02/16/25: "A more accurate name for Zeteo is the Woke Jihad Jizya. Due to the untimely loss of several staff members, they have banned beepers from their newsroom."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And in the latest DC Real Estate News...
"ITEM 30 [Surber] ... “The Doge team is causing a very real exodus from Washington DC. Housing listings are surging—over 14,825 [red dots signifying houses put on the market] in this snapshot alone."
They omitted the White House "dot"! --- The building that Jill Biden at 1 a.m. on November 6, 2024 put on the market, after her husband finished up looting the Kennedy Center.
They found a buyer, collected the cash, and J.D. Vance had to break the news to Mitt Romney that he wasn't going to get his money back...
Perhaps the thing on that list that amazed me the most is how many out there are actually willing to be paid subscribers to such drivel.
However, we must admit that one of the great things about the Substack platform is that it can tolerate the presence of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly without feeling threatened in the least. I just look at those paid subs as a subsidy that enables Substack to continue offering the good stuff.
Pretty sure there was some USAID slush involved. Let’s check back in a year hmmmm? Of course good old GEORGE SOROS et al might pick up the slack but I hear he prefers to use tax dollars as well…🤷♀️
Once the controls are in place in won’t matter one iota that folks were able to express their opinions mostly freely on substack. Except as inputs to AI 😂
So many retired professors, journalists, psychotherapists, and sundry academics looking for a reason to wake up in the morning after a mostly wasted life.
Do Useful Idiots ever finally wake up and realise they've spent their entire lives working for China? All the Lefties ever do is destroy, they never create anything.
Richardson is an extremely uninteresting writer; as you note she cites her MSM sources in every article. Every article she writes is just a paraphrasing of the MSM talking points of the day, regurgitated and with an additional infusing of TDS. No original thought on her part whatsoever.
Kind of brilliant as a way to give her audience what they want and get them to pay for it, with minimal effort on her part.
Just plain brilliant and the Wokster’s wont get your joke. It would be interesting to be in the hotel lobby where Michael Moore and Reid Hoffman are staying if the hotel had one of those “all you can eat” Sunday brunch buffets…the fancy ones, where they have a carving table board, and a chef hiving off slabs of fatty roast beef under a heat lamp. With those two, the poor dude would need an ice bath for his carving arm…
Wow! 200K paid subscribers for Ms. Richardson! Wait...that's like .0597 % of the population of the US (200K/335 million x 100). I don't think we have too much to worry about. Meanwhile, a 20-something named Balls of Steel is dismantling the Deep State. Pass the popcorn!
I've recently been getting an interesting reaction from mind-virus-infected friends when I try to point them at a new take on things or new data that contradicts their view. They say "we both have access to the same information."
In other words, "we disagree not because we are seeing different facts but because I am enlightened and you're not" or "I'm right and you're wrong."
This has happened more than a few times so I'm pretty sure there is a playbook being fed to them: "things to say when the problem people in your life bring up inconvenient facts."
And my leftist friends speak of her in hushed tones (" Heather Cox Richardson was really really good this morning.") ... as if they're reading the Federalist Papers... I bite my tongue
I was on my A-game this morning. Coffee mug stayed on the side table while I read today’s post. So many truth bombs & zingers, and no snarfing for me! Even after reading this, “A more accurate name for Zeteo is the Woke Jihad Jizya. Due to the untimely loss of several staff members, they have banned beepers from their newsroom.” Ouch! 😂 Hurts so good.
I've been charting many of these TDS authors exponential growth since January. I appreciate your research. I'm going to publish an in-depth piece soon that covers and quantifies the bizarre growth of these liberal, wacko Substackers.
How naïve of me to not realize that they block dissenting comments. It becomes self fulfilling for the readers. All I see is people that agree with them.
Robert Reich's substack should be called "The Turd Reich."
Nicely done
Thanks, doc.
02/16/25: "A more accurate name for Zeteo is the Woke Jihad Jizya. Due to the untimely loss of several staff members, they have banned beepers from their newsroom."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And in the latest DC Real Estate News...
"ITEM 30 [Surber] ... “The Doge team is causing a very real exodus from Washington DC. Housing listings are surging—over 14,825 [red dots signifying houses put on the market] in this snapshot alone."
They omitted the White House "dot"! --- The building that Jill Biden at 1 a.m. on November 6, 2024 put on the market, after her husband finished up looting the Kennedy Center.
They found a buyer, collected the cash, and J.D. Vance had to break the news to Mitt Romney that he wasn't going to get his money back...
what a shitstorm. see what I did there
Reich produces a real Sh*tskrieg of Regime Takes.
🤣🤣🤣
Perhaps the thing on that list that amazed me the most is how many out there are actually willing to be paid subscribers to such drivel.
However, we must admit that one of the great things about the Substack platform is that it can tolerate the presence of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly without feeling threatened in the least. I just look at those paid subs as a subsidy that enables Substack to continue offering the good stuff.
The slop subsidizes the signal.
Pretty sure there was some USAID slush involved. Let’s check back in a year hmmmm? Of course good old GEORGE SOROS et al might pick up the slack but I hear he prefers to use tax dollars as well…🤷♀️
Well, in Mr Kristol’s case we know USAID slush made its way to him…it’d be a good bet that there are others on that list, too!
.....'xactly! 💲💰💲💰💲💰
Yes. Definitely human subscribers for these high quality substacks and 100% not bots used for money laundering.
Luckily all that grift started and stopped with USAID.
I was thinking that same thing too, but USAID was not the only money laundering slush fund, even though it was the most egregious.
The EPA and other agencies had thousands of money laundering premium subscriptions to Politico, until recently.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/11/another-massive-agency-is-axing-its-politico-subscriptions/
The most egregious that we have found so far.
Don't count on it.
"I just look at those paid subs as a subsidy that enables Substack to continue offering the good stuff."
Yup. I hope Substack can stay neutral and as laissez-faire as is legally possible.
Once the controls are in place in won’t matter one iota that folks were able to express their opinions mostly freely on substack. Except as inputs to AI 😂
Paid subscribers, even if money laundering bots and npc's, are still paid subscribers...
So many retired professors, journalists, psychotherapists, and sundry academics looking for a reason to wake up in the morning after a mostly wasted life.
Nailed it. Make believe jobs seeking make believe narratives.
Do Useful Idiots ever finally wake up and realise they've spent their entire lives working for China? All the Lefties ever do is destroy, they never create anything.
Educate Educators to Educate Educators,
Student Loan Subsidies to the Intelligencia.
A Monetary Mobius strip🎓🎤💲🎓🎤💲🎓🎤💲
Well put. Spot on.
It will be interesting to revisit these paid subscriptions in a year's time after DOGE eliminates a lot of the most obvious graft.
Richardson is an extremely uninteresting writer; as you note she cites her MSM sources in every article. Every article she writes is just a paraphrasing of the MSM talking points of the day, regurgitated and with an additional infusing of TDS. No original thought on her part whatsoever.
Kind of brilliant as a way to give her audience what they want and get them to pay for it, with minimal effort on her part.
Just plain brilliant and the Wokster’s wont get your joke. It would be interesting to be in the hotel lobby where Michael Moore and Reid Hoffman are staying if the hotel had one of those “all you can eat” Sunday brunch buffets…the fancy ones, where they have a carving table board, and a chef hiving off slabs of fatty roast beef under a heat lamp. With those two, the poor dude would need an ice bath for his carving arm…
When did Michael Moore become morbidly obese? Or did the picture put on 100 pounds? That is sad.
He has always been fat.
But not like this. I guess it really doesn't
He's been really fat for quite awhile.
You’re probably right. He has been on my radar for decades. I guess I haven’t paid attention.
Wow! 200K paid subscribers for Ms. Richardson! Wait...that's like .0597 % of the population of the US (200K/335 million x 100). I don't think we have too much to worry about. Meanwhile, a 20-something named Balls of Steel is dismantling the Deep State. Pass the popcorn!
The idea that 200,000 would pay to read what they already get to read and see for free fails on its face. Shenanigans!
👨🏼💻👨🏻💻🧑🏼💻✂️✂️✂️🍿🍿🍿
I've recently been getting an interesting reaction from mind-virus-infected friends when I try to point them at a new take on things or new data that contradicts their view. They say "we both have access to the same information."
In other words, "we disagree not because we are seeing different facts but because I am enlightened and you're not" or "I'm right and you're wrong."
This has happened more than a few times so I'm pretty sure there is a playbook being fed to them: "things to say when the problem people in your life bring up inconvenient facts."
You may both have "access to the same information," but apparently only one of you is able to properly process that information.
Well, that's for sure a lot easier than coming up with a logical rebuttal. Or having principles.
Thank you for your brutal honesty! It’s refreshing to read truth on all this TDS syndrome! The likes of Heather and Robert make me want to vomit!
Spot on about Karen Cox Richardrson.
And my leftist friends speak of her in hushed tones (" Heather Cox Richardson was really really good this morning.") ... as if they're reading the Federalist Papers... I bite my tongue
Reid Hoffman and Michael Moore!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 genius post, Yuri! Thank you!🥰
I was on my A-game this morning. Coffee mug stayed on the side table while I read today’s post. So many truth bombs & zingers, and no snarfing for me! Even after reading this, “A more accurate name for Zeteo is the Woke Jihad Jizya. Due to the untimely loss of several staff members, they have banned beepers from their newsroom.” Ouch! 😂 Hurts so good.
USAID has probably paid some of these subscriptions
Oh nooooo how did Jen Psaki get overlooked? Did they use up all their smug, condescending WW slots?
She is not on substack… yet
Ahhh we will wait for next year
They usually launch a substack within a week of leaving msm, that’s what happened with Acosta and Rubin.
...before everyone forgets who they are...
Thanks for this list.
I'll be subscribing to most just to slay them in the comments.
They all paywall and block dissenting comments to protect their echo chambers.
I've been charting many of these TDS authors exponential growth since January. I appreciate your research. I'm going to publish an in-depth piece soon that covers and quantifies the bizarre growth of these liberal, wacko Substackers.
How naïve of me to not realize that they block dissenting comments. It becomes self fulfilling for the readers. All I see is people that agree with them.
Reich has a free option.
Funny thing is, after a couple of disparaging (to him) remarks, I received an advertisement for something, don't remember exactly what, from himself.
Anyway, it keeps me sharp.......
As much as I disagree with RR, he may be the most honest flotsum and jetsum to drift out 🛟🌊 of the WJC era of hide the cigar....
You need to revise your standards.
After all, a cigar is just a cigar.
Duct Tape n Bail'n Wire fix 'bout any thang. 🇺🇲
(except TDS n stupid)
Retired trucker here.
Don't forget bungy straps n wire ties. Ha!
I have to revise my statement about Reich's free option.
That seems to have disappeared, or been severely curtailed.
I guess I must have been over the target.
Is anyone on Blue Sky? How many subs are there now?
As long as dissenting voices are free to, you know, dissent on Substack as well, it helps prevents an information/PR monopoly like pre- Musk TwiXer.
Just restack with the comment, "What a bunch of bullshit."
I endorse the addition of a "What a bunch of bullshit" button in Substack.
🤣👏