Krystal Ball DISMANTLES Media’s Anti-Vax SMEAR of Russell Brand
Krystal dismantles the media’s new anti-vax smears of actor turned political commentator Russell Brand by actually looking at the evidence from Brand’s show
Trump is reportedly telling people ‘I’m running’ and wanted to announce his 2024 campaign in August
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week As a highly-speculated 2024 presidential campaign continues to gain steam, former President Donald Trump is reportedly “constantly” telling people “I’m running,” and was actually talked out of announcing his candidacy in August, The Washington Post reports. At first emboldened by the upheaval in Afghanistan, […]
America’s two crime problems
By Joel Mathis, The Week Last week brought fresh evidence that America has two crime problems: crime itself, and the police who are supposed to solve and prevent those crimes. It is not clear the two problems can be fixed independently. The FBI released statistics showing the United […]
Divided We Stand The country is hopelessly split. So why not make it official and break up?
An article from 2018 advocating splitting the US into a Red Federation, Blue Federation, and Neutral Federation. By Sasha Issenberg, The Intelligencer The year is 2019. California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for the creation of a single-payer health-care system, now […]
SCOTUS Could Overturn Roe V Wade And Expand Gun Rights In CULTURE WAR Session
Hopefully, these cases will escalate polarization and increase support for pan-secession. Kim Iversen details the potential landmark cases on the Supreme Court’s docket this term.
Trump SUES Twitter, DEMANDS Jack Dorsey Let Him Back in the Club
Team Rising discusses former President Trump’s efforts to have his Twitter account reinstated.
Progressives STAND THEIR GROUND To Pass Reconciliation, Sinema STALKED In Bathroom By Protestors
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Congressional progressives’ weekend media blitz, plus increasing pressure on Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema from their constituents,
STEEP Partisan DIVIDE Revealed In How Americans Perceive CRIME, Homicides UP 30% In 2020
Journalist Zaid Jilani reacts to the partisan gap in how Americans perceive the country’s crime rate.
Factory Farms Say Treating Animals Well is RACIST
Krystal and Saagar cover the new lie being told by factory farms that regulating their business practices and treatment of animals is a racist policy
The Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party Would Now Have 100 Million Sympathizers
Some years back, I rolled out the idea of a “pan-secessionist meta-party” as a means of implementing the wider ATS “anarcho-populist” strategy that I outlined some years before that. The most recent polling data, involving a poll taken by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, indicates that […]
Majority of Trump Voters Want to Split the Nation Into ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Halves
Approximately 52% of Trump voters (about 38 million of 74 million people) and 40% of Biden (about 32 million of 80 million people) now hold at least casual pan-secessionist sympathies. My guess is that the percentage of non-voters (about another 80 million) with a favorable view of pan-secession […]
Israeli Officials, Member Of Congress Enact PRESSURE CAMPAIGN To CANCEL A UNC Grad Student
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky discuss reporting that Israeli officials pressured the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to alter a course on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Media FREAKING OUT About Alt-Right Use Of Crypto
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss reporting that some Neo-Nazi groups are using cryptocurrency to circumvent traditional financial structures.
Al Franken Mulling 2024 Kirsten Gillibrand CHALLENGE In REBUKE Of MeToo Cancel Culture
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to reporting that former Senator Al Franken has not ruled out a comeback campaign against Kirsten Gillibrand.
NBA Stars Kyrie Irving, Bradley Beal, Jonathan Isaac, REFUSE Vaccination, NBA Docks Pay Of Unvaxxed
Team Rising discusses the NBA’s vaccine mandate.
The Feminist REALIGNMENT Is Happening NOW, Young Women REJECT Sex Positivity
Emily Jashinsky breaks down the pitfalls of the sex positivity movement.
Majority OF US MISTRUSTS Biden On COVID In New Polls
Krystal and Saagar review the newest polling data on Biden showing that the majority of America mistrusts him on covid which could spell disaster in the near future
Robert Kagan’s warning about the US constitutional crisis: It is 1932
Uber-neocon Bob Kagan, a founder of the Kristolite PNAC and husband of Vicki Nuland, pulls an AOCesque “I’m scared” routine and predicts that pan-secessionism, at least on a primitive level, will actually happen in the next few years. I wish I were as optimistic as Bob the Blob’s […]
How scared should we be about 2024?
By Daniel W. Drezner Over the weekend it was impossible for me to go on social media and not see someone linking or hyping Robert Kagan’s latest in The Washington Post. Kagan starts his essay with a large bucket of cold water: “The United States is heading into […]
A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex
By Vivek Ramaswamy In one of my favorite episodes of South Park, two sleazy salesmen try to sell shoddy vacation condos in the glitzy ski town of “Asspen” to the lower middle-class residents of South Park. Their sales pitch is simple: “Try saying it, ‘I’ve got a little […]
The News is America’s New Religion, and We’re in a Religious War
By Matt Taibbi When political narrative replaces faith, truth becomes heresy. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear. We lie like hell! We’ll tell you Kojak always gets the killer, and nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker’s house… We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear! […]
Hunter Biden Emails REVEAL Offer To UNFREEZE $30B In Libyan Assets, Reporter Details Washington BLOB
Senior correspondent for Insider, Mattathias Schwartz, breaks down the latest corruption scandal surrounding Hunter and Joe Biden.
ACLU ERASES Women By NEUTRALIZING RBG Quote, EXEMPLIFIES Woke Takeover
Ryan Grim, Emily Jashinsky, and Robby Soave discuss the edited quote that has the ACLU under fire.
Pro-Trump Health Care Network FLEECED Supporters, Sold MILLIONS Worth Of Dr Visits, H, I
Team Rising discusses reporting that a network of right-wing health care providers has made millions off of selling COVID treatments popular amongst vaccine skeptics.
Liz Cheney: The 60 Minutes Interview
It is interesting how the media is now promoting the Bushes and Cheneys as the legitimate Republican opposition to Trumpism. The ruling class is getting scared and circling the wagons. Liz Cheney tells Lesley Stahl about running for re-election as an anti-Trump Republican in Wyoming, where her own […]
There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
Uber-neocon David Frum of “An End to Evil” fame goes full Antifa. (Yes, he actually co-authored a book with that title, and his co-author was a man whose literal and ironic nickname was “The Prince of Darkness.”) Sorry, Dave, I guess evil didn’t end, after all. By David […]
Red Covid: Covid’s partisan pattern is growing more extreme
By David Leonhardt New York Times During the early months of Covid-19 vaccinations, several major demographic groups lagged in receiving shots, including Black Americans, Latino Americans and Republican voters. More recently, the racial gaps — while still existing — have narrowed. The partisan gap, however, continues to be […]
The Right, The Left and the State w/ Eric July
Eric July is the frontman for the band Backwordz, the host of the YoungRippa59 channel on YouTube and a contributor at Blaze TV. Eric joins Pete for a targeted discussion about the state of the Right, and the Left, currently in the US. They, of course, get into […]
The unimportance of Trump’s incompetence
By Damon Linker, The Week The most talked-about essay of the past week is undoubtedly Robert Kagan’s “Our constitutional crisis is already here” in The Washington Post, a long, gripping examination of the very serious danger that Donald Trump poses to American democracy as the country approaches the […]
Our constitutional crisis is already here
Neocon uber-imperialist douchebag Robert Kagan is worried the system is cracking. Based on the recent writing of a range of leading neocons, its seems they really are getting more worried about holding it together. By Robert Kagan Washington Post “Is there no virtue among us? If there be […]
Dave Rubin Gives Worst Summation Of Trumpism Of All Time
Trumpism is Trump first, always has been. He could care less about working-class people. “America first” is simply American bourgeoisie over everyone else.
Tulsi Goes On Fox News Tour Of Wrongness
Now that she’s burned her bridges with the Democrats she seems to be going over to the Republicans.
Aborting Trumpism
A return of the abortion wars of the 80s and 90s would really heat up the already intense “culture war.” By David Cole, Taki’s Magazine Sometimes you wish that a certain group of people were never taught a certain phrase. In 1997, when O.J. Simpson ran afoul of […]
What to Do When the Cancel Mob Comes for You
Tom Woods Show You know the usual approach: apologize, beg for mercy, explain that you didn’t really mean it, that you’ve “grown” — we’re all drearily familiar with the usual pathetic attempts to avoid judgment from lunatics. It never works. It never, ever works. Life is going to […]
Chris Cuomo CAUGHT #MeTooing His Own Boss in 2005
Krystal and Saagar respond to the allegation that Chris Cuomo groped his boss at a dinner party in 2005, resembling the behavior of his disgraced brother
Cancel Culture Keeps Destroying Lives And It’s The Media’s Fault
Robby Soave details the case of the latest person cancelled online, and why it exemplifies all the things wrong with cancel culture.
Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug): An Interview
By Lomez Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. One of the sharpest and most articulate critics of contemporary (US) democracy, Yarvin has gathered a substantial online following over the years, first with his (now-defunct) blog Unqualified Reservations (2007 – 2013), […]
The Michael Anton Tapes
By Mark Granza Michael Anton is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter, and former senior national security official in the Trump administration. In 2016, under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, he wrote The Flight 93 Election, an influential essay in support of Donald Trump’s campaign which was subsequently credited […]
Greene VS Dingell In SCREAMING Match On Capitol Steps, TX Gov. PRESSED On ‘Eliminate Rape’ Statement
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the future of respectability politics and the role of social media in governance.
Media COVERUP Of Hunter Biden THREATENS Democracy, Joe Biden Trading DUTY For LOVE?
Kim Iversen breaks down new reporting from Business Insider tying more corrupt dealings to Hunter and Joe Biden.
Among Those Who Marched Into the Capitol on Jan. 6: An F.B.I. Informant
By Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman New York Times As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, one member of the far-right group was busy texting a real-time account of the march. The recipient was his F.B.I. handler. In […]
The Government Didn’t Remove the Statues—We Did
Folks, it doesn’t do much good to “remove the statues” but keep the government. It might be a better plan to focus more on the latter rather than the former. Crimethinc Today, after years of protest, the authorities in Richmond, Virginia are finally removing a 12-ton statue of […]
The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left
By Sally Satel, The Atlantic Many psychologists wrongly assumed that coercive attitudes exist only among conservatives. Donald Trump’s rise to power generated a flood of media coverage and academic research on authoritarianism—or at least the kind of authoritarianism that exists on the political right. Over the past several […]
Sidney Powell Lays Out HAREBRAINED January 6 Plan To Have Justice Alito FLIP Election
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to a new interview from former Trump attorney Sidney Powell, where she implicates Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and Justice Samuel Alito in a January 6 plot to overturn the election.
Chris Cuomo’s SHAMELESS MeToo Hypocrisy Shows EXACTLY How Performative Elite Dems Are
Robby Soave breaks down the pervasiveness of #MeToo hypocrisy in elite Democratic circles.
Woke Is Old
By Bryan Caplan One of the less charming features of the woke movement is its vocal age prejudice. In conversation, believers have repeatedly appealed to my age and their youth to gain argumentative advantage. I’m tempted, admittedly, to respond in kind. In reality, the young have less insight on […]
The Nirvana Baby’s Lawsuit Asks Us a Tough Question
I’m generally skeptical of the claim that today’s culture is less puritanical than that of past times, as opposed to merely being an expression of a new form of puritanism. And the old puritanism and new puritanism overlap in many ways. In the last few years, I’ve noticed […]
Everyday Lunacy
It’s rather amusing that today’s conservatives are reminiscing about the good old days of 1985, when in 1985 conservatives were lamenting the passing of the good old days of 1955. By the Zman, Taki’s Mag The old adage about there being a fine line between genius and madness […]
The Problem of Moral Panics
I am increasingly of the opinion that anyone with a serious anti-authoritarian outlook needs to be opposed to moral panics even before they are supposed to institutional authorities like organized religion, capitalism, or even the state itself. As H.L. Mencken said, “The worst government is often the most […]
Florida Man Dies While Awaiting Trial on Charges Related to Jan. 6 US Capitol Breach
This headline has a little bit of everything. By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times A U.S. military veteran who was charged in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach has died. John Anderson, 61, died at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sept. 21, according to family members and his […]
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