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Judy B's avatar

Christopher Armitage makes a compelling point about what happens to blue state tax dollars

https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/blood-money-how-progressive-tax-dollars?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9mymc

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James Kirkland's avatar

It is on the internet so it has to be true. Right?

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Jerry Fletcher's avatar

Lol. I don't pay much attention to Peterson other than the snippets I gets from outlets like this, but I didn't realize he had an immune condition or that he only ate meat. I'm no surgeon general (who is these days), but has anyone suggested that maybe the guy should eat some vegetables? I mean I grew up on Popeye as an alpha male who took care of business on a diet of spinach. And he definitely never had to shut things down because of mold.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

It reminds me of all the MAGA influencers who were secretly being paid (duped) to do Russia’s bidding leading up to the election. And with Musk and Zuckerberg ridding themselves of the guardrails that protect Americans from foreign interference in elections, they were also doing Russia and Trump’s bidding to hand him the election.

Good times! Or more aptly, “End of Times!”…:)

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Liberal Cynic's avatar

One of my happiest days on old Twitter was the day Ryan Fournier blocked me.

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TomD's avatar

To be fair, an AI research assistant can make anyone look like they have an intense interest in a subject in about ten seconds.

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Tara's avatar

It's just like high school. Sniping, backstabbing. What a lovely group of guys.

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AbbyWrites's avatar

How many trillions have been spent on unethical right-wing media sources Trump loves - newsmax, fox news, and all the crap that's been allowed by the most corrupt man in the U.S. to date? How is it that the policy of allowing a sitting President to rig his own election (and fail to win)? A sitting President can commit crimes with no fear of reprisal? What the point of an election if a candidate is allowed to defraud, coerce, collude, block the peaceful transfer of power, etc.? It seems that the whole point was to prevent unethical jackholes from becoming despots, kings, or assholes who can do what they want, because they can!

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John Lacey's avatar

Well, if he’s starting the Pendragon books with Merlin and not Taliesin, then they’re gonna make no sense at all….just trying to figure out how he’ll work in an Immigrants Bad/Women Must Be Subservient trope. Probably with Saxon’s and Morgana

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

Also, funding probably sucks because 1) amateurs, 2) too soon after a Merlin 2-episode TV mini-series, the Merlin TV show, and Cursed on Netflix, 3) right wing grifting nut jobs.

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Lynn  Bentson's avatar

JUat saying wrt the influencer Scaffer --n is there a low end BMW?

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Sharon King's avatar

Does it hurt to type “MJTruthUltra”?

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

There is truly something wrong with a bunch of grownups focusing on two mythical persons, one called Arthur and the other Merlin. These people really need a life.

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Mississippi Phone Booth's avatar

Ben Domenech is surely smiling down from whatever wingnut welfare sinecure he’s occupying these days.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/covert-malaysian-campaign-touched-a-wide-range-of-american-m

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Frau Katze's avatar

They were going for right wing media. Good grief, how common is this?

The Russians were doing it in 2024:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation

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xxctkxx's avatar

Have you been able to track down any of the people who worked on PennDragon to ask them about the project? I wouldn’t be surprised if Daily Wire is having trouble paying invoices for all the set work

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Will Sommer's avatar

I've tried!

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The Blockhead Chronicles's avatar

If I ever become “god king president” — one step above the positions all these influencers have now — I’m going to ban social media (especially Xitter-like apps) and replace it with a version in which you’ll have to pay to send your messages. Say, 10 cents a word. I’ll call it, uh, “Western Union” — to honor our great Western traditions and the union to which we belong.

C’mom, Wall Street, you know you want in.

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James Richardson's avatar

It would make the world a better place. Instantly.

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Luciano Ramalho's avatar

One thing I learned in life: companies selling lifetime subscriptions are dire straits and about to go under.

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