I believe you’re the only such person, but I appreciate the compliment!

Doesn't seem that way. WU has been expanding its footprint in the region for several years now and this seems to be a continuation of that. But it's still early in the process...so we'll see what comes of this.

The power outlets are how the Communism gets in! Everyone knows that.

It’s been interesting to see how the tone of Trump’s emails have shifted recently from angrily apocalyptic and boasting to this sort of “woe is me,” sad sack posturing.

Yep. Just received it.

This is indeed sad. And also, as any person who knows anything about Trump could tell you, he’s never used a laptop in his life.

Huss's victory in 1978 was the culmination of an almost 20 year, far right grassroots insurgency that sought to stage a hostile takeover of an OR GOP generally known for its moderation. Huss's 1979 ouster was a setback, but only a temporary one. rightlandia.ghost.io/walter-huss-...

It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Douthat's primary role in our political culture today is to tell fairy tales to rich centrist NYT readers about how the far right extremists who have taken over the brands of the GOP and "conservatism" are totally fine and are nothing to be concerned about.

It's notable to me that one of the main guys the NYTimes pays to be on the "conservatism" beat has long seemed to have almost no understanding of the movement he's paid to analyze.

Kolvet leads a McCarthyite organization that encourages students to spy on their professors so as to get them fired. He also loves it when Muslim Americans get harassed and mocked. Almost none of the media he produces would pass muster with NYT fact checkers. Good job Ross. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I suspect Kolvet walked out of that interview and gave himself a massive high five about how he'd snowed Douthat into allowing him to garner a ton more normie "conservative" subscribers and donors for TPUSA under the completely false pretenses that TPUSA is just like your grandpa's conservatism.

If Ross Douthat wants to interview this TPUSA propagandist then fine...but at least he could just DO HIS FUCKING JOB as a journalist and actually ask the guy meaningful questions that would not allow him to present himself to NYT readers as something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE ACTUALLY IS.

Douthat also totally pushed Kolvet on the fact that the frequent co-host of Charlie Kirk's show that Kolvet produced was white nationalist and proud McCarthyite, Pizzagate Jack, a serial promoter of bullshit conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes. Right? bsky.app/profile/seth...

And when Kolvet tells Ross this fairy tale about how the 18th century founders of the US were inspired by Kolvet's brand of 21st century non-denominational evangelical Protestantism that none of them believed in...and that Kolvet's God is Providentially steering the country, Ross pushes back, right?

The dude has a long track record of circulating complete bullshit lies that ruin other Americans lives, and then he comes on Ross's NYT show and is like "it's important to be fact-based" and so of course Ross was ready with a follow up about all of this guy's lies...right? RIGHT?

Of course not.

Last month Kolvet either just made up or fell for a made up story about Arizona math teachers supposedly wearing t-shirts to mock Charlie Kirk's death. It 100% did not happen, but he ran with it, and those teachers got barraged with MAGA death threats. bsky.app/profile/jare...