Great piece of writing by Matt Taibbi: We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.
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Great piece of writing by Matt Taibbi: We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.
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Taibbi, Musk et al are doing remarkable work.
It’s dangerous that the media is powerful enough to suppress the news.
Yes. Matt is on a roll. He is hiring decent reporters and making bank, evidently. Thanks for reminding your followers that decency is going to win.
Even when he worked for Rolling Stone (a ‘zine that I came to loathe many years ago), Taibbi’s writing always stood out as one of the few points of light in the American journalist ecosphere. Like other good writers, even when you disagree with him, he makes his prose so entertaining that you’re almost compelled to read him — which is why he can be so effective.
He’s also thoroughly of the Left, but the Left I remember from my Uni days long ago, with more principles, more consistency and more intellectual heft, which is why the modern ProgLeft despises him.
The Hollywood-produced January 6th committee hearings were a natural outgrowth of the history he recites. Loathsome.
Well the the group of horrible people are hardly limited to the progressive totalitarians. Trump and his culties are much worse. It will be a sad day for the world if the 2024 election forces Americans to choose between a progressive totalitarian and a narcissistic authoritarian.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a disease that seems to have no cure.
Even Sam Harris readily agrees in public with 80% of Trump’s policies and that Biden got many things terribly wrong. Yet he still thinks that Biden was the right choice for the country.
Go figure.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is meaningless label used by Trump culties to address the cognitive dissonance that arises when people they otherwise agree with see Trump for what he really is: a narcissistic authoritarian con-man.
The GOP would walk to win in 2024 if it picked DeSantis. If it picks Trump, lots of right leaning people will hold their nose and vote for Biden. Why is this so hard to understand? Weren’t the results of the 2022 midterms enough to show that Americans do not want Trump and his narcissistic conspiracy theories?
When you have a hysterical leftist nutter accusing you of being racist, a fascist and a Trump supporter just for not 100% agreeing with their deranged worldview, that is proof enough that Trump derangement syndrome exists.
And for the record, I am not a Trump cultist. I am just fed up with social hysteria and political theater. Donald Trump ain’t Corneliu Codreanu or Adolf Hitler.
Let me correct your choices:
“A narcissistic authoritarian con-man” with good policies and track record as president vs the senile head of a family crime syndicate with a horrible record and lousy policies. Results are the only thing that matters.
That’s a good definition of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” It’s the inability to look at critical outcomes versus trivial optics.
> “A narcissistic authoritarian con-man” with good policies and track record as president
Good policies are not enough for many people. If you want good policies there are alternatives so there absolutely no justification for putting that con man back in power. If the GOP nominates Trump it will be telling Americans that cult loyalty is more important than policies so why should Americans vote for him?
> the senile head of a family crime syndicate with a horrible record and lousy policies
Oh The “Biden Derangement Syndrome”. Unlike Trump, Biden does not let his less than reputable family members anywhere near the Whitehouse. The republicans spent years trying to find evidence of an actual crime in the whitewater fiasco and failed. I would take the entire hunter story more seriously of the people pushing the narrative were not such shameless hypocrites. i.e. why is there no investigation into why Jared Kushner was given 2Billion to “manage” by the Saudis?
Basically, if the only argument you have against Biden is completely unsubstantiated claims that he was involved in a shady business deal with a Chinese company while he was a private citizen then you don’t have much if he is running against someone who has admitted, in his own words, that he committed multiple felonies.
Tim G:
“Good policies are not enough for many people. ”
Yes, people like you, who care more about a cult of personality than the policies that you are forced to live under, at gunpoint.
Adolph would have loved an ahole like you.
““A narcissistic authoritarian con-man” with good policies and track record as president vs the senile head of a family crime syndicate with a horrible record and lousy policies. Results are the only thing that matters.”
I tend to agree. As much as I wish I could still support Trump after his idiotic, unprovoked attack on Ron DeSantis *just before the midterms* (no telling how many votes were lost over that), I can’t. But I can certainly admit that Donald Trump did many good things for America. He put more blacks and Latinos to work than any president in the last 50 years, had the American economy booming, made peace in the Middle East, pulled US troops out of warzones all over the world, got out of the ridiculous ‘deal’ with Iran, signed legislation to slash the price of diabetes drugs, started securing the US border, etc, etc. Many good things came from his presidency.
It’s too bad that his personal failings overshadowed much of the good that he did, and that he was unable to suppress his ego when he really needed to.
Timmy
You are so full of shit, it stinks all the way to Northern Alberta.
Typical Leftist Hollyweird type wanker.
Aside from JFK & Reagan, he was the most successful President in US history – Lowest overal unemployment EVER & started ZERO wars. That in itself is enough…remember what it cost you to fill yer Ladda..?
Go ply yer BS eleswhere somny.
@Steakman
Trump called the COVID-19 vaccine “one of the greatest achievements of mankind.”
“Trump and his culties are much worse.”
Bullshit, sunshine. But then, you’re a progtard through and through.
” Biden does not let his less than reputable family members anywhere near the Whitehouse. ”
https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos/here-comes-the-son-hunter-biden-confronted-by-reporters-at-high-profile-white-ho/1313421449488269/
That’s one. Plenty of video evidence you’re lying.
Float away you fairy.
OK, Tim G, what’s worse, deregulation of railroads and banks, or force-feeding your kids to sexual deviants?
Quite chilling to have supposed adults talk about snuffing you out in between bites of a hot dog as if they’re discussing the weather.
Which Mike Pompeo did along with his CIA pals back in 2017 looking for ways to kill Assange before he got to the U.S. – Then for him to have the audacity announce a run for Presidency in 2024 as if he was the only Republican who can save the country.
These people are straight up evil.
These pricks think they are in an Oliver Stone movie or an episode of West Wing. I’m not as optimistic as Matt, decency doesn’t just win. It’s going to get very ugly before any silver linings. A start would be for other “so-called journalists” to stop with the sophistic Matt’s a Russia agent garbage. Haven’t seen that yet.
Rights rites wrong writes Rights.
“I also recognize that the protest originally grew out of a desire by students to bring greater attention to discussion of LGBTQ+ rights in the current legal environment.”
– Jenny S. Martinez –
“We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.”
– Matt Taibbi –
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
TimG,
By your silence may I assume that you agree that Biden is senile, incompetent and has terrible policies? And that he’s still your pick?
Just askin’!
“ Ever notice lieberals attitude towards rich people?
Have you noticed how they hate “filthy rich people” but love rich filthy people!”
Nice. Horrible people is his discriminating factor. Horrible policies, not so much.
More cult of personality BS from the usual suspects.
I guess if you’re gonna sacrifice what few rights you have left, it may as well be to nice people, with true good intentions, like banning e-bike batteries, guns, drugs, and whatever else you freaking cowards fear.
I enjoy Taibbi’s writing too, but I believe he is delving into the world of AI for assistance in writing his columns.
I guess it’s easier.
I am so happy that some guy who can launch a good enough propaganda campaign is worthy of my vote…said everybody, ever. Roll on Armageddon. Free stuff, tough love, whatever. You are all idiots in the hands of sociopaths. As sociopaths go, I trust the drunks who spout a good line more than the rest. Churchill, Mad Max, etc.
“ The Governance Board was already dead, and now the whole MDM mission is being wound down, which feels like a win. Perhaps they’re just publicly retreating from the concept for now”
The left never gives up. They never surrender. They’ve just temporarily retreated after this awful Mary Poppins freak made these censorship totalitarians look bad. They’ll be back with a vengeance. Count on it. Remain vigilant patriots!
If the right were serious, we would be able to legally defend ourselves or sell some booze from a still.
The Canadian right is just as much an enemy of We the People as the Canadian left, in fact, they work hand-in-hand to relieve us all of all of our basic freedoms.
SDA, BCF, Mark Steyn, etc, the lot of you are nothing more than controlled opposition, more interested in t the cults of personality of the psychopaths who own us than our freedom; you aholes give us a choice of totalitarianism on purpose by people who are honestly evil, or totalitarianism “by accident” by people who are dishonestly evil.
Kate, BCF, Steyn, are dishonestly evil, you can tell by their cult of personality BS elevating or denigrating of others, as opposed to adherence to any sort of principles. They are really no different than the left, neither cares about people, both care more for their ascendancy.
“SDA, BCF, Mark Steyn, etc, the lot of you are blah blab blah more interested in blah blah blah psychopaths blah blah blah than our freedom;”
Wrong pronoun, pal.
Life Follows Art dept.
Walking Spanish – Tom Waits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAXXzBWA3IQ
Ahh yes, 2023, when posting a link is considered an argument.
You prove my point, you cannot think for yourself, ergo you are a slave.
I shouldn’t…but
Life Follows Art dept.
Slave to Love – Bryan Ferry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOebInTdfd4
“We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.”
Like all journalists, Taibbi lives in an urban bubble with no understanding of history, sociology or psychology beyond his latte-sipping cohorts.
Endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, and has been for the entirety of human history. The Great American Experiment is called that precisely because it was an unprecedented devolution of power to the citizenry rather than concentrating it in the hands of a hereditary or theological aristocracy. Making it work is hard, and it requires constant vigilance and maintenance of the values it rests on.
Endless rule by psychopaths, to boot…with the sloganeering “my psychopath is nicer than yours!”
The best we have done is forced the psychopaths prove some talent at snake-oil salesmanship before they line us all up for the slaughter.
Yay for democracy!
Endless tyranny of weaponized process against who challenge collectivist hegemony, now including voting parents and wayward journalists:
“Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft.”
The bigger question is when did the IRS start to dispatch agents for surprise house calls? Typically when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a dunning letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced.
The curious timing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC demand that Twitter turn over names of journalists, raises questions about potential intimidation, and Mr. Jordan is right to want to see documents and communications relating to the Taibbi visit.”
The fear of many Americans is that, flush with its new $80 billion in funding from Congress, the IRS will unleash its fearsome power against political opponents. Mr. Taibbi deserves to know why the agency decided to pursue him with a very strange house call.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-jim-jordan-daniel-werfel-lina-khan-84ee518?mod=hp_opin_pos_6#cxrecs_s