I cant believe this guy wrote Griftopia 15 years ago
March 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I cant believe this guy wrote Griftopia 15 years ago
The methods are more refined and modern (no direct killings yet, but it's early) and the anti-intellectual bent is the same, but we are going for the griftopia capitalist model, fully deregulated, invisible hand of death version. Otherwise though, still sort of inverse Chinese cultural revolution.
March 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The methods are more refined and modern (no direct killings yet, but it's early) and the anti-intellectual bent is the same, but we are going for the griftopia capitalist model, fully deregulated, invisible hand of death version. Otherwise though, still sort of inverse Chinese cultural revolution.
WHAT THE HELL FORBES !?!?
Example of....
".... why America ended up collapsing into an Authoritarian MAGA griftopia "
Example of....
".... why America ended up collapsing into an Authoritarian MAGA griftopia "
This Forbes tweet is exactly why America ended up collapsing into an authoritarian MAGA griftopia.
Trump launches a literal scam on his followers hours before taking office, Forbes of all media outlets *knows* it's a corrupt scam.
They pretend it's normal, promote it, and celebrate how huge it is.
Trump launches a literal scam on his followers hours before taking office, Forbes of all media outlets *knows* it's a corrupt scam.
They pretend it's normal, promote it, and celebrate how huge it is.
January 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
WHAT THE HELL FORBES !?!?
Example of....
".... why America ended up collapsing into an Authoritarian MAGA griftopia "
Example of....
".... why America ended up collapsing into an Authoritarian MAGA griftopia "
Taibbi literally wrote a book called "Griftopia" about how all these elites got away with fraud and insider access during the financial crisis of 2007-2009.
Yet now he is strangely silent about this Golden Age of Grift in today's Musk/Trump GOP. Guess the rubles are just that good.
Yet now he is strangely silent about this Golden Age of Grift in today's Musk/Trump GOP. Guess the rubles are just that good.
April 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Taibbi literally wrote a book called "Griftopia" about how all these elites got away with fraud and insider access during the financial crisis of 2007-2009.
Yet now he is strangely silent about this Golden Age of Grift in today's Musk/Trump GOP. Guess the rubles are just that good.
Yet now he is strangely silent about this Golden Age of Grift in today's Musk/Trump GOP. Guess the rubles are just that good.
Today in Griftopia... 1/
"The IRS has no public record of a lobbyist-run nonprofit raking in millions of corporate dollars to fund a July 4th-themed reality show starring a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet."
Shocker.
archive.ph/xqI3o#select...
"The IRS has no public record of a lobbyist-run nonprofit raking in millions of corporate dollars to fund a July 4th-themed reality show starring a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet."
Shocker.
archive.ph/xqI3o#select...
August 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Today in Griftopia... 1/
"The IRS has no public record of a lobbyist-run nonprofit raking in millions of corporate dollars to fund a July 4th-themed reality show starring a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet."
Shocker.
archive.ph/xqI3o#select...
"The IRS has no public record of a lobbyist-run nonprofit raking in millions of corporate dollars to fund a July 4th-themed reality show starring a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet."
Shocker.
archive.ph/xqI3o#select...
Griftopia & the trillionaire, billionaires, millionaires & aspirationals are nothing but a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money" living from scam to scam. No conscience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griftopia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griftopia
Griftopia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Griftopia & the trillionaire, billionaires, millionaires & aspirationals are nothing but a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money" living from scam to scam. No conscience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griftopia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griftopia
the fact is that american genai has been deliberately engineered to be as costly and inefficient as possible to prop up a failing tech industry that is long since out of new ideas. the chinese matched us with a fraction of the investment and it doesn't matter because griftopia must sustain eternally
September 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
the fact is that american genai has been deliberately engineered to be as costly and inefficient as possible to prop up a failing tech industry that is long since out of new ideas. the chinese matched us with a fraction of the investment and it doesn't matter because griftopia must sustain eternally
So they can compete? CA has the 5th largest economy in the world.
Maybe they should construct their griftopia in Arkansas.
Maybe they should construct their griftopia in Arkansas.
February 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So they can compete? CA has the 5th largest economy in the world.
Maybe they should construct their griftopia in Arkansas.
Maybe they should construct their griftopia in Arkansas.
Support artists— hey, like @mothmonarch.bsky.social , absolutely awesome anthro artist!— and not dead-eyed chumps selling some flimsy garbage they had no hand in designing. We deserve better as a community, I don’t want furry to get annexed as another vassal state of Griftopia
July 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Support artists— hey, like @mothmonarch.bsky.social , absolutely awesome anthro artist!— and not dead-eyed chumps selling some flimsy garbage they had no hand in designing. We deserve better as a community, I don’t want furry to get annexed as another vassal state of Griftopia
Trump states plainly the manifestly thuggish mobbed up griftopia that this country and capitalism has always been, though it tried to masquerade. Mask off again now. He's not an aberration, he's a manifestation. He's the inevitable tumor that our toxic body politic produced.
January 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Trump states plainly the manifestly thuggish mobbed up griftopia that this country and capitalism has always been, though it tried to masquerade. Mask off again now. He's not an aberration, he's a manifestation. He's the inevitable tumor that our toxic body politic produced.
hot EdTech Griftopia summer ☀️
More hot @mattseybold.bsky.social EdTech Griftopia content. Did your public university rent its credibility to do the marketing for a unaccredited lower-ed "certificate" program? Probably! If not Zipline, then someone else.
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...
How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships
You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
hot EdTech Griftopia summer ☀️
Gotta prepare him best I can for American Griftopia
January 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Gotta prepare him best I can for American Griftopia
Everybody is on edge because they know the reality is that our decaying griftopia society has collapsed into a game of musical chairs where the final winner will own everything and the rest of us will only be paid to guard each other, kill each other, or lie to each other.
June 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Everybody is on edge because they know the reality is that our decaying griftopia society has collapsed into a game of musical chairs where the final winner will own everything and the rest of us will only be paid to guard each other, kill each other, or lie to each other.
While I realize the landscape is different in Arizona than Pennsylvania, and different now than it was in 2023, I do think there are lessons for ASU faculty to learn from thinking about what happened at Temple a few years back.
April 26, 2026 at 2:40 PM
While I realize the landscape is different in Arizona than Pennsylvania, and different now than it was in 2023, I do think there are lessons for ASU faculty to learn from thinking about what happened at Temple a few years back.
EdTech Griftopia is already here.
The revolt against i-Ready: Private equity-backed software faces parent, teacher and student fury
A growing number of families and educators say they’re fed up with i-Ready’s personalized math and reading lessons, which feature repetitive cartoons and slow voice-overs.
www.nbcnews.com
May 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
EdTech Griftopia is already here.
Instead of Zoopotia it's Griftopia...
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Instead of Zoopotia it's Griftopia...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t... griftopia chronicles
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t... griftopia chronicles
Still one of the 5 most downloaded episodes in our back catalog.
EdTech, AI, & The Unbundling of Research & Teaching (Criticism LTD, Episode #13)
A sometimes uncanny Halloween week exploration of the EdTech griftopia.
marktwainstudies.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Still one of the 5 most downloaded episodes in our back catalog.
If you are a famous person accused and/or convicted of abusing women you are pre-approved to join the right-wing griftopia. “Domestic abuse is Republican,” Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro said annoyingly. “Everyone understands this.”
February 26, 2026 at 5:21 PM
If you are a famous person accused and/or convicted of abusing women you are pre-approved to join the right-wing griftopia. “Domestic abuse is Republican,” Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro said annoyingly. “Everyone understands this.”
Yeah. Griftopia
October 24, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Yeah. Griftopia
"...becomes '70s Guatemala. The Serbian Despotate. The modern United States."
- Matt Taibbi, "Griftopia"
- Matt Taibbi, "Griftopia"
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM
"...becomes '70s Guatemala. The Serbian Despotate. The modern United States."
- Matt Taibbi, "Griftopia"
- Matt Taibbi, "Griftopia"
“Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment”
Because of course they did.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...
Because of course they did.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...
Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's 'world's largest' data centre
Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Obse...
www.nationalobserver.com
April 4, 2026 at 1:18 AM