I sort of like Sirota, but that whole cabal of “we act like we’re the left — or maybe something actually different —but we’re really just angry, and even more self-righteous, Democratic Party #resistance shock troops”: Sirota, Grim, Krystal Ball and her mentally challenged husband Baby Kyle, and the like have really lost the plot. They r…
I sort of like Sirota, but that whole cabal of “we act like we’re the left — or maybe something actually different —but we’re really just angry, and even more self-righteous, Democratic Party #resistance shock troops”: Sirota, Grim, Krystal Ball and her mentally challenged husband Baby Kyle, and the like have really lost the plot. They really think the pile of spoiled pudding colloquially known as AOC is the future, and not the bitter dead end of the Happy Meal maze the rest of us saw 5 or so years ago. (This group, through their Justice Democrat branch, mostly did create the TikTok sensation/terrible politician AOC, so they’re never jumping off that sinking, burning ship of zombie flesh eaters.]
When Bernie did Andrew Schultz’s podcast recently, it reminded everyone that Bernie is a nice, normal guy with long-held convictions. He can wax poetic about baseball, and fit in inside the comedy pod world with aplomb. He can speak his mind, and even say plenty of things his hosts disagree with, without offending everyone. Drop David Sirota into that same situation, and it probably wouldn’t have gone well. He doesn’t know how communicate with normies outside his hive — illustrated by his utter lack of persuasion here at Racket — and probably would have come off a bit like a partisan, pompous jerk. Drop Kyle Kulinski in that same situation, and he’d have probably gotten his bleach-blonde ass kicked in minutes.
(I do like seeing different perspectives here, and I think they should continue. I’d love to see Matt interview Berne again.)
I sort of like Sirota, but that whole cabal of “we act like we’re the left — or maybe something actually different —but we’re really just angry, and even more self-righteous, Democratic Party #resistance shock troops”: Sirota, Grim, Krystal Ball and her mentally challenged husband Baby Kyle, and the like have really lost the plot. They really think the pile of spoiled pudding colloquially known as AOC is the future, and not the bitter dead end of the Happy Meal maze the rest of us saw 5 or so years ago. (This group, through their Justice Democrat branch, mostly did create the TikTok sensation/terrible politician AOC, so they’re never jumping off that sinking, burning ship of zombie flesh eaters.]
When Bernie did Andrew Schultz’s podcast recently, it reminded everyone that Bernie is a nice, normal guy with long-held convictions. He can wax poetic about baseball, and fit in inside the comedy pod world with aplomb. He can speak his mind, and even say plenty of things his hosts disagree with, without offending everyone. Drop David Sirota into that same situation, and it probably wouldn’t have gone well. He doesn’t know how communicate with normies outside his hive — illustrated by his utter lack of persuasion here at Racket — and probably would have come off a bit like a partisan, pompous jerk. Drop Kyle Kulinski in that same situation, and he’d have probably gotten his bleach-blonde ass kicked in minutes.
(I do like seeing different perspectives here, and I think they should continue. I’d love to see Matt interview Berne again.)