I became sort of a nihilist once the financial crash happened. Obama and McCain both sided with the banks. I realized everything was a lie. My reaction to the truth took me on a self-indulgent, trolling phase in my writing.
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I beat the entire media establishment at its own game. And now it’s NORMAL for conservatives to tweet mine liberals. But why did it take me to show the way? Because deep down conservatives want to be invited to CNN and write for The Atlantic. I never had those aspirations.
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My writing path took me from law, to mindset, to trolling, to tweet mining, to breaking huge stories. For f-cks sake, the National Security Adviser was asked about me on Meet the Press.https://www.axios.com/anti-mcmaster-campaign-is-about-to-get-uglier-1513304814-6ebcf90f-2e06-43d2-9027-207e3c8b1833.html …
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I was immune to the suble social pressures conservatives face, because I never set out to be a journalist. I wrote about stuff that interested me, and broke some big stories. Yet my journey showed me the weakness of conservatives. They CRAVE left wing approval.
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Ben Shapiro attacked Roseanne and defended James Gunn. There is no principled way to defend James Gunn. His stuff was beyond the pale. But Shap like 90% of conservatives know The Game. Don’t hit the left too hard, or you won’t get good press.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html …
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I never wanted good press! Or any press at all. But I learned that if you want good press as a conservative, you can’t hit the left hard. You won’t get on TV. You won’t get NY Times op-Eds. That’s why the left is winning. The right plays by the left’s rules.
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The media coverage of me is objectively dishonest. Have I trolled? Sure. They remind us of this. But they never mention my mindset book, which sold over 100,000 copies. That’s how The Game works. If you’re effective, they define you by a low point. Forever.
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Ben Shapiro has tweeted stuff as bad or worse than I have. But that gets buried, because he plays nice. He defends James Gunn while attacking Roseanne (pro-Trump). Shapiro does good work, not hating. But facts don’t care about your feelings.
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By any objective measure, NO ONE on the right in the past 2 years have broken the stories I have - Susan Rice unmasking - Security clearance slow walking + Trump’s dysfunctional personnel - John Conyers A member of Congress resigned cuz of me. How often is that mentioned?
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@jeffgiesea I threw the biggest Inauguration event. People new here (the people who call me fake MAGA as if that stings) don’t even know this. Because the media doesn’t honestly cover me.https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/2017-trump-inauguration-deploraball-protest-233890 …Show this thread -
And all of the above is a reason why I moved on from Trump. He did not keep his campaign promises. I get to say this because I was - by an objective measure - instrumental in getting votes. And when MAGA people yell, I don’t care. This was a small part of my life.
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As a perennial outsider, I see the world differently. I never sought donor dollars. Bullshit like "FINISH THE WALL" doesn't impress me, and there are no structural biases built in to make me pretend to believe it.
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Not ONE person was hired from Great Again dot Gov. I broke these stories almost two years ago. Now everyone talks about the lack of Trump loyalists in the White House. No shit. His actual supporters were frozen out. That's on T.
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