com 3 years later. Right timing on a worthless asset ≠ business genius.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Dude needs to push redistricting in IL.
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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I pay for the "Pod Bros" and for Ken's podcast, don't like to see Mommy and Daddy fighting 😂 Find Josh insufferable in general (couldn't delete last ep fast enough once the preview of his "centrist" pod came on 🤮) but at least he defers to Ken's expertise. Just weird Ken calls out "banal" when...
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Weird comment… they founded the company, it was their decision of course.
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Says the guy who podcasts with Josh fucking Barro?
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Her fans are not 15 year old girls!
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I’m sure he could give a shit that they’re about sex. They’re god awful. Just terrible writing.
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Small correction: you mixed up your supremacist rags. Shapiro’s is the Daily Wire, not the Daily Caller.
October 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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He did seem a bit defensive when he brought this up, like at some level he knew he had been a bit of a jerk. Like a very low stakes version of what he subsequently criticized Ezra Klein for 😂
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Per today's pod, it wasn't. He was just being a bit of a jerk.
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Big “if”. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523...
SpikingBrain 7B – More efficient than classic LLMs | Hacker News
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September 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Actually he was a genuinely awful person with great PR.
www.huffpost.com/entry/john-m...
John McCain: The Eddie Haskell of Politics
Again and again, the article details what a self-aggrandizing two-faced liar McCain is. A particularly salient incident is his ambush of Rose Mofford.
www.huffpost.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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If he was a Groyper, here's your motive...
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bostonjoan.bsky.social BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · Sep 11
For those who need a refresher on Fuentes, Kirk, and the Groyper wars, here are some excerpts from our book, Meme Wars:
With allies like former Tea Party star Michelle Malkin, too edgy for conservatives but too pragmatic and polished for wignat street fighting, Fuentes set out to build a new right-wing coalition heading into the election year of 2020. But this was not going to be a big tent; who was excluded was just as important as who was included. The first target of what would become the Groyper wars was Charlie Kirk, as the most visible, and therefore most reachable face of the young conservative Kirk was about to embark on a national campus tour titled "Culture Wars," where he was supposed to build a broad student coalition in support of Trump. A veteran of the college circuit, Kirk was poised to lead the young Republican wing of the party. He and his TPUSA had taken heat for their proximity to the alt-right at political and campus events in 2017 and 2018, and Kirk publicly denounced white supremacy after Unite the Right. For Fuentes, Kirk and TPUSA embodied everything that was wrong with conservatives who upheld the liberal consensus by promoting Israel, gay rights, and softer immigration policies. Kirk had been in Fuentes's sights during the years as he soured on campus conservatives. Getting 41r22 JOKER POLITICS 233 to the top tier of Trumpworld was nearly impossible for someone as marginal as Fuentes, but opportunity struck in October 2019, when Kirk took TPUSA's Culture War college tour on the road. Kirk brought Trumpworld to campuses across the nation with special guests like Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and congressman Dan Crenshaw. Like when Richard Spencer, Shapiro, or Yiannopoulos would book campus tours, Kirk's events too often attracted protest from left-wing student groups. But this time, the attacks would come from their right. Beginning on October 7 at the University of Nevada, Kirk set a tone where debate was encouraged, even allowing those who disagreed with him to move to the front of the line during Q&A. Ever since Char… With allies like former Tea Party star Michelle Malkin, too edgy for conservatives but too pragmatic and polished for wignat street fighting, Fuentes set out to build a new right-wing coalition heading into the election year of 2020. But this was not going to be a big tent; who was excluded was just as important as who was included. The first target of what would become the Groyper wars was Charlie Kirk, as the most visible, and therefore most reachable face of the young conservative Kirk was about to embark on a national campus tour titled "Culture Wars," where he was supposed to build a broad student coalition in support of Trump. A veteran of the college circuit, Kirk was poised to lead the young Republican wing of the party. He and his TPUSA had taken heat for their proximity to the alt-right at political and campus events in 2017 and 2018, and Kirk publicly denounced white supremacy after Unite the Right. For Fuentes, Kirk and TPUSA embodied everything that was wrong with conservatives who upheld the liberal consensus by promoting Israel, gay rights, and softer immigration policies. Kirk had been in Fuentes's sights during the years as he soured on campus conservatives. Getting 41r22 JOKER POLITICS 233 to the top tier of Trumpworld was nearly impossible for someone as marginal as Fuentes, but opportunity struck in October 2019, when Kirk took TPUSA's Culture War college tour on the road. Kirk brought Trumpworld to campuses across the nation with special guests like Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and congressman Dan Crenshaw. Like when Richard Spencer, Shapiro, or Yiannopoulos would book campus tours, Kirk's events too often attracted protest from left-wing student groups. But this time, the attacks would come from their right. Beginning on October 7 at the University of Nevada, Kirk set a tone where debate was encouraged, even allowing those who disagreed with him to move to the front of the line during Q&A. Ever since Char… With allies like former Tea Party star Michelle Malkin, too edgy for conservatives but too pragmatic and polished for wignat street fighting, Fuentes set out to build a new right-wing coalition heading into the election year of 2020. But this was not going to be a big tent; who was excluded was just as important as who was included. The first target of what would become the Groyper wars was Charlie Kirk, as the most visible, and therefore most reachable face of the young conservative Kirk was about to embark on a national campus tour titled "Culture Wars," where he was supposed to build a broad student coalition in support of Trump. A veteran of the college circuit, Kirk was poised to lead the young Republican wing of the party. He and his TPUSA had taken heat for their proximity to the alt-right at political and campus events in 2017 and 2018, and Kirk publicly denounced white supremacy after Unite the Right. For Fuentes, Kirk and TPUSA embodied everything that was wrong with conservatives who upheld the liberal consensus by promoting Israel, gay rights, and softer immigration policies. Kirk had been in Fuentes's sights during the years as he soured on campus conservatives. Getting 41r22 JOKER POLITICS 233 to the top tier of Trumpworld was nearly impossible for someone as marginal as Fuentes, but opportunity struck in October 2019, when Kirk took TPUSA's Culture War college tour on the road. Kirk brought Trumpworld to campuses across the nation with special guests like Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and congressman Dan Crenshaw. Like when Richard Spencer, Shapiro, or Yiannopoulos would book campus tours, Kirk's events too often attracted protest from left-wing student groups. But this time, the attacks would come from their right. Beginning on October 7 at the University of Nevada, Kirk set a tone where debate was encouraged, even allowing those who disagreed with him to move to the front of the line during Q&A. Ever since Char… With allies like former Tea Party star Michelle Malkin, too edgy for conservatives but too pragmatic and polished for wignat street fighting, Fuentes set out to build a new right-wing coalition heading into the election year of 2020. But this was not going to be a big tent; who was excluded was just as important as who was included. The first target of what would become the Groyper wars was Charlie Kirk, as the most visible, and therefore most reachable face of the young conservative Kirk was about to embark on a national campus tour titled "Culture Wars," where he was supposed to build a broad student coalition in support of Trump. A veteran of the college circuit, Kirk was poised to lead the young Republican wing of the party. He and his TPUSA had taken heat for their proximity to the alt-right at political and campus events in 2017 and 2018, and Kirk publicly denounced white supremacy after Unite the Right. For Fuentes, Kirk and TPUSA embodied everything that was wrong with conservatives who upheld the liberal consensus by promoting Israel, gay rights, and softer immigration policies. Kirk had been in Fuentes's sights during the years as he soured on campus conservatives. Getting 41r22 JOKER POLITICS 233 to the top tier of Trumpworld was nearly impossible for someone as marginal as Fuentes, but opportunity struck in October 2019, when Kirk took TPUSA's Culture War college tour on the road. Kirk brought Trumpworld to campuses across the nation with special guests like Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and congressman Dan Crenshaw. Like when Richard Spencer, Shapiro, or Yiannopoulos would book campus tours, Kirk's events too often attracted protest from left-wing student groups. But this time, the attacks would come from their right. Beginning on October 7 at the University of Nevada, Kirk set a tone where debate was encouraged, even allowing those who disagreed with him to move to the front of the line during Q&A. Ever since Char…
September 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The "as of" wording could be taken to imply that he changed his position based on pushback, for anyone who was aware of the previous version.
September 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Equally myopic to believe that my Prius will never become a Transformer!
August 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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My Prius is also "just chemical, electric and physical reactions" but no one worries it'll become sentient. Convincingly human language creates the illusion the LLMS are qualitatively different, but they're still just responding mechanically. Fancy autocomplete - extremely useful but not living.
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM