The Vice President is a long time adherent of a bunch of self described monarchists, neofascists, and race realists and the press has never showed it an ounce of interest. Maybe 1/20th of the voting public has any clue. If you want to learn about it you have to go to podcasts and independent outlets - ThreadSky

leftistwonk.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The Vice President is a long time adherent of a bunch of self described monarchists, neofascists, and race realists and the press has never showed it an ounce of interest. Maybe 1/20th of the voting public has any clue. If you want to learn about it you have to go to podcasts and independent outlets

Reposted from Ryan Geddie

Reminds me of this quote from Vance that I’ve been thinking about lately

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antitractionist.bsky.social•2 days ago

it would be uncouth to mention it. He's a Yalie, after all. One of our Betters

loganhamberger.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dem electeds are also to blame. They should be bringing this up everytime they do a Sunday show interview, interview in the halls of congress, and local media scrums in their districts/home states.

canuckinpanama.bsky.social•2 days ago

What the hell is a "race realist"?

sjoyner1965.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s literally referred to both a lower American birthrate and the EU letting in refugees as “civilizational threats.” It’s not hard to connect the dots about his values. He associates white people with civilization.

alexqgb.bsky.social•2 days ago

1/20th is generous.

secretbandname.bsky.social•2 days ago

The neo Nazis in Trump's orbit also go unremarked by media. Low level people like "campaign organizers."

strkanerve.bsky.social•2 days ago

As much as I love arrested development, I’ll never forgive opie Cunningham for unleashing this asshole on the world.

jeffdwyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Eh tbf the movie was basically a flop. The book was already a major success on its own.

strkanerve.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who reads and who watches shitty Netflix?

janetherevelator.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was a librarian when the book came out. It was a huge success and was a bestseller for years.

merisand.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's maddening. The mainstream press knew & had previously reported on Vance praising & referencing Yarvin, they even did interviews & reports in recent years on Yarvin, but they didn't make Vance's connection to that ideology headlines. Or his blurb for Posobiec's Unhumans. His career should've

merisand.bsky.social•2 days ago

been over. The media spin cycle had plenty of time for fake scandals about Walz retiring after decades of military service or his travels, but no time for a guy who literally praises fascists who want to destroy democracy & murder people who dissent or that they think are useless.

joekalicki.bsky.social•2 days ago

Democrats need to explicitly refer to these guys as Nazis, loudly and publicly. Vance, Musk, Hegseth, anyone that throws plausible deniability out the window.

truthseeker00.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don’t forget Curtis Yarvin.

etomisghost.bsky.social•2 days ago

So, we'll go from a dimwit who doesn't read but cosplays Hitler to a nitwit who reads and lends allegiance to a lunatic-fringe anarchist and a Zionist Nazi.

Everything is just fine.

life-of-ei.bsky.social•2 days ago

The same goes for Leonard Leo and his fascist Catholic cabal.

Yes, Vance is a puppet of Curtis Yarvin and generously funded by Peter Thiel. I guess the press doesn't think it's necessary for us peons to know who the traitors dismantling our government are.

sisterpetercalliem.bsky.social•1 day ago

The idea that 1/2 the voters in this country want me to suffer & die just because I exist has been a tough thing to swallow, what would my family do without me? What about my pets that love me? What about my job, that would spend thousands on someone new, the MAGAts need to fuck off!

iamdavidmarsh.bsky.social•2 days ago

the public doesn’t know who his biggest puppet master is, Peter Thiel and he is an enemy of humanity and should be addressed as such. Like the Koch brothers, the media turns a blind eye.

virtuistic.bsky.social•2 days ago

I remember when his insipid book came out and liberal folks just refused to hear that he was a white supremacist laundering his grievances with bootstrap fantasy while being bankrolled by the World's Most Evil Billionaires. I doubt many will consider the role they played in expanding his reach.

shenloop.bsky.social•2 days ago

Errand boy for a convicted felon… he read a book once, thinks he know how it all works… fool…

muintir-an-oileain.bsky.social•2 days ago

Behind the bastards did a series of podcasts on moldbug. Utterly grim listening

holgate.permanent.red•2 days ago

As has been the theme of the weekend, you have to be very fucking online to understand the toxic stew these fuckers’ brains have been cooking in and it is Too Hard for the press to do it, that is it would require telling its audience a Lot of Things All At Once.

beragon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has even one mainstream org talked about Curtis Yarvin?

maggyw.bsky.social•2 days ago

God he’s insufferably arrogant.

goldentornado.bsky.social•2 days ago

Vance is a vulture. He thinks he's first in line to succeed Trump when Trump meets his inevitable end. The bad news for the vulture is that Elmo Musk & his fortune has slithered his way into position to steal the top spot from him. That promises to be an all out war.

katch.bsky.social•2 days ago

I feel like if you name yourself Moldbug, then you are well aware that you're the villain. I haven't read his writing, so this is a surface-level observation, but it seems readily apparent.

fitzy205.bsky.social•2 days ago

My friend sent me an article on Curtis Yarvin and asked if it was real or fake because it was so outrageous he didn’t think the quotes and beliefs on someone so tied to Vance could possibly be real.

andi-mar.bsky.social•2 days ago

This isn't entirely true though, is it (about that last part)?

I'm pretty sure I've read in the Atlantic or the NYT that Vance openly wants to end democracy and bring the US back to a fascist or imperial Roman regime.

I'm afraid we simply didn't take them seriously enough.

andi-mar.bsky.social•2 days ago

(like a year ago)

andi-mar.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://archive.is/019dp

Nevermind, WaPo in 2022.
There are others though... But clearly not enough.

leftistwonk.bsky.social•2 days ago

Barack Obama had to denounce a fiery preacher who said “god damn America” because he went to a few of his sermons. JD Vance positively quotes (and still follows) people who write that American democracy is a cancer that must be destroyed. Not worth coverage in the New York Times.

dslakter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Their assignment editor (Fox News and Republican sources) isn't interested in publishing anything on it.

thetimeline.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maddening. The double standard.

cstrable.bsky.social•2 days ago

Minor quibble... He didn't HAVE to denounce it. He was pressured to by fools. Unfortunately dems capitulate fools.

maydaytrippe.bsky.social•2 days ago

i completely agree with your overall point, but downplaying obama and wright's relationship to "he went to a few of his sermons" is needlessly disingenuous. it was shady af obama threw his longtime friend and ally under the bus. wright was right, anyway.

qrca.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wish we had a news agency that was fearless and would just hold to the general principle that bad things are bad and the public needs to know about them. News we didn't have to factcheck or wonder if there was another side to the story.

Why is that so difficult?

mepsmith.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because they can’t make money that way anymore, they can only survive by taking funding from the people who think that bad things are good

airedmania.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, mass media that reaches millions if not billions of people is exclusively controlled by billionaires and the shareholding class, a group that is almost exclusively white, male, heterosexual, and conservative.

If news told the truth, they would be telling on their masters everyday

qrca.bsky.social•2 days ago

I imagine if it wasn't owned by shareholders they wouldn't have any way to control it other than all their power and influence.

vincentsnowart.bsky.social•2 days ago

ProPublica is pretty great.

qrca.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm only vaguely familiar with them. I'll look into them, thanks

mikrosenhofer.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but capitalism. That’s what makes it so difficult. There is no such thing as unbiased news under capitalism, in part because major news organizations will not publish anything that doesn’t start with the enthymeme that both capitalism and the U.S. are good.

qrca.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's both behind every bad thing and self-perpetuating. Once it really takes root it defends its own interests at the expense of all others. It's really a great example of what it means to be human and why ultimately there's a good chance we'll destroy ourselves rather than get it together.

qrca.bsky.social•2 days ago

Still, I think NPR and PBS are great examples, if they held themselves to a bit higher standards and didn't make an effort to placate the Right unnecessarily.

People do want it, they just end up having to play to the left and are seen as the Left's media, when they don't really have to be.

voceofreason.bsky.social•2 days ago

The double standard on the left and right is one of the most disgusting things about america, and that list is getting rather long.

bluestatedon.bsky.social•2 days ago

These men merit only contempt.

daddyweasel.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think the problem is too many bald guys

bluestatedon.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’d agree with you if I weren’t bald myself.

hogan590.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's just not as scary if a white guy is saying it.

ellenb.bsky.social•1 day ago

God damn JD Vance.

timlagor.bsky.social•2 days ago

Obama didn't have to. It's always a choice for a politician.

Not liking the alternative doesn't stop it being a choice

el-condor-pasa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Almost like republicans care more about words than action. Their actions are “damning america” and anti-Christ.

complicitmedia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Automatic follow.

egoode.bsky.social•2 days ago

You know what? Turns out Reverend Wright was correct: god damn America.

squares4444.bsky.social•2 days ago

"God damn America" was a rhetorical device to draw attention to our failures and shortcomings as a country

But, of course, you have to listen to more than three words of the sermon to get that message

egoode.bsky.social•2 days ago

And yet, they actually apply now.

squares4444.bsky.social•2 days ago

yeah... 😔

mikookim.bsky.social•2 days ago

What’s worse is that there’s a fairly good chance that this freakish piece of shit will actually inherit the office of President.

zomfie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Republican plans to never let a real election happen again aside, take solace in the fact that, historically, being vice president is not a good way to become president!

miasma667.bsky.social•2 days ago

will love to be proven wrong / morbid, but I feel like our current speaker of the house is something between aspirational for or being positioned for higher office

matthewmjones.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yaleboy also made a grand-canyon leap in logic there: Marge from Zanesville wants to establish a Monarchy?

One thing about the horrific Springfield’s Pets and Haitians absurdity is the white people in Springfield were begging MAGA to leave them alone. Not that Yaleboy seemed to notice or care

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