Caesar “The Fever” Fahrenheit

Vivek Ramaswamy is exploiting child rape the right way. by Ezra Klein

This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

"The US conservative movement is engaged in a nationwide effort to reverse child-labor laws and reinstitute child labor" sounds like a crazy leftie conspiracy theory, but ... yeah. It's real.

DAM 😅

It’s what’s for dinner.

I consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

Stunned speechless. I literally saw PAC yesterday and saw him wrestle, and now I’m learning of his death. Horrible. RIP to a great talent.

Pro wrestling is sometimes a grown man from Japan flipping off an 8 year old on her birthday, and then recoiling in horror as she counter attacks with TWO middle fingers.

In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........

This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference."

Your ideas do not intrigue me, and I wish to wipe my ass with your newsletter.

Maybe the most vertigo-inducing thing about right-wing bullshit is being constantly caught off guard by the weirdass niche bugbears they just drop so casually despite no normal human being having any idea what they’re even talking about.

From last year. A good history lesson.

IYKYK

instead of simply calling someone "cowardly" or "having no balls," consider:

It's not just Netanyahu, folks. This is Israel's government and a majority of its society now, unfortunately. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Happy September 12th

Nor do the Lone Progressive Dissenters who turn out to be right receive any reward or acknowledgement for it!

Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.

somehow its still controversial to say that genocidal war mongerers like netanyahu or george w bush love when their own people get killed as pawns in their ambitions

This seems absurdly simple, but: Republicans talk *all the time* about how Democrats are bad. Not this or that individual Democrat, but the party, the ideology, the very idea of Democrats. Democrats almost never do this about Republicans. Not in a coordinated, concerted way.

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

If Democrats are sincere about appealing to Republicans, they can start by referring to their Texas Senate candidate as “Tali-freak-o” and banning Zohran Mamdani from 9/11 memorials. Otherwise, it’s the same old smug elitism.

My gosh. Fetterman pretended to be sick to avoid meeting three paralyzed veterans from rural PA…and then went to do a Fox interview on Israel. He agreed to meet a lawmaker who drove from PA to talk about homeless and working people…and then bailed & met pro-Israel Bruce Pearl.

😦

Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles

yall are gonna hear me say this a lot so here goes again: make plans to vote in person, and do it as early as possible. literally make turnout this election too big to steal.

Depressing

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

Mayor Mamdani Is Serving His Constituents, Not Himself.......

Lesbians

If you feel bad for Natalie Harp, YOU are the problem. Toxic forgiveness. You are the reason Americans forgot how bad Bush was in TWO years.

Remember when Paul Heyman consciously set out to create the Nirvana of pro wrestling and establish ECW as a counterculture revolution? Insert the famous quote from The Dark Knight here…

Still the least insufferable member of the Nipple League, DMW fans.

Max Miller was practicing fatherhood the right way. by Ezra Klein

Thousands of X accounts are using Grok to create child sexual abuse material. Here is another article about Bluesky’s intellectual diversity problem.