Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Orestes vasquez's avatar

The hacks are arriving in droves, they’re jealous of the highly successful grifting operation Bari Weiss employed by exploiting the platform .

Following the genocidal hack’s playbook is straightforward.

1) Come to Substack making a big fuss about quitting your job because of your journalistic integrity.

2) Write an article exposing the journalistic transgressions your former employer engaged in, make sure you play the victim card.

3) Employ your hacking skills writing a couple of outrageous but vacuous articles that rile up the sheeple, leave the comment section open . Don’t disclose your ulterior motives.

4) Once you achieve a critical mass of subscribers, close the comment section for non-paying subscribers .

5) The sheeple will follow suit, eagerly willing to pay to comment on your useless content.

Successful hacks are pigs that mastered the art in their former jobs, Rubin won’t have a problem. She’s in for the take and will make a killing.

Expand full comment
Lance Khrome's avatar

Harsh, Ken...but truth be told, I dismissed her some years ago for exactly the reasons you listed, i.e., her years writing for the "mainstream" Right, and basically of the Anne Applebaum school of neocon fellow-travelers. However, the past couple of years Rubin has hit notes that I agreed with, and given the sorry stable of putrid Rightists placed on the WaPo Opinion page, she was a pleasant anecdote.

That being said, I hope to read more from Norm Eisen, as Rubin has fallen into tedious repetition of "Never-tRumpism.

Expand full comment
12 more comments...

No posts