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NEW: Bill Maher tells Charlie Kirk the woke mob wants to kill him—because he refused to “get on the short bus to crazy town.”
That was his savage reply after @charliekirk11 joked that the “purple-hair jihadis” were coming after him.
Maher didn’t flinch.
“They wan... See more
The Vigilant Fox 🦊x.com
about the bleating idiocy of American mass media in the era after 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War. In it, he offers a thought experiment that has stuck with me. Imagine, he says, being at a party, with the normal give and take of conversation between generally genial, informed people. And then “a guy walks in with a megaphone. He’s not the smar... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
The Democratic Party of George McGovern was, in this narrative, the party of “acid, amnesty and abortion,” the party of chaos, disruption and overreach. Out of touch with the vast American middle, it had cast its lot with cultural elites and antiwar militants. This Democratic Party, said the Nixon campaign, could not relate to the tens of millions ... See more
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
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Trump and Musk, the face of the new Republican Party, have 18 kids by 7 mothers.
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Bakari Sellersx.com[Trump] cobbled together a coalition of the wacky and weird. But being weird in America is kind of normal. It’s a very weird place. A lot of Americans belong to cults or odd religious sects, practice alternative medicine, participate in strange fandoms, wild fads, and peculiar enthusiasms. And with the decline of mass culture and the fragmentation ... See more
John Ganz • Trump Can Still Win
I can’t help but remember the 1998 film The Truman Show. It’s a dark comedy about an orphan, Truman Burbank, unwittingly raised by a corporation in a simulated reality broadcast as a TV show around the world. Everyone is aware of the ruse except Truman, played by Jim Carrey.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
“President of the world, then!” Neumann tossed out cheerfully. The situation