It took 10 fucking years but the American public writ large is finally realizing Trump is not being strictly truthful when he says he'll give you money
September 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM
It took 10 fucking years but the American public writ large is finally realizing Trump is not being strictly truthful when he says he'll give you money
"It used to be if you were on TV, you had to have charisma, or at least a good name. Names like Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Morrow. Now I turn on the TV and I don't know these names at all. Russ Douthat. I don't now how to spell it and I don't much care. . . "
September 14, 2026 at 1:19 AM
"It used to be if you were on TV, you had to have charisma, or at least a good name. Names like Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Morrow. Now I turn on the TV and I don't know these names at all. Russ Douthat. I don't now how to spell it and I don't much care. . . "
…Like… on Sept. 11, 2001, people knew about climate change, but we'd solved the Ozone Layer & Y2K (even if we didn't talk nearly enough About solving them), so even while there was still this nascent, nebulous dread, there was also this sense of bright-electric-blue-and-chrome openness to so much. …
Weird that *this* is me coining "stillborn millennium," as it wraps around an idea I've long discussed: that every piece of pre- & peri-millennial possibility, technological hope, or mythic future potentiality was inverted *Right* at its moment of highest vulnerability, & that we've never recovered.
But, again: we live on the other side of that tension & hoped-for hope— the aftermath of the stillborn millennium— w/ surveilant nightmares stranger than strange days' suffused through daily life, & every day it is clearer that those who warned about the collective cop mentality were right all along
September 11, 2026 at 5:11 AM
…Like… on Sept. 11, 2001, people knew about climate change, but we'd solved the Ozone Layer & Y2K (even if we didn't talk nearly enough About solving them), so even while there was still this nascent, nebulous dread, there was also this sense of bright-electric-blue-and-chrome openness to so much. …