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02/04/2024

"What worries Taibbi the most is that the Republican Party has painted itself into a corner it cannot escape. It has become an extremist cult that worships white nationalism, fascism, and Donald Trump in a country where they are vastly outnumbered by people who do not. Worse, we are just a handful of election cycles away from the demographic shift becoming insurmountable and the GOP self-destructing.

Taibbi, along with so much of the alt-left (more closeted Republicans) are engaged in a singular project: convince as many people as possible that the Democratic Party is actually more extreme and dangerous than the party openly courting literal N***s and pining for mass executions."

The paranoia. The bald-faced lying. The whining victimhood. Taibbi isn’t even pretending he’s a journalist anymore.

12/03/2024

“The filibuster deserves to die. It has been holding this country back for years. It has enabled a fascist minority party to hobble progress for truly evil reasons. It has allowed the press to peddle a destructive lie about both sides being responsible for the state of the nation. The filibuster was never supposed to exist and all it has done is erode our democracy. The filibuster and all of the parasites that feed on it have got to go.”

The filibuster was never supposed to exist and all it has done is erode our democracy.

05/03/2024

"The American right wing knows it is running out of time. Within two or three election cycles, they will no longer have the numbers to win the White House and they will start to lose control of their benighted states soon after. This is their inflection point. Either democracy dies or their party does and their unearned power along with it. They are laying the rhetorical foundation to justify their next coup attempt."

Trump supporters are battling against a new imaginary enemy.

27/02/2024

"Nikki Haley is setting herself up for a 2028 run and the donor money is starting to prepare for a Trump 2024 loss. Pay attention to the money. If more of it starts shifting to the down ticket races, particularly the Senate because keeping a House GOP majority would take a miracle at this point, that means a lot of very rich people know that Trump is toast."

Unless something dramatically changes the course of this contest, Trump is on his way from risky to hopeless.

20/02/2024

"Militant anti-abortion measures have been costing Republicans elections everywhere, including in deep red states. Running on such a platform would be su***de.

And here is where Trump is potentially painting himself into a fatal corner."

My god. National policy based on how neat and tidy it sounds to the imbecile who wants to be in charge.

08/02/2024

"Just like the mobs who took smiling pictures of themselves with the bodies of the Black men they had tortured and killed, the January 6th rioters could not conceive of a world in which they would be held accountable for their actions. That’s why they filmed themselves, took pictures, and bragged online about what they were doing."

Jan. 6th wasn't an anomaly, it was an American tradition.

25/06/2023

This week was beyond crazy. We discuss all on the latest episode of The Banter Roundtable Podcast!:

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22/06/2023

"Thank goodness, then, for Rep. Adam Schiff who completely embarrassed Durham during the House Judiciary hearings. Among other things, Schiff hammered Durham with the facts, showing direct collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. Specifically, Schiff described how Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, was in direct contact with a Russian intelligence operative named Konstantin Kilimnik and turned over internal polling data to the Kyiv-based spy – and in the middle of the Russian attack, no less."

Read here:

"They don't want to call collusion....Maybe they would prefer we just call it good old-fashioned GOP cheating with the enemy".

09/05/2023

"Look around you. Look on social media. Does it appear that people understand how serious this is? Imagine knowing several months in advance that the 2008-2009 collapse was coming. What would you have done differently? We are staring down the barrel of that very scenario again, but worse, in less than 4 weeks. How many people do you know are talking about it? Preparing for it? Even acknowledging it?"

Most people do not seem to understand how close we are to economic ruin.

26/04/2023

With an entire political party at his feet it is no wonder Carlson behaved like he was untouchable. Carlson could say anything he wanted on his nightly show. From calling immigrants “dirty” to lying about being spied on by the NSA, spreading Covid vaccine conspiracy theories, promoting white nationalism, and claiming the January 6th uprising was an FBI plot, Carlson’s programming was a reflection of his brazen confidence. He also engaged in extreme cruelty on his show, reveling in picking on trans people, immigrants, women, Democrats, and gay people.

Do not underestimate how crushing his departure from Fox News will be.

24/04/2023

Wonderful, spectacular, amazing news everyone!

A huge victory for American society. Also, Jordan Peterson is insane, Jews don't suffer racism, and Trump's dumb 2024 strategy.

17/04/2023

Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene for example are particularly enamored with Vladimir Putin, so much so that one wonders why they don’t take up residency there. If Trump gets trounced again in 2024, we might get lucky…

Happy Monday everyone, and welcome to another edition of the most popular column on The Banter! End of Twitter? Not so fast… Readers might have noticed our fairly relentless coverage of Elon Musk’s take over of Twitter. I want to make sure we don’t over do it with readers, but I do believe it ...

06/04/2023

"The spectacle of Matt Taibbi arguing in apparent good faith that holding Donald Trump accountable for numerous, very well documented alleged crimes will lead the US on a path towards autocracy is stunning, but not necessarily surprising."

Without reading the charges, Matt Taibbi and Marjorie Taylor Greene already knew the answer.

03/04/2023

"Dictators are never patriots and never, ever do what is in the best interests of their citizens. Instead, they pursue policies that they believe will increase or consolidate their power irrespective of the misery they cause."

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30/03/2023

"Fi****ms are genetically linked with Americanism. As we thumb through our national history, it’s impossible not to observe how our revolutionary founding, the glorification of war, and the romance of the Wild West have collectively embedded guns into our national DNA, more so than any other industrialized nation. Even our generational traditions, our relics handed down from parents to children, involve an unnecessary reverence for guns."

If we can limit both the supply and the fetishistic demand for guns, we can begin to roll back this age of mass murder in our public spaces.

29/03/2023

"Gladwell and Goldberg did their best to deconstruct the onslaught of disinformation, but the format favored the provocateurs who have amassed a huge audiences on social media with their schtick.

The mainstream media advocates did make some noticeable mistakes during the debate. Goldberg’s responses were often disjointed and meandering making her arguments hard to follow. Gladwell correctly criticized Taibbi for harkening back to a bygone era of journalism, but then went too far and implied on several occasions that Taibbi was arguing only white men could be responsible journalists (he wasn’t). But overall, they did their best to point out the very obvious flaws in Taibbi and Murray’s arguments — and at least to my mind succeeded in doing so.

There were two interactions that perfectly illustrated Murray and Taibbi’s deeply manipulative and inherently flawed positions. The first was when Taibbi claimed the “mainstream media spent years following a fake story about Donald Trump being in league with Vladimir Putin to fix the 2016 election” and held this up as proof the media is irretrievably broken.

Goldberg tore this fallacy down definitively, pointing out the very obvious fact that the story wasn’t fake at all"

Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray provide a masterclass on bu****it.

15/02/2023

Facebook is going to suppress this article, so please share/read as quickly as possible. This is a very, very real problem:

The Right is moving towards the normalization of pe******ia, and it's terrifying.

01/02/2023

"Twitter correctly asserted that the dashboard wasn’t tracking Russian bots or Russian actors, but again, that wasn’t what Hamilton 68 was claiming to do, even back in 2018 when Taibbi claims the damage was being done. Taibbi only had to read the articles he smeared to find this out. But then that would require doing real journalism — a craft Taibbi stopped practicing many years ago."

We looked into Taibbi's latest claims about a Russian influence tracking dashboard Hamilton 68 and found so many errors Taibbi should retract them immediately.

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