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[Omaha Steve]

[Omaha Steve]

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3. K&R

There is real support of honest populists which would explain this :

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/vance-says-antisemitism-isnt-exploding-right-rcna247414

While Vance said there’s no Democrat who greatly worries him as a potentially strong 2028 presidential contender, he singled out Sanders, Khanna and Mamdani.

“I’ve always been fascinated by Bernie,” Vance said. “I will one day tell you what Bernie said to me, like the second day that I was in the United States Senate. It’s one of the funniest things that I’ve ever heard, and it’s actually a pretty good summary of my politics, but it would probably really hurt me on both the left and the right. If I told you what Bernie told me, it would probably hurt Bernie, too.”

Khanna, Vance noted, has sparred with him on social media. “I think sometimes he’s very annoying, but he also — he occasionally will say something interesting, which is more than I could say for most politicians,” Vance said.

And Vance described Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor-elect who recently had a friendly Oval Office visit with Trump, as “fascinating.”

“Obviously, I’m not a communist, and I think he is,” Vance added, “but the fact that he focuses so aggressively on the affordability question in New York City, which does have one of the worst affordability crises anywhere in the world, is smart, and he’s at least listening to people.

He continued: “Most politicians, it’s a very low bar, but they don’t even listen to people. I would put Mamdani, Bernie and Ro Khanna in the category of those who, at least sometimes, they are.”

In the “scromiting” ( ) thread yesterday a number of people were (presumably correctly) bashing synthetic pot.

I would say the same about whatever it is this Thiel protege is driveling about. Synthetic populism…I am not bothering with bringing in AI etc because no one should buy this blatantly insincere crap from MTG, Vance, Gaetz etc. DeepFake or not.

I back Hawley’s lawsuit against Google solely because I think Google is that big a cancer.. But even someone like Matt Stoller whom I generally like a lot is a little too open minded in my book when he gushes about some statement these guys make backed by absolutely nothing actually substantively populist (they couldn’t..That is what makes that sort of fake populist shit so noxious).

I hate all these tech companies. I still wouldn’t believe Gaetz/MTG/Vance etc. Enough of this drivel..
No one “censors” these guys except that no one without serious Stockholm Syndrome would buy their horseshit.