who is worse - Taibbi or Greenwald

how many vodka shots had Taibbi had in that screengrab

I’m not gonna lie, I would love to create a shameless right wing persona that got me paid if I could write professionally and had lecture circuit contacts, with a long-term plan of revealing to my shock and amazement that the entire right wing sucks ferociously and that everyone who follows me should ditch the whole enterprise and become left wing/left-adjacent, but then I remember that I would have to sleep at night plus also the lack of professional writing ability and I realize I’m doing the adult version of recreating the first Star Wars trilogy with two action figures and random toys/household decorations that my parents had when I was a kid

Have you seen what passes for professional writing on right wing websites?

there are people who make big money pandering to wingnuts but its a competitive field, taibbi greenwald et al had the benefit of being big names, really they couldve done fine staying in their lanes, theyre at least somewhat doing it because they want to

DJP for comptroller 2024

The thing is, someone still generated all of that word vomit. I lose interest after like 250 words

tbh that actually seems like a good use for AI writing: “write 3000 words about how the woke leftists made you realize that Ron Desantis is based,” wait for the Daily Wire checks to come rolling in

I’m not gonna lie, I would love to create a shameless right wing persona that got me paid if I could write professionally and had lecture circuit contacts, with a long-term plan of revealing to my shock and amazement that the entire right wing sucks ferociously and that everyone who follows me should ditch the whole enterprise and become left wing/left-adjacent, but then I remember that I would have to sleep at night plus also the lack of professional writing ability and I realize I’m doing the adult version of recreating the first Star Wars trilogy with two action figures and random toys/household decorations that my parents had when I was a kid

I've had this dream too. But back in high school I thought it might be cool to start a cult, but then I gradually realized that even if it succeeded, you'd just wind up spending all your time hanging out with people who genuinely believed things that you knew to be rank horseshit you made up for money, and that seems super depressing.

starting a cult, becoming a wingnut influencer are things that seem easy because theyre dumb but actually take a certain kind of demented instinct to make work, check out the right wing d list on twitter, guys with 50k followers trying to grind it out with a podcast newsletter etc hoping to quit their day jobs

I mean, I would make an excellent undercover cop, but then I’d have to be a cop, and no.

lol he sounds so nervous to be on this losers web show

Matt Taibbi tells Ben Shapiro that conservativism is appealing to young people because there's no sense of humor on the political left.
He goes on to praise Matt Walsh's transphobic hit piece "What Is A Woman" as a good example of political comedy pic.twitter.com/R6FLplUIaP

— The Serfs (@theserfstv) December 13, 2022

Its a change that happened almost imperceptibly AND overnight?

yeah

https://t.co/VqJnWquNJ6 pic.twitter.com/ztaqBa5EPJ

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 13, 2022

thing about taibbi and greenwald is their politics were always pretty shallow and therefor changeable, just big rant guys more or less

tho with greenwald he was always kind of a libertarian weirdo so he didnt have far to go

is it too much to hope for some self reflection on the part of certain dudes on the left who spent so much time and energy defending these fucks from criticism?

they were always like this but for years you'd be harrassed relentlessly by their stans for pointing out the obvious

unfortunately Morbs is dead and we cannot ask him :(

No. Self reflection is for the weak.

self-reflection is impossible

(I am a vampire)

this was a review of another incoherent weirdo that traffics in these circles, but I revisited it yesterday and the first two paragraphs could easily be about taibbi

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/thomas-chatterton-williams-s-confused-argument-for-a-post-racial-society-23610

the guy who blamed rap music for his domestic violence and in fact wrote a book about it

in this review (of a newer book) it’s mentioned that he once again mentions that relationship from his teens, but only to say she was hot or something

if any of these people were pretending to do be journalists they’d remember that you’re supposed to put together facts in a way that shows a narrative of what happened, but calling them Incoherents is good imo because all of their writing is “here are a strict of e-mail messages or whatever — you know what this means” where there is no singular, comprehensible meaning

Or maybe he’s simply just stupid:

Once we had a standard in this country that the FBI had to at least have some indication of possible crime to initiate investigations. No longer. They can “pre-assess” at will, with no chargeable crime in sight, and people like you are fine with it. https://t.co/qhZMi1vutb

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 19, 2022

yup

i know this isn't the Elon thread, but oof one of these responses:

This is exactly why @elonmusk is important for the future of Twitter as well as all of humanity

He wasn’t playing favorites.

He was making the playing field equal and exposing the wrongdoings of those who took an oath to “govern” and “protect” us

— ✨✨✨ (@omzStudio) December 19, 2022

Taibbi's a full-on right-wing grifter at this point.

Honored and grateful to ⁦@Jim_Jordan⁩ and ⁦@JudiciaryGOP⁩ to have the opportunity to testify about the #TwitterFiles in the House next Thursday, with ⁦@ShellenbergerMD⁩. https://t.co/IsNrVVFATD

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 1, 2023

is transcribing what this idiot actually says known as "Taibblature"?

jesus christ imagine being honored and grateful to jim jordan

yeah, that's humiliating

what a pos

Even if I were testifying before Bernie Sanders himself I'd die before I referred to myself as being honored and grateful, that's slave talk.

I saw that the 'weaponization' committee has a budget of two million

Which should pay for Jordan's dry cleaning and a few rounds of golf

boy I don't really post much to the Twitters any more but I really wanna go in on Taibbi, what a fuckin dick

taibbi's on the hill today. rupar's doing one of his giant threads with a million videos. recommended if you hate matt taibbi

Taibbi says the Twitter files are bigger than anything he's covered in his career, including the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis pic.twitter.com/c9dhJwi5vF

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 9, 2023

not really a fan of epic congress owns but in this case ill make an exception

the smug grin of a bullshit peddler

never heard him speak before, it's like the worst boss in Office Space but with 90% more repulsive wheedling

yeah his speaking voice is something else

There's like people starving in the street, why is congress wasting even one minute on ""The Twitter Files""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bMP5U3df1I

Congressional Republicans are famously known for caring about people starving in the street

Hey they are fighting for the right of those people starving in the streets not to have their tweets deprioritized by the algorithm

"its certainly the most brave story that ive ever worked on personally"

this guy!

"its certainly the most brave story that ive ever worked on personally"

this guy!

near the end he makes also gave a lesson in journalism, reminding lawmakers that journalists don't go into stories with preconceived notions of the story they want to tell, and that they let the facts guide them instead

Glenn's got your back Matty

To Democrats, "journalist" means: one who mindlessly and loyally endorses DNC talking points. @mtaibbi's response to some random member of Congress who called him a "so-called journalist": pic.twitter.com/tjIN8rSOin https://t.co/b77Ffndg1g

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 9, 2023

he has loads of replies of people basically shitting on his profession which he's fine with because in his eyes he's no longer one of 'them'. which, based on his output in the last year or more, is technically true.

This Taibbi-Weiss hearing was set up so that right wing cable news can use clips of it to amplify the narrative. The vast majority of people who don't inject FOX News directly into their veins probably won't even know the hearings happened.

It is pretty funny how angry Jim Jordan gets at Plaskett