How To Become #1 on Substack
Yuri's analysis of Substack's #1 grossing writer - TDS "Historian" Heather Cox Richardson
Comrades: If the news is fake, imagine how fake the history is.
Substack is a fantastic platform that protects free speech and allows writers like me to be compensated for our work. It recently crossed the 1 million paying subscribers mark. Most of its highest grossing authors are seasoned independent voices like Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, Bari Weiss, and el gato malo. You may not agree with everything I or they write, but Substack provides a “safe space” for creative and healthy dialogue.
However, I was surprised that the top grossing Substack writer is a full blown NPC who makes millions by feeding TDS to her Karen cult followers: “Historian” Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. I am a competitive capitalist comrade and hope to move Dr. Bezmenov’s red pill dispensary up the Substack rankings. My deepest appreciation to those who chipped in for paid subscriptions after this became my only source of income.
Presenting… drumroll please… the So Stunning, So Brave Historian Heather!
The physiognomy says: “Welcome to Karenland. My neighborhood is 95% white but we fly BLM and LGBTQ flags everywhere. Please mask up and keep the volume down, otherwise I will call the police that I voted to defund. We have walls around our houses but don’t want one at the border. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some wine, cats, and CNN to attend to. I tested positive for COVID but I am grateful to have gotten 4 jabs.”
The New York Times wrote a nauseating piece about her in December 2020 that affirmed the physiognomy. Credit where it’s due, she feeds her audience what they crave to keep spinning the rationalization hamster wheel harder.
From the NYT article:
“What I am doing is speaking to women who have not necessarily been paying attention to politics, older people who had not been engaged… I’m an older woman and I’m speaking to other women about being empowered.” She thinks of her politics as Lincoln-era Republican, but she is in today’s terms a fairly conventional liberal, disturbed by President Trump and his attacks on America’s institutions.
The top Reader Pick comment reads like a parody:
I wake up, start the coffee maker, walk the dog for her business. Then I open my email. I leap to Heather's "letter". I could stop there when it comes to news and commentary. I can't, of course. But in her letters, not a word is wasted. Not a silly expletive is uttered. The core issues which are not always obvious are revealed. I am struck how a platform like "substack" can be so successful in this world of tweets and blurts of rage. Inspiring. Heather now has a daunting task. I feel as if I know her well enough to think that she is wrestling somewhat uncomfortably with her new found fame. I think anyone would appreciate the recognition. But with it comes too many possibilities for wider fame and fortune. How to juggle that with her treasured life as a professor and a resident of my favorite state [editor’s note: Maskachusetts has fallen so far].
The top NYT Pick comment predicted the future:
I am an unapologetic liberal (actually, more of a democratic socialist really) and stumbled upon HCR's 'Letter from an American' by pure chance. It was a relief, at first, to read her daily letters. With the never-ending assault on America's democratic institutions being perpetrated by Trump and his cabal, her 'letters', amply supported by documentary evidence and written in a sober, calm style, effectively shone a light on the ensuing Trumpian chaos. And that she often placed her daily letter within the wide sweep of American history was particularly delightful for me being a history buff. But then I began to notice something. Her letters were becoming repetitive and wholly partisan, being anti-Trump/Republican. Let me state right away that I hold absolutely no brief for Trump and his republican supporters both in Congress and outside the Beltway. They are contemptible and history will judge them harshly. But Dr. Richardson's letters had become so one-sided that I began to fear that she had fallen into the same trap of which I and others on the left have accused those on the right: the creation of an *echo chamber* where the contents of her letters simply reinforced the preconceived notions of her readers. I am particularly struck, for example, by the virtually complete absence of dissenting voices in the comments to her letters. It would appear that her readers (who she admitted are overwhelmingly older women) subscribe to the same liberal political ideology as hers.
And finally, her Wikipedia biography is all too predictable:
Born in 1962 and raised in Maine, Richardson attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Between 2017 and 2018, she co-hosted the NPR podcast Freak Out and Carry On. In September 2019, Richardson began writing a daily synopsis of political events associated with the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Originally posted late every evening or in the early hours of the next day on her Facebook page, Richardson later moved to add a newsletter format, entitled "Letters from an American", published via Substack. The newsletter became popular because of her calm voice, with straightforward explanations of the news of the day. As of December 2020, Richardson was the most successful individual author of a paid publication on Substack and on track to bring in a million dollars of revenue a year. The newsletter received a "Best of Boston" award for "2021 Best Pandemic Newsletter" from Boston magazine. [editor’s note: once again, Maskachusetts has fallen so far].
I subscribed to Heather’s Substack and Twitter out of curiosity about the “calm voice” and “straightforward explanations”. Unsurprisingly, they are anything but calm or straightforward. The newsletter is unreadable as almost everything is equated to the the Civil War and losing our democracy! She retweets deranged lefties dozens of times a day.
Heather’s feed is emblematic of the reality distortion field of the Karen demographic, where media driven hysteria about the current thing is more important than real pain being felt by ordinary people every day. The TDS industrial complex has enriched Heather and many other grifters like the groomer Lincoln Project, soy boy bands Meidas Touch and Pod Save America, and MSDNC. Her fervent bootlicking was rewarded with an Uncle Joe Brandon propaganda session.
I am convinced that the poor quality of history education has resulted in the poor decisions we are seeing today from citizens and elected officials. “Historian” “educators” like Heather will continue to distort reality and groom Zoomers into NPCs. As Orwell predicted:
As with most knowledge these days, the best sources are on the internet and not the ivory tower. My favorite history and geography YouTube channels are Geography Now, Epic History TV, Kings and Generals, Jake Tran, and the one and only Count Dankula. What fascinating parts of history are under-explored? Comment below.
Before I even read this old clam was from Massatwoshits, I saw the picture and immediately KNEW she was a Masshole Clam.
I live in a town FULL of these old cunts and their simp cucksbands. They go out walking in their microdown jackets, usually with walking poles -even on dry pavement.
They're physically and mentally feeble.
The vote blue no matter who and have quite selective attention spans. They've got plenty of mental energy to devote to The Current Thing but none for people suffering in the reality they live in and share.
The false and misleading narratives foisted by the industries and political party that fund corporate news is all they need.
They're like little babies who have a favorite book and ONLY want to read that same book every night before bed.
Anything that disrupts that desire is screamed at, yelled at, cried at.
They're only use is to annoy and irritate their fellow citizens. At a boat launch, on the sidewalk, at fairs and festivals... They're there to call the police when things aren't to their liking and their pretend-men husbands go right along like cowed dogs.
Once, my nephew and I were fishing out in western MA and some lady started yelling at us that we were trespassing. Since we were following a brook that ran year-round and not past the high-water mark I knew we were not trespassing but we had the right to be there per the state's charter.
In a commonwealth any navigable or even seasonal waterway is public space. That includes the coast, coastal flats, marshes and estuaries... rivers, streams, brooks, ponds, (that are connected via a brook,) and even dry stream beds from the spring run-off.
I politely informed her that it was public land and she went ballistic. "We own the land on BOTH sides of this brook!!!"
She missed the earliest law of this colony -which still stands today. She got red-faced and jogged back to her house and had her cuck come out and try again. He said the same things, and I told him he was free to call the police, the fish and game department or the descendants of the original settlers and learn the facts.
The highest form of irony is when people claim to be "inclusive" and "accommodating" and champions of social justice or whatever downtrodden group is being highlighted by The Current Thing but they have no concept of a COMMONWEALTH or of the truly equitable decision to be sure ANY residents would have access to water, food and travel by waterways here in The New World.
All because they fled a country where nobility controlled even the water and they thought it unfair and inequitable.
They missed out on that history lesson, and they were from Somerville. Readers, Somerville and Cambridge are the absolute worst of the blue hair KarenLand Fupa zones here. People snidely refer to Cambridge as "The Peoples' Republik of Cambridge" and all you need to do is drive through and witness the pro-communist authoritarian vibe there. Flags for Ukrainian Nazis, Pride flags, Soviet red stars... and city governments that are jalapeno business at every turn.
It's 90% white rich old ladies and the rest get dragged along.
This lady is definitely one of these. Ivy league education... privilege dripping from every pore... cluelessness unmatched since the last days of French nobility before the French revolution.
She'd vote to give homeless people cake in a heartbeat.
Meet Karen. Talks like MLK, lives like the KKK.