Nick Mortensen from Autocratic Despair: The Podcast

My 8-year attempted to forge my wife’s signature to sign himself out of school earlier today. Might have pulled it off but for a critical error. See if you can spot the error.

What this means to you is that you need to turn your baseball cap inside out. This may well be a metaphorical Tobias Beecher realizing he can lock himself into the weightlifting area with Schillinger.

Holy sh*t, man! Holy f*cking sh*t!

3-0 in the division this year if you value moral victories, though. Which is nice.

I’ve not won any National Championships, but I think it’s still valid to ask Curt Cignetti if he really wants Anhedonia to be his most identifiable personality characteristic going forward.

What if they know something? Something that would make this conduct savvy instead of infuriating? Can’t be ruled out, but how likely would it be that they knew something was going to happen with El-Sayed & are trying to stay out of the (figurative) blast radius?

The banality of evil. May the destruction this man has inflicted upon other people return to him in kind. https://www.propublica.org/article/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander

I have long-awaited an opportunity to introduce Palmer Luckey to people that are not aware of Palmer Luckey. Thought maybe that ‘future of war’ committee he was heading up with Musk & Newt Gingrich was the moment, but went another route that week. Probably time to revisit.

Dr. Craig has the best explanation for what is happening in France anywhere I’ve heard. Plus, Katie Zacharia was set up to fail by the mean girls in the Trump Administration for trying to usurp them. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocratic-despair-the-podcast/id1890210459?i=1000797826085

Brian Tyler Cohen never did anything to me and I hate him with a passion. Same with JoJo from Jerz & Politics Girl & Brooklyn Dad Defiant, etc. I should like those people. My opposite feelings have become very visceral recently. These people are Bitches Eating Crackers at this point to me.

Another 7 Day download high for “Autocratic Despair: The Podcast” this week! Very gratifying to be finding new subscribers each week. We haven’t advertised or cross-pollinated with other shows yet, but we will. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocratic-despair-the-podcast/id1890210459

Did all I could to not think about Kohen Wiley for as long as I could - but those feelings find a way to bubble up & they did.

Real tough to distinguish between a low-grade cold and the beginning of Seasonal Affective Disorder this time of year. A Cold can transition over at a certain point if you don’t watch yourself closely.

We actually put out a fantastic clip of @jysexton.bsky.social & @nickhauselman.bsky.social discussing this topic in a really fascinating way on "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" this past week. I don't think anyone has broken this topic down nearly as well. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

I don’t think that the term “Quantitative Easing” pops the way it is going to need to in order to get the MAGA Enthusiasts behind it. Gotta workshop that to be sure people know how much it f*cks over people under 35.

Are we finally approaching the moment where we can muster the temerity to ask whether allowing a couple of well-marketed NGOs to co-opt & nerf citizen protest was strategically unwise? I suspect not. Asking difficult questions is post-mortem stuff and the patient is still alive at the moment.

This man’s ability to not sweat from his armpits is astounding.

Cannot tell you how sweet it is to have a politician put the lean on you for money for their campaign and be able to tell them that you just can’t do it because they’ve been too friendly with the fascists for the last decade. It would be bad for my reputation.

I bet none of you guys told the Senior Counsel at the EFF that you touched your penis to anything today, much less all the signs at the Chase Center.

Talked about Rufo & this despicable play he made pretty extensively on “Autocratic Despair: The Podcast” last week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Before you assume this won’t happen, you need to understand that this is just the escalator for when they designate her a “Far Left Terrorist” - a term they made up in July specifically to go after anyone involved with any org they can tie to Neville Singham.

Sean's hoping I turn my absentee ballot in early and I am hoping he'll give "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" a try. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Eric from the Tom Tiffany campaign is giving us some good insight into just how dumb the Tom Tiffany campaign thinks voters are. Downright insulting, if I am honest. Might as well say "A Chicken in Every Pot"

Y’all motherf*ckers know we canceled the International election observers last week? You saw that thing about Ilhan Omar yesterday, right? What are we even doing here?

Bobby Lindsey lives literally right around the corner from me. I see him all the time, but it's obvious he was a cop once so I don't talk to him. He ought to be ashamed of himself for having any association with the Republican Party much less running for office as a Republican in 2026.

I do this now. It'd be awesome if you did this. "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" would consider it a pretty righteous solid if you did this to everyone in response to unsolicited text messages.

2026 Republican candidate for Railroad Commissioner in Texas Bo French is so publicly racist that he has to be kidding. Dr. Craig & I are losing our sh*t right now, too. Stare into the Abyss w/Friends. Listen & Subscribe to our show! No ads. No asks. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

That Eli Lily commercial about Medicare covering obesity drugs is the darkest goddamn spot I’ve ever seen. I’m a little shaken up by it, honestly.

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Greg Levy is very lucky, huh? Surely there is nothing more at play here than Republicans seeing an opportunity to siphon Brown voters away & going for it.

Oswald Mosley was a character involved with late-period Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. Hadn’t heard of him prior to the show.

I’m forever 5 steps behind on it, but all the knowledge I’ve gotten about neuro targeting has been as a result of following this feed. Turned me on to Chase Hughes. Worth following.

We’ve got David Greene, Senior Counsel for the EFF, for “Autocratic despair: The Podcast” this week. It’ll be the first opportunity that Dr. Craig & I have had to bring on a guest with one another. If you’ve got questions for Greene, let me know. He is not an uptight individual.

Best goddamn analyst on the topic of neuro targeting on all of Twitter is posting here, now. Follow this user & try to keep up.