To accuse Democratic insiders of conspiring to end Joe Biden's reelection bid, the GOP influencer fabricated the "coup" he needed in order to denounce the cabal's nefarious scheme.
He's such a fucking hack. Also wasn't coup coz no regime change, not a fan of his of Kamala but she's his veep, same shit elite policies & he's still prez.
Ken. Know you’re working on or finished part 3 probably. But one of the most glaring incidents of hypocrisy was attacking Bolsonaro for things he completely ignores in Trump. They’re practically the same guy. That always seemed really odd.
Just one or two other comments. His current narrative, as you noted, is that the Dems are totalitarian and corporate shills. That’s kind of new. Because he carefully in the past never mentioned the whys, and thereby left it to his GOP pals to fill in the blanks with “the Dems are all Communist.”
Also I have to think, he’s blackmailed and otherwise locked into his position somehow. Perhaps by taking on NSA he locked himself into a war he cannot quit with the US and so naturally Russia seems a good ally as a belligerent nation. Not sure. But as you’ve noted he’s smarter than his reporting. Like Taibbi, he knows he’s lying. And he knows why. We don’t.
Thanks for that, I found the Bolsonaro issue bizarre as well. Agree with much of what you said, but -- and I'm going to get to answering this, am working on Part III -- because his scumbaggery (and Taibbi's too) is so bizarre it's quite possible to think he's being blackmailed, but I feel confident it's much more banal: money, fame and self-interest in general, and I will show that. But yes, he knows he’s lying & he knows why, but I think we will know why when I finish the series.
Excellent article Ken. The loyalty to GG and seemingly also Tucker Carlson as clear truth tellers has caused me to abandon formerly strong sources for news and analysis. Naked Capitalism was the most disappointing. Yves and colleagues have had excellent coverage of financial malfeasance at major institutions like Calpers and hosted great writing on a wide array of political topics. But they have so long considered Dem elites as their nemesis that they fell in full freight with the MAGA world and are not really critical at all.
Brave man to take on GG in earnest, because you're sure to get an earful now from his legion of freakish parasocial fanboys who go apeshit at the slightest criticism of his now endless string of blatant hypocrisy.
Spot on. It was a fix, not a coup. Holding a snap primary or whatever they were calling it, wouldn't work at this late date. Too messy. The noise would have buried the Dems.
Precisely correct. Nor have I heard what the Republicans would have done had the Don been assinated. Would they have run a primary, or just propped up some MAGA b celebrity?
Not totally convinced by the following, but might be true since Susi Tompkins Buell dropped her financial support weeks before Harris dropped out of 2019 Iowa primary: "I’m told by a lawmaker who witnessed it, though, that Waters and Pelosi also had a robust conversation on the House floor about how a Biden succession plan would be handled (the former speaker had indicated she wanted an open process, but it’s no secret Pelosi isn’t a KHive denizen, as Brown said with a long laugh: “I’m not sure she had any particular candidate in mind but I’m sure it would not have been Kamala!”)" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/31/willie-brown-kamala-harris-campaign-column-00171885
I could tell you stories for years about this guy, having seen the way he makes the sausage & knowing the recipe it's impossible to trust him. Will read thru this more carefully tomorrow, fried, and very interested in that Syria item, thank you.
He's such a fucking hack. Also wasn't coup coz no regime change, not a fan of his of Kamala but she's his veep, same shit elite policies & he's still prez.
Ken. Know you’re working on or finished part 3 probably. But one of the most glaring incidents of hypocrisy was attacking Bolsonaro for things he completely ignores in Trump. They’re practically the same guy. That always seemed really odd.
Just one or two other comments. His current narrative, as you noted, is that the Dems are totalitarian and corporate shills. That’s kind of new. Because he carefully in the past never mentioned the whys, and thereby left it to his GOP pals to fill in the blanks with “the Dems are all Communist.”
Also I have to think, he’s blackmailed and otherwise locked into his position somehow. Perhaps by taking on NSA he locked himself into a war he cannot quit with the US and so naturally Russia seems a good ally as a belligerent nation. Not sure. But as you’ve noted he’s smarter than his reporting. Like Taibbi, he knows he’s lying. And he knows why. We don’t.
Thanks for that, I found the Bolsonaro issue bizarre as well. Agree with much of what you said, but -- and I'm going to get to answering this, am working on Part III -- because his scumbaggery (and Taibbi's too) is so bizarre it's quite possible to think he's being blackmailed, but I feel confident it's much more banal: money, fame and self-interest in general, and I will show that. But yes, he knows he’s lying & he knows why, but I think we will know why when I finish the series.
Excellent article Ken. The loyalty to GG and seemingly also Tucker Carlson as clear truth tellers has caused me to abandon formerly strong sources for news and analysis. Naked Capitalism was the most disappointing. Yves and colleagues have had excellent coverage of financial malfeasance at major institutions like Calpers and hosted great writing on a wide array of political topics. But they have so long considered Dem elites as their nemesis that they fell in full freight with the MAGA world and are not really critical at all.
TY. Haven't seen NC for some time but seen this too many times now & not just on MAGA, stopped paying attention to a lot of people I used to respect .
Brave man to take on GG in earnest, because you're sure to get an earful now from his legion of freakish parasocial fanboys who go apeshit at the slightest criticism of his now endless string of blatant hypocrisy.
Spot on. It was a fix, not a coup. Holding a snap primary or whatever they were calling it, wouldn't work at this late date. Too messy. The noise would have buried the Dems.
Precisely correct. Nor have I heard what the Republicans would have done had the Don been assinated. Would they have run a primary, or just propped up some MAGA b celebrity?
Depends on your perspective. Glenn would have proposed Laura Loomer be subbed in as his only rightful heir.
Not totally convinced by the following, but might be true since Susi Tompkins Buell dropped her financial support weeks before Harris dropped out of 2019 Iowa primary: "I’m told by a lawmaker who witnessed it, though, that Waters and Pelosi also had a robust conversation on the House floor about how a Biden succession plan would be handled (the former speaker had indicated she wanted an open process, but it’s no secret Pelosi isn’t a KHive denizen, as Brown said with a long laugh: “I’m not sure she had any particular candidate in mind but I’m sure it would not have been Kamala!”)" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/31/willie-brown-kamala-harris-campaign-column-00171885
Haha. That's half the reason I write about the sorry dipshit.
I could tell you stories for years about this guy, having seen the way he makes the sausage & knowing the recipe it's impossible to trust him. Will read thru this more carefully tomorrow, fried, and very interested in that Syria item, thank you.