We talked about the authoritarian project now wearing the face of populism. About the Silicon Valley billionaires laundering their contempt for democracy through “innovation.” About the quiet moral collapse of people who still believe neutrality is a virtue, even as the walls shake around them.
It was not polite. There’s far too much swearing for NPR and not enough for X. But it was honest.
We got into:
The psychology of elites who mistake cowardice for objectivity
The collapse of shared reality under algorithmic control
The exhaustion of decent people and how exhaustion becomes complicity
Why cynicism is just cowardice with better branding
And yes, a few thoughts on how the people who once built the internet are now building its authoritarian replacement.
This wasn’t pundit talk. It was a reckoning. The kind of conversation that happens when you stop pretending the house isn’t already on fire.
Watch or listen below. ⬇️
Go Deeper into the Circus
The Liberal Populist Path
Gavin Newsom signed SB 79—a transit-oriented housing bill that overrides local obstruction to force construction near public transportation. Combined with dozens of other housing reforms, he’s using state power to break the homeowner cartels that have made California unaffordable for working people.
Buying the Ruins
Heavy equipment is tearing down the East Wing of the White House as we watch—steel teeth grinding through plaster that once framed the daily work of democracy. Dust rise…
We the people have encouraged fascist dictator trumph to march throughout the streets of now Amerikka with his KBG / Gestapo
capturing and transporting brown folks at will by simply participating in "no kings " quiet protests , instead 20 million shutting down the country, boycotting Trumph supporters businesses , shutting down universities etc!
The above is what drove both Nixon and LBJ out of the Whitehouse !