The opportunity to win culture for generations as Democrat donors throw more money into a bottomless pit, while Kara Swisher and Prof G humble brag about their fake podcast deal - plus a sad nepo baby
The crazy part is, at least currently, the “right-wing clout” is simply speaking the truth. Men don’t have uteri. A man with his junk out in the ladies’ room is a perv with his junk out, not a pupating womanhood butterfly. No, promoting an incompetent DEI candidate will not magically make that person competent. “The patriarchy” isn’t why I’m not currently the CEO of anything. Big Mike Obama is objectively not beautiful…and so on.
Because these hollow “people” have no actual convictions beyond Staying in Power(TM), they DO NOT UNDERSTAND any of this. They think whatever our side is, is performance, just as theirs is. Hence their lame attempts to trot out Tim Walz as a Regular Guy:“See, he *beep boop* USES-FIREARMS and *rrrzzzz* WAS-A-COACH-OF-SPORTS, now you have to buy whatever we are selling [/end].”
Their clueless and bungling attempts to stay popular and relevant have provided hours and hours of amusement. I kinda hope they keep it going.
"... how Democrats have launched 20+ projects related to creators after their election loss."
Judging by what we've seen when DOGE stripped away the curtains --- that the Dems 2021-24 were LOOTING taxpayer funds that ended up in their own pockets --- the same exact thing will happen with Dems tossing money at "creators."
They'll steal so much of it --- this time, stealing from themselves --- that these projects will simply be bubbles that pop and then vanish into thin air.
Their creative bankruptcy will feature Our Hero, the decrepit Brice Springsteen falling down on stage.
Their "youth movement" will be drafting World War I vets (see the oft-excellent BBC comedy series, "Dad's Army," for a preview of Chuck Schumer's crack troops).
Handing out awards to the cadaverous Anna Wintour, a one-time influential publisher whose depleted corporation today is lucky to sell 25% of the magazines they were publishing in the 1980's.
Graydon Carter and his stable of Model T Fords (ex-Vanity Fair writers) are now flailing helplessly on their Air Mail (Air Malice!) website, catering to the festering resentments of the surviving Manhattan 60s hippies, Jimmy Carter '70s yahoos, and, of course, the spring chickens, the 90s suburban Clintonistas, stewing in their own bile (vintage 2016).
What else could possibly result from the people who hired David Hogg?!
All this leads nowhere and will vaporize millions of dollars. POPCORN!
05/23/25: "The party [in 2015] was floundering in debt."
Note that the Dem's cycle of thievery / bust-outs was well underway long before Trump was even in the White House for the first time:
"In 2015, Hillary [Clinton], off-and-running, came to the rescue of the Democratic National Committee. The party was foundering in debt. It entered a joint fund-raising agreement with a PAC called Hillary for America (HFA) and the Hillary Victory Fund. The agreement gave Hillary control over the DNC’s finances, strategy, and staffing decisions that enabled her to snake out Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination" --- James Kunstler (05/23/25)
lol! Spot on! "They think whatever our side is, is performance, just as theirs is." Exactly. Yeah, remember Tim Walz? Damn, so desperate on their part.
It's inconceivable to Team Blue that anyone would risk forfeiting the superficial popularity contest in order to speak the truth (or just point out the obvious) so they/them overlook reality in its entirety, even when someone is pointing it out. "Thanks for _your_ truth." as they say from within their kaleidoscope of moral relativity and centrally-patched software updates.
Or, "Believe whatever you want." as I've been told before getting blocked by coastal colleagues, even though I've already told them *belief* is not relevant here – but of course falsifying bullshit is too hard for Team Blue so everything is a belief; as long as it's the proper (i.e. polite society) belief. They utterly lack the tools to move beyond prescribed belief in any intellectual capacity. The whole point of objective discourse (or dare I say "science") is you can leave subjective belief at the door within the scope of a specific investigation.
If all you have is a belief that social approval is what's most important however, then for sure everything is a performative ritual of pagan sensuality and unexamined bullshit.
They/them can't stand genuine people because it's a threat to their perception management game (hence Kamala avoiding a Rogan talk, as others have pointed out here). I've noticed this working in corporate environments – even just carrying oneself as a self-respecting individual causes many people to get nervous by association. Super sad, I really thought millennials grew up with enough anti-corporate satire (in the 90s/00s) that they'd do away with it, but (Team Blue) millennials have supercharged the monolithic "culture" more than ever, doubling down on insincere performance all the way down.
I don't know why but your narrative puts me in mind of the anti-nuclear (electricity) movement starting back in the mid 70s. Despite being demonstratively and objectively better than every other energy source, they self righteously stuck to their anti nuclear narrative. The attitude you describe is exactly the same one.
Everything the left does today, including the shadow funding of NGOs and the hidden agendas with "charitable" foundation funding and NGO camouflage was foreshadowed or perhaps perfected in the anti nuclear movement. And it's some of the same NGOs pushing the modern, broader agenda.
I find it worrying that supposedly "intelligent people" seem to have no problem with believing the utter drivel that is spouted by our so called "balanced media". Anyone with a slither of common sense and analytical thinking can see through the painfully obvious lies that these outlets espouse.
You are right when you say that the right has an advantage - they are simply stating the obvious truth
I was discussing the same thing on another site, that the Left sees everything as marketing, with no concept of a reality that doesn't require human perception to exist.
I saw an interesting analysis of why Kamala didn't do Rogan. In those long format venues, you talk about a lot of stuff. It is impossible for a Democrat pol to talk about a lot of stuff since something would offend elements of the coalition who would then cancel they/them. Their go to strategy (which those of us in the 2A world figured out long ago) is simply to lie but that doesn't work in long format either since any honest interviewer will expose the contradictions.
I think they can't do long format, because there is no 'there' there. The left consists of a collection of platitudes with no rational support behind them, just word salad. In a three hour format, you must be able to discuss the foundations of your beliefs. If you just repeat platitudes you'll sound -- well the way Harris sounded during the campaign.
Yeah, but what they lack in brains, they make up for in fakeness!
In all seriousness, all the things that made America Great, Faith, Family, meritocracy, hard work, education, affordable energy, are all under attack from the left - so their plan to destroy America is to destroy what made it great in the first place.
They're despots, just like all other Leftist movements through history. They all (communism, socialism, etc. )present its ideology as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
If you haven't read "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole it's definitely worth the read. He called it 45 years ago.
He had a quote that went something like this:
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them"
The good thing is all this gnashing of teeth on the D side will be frittered away to benefit mainly the consultants, who are happy to take money even in the service of a losing cause.
Oh wait!!! Lol, I just remembered that right after the election they launched a totally fake-ass podcast competitor to Joe Rogan, the MeidasTouch, which they claimed had more downloads than Rogan.
They even launched a big PR campaign boasting that it had moved Rogan to #2.
The descriptions of it are hilarious, too. It’s a pozzcast with 3 liberal brothers—one with a publicity background and one who is Kaepernick’s business partner(LOL again)—which masquerades as neutral and “fun” and “brotherly”.
From their own PR description: “The brothers' unique approach at covering news by combining hilarious brother banter with an unapologetic support of democracy has earned them millions of supporters in America and across the globe and made them social media icons. The MeidasTouch Podcast combines brotherly love, comedy, news coverage, and deep discussions about supporting our democracy and is the go-to destination for top political leaders who view the podcast as a pivotal stop for their interviews.”
Laughs
—support of democracy
—brotherly [“these plebs LOVE family talk”]
—social media icons
—pivotal stop
—BANTER, LIGHTHEARTED BANTER
Sure, scrotes. Everyone’s talking about this hot new podcast.
I mean, you can not only train an artificial intelligence to do that for you if you iterate over the prompts, but you could just churn out that stuff at a rate of speed that many Americans couldn't imagine if they tried. One or two based people with the right ideas could basically out-spin the entire mainstream media deception industrial complex on a shoestring budget and their woke swamp creature buddies by just saying true stuff in an amusing way. You can tell that this hasn't occurred to folks at the Babylon Bee. If an old fart like me can learn to do it in a day by messing around with it...I think the spinning idgits and their allies are on their last legs and just haven't realized it. Maybe I'm wishcasting a little there.
The Chinese AI is a little better at telling stories and being funny and memeing, but having actually looked at the Babylon Bee's recent stuff, which includes an article about AI to basically replace themselves, I think they're savvy on everything but the particulars. I may just do it for fun, the lols, and because evil must be defeated. If so--not very likely--you get at least partial credit; I wouldn't have thought about it if not for the unlikely convergence between AI experts on "the Free Press" and your samizdat today.
I could not watch the Dillon interview all the way through. I don't pay any attention to CNN so the interviewer was unknown to me, but a voice in my brain kept whispering "Is she for real?" Every time she opened her mouth, I had to laugh. He did a magnificent job on her and she had no clue, as far as I could tell. By the way he started out, I thought the interview was a comic skit. She claps her lil hands and he says, "I think it's the most important thing ever." She does not notice the irony. Ever. Bwahahaha.
Also IRA "cuts" that are only CBO (Congressional Budge Office) illusory savings. The wind/solar subsidy cuts don't even start for four years allowing plenty of time for more pigs to crowd into the trough and the cuts have been slated (as here) to expire ELEVEN times in the past and every single time the craven congress has extended them.
Because I got a late "like" on the above comment, I am posting this update. The bill that the House actually sent to the Senate ends IRA subsidies earlier than stated above and actually is a pretty good bill.
No subsidies for any construction started more than 60 days after the bill passes and no subsidies if a project is not in operation by some time in 2026.
While I don't feel much need to be fair to the subsidy suckers, this is probably the most fair way to cut the subsidies while not utterly screwing the folks with projects that are mid-construction.
Democrats fail to realize that Joe Rogan grew his audience and gained trust organically over 10+ years. The idea that they can prop up his left wing equivalent in time for the midterms, or even 2028, is laughable.
I've watched politics for more than half a century, and I can't remember seeing anything like what the Democrats are doing to themselves (abetted by the media). It's logical that the Internet and podcasting could severely damage Big Media's monopoly. But usually there are a couple of guys sane enough to start to turn a political party around. If they're out there (an open question) they're being shouted down and ignored. What's making me crazy is that while this epochal opportunity is being served up, the Right just seems to want to punch each other in the face.
Don't look at it as Dem vs. Rep. and instead view it as MAGA vs. establishment, or nationalist vs. globalist and it makes a lot more sense.
Many of the folks who identify as Republican are still establishment, neocon, globalists who don't really care about the United States above their own pet interests and ideas. Or their devotion to WEF.
I like to say that any Democrat who starts actually caring about the United States would quickly discover that he/she is now a member of MAGA. The same is still true for a bunch of so-called Republicans.
Know them by their actions. Do they actually care about the United States? Never mind the parties.
Spot on and brillant as usual. Typical blood tick operation . Steal from the govt under the chimera of climate change and distribute some back to the comrades as a future investment.
The crazy part is, at least currently, the “right-wing clout” is simply speaking the truth. Men don’t have uteri. A man with his junk out in the ladies’ room is a perv with his junk out, not a pupating womanhood butterfly. No, promoting an incompetent DEI candidate will not magically make that person competent. “The patriarchy” isn’t why I’m not currently the CEO of anything. Big Mike Obama is objectively not beautiful…and so on.
Because these hollow “people” have no actual convictions beyond Staying in Power(TM), they DO NOT UNDERSTAND any of this. They think whatever our side is, is performance, just as theirs is. Hence their lame attempts to trot out Tim Walz as a Regular Guy:“See, he *beep boop* USES-FIREARMS and *rrrzzzz* WAS-A-COACH-OF-SPORTS, now you have to buy whatever we are selling [/end].”
Their clueless and bungling attempts to stay popular and relevant have provided hours and hours of amusement. I kinda hope they keep it going.
05/22/25: They will.
"... how Democrats have launched 20+ projects related to creators after their election loss."
Judging by what we've seen when DOGE stripped away the curtains --- that the Dems 2021-24 were LOOTING taxpayer funds that ended up in their own pockets --- the same exact thing will happen with Dems tossing money at "creators."
They'll steal so much of it --- this time, stealing from themselves --- that these projects will simply be bubbles that pop and then vanish into thin air.
Their creative bankruptcy will feature Our Hero, the decrepit Brice Springsteen falling down on stage.
Their "youth movement" will be drafting World War I vets (see the oft-excellent BBC comedy series, "Dad's Army," for a preview of Chuck Schumer's crack troops).
Handing out awards to the cadaverous Anna Wintour, a one-time influential publisher whose depleted corporation today is lucky to sell 25% of the magazines they were publishing in the 1980's.
Graydon Carter and his stable of Model T Fords (ex-Vanity Fair writers) are now flailing helplessly on their Air Mail (Air Malice!) website, catering to the festering resentments of the surviving Manhattan 60s hippies, Jimmy Carter '70s yahoos, and, of course, the spring chickens, the 90s suburban Clintonistas, stewing in their own bile (vintage 2016).
What else could possibly result from the people who hired David Hogg?!
All this leads nowhere and will vaporize millions of dollars. POPCORN!
05/23/25: "The party [in 2015] was floundering in debt."
Note that the Dem's cycle of thievery / bust-outs was well underway long before Trump was even in the White House for the first time:
"In 2015, Hillary [Clinton], off-and-running, came to the rescue of the Democratic National Committee. The party was foundering in debt. It entered a joint fund-raising agreement with a PAC called Hillary for America (HFA) and the Hillary Victory Fund. The agreement gave Hillary control over the DNC’s finances, strategy, and staffing decisions that enabled her to snake out Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination" --- James Kunstler (05/23/25)
https://www.kunstler.com/p/stumblebums-legacy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2076970&post_id=164237445&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=10j5hz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
lol! Spot on! "They think whatever our side is, is performance, just as theirs is." Exactly. Yeah, remember Tim Walz? Damn, so desperate on their part.
It's inconceivable to Team Blue that anyone would risk forfeiting the superficial popularity contest in order to speak the truth (or just point out the obvious) so they/them overlook reality in its entirety, even when someone is pointing it out. "Thanks for _your_ truth." as they say from within their kaleidoscope of moral relativity and centrally-patched software updates.
Or, "Believe whatever you want." as I've been told before getting blocked by coastal colleagues, even though I've already told them *belief* is not relevant here – but of course falsifying bullshit is too hard for Team Blue so everything is a belief; as long as it's the proper (i.e. polite society) belief. They utterly lack the tools to move beyond prescribed belief in any intellectual capacity. The whole point of objective discourse (or dare I say "science") is you can leave subjective belief at the door within the scope of a specific investigation.
If all you have is a belief that social approval is what's most important however, then for sure everything is a performative ritual of pagan sensuality and unexamined bullshit.
They/them can't stand genuine people because it's a threat to their perception management game (hence Kamala avoiding a Rogan talk, as others have pointed out here). I've noticed this working in corporate environments – even just carrying oneself as a self-respecting individual causes many people to get nervous by association. Super sad, I really thought millennials grew up with enough anti-corporate satire (in the 90s/00s) that they'd do away with it, but (Team Blue) millennials have supercharged the monolithic "culture" more than ever, doubling down on insincere performance all the way down.
I don't know why but your narrative puts me in mind of the anti-nuclear (electricity) movement starting back in the mid 70s. Despite being demonstratively and objectively better than every other energy source, they self righteously stuck to their anti nuclear narrative. The attitude you describe is exactly the same one.
Everything the left does today, including the shadow funding of NGOs and the hidden agendas with "charitable" foundation funding and NGO camouflage was foreshadowed or perhaps perfected in the anti nuclear movement. And it's some of the same NGOs pushing the modern, broader agenda.
Thank you sir for cementing “team blue === they/them” into my vocabulary. So perfect!
Is the plural of uterus really "uteri?" That's hilarious!
05/24/25: And plural = "pluri." Honest! We're hilari!
I find it worrying that supposedly "intelligent people" seem to have no problem with believing the utter drivel that is spouted by our so called "balanced media". Anyone with a slither of common sense and analytical thinking can see through the painfully obvious lies that these outlets espouse.
You are right when you say that the right has an advantage - they are simply stating the obvious truth
™ (alt0153) :-D
Wonderful response - Have a wonderful weekend!
I was discussing the same thing on another site, that the Left sees everything as marketing, with no concept of a reality that doesn't require human perception to exist.
They seem to think that if you pound the message enough the masses will buy it. Some of us can see through it.
I saw an interesting analysis of why Kamala didn't do Rogan. In those long format venues, you talk about a lot of stuff. It is impossible for a Democrat pol to talk about a lot of stuff since something would offend elements of the coalition who would then cancel they/them. Their go to strategy (which those of us in the 2A world figured out long ago) is simply to lie but that doesn't work in long format either since any honest interviewer will expose the contradictions.
I think they can't do long format, because there is no 'there' there. The left consists of a collection of platitudes with no rational support behind them, just word salad. In a three hour format, you must be able to discuss the foundations of your beliefs. If you just repeat platitudes you'll sound -- well the way Harris sounded during the campaign.
Very good point
Yeah, but what they lack in brains, they make up for in fakeness!
In all seriousness, all the things that made America Great, Faith, Family, meritocracy, hard work, education, affordable energy, are all under attack from the left - so their plan to destroy America is to destroy what made it great in the first place.
They're despots, just like all other Leftist movements through history. They all (communism, socialism, etc. )present its ideology as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
If you haven't read "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole it's definitely worth the read. He called it 45 years ago.
He had a quote that went something like this:
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them"
I think that sums up where we're at.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them"
Love that quote. Have not read the book, but just read the blurb and it looks like fun!
The good thing is all this gnashing of teeth on the D side will be frittered away to benefit mainly the consultants, who are happy to take money even in the service of a losing cause.
Oh wait!!! Lol, I just remembered that right after the election they launched a totally fake-ass podcast competitor to Joe Rogan, the MeidasTouch, which they claimed had more downloads than Rogan.
They even launched a big PR campaign boasting that it had moved Rogan to #2.
The descriptions of it are hilarious, too. It’s a pozzcast with 3 liberal brothers—one with a publicity background and one who is Kaepernick’s business partner(LOL again)—which masquerades as neutral and “fun” and “brotherly”.
From their own PR description: “The brothers' unique approach at covering news by combining hilarious brother banter with an unapologetic support of democracy has earned them millions of supporters in America and across the globe and made them social media icons. The MeidasTouch Podcast combines brotherly love, comedy, news coverage, and deep discussions about supporting our democracy and is the go-to destination for top political leaders who view the podcast as a pivotal stop for their interviews.”
Laughs
—support of democracy
—brotherly [“these plebs LOVE family talk”]
—social media icons
—pivotal stop
—BANTER, LIGHTHEARTED BANTER
Sure, scrotes. Everyone’s talking about this hot new podcast.
Meidas is beyond astroturfed. Their daddy is a rich Hollywood lawyer. One of them interned for Diddy and Hillary.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks again for your service. I don’t know how you trudge through this muck to spare us the agony.
When will Tim Walz appear on the show and share in the "hilarious brother banter"?
Sounds a little bit like they were also trying to copy "Ruthless". Those guys are hilarious.
I mean, you can not only train an artificial intelligence to do that for you if you iterate over the prompts, but you could just churn out that stuff at a rate of speed that many Americans couldn't imagine if they tried. One or two based people with the right ideas could basically out-spin the entire mainstream media deception industrial complex on a shoestring budget and their woke swamp creature buddies by just saying true stuff in an amusing way. You can tell that this hasn't occurred to folks at the Babylon Bee. If an old fart like me can learn to do it in a day by messing around with it...I think the spinning idgits and their allies are on their last legs and just haven't realized it. Maybe I'm wishcasting a little there.
Great idea - maybe this already exists ;)
The Chinese AI is a little better at telling stories and being funny and memeing, but having actually looked at the Babylon Bee's recent stuff, which includes an article about AI to basically replace themselves, I think they're savvy on everything but the particulars. I may just do it for fun, the lols, and because evil must be defeated. If so--not very likely--you get at least partial credit; I wouldn't have thought about it if not for the unlikely convergence between AI experts on "the Free Press" and your samizdat today.
I could not watch the Dillon interview all the way through. I don't pay any attention to CNN so the interviewer was unknown to me, but a voice in my brain kept whispering "Is she for real?" Every time she opened her mouth, I had to laugh. He did a magnificent job on her and she had no clue, as far as I could tell. By the way he started out, I thought the interview was a comic skit. She claps her lil hands and he says, "I think it's the most important thing ever." She does not notice the irony. Ever. Bwahahaha.
The problem is the Biden admin were throwing billions of dollars a day out the door to their NGO lackeys in the dying days of the administration.
But yes we can beat them with 1% of that.
Make them spend it all . . . then DEFEAT those traitors. Lock up a bunch of them, too, for RICO and treason.
They'll just print more for them to spend and the price of eggs will go up again even higher.
Today, the Republicans shot themselves in the foot by passing a spending level far too high.
They should have also added the new millionaire bracket to raise revenue, even symbolically.
What a bunch of losers, I hope they get tossed out in the primaries.
Will the pols never learn?
Also IRA "cuts" that are only CBO (Congressional Budge Office) illusory savings. The wind/solar subsidy cuts don't even start for four years allowing plenty of time for more pigs to crowd into the trough and the cuts have been slated (as here) to expire ELEVEN times in the past and every single time the craven congress has extended them.
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/why-the-proposed-phaseout-of-ira
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/gops-phase-out-of-ira-subsidies-isnt
Because I got a late "like" on the above comment, I am posting this update. The bill that the House actually sent to the Senate ends IRA subsidies earlier than stated above and actually is a pretty good bill.
No subsidies for any construction started more than 60 days after the bill passes and no subsidies if a project is not in operation by some time in 2026.
While I don't feel much need to be fair to the subsidy suckers, this is probably the most fair way to cut the subsidies while not utterly screwing the folks with projects that are mid-construction.
Democrats fail to realize that Joe Rogan grew his audience and gained trust organically over 10+ years. The idea that they can prop up his left wing equivalent in time for the midterms, or even 2028, is laughable.
I think exactly the opposite.
Because low quality work is backed on the left they have no incentive to improve.
Because those on the right have to struggle to get their work seen they work harder and improve.
The result is inevitable; Those backed will get weaker, those succeeding by harder work stronger.
And this is exactly what we see today and why those at the top are so desperate - They cannot compete with the quality the right are putting out.
Spot on.
"imagine AWFL protestors yelling in your face forever"
Dude. I think you one-upped Orwell with that one. ^_^
I've watched politics for more than half a century, and I can't remember seeing anything like what the Democrats are doing to themselves (abetted by the media). It's logical that the Internet and podcasting could severely damage Big Media's monopoly. But usually there are a couple of guys sane enough to start to turn a political party around. If they're out there (an open question) they're being shouted down and ignored. What's making me crazy is that while this epochal opportunity is being served up, the Right just seems to want to punch each other in the face.
Don't look at it as Dem vs. Rep. and instead view it as MAGA vs. establishment, or nationalist vs. globalist and it makes a lot more sense.
Many of the folks who identify as Republican are still establishment, neocon, globalists who don't really care about the United States above their own pet interests and ideas. Or their devotion to WEF.
I like to say that any Democrat who starts actually caring about the United States would quickly discover that he/she is now a member of MAGA. The same is still true for a bunch of so-called Republicans.
Know them by their actions. Do they actually care about the United States? Never mind the parties.
Spot on and brillant as usual. Typical blood tick operation . Steal from the govt under the chimera of climate change and distribute some back to the comrades as a future investment.
Some potentially profitable ideas for winning the culture wars: https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/take-on-the-woke-entertainment-industry
Lots of low hanging fruit out there.