If only someone could have predicted this...
06.03.2026 20:44
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If only someone could have predicted this...
The right's oligarchs are not similarly blinkered. They understand that funding propagandistic and partisan media is a net-plus because they understand the value of controlling the information environment. And yet a generation or more of "liberal" plutocrats/oligarchs think the MSM will save them.
almost as if these people don't know what they're talking about
how it's playing out in right-wing media: "fake sermons and fake passages from the Bible” “Skin suit of Christianity” “straight up demonic" www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso... via @slawton.bsky.social
oh it's started full blast in right wing media
Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy.
➡️ www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...
I wouldn’t personally endorse it, but “The Flight 93 Election” has been useful over the years for understanding a rational core of MAGA. For people like Anton, voting for Trump is a logical, justifiable, even sane choice: the high-risk unknown outcome over the guaranteed bad one. I’ll admit, as an argument, it’s overwrought and hysterical, and in real life Flight 93 did crash and kill everyone on board. But it’s a metaphor, right? The point is that Trump offers a high-risk alternative to a deadly flight path, not that it would be cool and heroic to crash a plane in the middle of a field and die… … Right?
Between Flight 93 and Sky King, the Republican Party now enjoys in circulation two prominent and horrible plane-crash tragedies as allegories for its politics, which seems like too many deaths by plane crash for a political party? And where “The Flight 93 Election” is legibly rational and defensibly logical, offering up “likely suicide” only as an alternative to “certain death,” the Sky King mythos reduces to no such rationality: It takes spectacular suicide as a heroic act in and of itself. The “Nietzschean penguin” wants 🫵 you to kill yourself Online, among the tech right and groyper true believers, Trumpism in its late stages has devolved into what X.com user @VivianKesandre calls “suicide rightism”: An ideology whose cultural touchstones and heroic myths reflect values not of calculated risk or noble self-sacrifice of literal suicide--pointless, sensational acts of total self-destruction.
One of the striking things about Suicide Rightism is how soy it is, how mewling, wounded, and self-pitying. For all that Russell and Heemeyer are celebrated by their apologists for their (warped expressions of) agency, they are ultimately regarded as victims, men thwarted by an uncaring and corrupt society. The idea of many tweets about the heroic suicides is that you should be able to identify with them, and not as crazy dreamers but as depressed and resentful losers. The aspirational figures of Suicide Rightism are a guy so anhedonic that he felt compelled to leave behind his family for the sake of an hourlong plane ride and a guy so antisocial he built a tank to visit ruin on the local General Store. Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this. You don’t need some big theoretical analysis; there’s no level of abstraction to move through. It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide. I don’t think you have to be a professional psychologist to understand why dramatic, attention-grabbing suicide might be appealing to semi-employed guys who spend 14 hours a day watching Asmongold or whatever. Its promise is that all the pain and frustration you feel can be visited on the people you believe authored it--and then ended. Not to put too fine a point on this, but this is school-shooter ideology.
on the right's new pantheon of heroes: "sky king," killdozer, and that penguin maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...
Whatever real journalism you like, please pay for it. The stuff you don't pay for is transforming into propaganda with incredible speed.
they still are trying to pull the "you don't pay tariffs, other countries do" which is particularly stupid and insulting of their audience given that people are getting the bill from when they order stuff from overseas
cleveland fans adored him, just very passionate -- i think it came across as assholish sometimes but no he's great
When discussing the Supreme Court’s decision on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, the Federalist Society's Will Chamberlain noted that per the ruling, “everybody who paid a tariff is probably entitled to a refund.” Kelly asked in response, “So are we going to get sued by other countries? Is that who's going to sue us, saying, ‘I want a refund of all the tariffs I paid to the United States’?” Chamberlain simply responded, “No. It's going to be the actual people who paid the tariffs, and, remember, that’s United States citizens and importers.”
the oh my god he admit it meme from itysl
www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad...
Hannity last night: We need to invade Iran because they won't give up their nuclear program.
Hannity last June: Iran's “nuclear ambitions” are “officially dead” after Trump "obliterated" their nuclear sites. www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...
the alliance of magicians from arrested development gob holding a sign saying "we demand to be taken seriously"
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
Compared to other cable news channels, Fox News is hiding the latest Epstein revelations from their audience (Helena Hind/Media Matters for America)
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Nick Shirley is rebooting old James O'Keefe myths about voter fraud and serving them up to a new audience. Did either of them find fraud? No. But did they come close? Also no. But what if you simply imagined the fraud? Well, now we're talking!
alright i'll play give me one example
right-wing media: nothing but reboots and sequels smh www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
Daily Wire screenshot Unless we’re complaining about Bad Bunny or celebrating Sydney Sweeney, conservatives have largely ceded the cultural conversation to the Left. General coverage of lifestyle, pop culture, and human interest content has become the purview of the liberals at magazines and websites that would prefer for each heartwarming story about a successful GoFundMe campaign for a cancer patient to end in a call for universal healthcare.
daily wire: it grinds our gears that liberals want americans with cancer to have health care coverage, why can't we just celebrate gofundmes for them when we have time
This is an administration where when they complain about "the deep state" they usually mean someone who said "uh, this seems pretty illegal"
as somenoe who's edited tens of thousands of rwm clips, the "um" and "uh"s are the egregious work here
CBS Evening News just inverted CBS News' own reporting, which found very low rates of so-called criminal histories for ICE arrestees.
But the Evening News distorted its own network's article, making it seem like the Trump admin was rounding up the "worst of the worst." Very cool editorial process
The unexpected but brief airspace closure in the Texas border city of El Paso stemmed from disagreements between the Federal Aviation Administration and Pentagon officials over drone-related tests, multiple sources close to the matter told CBS News. The Pentagon had undertaken extensive planning on the use of military technology near Fort Bliss, a military base that abuts the El Paso International Airport, to practice taking down drones. Two sources identified the technology as a high-energy laser.
allen iverson: we talking about practice, man
Half an hour ago, Fox News hosted an "aviation expert" who argued such a closure wouldn't happen "unless we are at war" facing a "major security threat," and that it signaled the government "might have discovered the next potential Pearl Harbor."
in august, TOM HOMAN admitted that this was the law www.mediamatters.org/immigration/... via @johnknefel.bsky.social
Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers
In response to Trump posting a video depicting the Obamas as apes, Ben Shapiro says the president does not have the “attention span” to realize what was in the video
incredible www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/...
