2004: Every Republican is a rapist, every Democrat a whore.
2024: Steve Bannon, architect of the provocative RAPE Plan for Reorganization, is the first domino to fall in a crushing monolithic tyranny. That's $5/month, $50/year. Welcome to Stalin 2.0's Five Year Plan.
Imagine thinking Steve Banning getting an impossibly light punishment is anything remotely close to a Rubicon being crossed. These fucking dorks have yanked the Overton window so far right we'll be unfucking the nation for the next century.
"A lib gave me the stink eye at the Piggly Wiggly.
This is a Rubicon-crossing moment."
These guys have declared the start of 73 of our last 0 civil wars
"So, update, I couldn't vacuum slash through the door at the FBI regional HQ and long story short those noises you hear are the sirens. I'm gonna lose them in the cornfield, though, stupid libs. Welcome to new stream members Federales187 and OfficialFBIAccount09"
A light sentence with a year and a half free pending appeal and a turn-in date a month in the future.
Yeah, that's some dystopian nightmare fuel there.
when the guy who worked for a president with 3,400 conflicts of interest gets a garden-variety subpoena and doesn't comply with it? it's...also what caesar was doing?
I can only assume it's referring to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and his fantastical jungle full of straightforward accountability for powerful people and also probably mangos.
This is a good bit for a 9 year old
"This no extra desert decision is a Rubicon-crossing moment. The mask is off, mother.
Welcome to George & the Jungle, America"
Contempt for soulless writers is not in short supply, but Taibbi brings out certain subtle notes of piteous disgust in the emotion that the discerning hater appreciates.
If Steve Bannon can be prevented from spending 4 months tweaking and podcasting, they can prevent any of us from spending 4 months tweaking and podcasting
Me, getting arrested during a traffic stop for stale tags after a warrant pops up for ignoring my 62nd jury summons: "This is just like what they did to TROTSKY. Tell the people, Matt Taibbi. Tell them this is when civil liberties ended in America."
He couldn't handle turning 50. That is literally all it was. His whole self-image was America's Most Dangerous Young Journalist and he suddenly had no idea who he was anymore
Before the best thing he ever wrote was published, he got canceled for behavior in The Exile book that was almost entirely made-up gonzo shit *in the style of gonzo shit* (and which was later confirmed by interviews with the Exile's female staff), and his sales and reputation tanked. That was it.
yeah it was a pretty classic case of 'I got accused of being a creep so now I am fully redpilled to avoid any hint of accountability'
it's a story we've seen a thousand times before and it sucks every time
The right-wing shift always comes either right before or right after the sex pest allegations come out. It is why Kevin Spacey is currently doing interviews where he claims he was canceled by the wokes.
i remember him writing good stuff once upon a time. he was apparently always a real asshole but i was unaware of any of that, i learned about him like everyone else when he was being correct about financial system shit. and then he re-appeared as... this
