TBH, Matt, your focus on the MSM and its lame has-beens is now like St. George writing every week about the flaws of the dragon he slew a while back.
It's pretty obvious at this point that these people NO LONGER MATTER. At all. They are preaching to a bubble now so small it's pointless to spend energy on them. They lost - and you helped us win. I'll admit it's sudden and surprising, but it's also equally clear - it's over. All of it. These people are not coming back into vogue, the majority has moved on and isn't looking back. The pendulum swing back to their kind of thinking won't come soon enough for these folks themselves to matter again individually, mostly.
There are a few worthy of mentions from time to time who have voices on Substack, but they are trailing prevalent thinking, not leading it. They are the last gasps.
Let's move on and discuss things that matter. There is a new Zeitgeist to be caught and discussed.
You are right about the media not mattering, but I respectfully disagree. These scandals are the most serious breach of trust and escalation of national security threats for at least 100 years and needs to be doggedly covered and amplified.
Ah you can feel the nostalgia in the air! Matt misses being the sophomoric Gonzo journalist of old! It’s so hard trying to be a real investigative journalists and dealing with facts!
‘Why can’t we all get along!’ you can hear Matt Taibbi say as he wrote this week’s article. ‘Why can’t we all put our head in the sand like I do, and pretend Trump is a normal president, even as he dismantles all checks and balances both economic and political? Even as he poisons our body politics and pits Americans against each other like no president in history?’ Even as he runs our economy based on ignorance, extortion and vendettas and our foreign police based on narcissism?
You can imagine Taibbi furiously trying to protect Richard Nixon in 1972 from being unjustly framed.
And yikes, the CIA thinks, Russia helped Trump! Newsflash, so does Dutch Intelligence— they witnessed GRU hackers break into DNC servers in real time. What does it matter if it was to screw HRC or to help Trump? They de facto helped him as they did every other right wing wacko in Europe. Wake up, Matt.
I didn't follow Friedman enough to compose a song. Nevertheless I was often struck at how he would make small insights large, and how he would claim credit for ideas that weren't original.
I wonder if it might be possible to sell the assets to some sort of common stock fund, which would become the actual owner of some portion of Fannie and Freddie. Shares in this common stock fund would be publicly traded, and accessible to both large and small investors. The auto mechanic could by 10 shares, the hedge fund investors 10,000,000, but both would experience the same per share profit or loss?
A Rollie Fingers jersey? I'm going get off the couch for this, Matt isn't messing around.
TBH, Matt, your focus on the MSM and its lame has-beens is now like St. George writing every week about the flaws of the dragon he slew a while back.
It's pretty obvious at this point that these people NO LONGER MATTER. At all. They are preaching to a bubble now so small it's pointless to spend energy on them. They lost - and you helped us win. I'll admit it's sudden and surprising, but it's also equally clear - it's over. All of it. These people are not coming back into vogue, the majority has moved on and isn't looking back. The pendulum swing back to their kind of thinking won't come soon enough for these folks themselves to matter again individually, mostly.
There are a few worthy of mentions from time to time who have voices on Substack, but they are trailing prevalent thinking, not leading it. They are the last gasps.
Let's move on and discuss things that matter. There is a new Zeitgeist to be caught and discussed.
You are right about the media not mattering, but I respectfully disagree. These scandals are the most serious breach of trust and escalation of national security threats for at least 100 years and needs to be doggedly covered and amplified.
Keep up the good work Matt!
Sorry I'm just trying to post this note somewhere where Matt or the staff there will see it.
https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/his-name-was-seth-rich-part-2-wikileaks
A different piece of the whole Russiagate Hillary's emails. etc. Very chilling, if true.
I've been hopeful that the de-classified Russiagate emails and documents would lead us back to the Seth Rich murder.
Thomas Friedman makes Howard Stern look like the voice of reason.
Yikes! Talk about cognitive dissonance!
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but the reference, "makes Howard Stern look like the voice of reason", caused me to jump!
Not sure anything can make Stern seem like a voice of reason!
Matt, why ISN’T there Racket merch.
I’ll trade you a cool Saskatchewan RoughRiders (no it’s not a gay horse club) hat to wear on your show for a Racket t shirt or hat.
Krugman contest please
Gah could you have possibly picked a song with a more challenging and weird rhyme scheme/meter/etc.? But yay I like a challenge...
Ah you can feel the nostalgia in the air! Matt misses being the sophomoric Gonzo journalist of old! It’s so hard trying to be a real investigative journalists and dealing with facts!
‘Why can’t we all get along!’ you can hear Matt Taibbi say as he wrote this week’s article. ‘Why can’t we all put our head in the sand like I do, and pretend Trump is a normal president, even as he dismantles all checks and balances both economic and political? Even as he poisons our body politics and pits Americans against each other like no president in history?’ Even as he runs our economy based on ignorance, extortion and vendettas and our foreign police based on narcissism?
You can imagine Taibbi furiously trying to protect Richard Nixon in 1972 from being unjustly framed.
And yikes, the CIA thinks, Russia helped Trump! Newsflash, so does Dutch Intelligence— they witnessed GRU hackers break into DNC servers in real time. What does it matter if it was to screw HRC or to help Trump? They de facto helped him as they did every other right wing wacko in Europe. Wake up, Matt.
Very funny!
Hitler didn’t write music, so I’m out on this one.
Too bad, sweet prize
I'm just giving it a go for ( I'll name the group and song )
Tommy and The Freakometers performing Toning It Down ( it's the flip side though that actually has the hit )
I didn't follow Friedman enough to compose a song. Nevertheless I was often struck at how he would make small insights large, and how he would claim credit for ideas that weren't original.
I wonder if it might be possible to sell the assets to some sort of common stock fund, which would become the actual owner of some portion of Fannie and Freddie. Shares in this common stock fund would be publicly traded, and accessible to both large and small investors. The auto mechanic could by 10 shares, the hedge fund investors 10,000,000, but both would experience the same per share profit or loss?
Matt, I’m not clever enough to participate, I’m just mastering limericks for my grandchildren… I hope you will publish the winners!
whose Friedman....and why should I care?
So I guess the winner gets announced on ATW, here, Substack and X?
Porn mivievco. FriedAzz