He's a neofeudalist reactionary. Whether he actually believes the fascist bullshit he says and does is irrelevant; he was bought by Peter Thiel because he is useful to the cause.
I would argue he’s a twat.
Both may well be true.
A roster of Vance’s YLS class might make you think the country’s run by an Ivy League cabal.
"Run" implies that these idiots have some kind of plan when they're pretty clearly just flailing through day to day, but otherwise no shit it is Vanity Fair, and fuck you for trying to downplay it
Also, the title is a reference to a book the author apparently expects us to be familiar with, which also sucks because the book in question is a dusty old piece of hateful garbage
Listen to a podcast about William F Buckley's God and Man at Yale or read an archived copy of a transcript.
They literally published their plan
Another If Books Could Kill fan?
Represent!
"Peter?"
"Michael."
"What do you know about If Books Could Kill?"
"Is it a podcast about the Supreme Court decisions that have left our nation flying blind like Malcolm Gladwell thinks all Korean aircraft pilots do?"
"No, that's your other show."
Theme song
This had me rolling.
Jimmy Bowman don't bocat? Maybe his face is too wide to fit down there.
Rare insult.
Also, I was scrolling through past episodes, thinking "they have to do Liberal Fascism, they have to do Liberal Fascism...." and yep, there it is.
If they didn't do it, I was set to find their contact info and plead with them to do that....I cannot tell you how many conservatives/Libertarians would insist I need to read it. It was like their newest go-to (for Libertarians, at least for a while, even supplanting Ayn Rand's absurdly bad sci-fi) that supposedly set everything straight and put all the libz in their place.
And holy shit, everything about it was just as fucking stupid as the title itself. I'm not even sure I read it all the way through. I usually hate leaving a book as "DNF", but I know I started to skim because that nepo baby is just not very smart in my view.
Oh damn another podcast to add to the long list of podcasts I'm so very far behind on....
I'll also suggest Michael Hobbes' other show, Maintenance Phase.
Also, the title is a reference to a book the author apparently expects us to be familiar with, which also sucks because the book in question is a dusty old piece of hateful garbage
Yeah I spotted the reference. And Buckley was someone we are supposed to believe was a "reasonable" conservative. If people thought having little Eichmanns sitting in classes, recording professors in order to try to snitch on them and get them fired was something new, they should reflect on people like Buckley, who wrote that in 1951.
This is the guy well-known for calling Gore Vidal a queer on live television and then threatening physical violence.
Usha is a race traitor and a complete fucking idiot. The fact that she, as a person of color, is staying - and letting her kids stay - with a fascist politician who openly courts white supremacists genuinely beggars belief. She’s supposed to be an intelligent woman, but honestly… that’s not the choice of an intelligent and perceptive person. It’s self-delusion.
Is god in the picture? Behind the tree perhaps?
Behold that raw, animalistic sexual energy.
A power hungry cretin. That will fall to irrelevance if he's lucky, jail if the people are lucky or dead of his kids are lucky.
out of interest, who was the last big American politician to end up in jail?
how many people in the US have been convicted for the Epstein files?
there has been more fall out in other countries than the US.
So don't hold your breath for one of the oppressors to go to jail.
Or is the presumptive 2028 GOP frontrunner waiting for the chance to be his own man?
Like Kamala?
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