ryan cooper
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- again, the hogs do not know that they are playing with fire
- Was talking to a random nice older woman from East Isles last night and ICE came up. She then detailed, totally free of irony, her plan for reforming US government, which included the simultaneous mass execution of every leading member of the Trump administration, many of whom were mentioned by name
- when you get Fuentes and company going "executing civilians in the street is good actually" then there is a logical response that naturally occurs to every potential target
- the core MAGA chud base are people who are so used to gleefully blurting out whatever deranged shit pops into their head every minute of every day and getting away with it, the idea that one day even buttoned down normie liberal grandmas will snap simply does not fit into their heads
- another example. middle aged suburban lady talking like a radicalized Union soldier in 1862 bsky.app/profile/jcol...
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- yep. Obama FP was mid to awful but that was the best part and they never forgave him
- similar story with Biden and Afghanistan. cutting bait on a war that had been an obvious unwinnable quagmire for over a decade drove them into hysterics
- I’d forgotten a lot of this theweek.com/politics/100...
- well, someone reversed the decision at least
- an ex-Republican pastor is one of the central organizers in the anti-ICE effort in Springfield OH www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
- says in here that Matt Lauer is trying to make a comeback at CBS. wouldn't that be just the perfect capstone of the Bari Weiss Era www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
- one thing I'd emphasize about this and WaPo is that the MAGA billionaires aren't really doing the Putin style authoritarian thing of simultaneously corrupting all media, they are more obliterating parts of it one by one bsky.app/profile/medi...
- Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
- it's real bad, don't get me wrong, but suggests a potential opening for replacements. most CBS viewers and WaPo readers plainly do not want to be force-fed poorly produced MAGA slopaganda
- one area where popularism is most preposterous is where voters are quite obviously confused
- Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- as others have said I think you could sell a massive liberalization of immigration by loudly promising to crack down on scofflaws and whatnot
- “we’re going to Get Tough on illegal immigration” [10x the number of asylum judges, massively cut citizenship time requirements, abolish ICE and CBP, etc]
- “The case against Kavanaugh was the case against the culture of Georgetown Prep, of fraternities at elite colleges, of the entire social world that produced the entire conservative elite.” thebaffler.com/salvos/teena...
- “I would often see an odd-sounding accusation about someone or something I knew, and find (after untangling the thread of internet telephone and tendentious bullshit) a severe distortion or even the complete opposite of what was being claimed.”
- the actual Smart Tactics move here
- this is excellent www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
