Try and tell me you ever gave a shit about op-eds. Go ahead. I wanna see you do it. Try and tell me anyone ever gave a shit about op-eds. They've always been conservative - a method for the captains of industry to steer the public where they want them. The Pulitzer Prize exists over guilt that Joseph Pulitzer started the Spanish-American war. Try and tell me that they accomplish anything even then. Despite being consistently conservative rags going back more than a hundred years, fifty seven opinion pages endorsed Hilary Clinton in 2016. TWO endorsed Trump. And yet. "Self-dealt delegitimization" is nothing new; I'd like you to bone up on the tragedy of Gary Webb. But more than that, I'd like you to notice that you're howling at the moon and complaining about the noise. You can't freak out about how powerful the Supreme Court is, now that it's conservative AF, while simultaneously freaking out about how Trump is gonna make them bend the knee. Here's the mechanism you're studiously ignoring: - Team Trump does something brash AF - Liberals freak the fuck out - Trump's brash AF bullshit is immediately opposed by half the attorneys general in the United States; courts affirm that the legislative process has not changed - Team Trump doesn't even respond, does something else brash AF - Liberals, too busy freaking the fuck out about something else, don't even notice any limits on power because say it with me y'all are too busy enjoying the freakout. It's self-indulgent. It's useless. It makes you too fucking tedious to talk to. I used to consider myself liberal AF; any political alignment test puts me off-the-grid Left. But Sweet Holy Jesus Fuck SHUT THE FUCK UP There are people doing actual work, holding up the actual law, keeping the wheels on the wagon, and an entirely-too-vocal minority of disasterporn dipshits gotta stand in the limelight because their Twitter Poisoning has rendered them incapable of talking to anyone unless they're wearing a Saint Mangione hat. I don't know if you've noticed - that's a lie, I know you haven't - but Trump is governing as if he has a 99% approval rating and performing like he's got a 45% approval rating. You think he wanted to roll back his tariffs not once, not twice, but three times in the space of three weeks? Does that strike you as an organization that knows what the fuck they're doing? It's dumb shit like this: Fuckin'A Peter Thiel is a dipshit with little interest in democratic processes but that's not new. Also he gives far more of a shit about Rene Girard - he wrote A FUCKING BOOK ABOUT IT. Finally, why on earth do we give the first fuck about Curtis Yarvin's plan to run the government? Is he a constitutional scholar? Does he have the first fucking clue about the weaknesses of parliamentary procedure within a constitutional republic? Or is he a dipshit blogger that goes by Mencius Moldbug? Here's a hint: it's harder to panic about a guy who insists on calling himself "moldbug." None of this shit is good. None of it. But all of it is going down entirely differently than your freakouts imply. You cannot win a war if you're too busy rending your shirt to shoot back.