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Lisa's avatar
6hEdited

Memory holing also applies to the pandemic. Mamdani has said he supports vaccine mandates and would institute them again. In other words, he supports state-coerced medical treatment with a liability free shot that did not prevent transmission and now has the most deaths and disability reported of any shots in history. Talk about forgetting fast.

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DaveL's avatar

I'm sure he's into any form of coercion he can "dream" up.

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Jane's avatar
6hEdited

'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.'

- Milan Kundera

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Lisa's avatar

Great quote

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BRetty's avatar

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"?

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Jane's avatar

Yes.

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Ellen Evans's avatar

Looking forward to starting a new read. Wonder what it will be. Hopefully not chosen via Twitter poll. We're the ones who subscribe, those of us here, Matt shouldn't dis us like that, seriously. Not that I am going to stop subscribing, reading, and watching any time soon, but still.

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Kris's avatar

See Joe Rogan’s interview of John Kiriakou (#2392) for information on Brennan’s career. Crazy, eye-opening and relevant to his behavior in videos you played today.

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Cathryn Kotler's avatar

Walter has great hair!

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Adair's avatar

Damn you both. I have a stack of books I read 40 years ago and just bought again because of you. You bring joy to my life. Also I loved you back in the day before you saw what we were beginning to see. What an interesting and terrifying ten years we have lived through.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

Matt, you gotta stop saying “our generation” when referring to yourself and Walter. You’re Generation X and Walter is a late Boomer . You are not of the same generation. And that’s from a loyal Gen X Racket supporter who leans more towards WK’s viewpoint. Kirn (1962) is just a year younger than Obama. 🤷‍♂️

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DaveL's avatar

I know what you're saying, but all these "generations" we like to talk about are really a continuum, the Z, X, Millenia, Boomers, etc are really just arbitrary categories. It really becomes obvious with people like Walter who were born at a dividing point.

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Mary Mead's avatar

Imagine believing your own hype in your early 30's and people encourage it including his parents who should be harnessing his ambition - encouraging him to get a job - learn something real.

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Mary Mead's avatar

When he's figured a few things out by his 40's - based on the experience of real life - go for it. He's just such a vessel of elite hubris it shocks me.

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Konstantin Doren's avatar

They rarely ever sent the plumber.

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The Wright Stuff's avatar

The new media that Matt Taibbi has been extolling was on full display this weekend during the softball 60 Minutes interview of Trump. POTUS made sure to agree with Taibbi when he took time to praise the new order. Interestingly, one of the few places the most corrupt president in US history gets more friendly treatment is on the pages of Matt’s racket. The one thing Taibbi does have in common with MSM is his subscriber base seems to be plummeting almost as fast as Trump’s approval ratings— ironic for someone who equates relevance with metrics.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

🤨🙄

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Kristie Sartell's avatar

🧌 😂

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FLGenX's avatar

I love you guys but man, really wish you had spent most of the time on the Brennan news. An hour+ on NY was 😴 You could have read me your article and explained the crazy complicated story. Great scoop and reporting!

https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/meet-the-man-who-inspired-former?r=1o2l6&utm_medium=ios

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

Mamdani is possibly the smarmiest human being of all fucking time. A face that screams for a backhand smack.

“I wouldn’t even hit you with my fist, I’d just smack the shit out of you because…”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEhRM-JmXSk&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

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Konstantin Doren's avatar

Old people voting for the guy who killed all those old folks in the nursing homes? Maybe not.

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BRetty's avatar

There was a Luigi Mangione musical, actually sounded pretty clever. Luigi was in prison with Diddy and another prisoner (Epstien?). He was the go-between and the peacemaker amongst the prison gangs in Rikers.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

🤢Musical Theatre is an insult to music

…and Theatre!

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BRetty's avatar

HEY! I resemble that remark!

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

😂

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The Dead Rabbits's avatar

The shutdown is almost gone from the media except some scattered complaints about people not being able to afford ketchup, which anybody can get free from McDonalds. What are the odds it’s a reemergent Obama who is pushing the Dems to play hard ball in an effort to save his signature program- Obamacare? With him, it’s all about the ego.

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Edward Osborn's avatar

Or maybe he cares about the 24 million people on ACA insurance. The personal animosity is drowning the discussion.

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Ann Batiza's avatar

Hey Walter,

I think you always look top notch, no matter what complaints you make about your hair. That said, I think a Mohawk would look great in you. It could tap into your hair’s natural impulses.

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