The Backlash Machine
Woodrow Wilson promised Black America a seat at the table, then had his cabinet quietly move the table to a different room. A hundred years later, progressives are still doing the "quietly move the room" trick — they've just gotten better at calling it strategy instead of segregation.
Political Musing
Economic terrorism with a rotary club newsletter: how Mississippi's 'moderate' segregationists built the farm system for a murder.
Political Musing
In 1954 Mississippi built a segregationist club so extreme even its own founders told one guy to tone it down. Then the state gave him a job application for a spy agency. This is how a Supreme Court ruling armed both sides of a war.
recap
Posts from the week of July 13 - 18
The Billionaire Victims Club
My favorite fucker, Elon Musk, needs another look as we close out the second season of the BVC
The Billionaire Victims Club
Donor-class preferences enter the All-In podcast as private consensus, exit as public analysis, and arrive at the policy table already formatted for legislative language. It's not a debate show. It's a credibility laundromat with a Spotify deal.
Political Musing
History has three ways this ends: the extremists win, the party dies, or everyone pretends to make up and don't. Pick your favorite, because 'grow a spine' isn't on the menu.
The Billionaire Victims Club
In 2007 thirteen men posed in mafia cosplay for Fortune magazine and called themselves the PayPal Mafia. The photo looks different now. It's not thirteen men performing menace. It's a class photo — of the cohort that just finished taking over the government.
A day late, sorry, Saturday got out of control for me. Sunday, July 5th: A read on the perennial argument (often fronted by the Never Trump crew) about the Can, vs. Will in the context of winning. This was pre-planner meltdown: Will Win vs. Can WinRon Johnson tried to
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David French gets oh so close, but then he has to put his blinders on. But the real gem comes from the comment section.
ORACLE stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison. He started with a CIA contract, named the company after it, and told investors citizens will be on their 'best behavior' once we're all constantly recorded. He didn't disrupt the system. He built it.
Meta's employees named their internal AI status leaderboard 'Claudeonomics.' Not Llamanomics. Claudeonomics. Zuckerberg spent billions building a frontier AI model his own people won't use, while paying a competitor to power his flagship AI product. The acquirer can't sell to his own staff.
Kathy Sierra got doxxed and death-threatened in 2007, seven years before Gamergate, with none of today's algorithmic muscle. The hate wasn't invented later. Someone just built better plumbing for it, and found out outrage pays the bills.
Brin named his $450 million superyacht after Google's secret project to build a censored search engine for China. The man comparing a 5% healthcare tax to Soviet communism literally named his boat after helping communists suppress the internet.
Ron Johnson tried to hand fake electors to Mike Pence. The Democratic establishment's real fear that cycle? Mandela Barnes's parking tickets. The electability model doesn't need to be right. It just needs to never be tested.
A roll up of posts from Sweaty Spice and the Shitpost Dude for the week of June 27 thru July 4th
The Amazon logo smiles A to Z — delightful, frictionless, friendly. Then Bezos got unlimited money and no brand consultants, and built a rocket the entire internet immediately recognized as a penis with Peyronie's disease. The logo lies. The rocket does not.
The consultant class are the Capos. Never Trump are the enforcers. The donor class is in the back of the restaurant. And your midnight ActBlue email? That's the vig. Welcome to the protection racket.
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 2. - Europe has looked through Palantir and seen whose face is on the other end. Not the Antichrist. Just Peter Thiel, 58, looking older than his years, spending $40k a quarter on young people's blood, waiting for the lockup to expire.
How the Never Trump Brain Trust Built What They're Now Selling You Protection From
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 1. As I drafted this, I was watching SPCX lose $400B in market value. Only about $1.5T more to go to be "right priced" Glorious!
