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The Broken Minds of the Anti-Anti-Trump Right

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 8h

Contrary to popular belief: MAGA isn’t cool. It’s cosplay rebellion for people who mistake cruelty for confidence and propaganda for independence. I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings. It's not personal. It's just the truth.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 17h

The “anti-anti-Trump” right has built an epistemology that cannot recognize danger until it kills someone.

Gavin Newsom’s concern about live artillery fire over Interstate 5 was “performative.”

The Broken Minds of the Anti-Anti-Trump Right

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17h

“They anti-anti position has constructed a framework where no amount of evidence counts as overwhelming because the pattern can be denied by treating each data point in isolation. At what point does sophisticated skepticism become systematic denialism?”

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Gavin Newsom’s concern about live artillery fire over Interstate 5 was “performative.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17h

“The epistemological structure of denialism. Not honest doubt but motivated reasoning. Not skepticism but refusal to update beliefs in response to evidence. Not objectivity but a framework constructed to make authoritarian escalation seem like ordinary politics.”

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The Broken Minds of the Anti-Anti-Trump Right

Gavin Newsom’s concern about live artillery fire over Interstate 5 was “performative.”

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 19h

INSANE CORRUPTION.

Molly White @molly.wiki · 19h

Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.

WSJ headline: Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 1d

Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means

Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance better…

Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos. Musk’s response? Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question “why are you gay”—the rhetorical sophistication we’ve come to expect from the richest man-child on the planet having a public meltdown because Daddy won’t give him what he wants.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

I just think it’s neat that you can post racist, fascist shit on social media in Silicon Valley and keep your job—while posting anti-Trump stuff is the kind of thing that’ll get you walked out the door. That would be too divisive!

When neutrality costs nothing—and integrity costs your job.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to think that Andreesen’s claim that he & other tech bros went MAGA because they didn’t like Biden’s tech regulations or his FTC chair was all a ruse. It’s really about the freedom to say to say racist, bigoted stuff out loud with no consequences whatsoever.

Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

I just think it’s neat that you can post racist, fascist shit on social media in Silicon Valley and keep your job—while posting anti-Trump stuff is the kind of thing that’ll get you walked out the door. That would be too divisive!

When neutrality costs nothing—and integrity costs your job.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's really that they know who daddy is.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

I just think it’s neat that you can post racist, fascist shit on social media in Silicon Valley and keep your job—while posting anti-Trump stuff is the kind of thing that’ll get you walked out the door. That would be too divisive!

When neutrality costs nothing—and integrity costs your job.

A case study in how sophisticated cowards attack truth-tellers while serving power

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Lisa Farrar @lisafarrar.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for this post. I found the Mike Brock piece. It's really good.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-pirate...

The PirateWires Method

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

Sequoia’s COO resigned after protesting a partner’s Islamophobic posts.

He stays. She goes.

Because SpaceX returns are good.

When neutrality costs nothing—and integrity costs your job.

The Vice President Just Proved He Means It

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance just proved he meant it.

Live-fire Marines over Interstate 5.
Newsom warned it was dangerous.
Vance mocked him.
Then it happened.

Reckless endangerment masquerading as power.

JD Vance just proved he meant it.

The Vice President Just Proved He Means It

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance just proved he meant it.

Live-fire Marines over Interstate 5.
Newsom warned it was dangerous.
Vance mocked him.
Then it happened.

Reckless endangerment masquerading as power.

JD Vance just proved he meant it.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The neo-reactionary dream meets the law of the strong.

Authoritarian fragility, democratic resilience, and why the civilizational clash looks different than we thought

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting.

Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Something is cracking in the machinery of power.

In one month, Putin froze, Trump performed, and Musk got publicly broken.

These aren’t separate stories. They’re the same story: authoritarian power devouring itself.

What Time Is It?

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Vivian M. Lumbard @vivian-m-lumbard.bsky.social · 2d

"This is the system they built. This is what they wanted—rule by the strong, unencumbered by democratic constraints, where power flows from dominance rather than from consent. They just thought they’d be the ones doing the dominating."

Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The neo-reactionary dream meets the law of the strong.

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Belvedere @pbelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

@brockm.bsky.social: "...in authoritarian systems, the point isn’t good governance—it’s demonstrating who’s subordinate. This is about oligarchs discovering that the authoritarian systems they funded don’t stop at the people they don’t like"
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/elon-musk-...

The neo-reactionary dream meets the law of the strong.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The neo-reactionary dream meets the law of the strong.

A case study in how sophisticated cowards attack truth-tellers while serving power

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Some propaganda doesn’t shout—it critiques.

The PirateWires Method explains how sophisticated cynics launder authoritarian power through “balanced journalism.”

The trick? Presume power’s innocence. Demand proof of tyranny.

The PirateWires Method

The Question They Won’t Ask

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

The real question isn’t why Republicans don’t trust journalism. It’s why so many Republicans believe demonstrable falsehoods.

Journalism isn’t failing. Disinformation is succeeding.

It’s not bias when journalism reports reality—it’s bias when reality threatens power

A case study in how sophisticated cowards attack truth-tellers while serving power

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Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 2d

"Presume power’s innocence. Demand proof of tyranny."

@brockm.bsky.social with the smoking gun example of a critique which can be much more broadly applied

Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Some propaganda doesn’t shout—it critiques.

The PirateWires Method explains how sophisticated cynics launder authoritarian power through “balanced journalism.”

The trick? Presume power’s innocence. Demand proof of tyranny.

The PirateWires Method