Zippergate said:
There's no self-correcting mechanism in your world view. Blind faith. That's what they are counting on.
And I think your analogy fails. Expert witnesses are hired guns; everyone understands that. You assume that your medical authorities have no interest but to protect public health.
….but some hired guns are wh@res and the ones with reputations as truth tellers win cases.
…and you assume your Substack authors are pure when they are making millions pandering to the Joe Rogan angry white men that think they are smarter than everyone else.
Matt Taibbi went from a truth telling Rolling Stone journalist earning a subsistence living to making millions in Substack subscriptions shoveling bullsh@it to the Rogan crowd willing to pay for it.
Taibbi doesn't write truthful things like this anymore:
"Meanwhile the pessimism of Trump's revolution is intentional, impassioned, ascendant. They placed a huge bet on America's worst instincts, and won. And the first order of business will be to wipe out a national idea in which they never believed. Welcome to the end of the dream.
In the modern Republican Party, making sense is a secondary consideration. Years of relentless propaganda combined with extreme frustration over the disastrous Bush years and two terms of a Kenyan Muslim terrorist president have cast the party's right wing into a swirling suckhole of paranoia and conspiratorial craziness. There is nothing you can do to go too far, a fact proved, if not exactly understood, by the madman, Trump.
In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it.
Much of America loves its Mad King, whose works are regularly on display. Russians under Ivan the Terrible used to watch dogs being hurled over the Kremlin walls when the tsar's mood was bad. Americans have grown used to late-night insults tweeted at nuclear powers from the White House bedroom.
Trump has already staked a claim to a role in history usually reserved for hereditary monarchs at the end of a line of inbreeding. Historians will list him somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and France's Charles VI, who thought his buttocks were made of glass.
In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room.
….. All you have to do to secure a Republican vote is show lots of pictures of gay people kissing or black kids with their pants pulled down or Mexican babies at an emergency room.
….. That's literally all it's taken to secure decades of Republican votes, a few patriotic words and a little over-the-pants rubbing.
But then he [Trump]ran into the total stupidity of America that embraced every dumb thing about him, and that chemically interacted with his narcissistic personality and it turned into this unstoppable force."
-Matt Taibbi
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