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I just want to be clear about something: @realDonaldTrump is an *unacceptable* risk to take for merely breaking an evil SJW Overton window.
As Hillary is not listening, it's understandable many of you will vote Trump. I see his risk as existential. Please respect me as I do you.
I cannot seem to convey to fellow @HillaryClinton voters that painting all Trump voters as racist misogynistic idiots is offensive & wrong.
I assume journalism was once a thing that was crowded out by the thing now confusingly called journalism. It's time for us to reinvent it.
I don't think this is a massive shock to people who were thinking for themselves. It's a shock to anyone who outsourced to CNN/FOX/NYT/NPR.
@christinelu I'm feeling some pain & fear too. But many of my friends didn't take this seriously ... b/c they demonized those who disagreed.
@cosmos4u I think a lot of folks lied to themselves. Many got to the polling station thinking they would vote for HRC.... until in private.
Here's the silver lining. The same dumb analysis that told you Hillary was going to win is what told you Trump-nation is neo-nazi skinheads.
2017[edit]
36 years of variation on a theme by Ronald W Reagan. Today, at 51, I'll go back to beginners' mind. History is restarting.
No time to lose.
As of today, my stance readjusts. Put simply:
Cooperation everywhere possible. Vigilance wherever necessary.
Thank you BHO Welcome DJT
@wobbles That I had no idea what the DJT payload would be b/c the campaign was a kayfabe work & trolling of PC. Now we're playing for keeps.
1st Tweet of the Trump era: It's time for we the technical classes (e.g. PhDs) to stop lying for our former institutional masters on policy.
2nd Tweet of the Trump era: We the technical classes must not begin lying to the new masters of our institutions to flatter their populism.
At some point, Pres. Trump will have to choose between high ability, totally loyalty & full staffing of our government. He can pick any two.
2018[edit]
When I saw this sign in SFâs Castro district, I thought of my friend @SamHarrisOrg and my struggle to explain to him in early 2017 why people trust @realDonaldTrump when he is not truthful.
Trump is like the guy who added the last line on the sign when Clinton & Bush would not.
Trumpâs style of metahonesty is however very dangerous. I wrote about this in a 2011 essay I frequently reference on the theory of Kayfabe which I anticipated would take over as boomers were forced to deal w/ the cognitive aftermath of the Great Recession: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783
"There shall be open borders." -WSJ
"There shall be open borders." -SJW
Want to know how @realDonaldTrump won? By giving people who intuit that the institutional commentariat has played them every election, the chance to finally order *anything* taken completely off the US menu.
So go vote America. All I ask, is that when given any opportunity to do so, use it to reject Utopianism on Right or Left. What we were given as custodians is so much better than moronic utopian experiments that always end in dystopia. Let's not mess this up. #lovethisgreatcountry
You just love this, donât you? People are dead. Homes torched. The state is on fire. The air here is choked with smoke.
So this. Because, nobody else gets why this works?
I mean, I get it. But whatever you got for this, isnât worth it. Thereâs no prize worth winning this way.
@SquawkieEagle Thx. This president says many things that *do* need to be said, but in ways that are opportunistic, simplistic, cruel, distorted, insensitive, incendiary and hyperbolic. Some are angry that heâs a bad liar, but I often think heâs really at his absolute worst as a truth teller.
@Ramsey_Payne I donât think he loves the tragedy. I think he loves the fact that *if* there is a tragedy, *then* he can exploit it. He does this by telling a mixture of simplistic lies and truths together, and sticking it to his adversaries who donât expect it because itâs such a dick move.
2019[edit]
I think I avoided all pressure to find Trump guilty of collusion w Russia. And it was a considerable cost on my life. The typical conversation went: âOh câmon Eric. Heâs clearly guilty. Why make excuses? When the report comes youâll have to look in the mirror.â
I want apologies.
It wasnât (and still isnât) that I knew. I had no idea. But I also had no idea how everyone else just somehow knew what was actually true. Did everyone have a dossier that I did not? How does this pressure to *infer* unknown things become a Left-of-center mind virus?
Letâs stop.
And one last thing: Iâm still of the opinion that Trump is a grave problem & that the people who voted him in deserve a responsible Left of center expression for their real frustrations on Trade, Immigration, Terror and elite betrayal to replace Trump w something more wholesome.
So please remember that many people on the Left did *not* ever sign up for this idee fixe of the Mueller report as answer to the Trump phenomena. Weâve not called his presidency illegitimate. And we donât think his supporters are all nuts. This is a democracy, betrayed by elites.
I will be coming back to this old tweet repeatedly. A plan to reassert narrative control before 2020 was evident immediately after Trumpâs win shocked our institutional elite. âFake newsâ was its placeholder buying time to figure out how to end rivals to âauthoritative sources.â
It would appear we are being psychologically prepared for a change in the algorithms that direct our attention.
Since then we have learned about âThe Good Censorâ and âML Fairnessâ at google, âDeboostingâ at Facebook, âdown rankingâ at Twitter, âauthoritative sourcesâ at YouTube, the âAlternative Influencer Networkâ theory at @datasociety, & the IDW as a gateway to white supremacists. Ha.
Iâd say that old tweet wasnât too far off after all. We just had it dribbled in increment by increment with changes in âTerms of Serviceâ & the slow crushing push to numb our outrage from our institutional class, article by article, until we welcomed our own censorship w/ thanks.
Trump Tweeting algorithm:
It seems [perseverated diminishing epithet] [First name][Last Name] is [anti-trump misportrayal or activity claim] again despite my [claimed Trump accomplishment]. (S)He really should worry about [corruption insinuation]. [Threat]. [Tiny simple zinger!]
The presidentâs tweets are there to be reverse engineered. Theyâre all method. When Democrats call him an âidiotâ w/o building an Eliza program to simulate what is beating them, itâs painful to watch.
Why not claim that the person beating you at chess is an idiot?Think about it.
Invited on a conservative podcast today. We celebrated punk rock as I politilely told them Trump was obviously manifestly unfit for office & I view their parent org as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party. They couldnât have been more decent to me.
This is how they may win.
My eyes are open. This isnât my team. But when normal souls who think normal thoughts have to go over to their competitorâs house to have civil constructive discussion, because their own home often hurls poop at any who wonât tow an incoherent party line, loss has to be budgeted.
Donât get sold the narrative that Trump now owns ALL US Conservatism. He does own a good chunk of it. But thereâs also a new strain of tolerant conservatism thatâs very liberal: relentlessly civil, anti-inequality, pro-logic, pro-gay, pro-weed, pro-free speech & multicultural.
What is causing this? I donât know.
But one partial explanation is that many normal adults made to feel like pariahs are leaving the Democratic Party & simply taking their liberal values across the street. Itâs like visiting a Little Italy, Koreatown or other diaspora community.
@AlexRussek Itâs more confusing than that. I canât fully figure out how they rationalize Trump. They often have the idea that Trumpâs methods are wrong but that they think be does the right thing in the end. I honestly donât get it. I think that itâs rationalizing lesser evil as they see it.
As someone who both has been vocal that Trump is unfit for office but who also gets on well with many Trump supporters, Iâm not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome.
Today seems to be the day that should begin an exit for fair minded Trump supporters.
#AmbassadorSondland
To my Trump supporting friends, many of you have been correct about myriad problems of the Democratic Party & its affiliated media. Let that not blind you to what is happening. This man was simply not the solution to our corrupt system. Love you. But look again with fresh eyes.đ
If you think Iâm wrong, Iâm open to your arguments. But letâs check in with each other after any counter-narrative emerges.
I was open to the idea that these hearings would be purely political.
I hope you will be open to the idea that this is actually damning.
To be honest, I should have been clearer. Let me say a few words.
By Trump supporters, I was referring to folks for whom Trump is close to a force of pure good. This goes way beyond lesser or necessary evil perspectives. So I should have been clear about absolute v relative. https://x.com/keithbrodie/status/1197282556120453120
Next, I was careful not to opine on legality or impeachment. The way Iâm viewing these hearings is that they are giving us a look into our foreign policy. Legality is about what we can prove, but judgement is about what we must glean. I wish we could avoid inference but we canât.
What I glean about the Trump, Clinton and Biden groups is that they pursue the personal intertwined w/ our national issues at an unacceptable level. I canât prove that about any of them yet. But Carter, Eisenhower, Reagan or Sanders they are not. So I should have clarified.
If you want a perspective that is not so far off of mine but from a conservative perspective, @benshapiro made a lot of my points in detail. Itâs not âquid pro quo or noâ but which one, and the fact that Biden may be the point of investigation or a positive political externality.
But my issue stands. Weâre now being injured as a nation by Trumpâs judgment, tactics and quirks. If we are reduced to âThatâs perfectly legalâ arguments rather than, âwe have China, Climate and Russia emergenciesâ by Trump and Democratic dissembling we are screwed.
Our eye is off the ball & Trump does not become the goddamned messiah b/c he sticks it to corrupt Democratic players. Itâs like watching two street gangs fight. Fair-minded Trump supporters should be leaving the absolutist âTrump does nothing wrongâ camp now. This is awful.
My point in criticizing my party is to find a way out of the Trump v Biden/Warren version of non-stop boomer on boomer action. Trump is an enormous problem. If you think heâs radiation therapy for your Democratic corruption cancer, donât fall in love with your radiation levels.đ
1/ Too Many Different Stories.
Hereâs my best guess as to whatâs happening. There was a post-WWII Intâl order. Both US parties agreed to service it. They became systemically corrupt when growth changed in the early/mid â70s. This accelerated wildly with the end of the Cold War.
2/ The parties & Trump represented systemic & idiosyncratic corruption respectively. Systemic had Rep & Dem flavors. The tattered Intâl order is serviced (barely) by the systemically corrupt but repudiated by the idiosyncratic. The new GOP is moving towards the Idiosyncratic.
3/ We are divided by the following. Some party players benefit from the systemic corruption but are loyal to the two party flavors. Remaining party players want to end the corruption. But they agree on the need to service the Intâl order because of dangers of restarting history.
4/ The Idiosyncratic players want to use Trump to end systemic corruption (drain the swamp). Some want it so badly that theyâll defend nearly all idiosyncratic corruption. Others admit to idiosyncratic failings but point to the fact that only Trump broke through our MSM defenses.
5/ The idiosyncratic players (The âTrump Trainâ) are further divided as to whether the Intâl order is too corrupt & expensive to service or too essential to abandon. The former are divided into isolationists vs those who wish to project new power. The latter subvert withdrawal.
6/ Why the crisis in communal sense making? We are now micro-divided by pro vs anti systemic rent-seekers with 2 flavors. Anti is further split by pro vs anti willingness to admit to the idiosyncratic corruption. We are divided by isolationists vs maintainers of the order. Etc...
7/ Where I am: I see 2 party flavors of systemic corruption. And the new idiosyncratic. I see corrupt expensive foreign entanglements but also no ability to retreat. I also believe great nations are based on communal *fictions* which are being destroyed by our extractive actors.
8/ This is where we are to my understanding. I *only* really look down on *pro*-corruption folks. I do fear the isolationists have no idea what theyâre signing us up for on a thermonuclear planet, but I just see them as confused by BAD foreign adventures & betting the đ on luck.
End/ So I have the group I look down on (Systemic corruption of the party regulars) different from the group to be feared (advocates of abandonment of the corrupt system to restart history).
The folks w whom I get along now have no home: those who get we have to fix ALL this. đ
Thirty four years ago, the liberal paper of the University of Pennsylvania was celebrating âthe largest single gift ever received by an undergraduate schoolâ in a banner headline..which I discovered going through boxes after a move.
Odd he would become the right wing devil, no?
We can barely remember how many different people Donald Trump has been to our press in their portrayals: Winner. Star. Loser. Nazi. Greedy pig. Casanova. Generous benefactor. Predator. Symbol of wealthy. Purveyor of tackiness. Promoter of women. Madman. Genius. Debtor. Builder.
[My point about the different faces of Trump portrayed by the Press was real, but I think the article was a gag if I recall correctly. Iâd read it for yourself...]
My following is mostly millennial. I have a lot of contact w/ them.
As a result I know something I wouldnât know otherwise: many, if not all, of them donât relate to what we call being millennial. They want to be full adults & are not finding paths to becoming full stakeholders.
The oldest of these Millennials are now almost 40. In my original area of academe and science, it is time for GenX & Millennials to stop running out of fuel in infinite holding patterns. We should start ignoring air traffic control & land the planes. Crash landing if necessary.
Hereâs the problem. Itâs time for Millenials to start becoming univ. presidents. Yet only a tiny number of research universities even have any GenX heads! Likewise, notice that Millenial @TulsiGabbard & Xer AndrewYang surge, but are dropped from corporate media promoting Boomers.
Q: Should we start talking about bringing back Mandatory Retirement to stop involuntary inter-generational wealth transfer? Consider that we will have spent 20 Yrs exploring US presidents born in the summer of the 1st year of the baby boom. 24 if Trump (b. 1946) is re-elected.
I think since @AndrewYang got deliberately and repeatedly dropped from media graphics and since @HillaryClinton started targeting @TulsiGabbard Iâve been radicalized.
It is not intergenerational warfare to tell grandma to get her finger off the scales of democracy and economics.
Q: Why are we not talking about bringing back mandatory retirement for academicians who have prevented two generations from taking their seats and talking about legal action against corporate media like @MSNBC who distort the news of our non boomer candidates gaining traction?đ
2020[edit]
There is no path to voting Trump out of office that passes through a contempt for working Americans.
And by the way, you educated coastals can get a latte with coal mining families in Appalachia:
Food City 50,
Morton Blvd,
Hazard, KY 41702
They hear your jokes on iPhones.
âFlyover countryâ doesnât exist.
Thatâs heartland conjugated in the minds of an out of touch media.
You can get a Latte anywhere. Farmers know genetics. The entire US has Wifi & indoor plumbing. Not just Brooklyn & DuPont Circle.
Why are Democrats electing Trump via contempt?
This is everywhere. The DNC is like an incompetent retiring substitute civics teacher who long ago mentally checked out, but still condescendingly lectures the smartest kids on wrong facts. Trump, the 3rd grade teacher next door passing out Jell-O shots calling them âstudy aids.â
I didn't vote for Trump in '16, but am seriously considering doing so this year.
My reasoning is mostly about what you might call "teaching the bureaucracy/media a lesson". There's lots to dislike about Trump, but more to dislike about the institutional response to Trump.
Rule Change: Everyone who was saying âWake up! Your supposed elites are almost all in thrall to China. This is not safe.â since the 1980s-90s gets to say whatever the hell they want about the problems posed by the PRC without having to hear about anyone named Trump.
#TrumpWho?
I can assure you I have been ringing this bell at great cost since China started to supply research labor to our US labs in the 1980s. The national concern with Chinese threats has nothing to do with Trump. Stop focusing on that guy.
You cannot get to smart by simply putting a minus sign in front of everything Donald Trump says.
That is not surprising. What is surprising is the number of people who havenât learned this after the last 4 years.
People donât understand my position on Trump. Here it is:
Trump owns his critics other than me. Why? Because he says so much crazy stuff mixed in with real stuff that it is a lifetime commitment to correct him. So I decided to simply state that I view him as an existential risk.
This way:
A) I am not picking up after him intellectually every two minutes.
B) Iâm not forced to pretend that everything he does is wrong just because he did it.
C) I can continue to be friends with his supporters.
D) Iâm clear that he should not be our commander in chief.
But this confuses people: âwhy donât you denounce everything he says and does wrong every day?â
The answer is this: âDemocrats elected him by not listening. And he will not run my life the way he runs yours. You want to Run Biden(?) against him? Good luck! Youâre all crazy now.â
But, yes, he should resign. I thought that would go without saying. And no, he didnât do everything wrong. Neither did Pelosi. Nor the Mayor of NYC. But the whole lot of them need to leave. It is now a different era.
This class of leaders has been measured.
And found wanting.
I have to try not to comment on Trump. This tweet is an example of why.
Itâs just endless bait, both boring and transparent. Like Lucy and the football. And it doesnât stop for life and death. Itâs to the bone.
Canât stand it.
For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States. We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!
Iâm for additive civil disobedience. By that, I mean do something disobedient to protest the abject incompetence of our leadership that is beautiful & inspiring. Iâve mentioned Projection Mapping spectacular graffiti onto large buildings and videoing it, leaving no trace of harm. https://x.com/Crypto__naire/status/1255177207984447488
If itâs worth destroying the word economy over, we should have an OFFICIAL Manhattan project for Covid. Everyone I know who should be on that hasnât been called up or pressed into service. Instead we have Scientists like Kudlow and Mnuchin on the task force. Protest that.
You will also notice that constant partisan Trump bashing and that impeachment attempt made it very difficult to protest his mishandling of this crisis. The wrong way to protest Trump is to go along with Democrats. The right way is to protest the incompetence of our leadership.
Protest political people with dazzling agency, beauty, technical rigor and grace. That class canât do these things.
They donât code. They donât weld. They donât compose. They donât crowdsource. They donât understand crypto. They donât believe in standing alone.
Now use that.
Bari Weiss has now resigned from the @nytimes. And that is not even âThe Storyâ. Iâve just spoken to Bari & learned that Iâm finally free to tweet.
Her letter hints at the real News: the *loss* of the News is now *the* News, and the News cannot cover it.
On 6/1/17 Ms Weiss was the only journalist covering âThe Newsâ. Only she was doing it from the opinion section because the NYT refused to find interesting that there was a racist Maoist insurrection at a public college where police would be stood down: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/when-the-left-turns-on-its-own.amp.html
At that moment Bari Weiss became all that was left of the âPaper of Record.â Why? Because the existence of Black Racists with the power to hunt professors with Baseball Bats and even redefine the word âracismâ to make their story impossible to cover ran totally counter-narrative.
At some point after 2011, the NYT gradually stopped covering the News and became the News instead. And Bari has been fighting internally from the opinion section to re-establish Journalism inside tbe the NYT. A total reversal of the Chinese Wall that separates news from opinion.
This is the paper in 2016 that couldnt be interested in the story that millions of Americans were likely lying to pollsters about Donald Trump.
The paper refusing to ask the CIA/FBI if Epstein was Intelligence related.
The paper that canât report that it seeks race rioting:
I have had the honor of trying to support both @bariweiss at the New York Times and @BretWeinstein in their battles simply to stand alone against the internal mob mentality. It is THE story all over the country. Our courageous individuals are being hunted at work for dissenting.
Before Bari resigned, I did a podcast with her. It was chilling. Iâd make an innocuous statement of simple fact and ask her about it. Sheâd reply âThat is obviously true but Iâm sorry we canât say that here. It will get me strung up.â Thatâs when I stopped telling her to hang on.
So what just happened? Let me put it bluntly: What was left of the New York Times just resigned from the New York Times. The Times canceled itself. As a separate Hong Kong exists in name only, the New New York Times and affiliated ânewsâ is now the chief threat to our democracy.
This is the moment when the passengers who have been becoming increasingly alarmed, start to entertain a new idea: what if the people now in the cockpit are not airline pilots? Well the Twitter Activists at the @nytimes and elsewhere are not journalists.
What if those calling for empathy have a specific deadness of empathy?
Those calling for justice *are* the unjust?
Those calling âPrivilegeâ are the privileged?
Those calling for equality seek to oppress us?
Those anti-racists are open racists?
The progressives seek regress?
Bari and I agree on a lot but also disagree fiercely. And so I have learned that she is tougher than tough. But these university and journalistic workplaces are now unworkable. They are the antithesis off what they were built to stand for. It is astounding how long she held out.
Read her letter. I have asked her to do a make-up podcast & she has agreed. Stay tuned If you donât want to be surprised again by whatâs coming understand this: just as there has been no functioning president, thereâs now no journalism. Weâre moving towards a đ of pure activism.
Prepare to lose your ability to call the police & for more autonomous zones where kids die so that Govenors & Mayors can LARP as Kayfabe revolutionaries. Disagree with Ms Weiss all you want as she isnât perfect. But Bari is a true patriot who tried to stand alone. Glad sheâs out.
We are not finished by a long shot. What the Intellectual Dark Web tried to do MUST now be given an institutional home.
Podcast with Bari on The Portal to come as soon as she is ready.
Stay tuned. And thanks for reading this. It is of the utmost importance.
Thank you all. đ
A surprising number of Left-leaning people are confiding to me that they are planning to vote for Trump for two different stated leading reasons:
A) Bidenâs Mental decline.
B) What is happening in the Pacific Northwest w Democratic Mayors/Govenors experimenting w non-policing.
Anyone else seeing this? Itâs two different reactions. Both of them indicating that there is something catastrophicly wrong with this process. All of them previously *bitterly* opposed to Trump, and many even to the Republican Party.
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