I am full of rage at Glenn Youngkin and just about half the American electorate, so I recorded an episode about it open.spotify.com/episode/04Ji...

Military Rule: The Darkest Pod of the Cast (so far)

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America's approach to the Singularity of Stupid continues apace

This is the facial expression of someone who has just realized he has made a terrible mistake and is currently shitting in his trousers, and you can't convince me otherwise

New: a discussion of the right wing media's newest disinformation campaign, which really does have something for everybody along the spectrum of conspiracy/grievance politics://open.spotify.com/episode/1nAtY7S68KjrgybO4ZD3Ug?si=gP6t7ts8Ti-iTudUPdj2kQ

Hurricane Elon and the Next Disinfo Campaign

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We talk the veep debate, the growing gender gap among young voters, and the mechanisms of male identity politics. open.spotify.com/episode/4vJj...

The VP Debate: This Whole Things Smacks of Gender

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I'm in awe Vance went with "the real threat to democracy is censorship" followed by "I'm proud to have the RFK Jr endorsement"

I am walking directly to my local bar the minute this is over lol

Vance is such a fascinating character because he's a reasonably adept debate performer and plausibly could have had a decent career if he hadn't sold his soul and needs to parrot the most insane, idiotic, and evil talking points imaginable

This is the stupidest possible outcome, and therefore must necessarily occur per Birch's Law (the universe exists to vex me, personally, by making the stupidest possible thing happen while I can only watch it happening)

Guess which two stories we're talking about this week! open.spotify.com/episode/0YTu...

Scandal Doubleheader: No más sexoooooo!

Episode · Discourse Machine · Birch and Dan talk about Mark Robinson and the RFK/Olivia Nuzzi stories. Both of these are old news, but we have one question: how on earth did we get here?  It isn't jus...