What would the numbers be if politicians aggressively campaigned against fascism by doubling down on talking about and orienting action around moms getting executed in their cars and 5-year-olds being disappeared to concentration camps in Texas by ICE/CBP? Maybe they’d be the same! But I doubt it.

Huge Dead Boys fan, which is kind of the opposite. But this stuff is great too. Don't get me started on Blondie.

Also partial to gangster rap. I contain multitudes, don't get me started on the (great) Geto Boys. That all feels the same in a way and I fucking love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPRq...

Took me long enough... benhosen.substack.com/p/basic-axio...

Not an exact fit, but the billion dollar political consultant industry is really close to it.

As a long time( chickenshit and/or moral?, never got into that) student of con games long and short, this is shill erasure! A key component of every con game, and this applies to other things (like politics) too. There is a third vital cog to that ecosystem.

The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.

Amen. Duncan Black actually moved the needle meaningfully when Obama was about to privatize Social Security. But you know what? Toilet Paper Man is rich, and gets invited to all the meetings and soirees with the important people now.

Reflected a larger reality: the idea really was that demographics would inevitably keep Democrats in power forever. "40 More Years". Even funnier is looking today's anti-woke crusader Dem strategist Ruy Teixeira's predictions back then. (Not funny actually. But hey, he's still getting paid)

Funny how they keep saying that, louder and louder. Maybe that's a real commitment?

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Not the surgeon's fault, I have nothing but praise for that dude and his office. Excellent care, not their fault that I didn't inherit Dad's Ashkenazi horse teeth but got Mom's Welsh teeth seemingly made of soft chalk.