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funny, except NPR is tax payer funded. We the People, at gunpoint, are paying this naval gazer to post her communist drool. we are the country our founders fought against.

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I hope you saw Matt Taibbi’s piece where he places Mahers’s tweets side by side with similarly themed gems from parody account Titania McGrath.

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Please pardon me for being off topic. The first piece I read by you was about the impending death of the L.A. Times. This last weekend I purchased the always thin Saturday edition. Imagine my horror when I arrived home to discover this thin paper was the Sunday edition!

I have fond memories of rainy Sundays in the 80's when I spent All Day reading the Sunday L.A. Times.

Death? It won't be long.now.

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Katherine Maher sounds like Kamala Harris 2.0. Still a vapid wind-up doll with the annoying inflection and usage of “sort of” and “right?”, but with new and improved delivery of a buzzword salad into nearly complete sentences. Remarkable. Newsom/Maher 2024?

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Apr 18·edited Apr 18Liked by Chris Bray

Rufo could just as easily have put it this way: "Lysenko understood the game: The Soviets' elite institutions reward loyalty to the narrative. Those who repeat the words move up; those who don’t move out."

trouble is, gay isn't the nolan ryan of woke. she's more like the billy travers. she just gets paid a lot. they all talk the same way. every. single. one. of. them. nyc is ground zero for this bullshit. at this point, i'm numb

as far as self driving cars, they're the logical product to market to a generation who grew up in the back of the minivan watching netflix or compulsively tiktoking.

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Apr 18Liked by Chris Bray

“It teach brain, brain go pudding, brain not do stuff.”

I was working out with weights when this line played. I burst out laughing so hard I almost fell over. That was the funniest line I’ve heard all week! Thanks for the laugh.

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Maher is Huxley's "Brave New World" personified. She is Soma.

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Here to say she's really bad. You forgot to say that.

:)

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Now I really want to fulfill my life long dream of learning how to drive a stick shift.

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Katherine Maher says the right things. She believes the right things. The substance of those beliefs is less important than that they are "right," and what that rightness confers upon those like Maher and those who share her beliefs.

She is, like so many of the dominant progressive voices of the day, an avatar for the confident liberal technocrat -- for whom getting things done is all that matters because whether they should be done has long been settled.

She is the perfect fit for NPR because they both believe in NPR as machine of social-credit-making, an institution to which listeners can outsource the narratives they need to signal to the world "I am better than you."

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Apr 18Liked by Chris Bray

I am reading Alexander Weinstein’s short story collection, _Children of the New World_, which is so relentlessly depressing and pessimistic about our future that it almost begs the reader to say, “that can’t really happen, right?” Then I read this column and realize that it *IS* happening as we speak.

To borrow the best line I’ve read in ages, it teach brain, brain go pudding, brain not do stuff, me watch Bugs Bunny.

Excellent piece, Mr. Bray.

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I’m always reminded of Kodos in a Treehouse Of Horror episode of the Simpsons:

Kodos: (as Clinton) We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Proceeds to spin on the spot to applause.

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When reading pieces like this that mention terms like "elites" or "they", or frankly almost any anti mainstream narrative piece on any topic in the past 5 or so years: be it Covid policy and Big Pharma; Gender theory; CRT; Intersectionality; Trans ideology; immigration; Fentanyl; Hate crime; censorship and cancel culture, and the big one, Climate alarmism, I am minded to ask who are "they" exactly? Given the rapid onset of the breakdown of Western culture, politics, law, language and sanity and the equally rapid backlash occurring right now it is hard to see this as a natural phenomenon and not something orchestrated and coordinated. And then I came across a book called Rockerfeller: Controlling the Game and things started to click into place, at least in terms of who, how and what they want. The book is a work of academic research by Jacob Nordigard, who was interviewed by Tom Nelson on his eponymous youtube channel on all things climate change lie related (a superb collection of the best scientists and others who have the exact opposite views to the mainstream, facts and data on their side and are surely far greater than a mere 3%, which is another lie). The fact that YouTube has banned me from making comments because I was telling people about this book is perhaps all the impetus you need to buy a copy now and prepare to be fascinated at how along ago this all started and who "they" are. For this is the real issue that connects all the other issues, it is about One World Government, and this is not a conspiracy theory because the Rockerfeller foundation (via David Rockerfeller) have openly said that they are all about this (oh and population control...). Hiding in plain sight is fine if you are a multibillionaire with close ties to both US parties and the worlds power brokers it seems...

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Apr 18Liked by Chris Bray

Maher is another useful idiot who will be disposed of when her usefulness is over. She imagines she is "part of the elite" like Claudine Gay.

There are no bunkers being prepared for these morons, but they're too dumb to understand that.

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Apr 18Liked by Chris Bray

I feel unreasonably frightened by this woman. Not of the person, but all that she represents and that she can "excel" in this world being so empty and devoid of original thought. Completely useless whose only purpose is regurgitating the latest degenerate opinions and feelings.

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"As for me, I just spent a full ten seconds trying to delete an eyelash from my computer screen, so maybe you should all just leave me behind and soldier on."

I've tried to delete many a spot.

So basically what you're saying is we live in an "Emperor Has No Clothes" world.

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