Mike Crispi sounds like the loon he clearly is. Wow. So, to sum up, two megastars in their respective worlds somehow meet up (which isn't really that unusual, because we tend to meet people who travel in the same circles as we do, and the same is no less true for pop culture figures/entertainers/sports stars) and decide that they like each other, and that's part of a plan on the part of a corporate league like the NFL (which is run by billionaires) to skew an election AGAINST Republicans? This coming from a party whose Orange leader refused--and still refuses--to accept the outcome of an election that he lost decisively? How far can this deranged cult of victimhood be taken?????
This is great, I had never hear of the FU male. I wrote about another aspect of this spectacle yesterday, the FU male influencer Bobblehead Dolls - Shapiro, Posobiec and Kirk - pivoting from civil war to the threat of Taylor Swift.
The fact that Taylor triggers these maga snowflakes by...let's see here...going to football games to support her boyfriend honestly makes me like her even more.
Also. Lithium is the best XM channel and it's not even close.
Music is magic. In 1998, I took our three daughters to see the Spice Girls. It was epic. Ginger had just left the band and Scary Spice lost her top that night,
Reed… this is superb writing and so spot on! The FU white guys being conned by the orange epitome of TFG is a new low in humanity. BTW there’s a bunch of equally stupid and appalling FU white women out there as well!!!! xx G
I’ve known way too many of these men. Spot on Reed, as usual! I’ve been a big Lincoln Project supporter and listener so I’m glad I found this Substack!
We all know a version of this guy. I wish they’d look in the mirror and realize we think they are ridiculous. Do better, grow some. Stop being the problem. I fear they won’t.
>We’re a nation plagued with millions of Uncle Ricos pining for a time that never existed
The "time" that you weakly attempt to gaslight us into believing "never existed" - did exist.
A "time" when a man could work a non-technical job and a woman could stay home and raise well-adjusted children, and own a car and a home. A time when their children were safe at school, and weren't getting beaten to a pulp by thugs that think it's "cool" to beat the shit out of a certain type of person.
Ummm, would that be a time when kids went to school, the mall, and church without the fear of being caught in a mass shooting? Or when women and their kids were regularly abused by their men but had to “take it” because they had no safe place to go and no way they could earn enough money to pay for food and shelter?
Mass shootings statistically didn't exist when we had a more homogenous and patriarchal society.
Women and children are far less safe today as we march toward the end of Western civilization. The chickens have not come to roost yet, but it is inevitable.
Is it possible that women and children (and men) had fewer mass shootings when fewer people had automatic rifles? Are you sure that we had a more homogeneous society, or was it simply a society that kept the non-homogeneous parts silenced? All the Blacks were either criminals (mostly, because that’s what we saw in the media) except for Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, but that was ok, because they were actors and not real people. There were no people of Mexican descent here when Columbus landed, were there? Certainly the only Asians were in a few “Chinatowns” in San Francisco, Los Angeles and so on. Well, and hat nice family that ran the local Chinese restaurant. Of course we don’t even discuss Native Americans. Of all things he people who don’t count, they count the least in our lovely homogeneous America. I’m all for bringing back the patriarchy, when white men ruled, and women and children were chattel. The good old days.
You focus on outliers and completely ignore the fact that the USA was clearly meant to be a European civilization; this is clearly evidenced by any of the Founders' writings.
Well, perhaps “meant to be” by what is actually a rather small number of northern European men. They certainly thought so. The King of England (among others) had a different opinion. The French (not Lafayette!) also. Some very powerful men in Spain (via Mexico) also had strong opinions on some of this USA business. The Native Americans also had exceptionally strong feelings about this, but we solved that by shooting them and moving them and infecting them and then moving them, then shooting them, infecting them, rinse and repeat as necessary. I certainly hope you aren’t basing your opinion on some “divine destiny” principle; the Revolutionary War was fought to get rid of the idea of Divine Right directing government.
Probably don't want to bring up Spain (or Portugal) here. Their failures are painfully evident in Mexico and Central / South America. I wonder what they did differently? What, historically, is the main difference between the the USA and Canada, and everything south of them?
It requires intentional dishonesty (aka: leftist DNA) to not admit what it is.
The zeitgeist of the age and the founding documents of this nation make it clear that the USA was meant to be a majority White nation, which you well know (ping-flooding with more cherry-picking and outliers notwithstanding). This seems morally wrong to you for some reason, but I don't think that you have a problem with Zimbabwe being majority Black.
What was done to the Native Americans was morally wrong, but 'we' won. I doubt our White migrants enjoyed being flayed alive and roasted for days on end either when they were simply trying to run a farm or sew doilies. That's the nature of war.
Wow - excellent essay Reed. So well written. So on point. Your daughters are lucky to have a dad like you! And vice versa.
Mike Crispi sounds like the loon he clearly is. Wow. So, to sum up, two megastars in their respective worlds somehow meet up (which isn't really that unusual, because we tend to meet people who travel in the same circles as we do, and the same is no less true for pop culture figures/entertainers/sports stars) and decide that they like each other, and that's part of a plan on the part of a corporate league like the NFL (which is run by billionaires) to skew an election AGAINST Republicans? This coming from a party whose Orange leader refused--and still refuses--to accept the outcome of an election that he lost decisively? How far can this deranged cult of victimhood be taken?????
Absolute insanity............
This is great, I had never hear of the FU male. I wrote about another aspect of this spectacle yesterday, the FU male influencer Bobblehead Dolls - Shapiro, Posobiec and Kirk - pivoting from civil war to the threat of Taylor Swift.
Like you Nina, I had never heard of FU males. Took me awhile of saying it out loud to get the meaning. Duh, on my part.
This is what happens when you leave the "maga" cult home alone and unattended. The Freak Show comes to town.
Thank you, Reed. Beautifully written. I look forward to (Part 2).
The fact that Taylor triggers these maga snowflakes by...let's see here...going to football games to support her boyfriend honestly makes me like her even more.
Also. Lithium is the best XM channel and it's not even close.
Music is magic. In 1998, I took our three daughters to see the Spice Girls. It was epic. Ginger had just left the band and Scary Spice lost her top that night,
Thank you Reed. Great essay 🙏💜✨💫
Reed… this is superb writing and so spot on! The FU white guys being conned by the orange epitome of TFG is a new low in humanity. BTW there’s a bunch of equally stupid and appalling FU white women out there as well!!!! xx G
I’ve known way too many of these men. Spot on Reed, as usual! I’ve been a big Lincoln Project supporter and listener so I’m glad I found this Substack!
This is Sooooo good Reed. Thank you!!
Spot on. Thanks!
Great piece Reed and SO TRUE!
We all know a version of this guy. I wish they’d look in the mirror and realize we think they are ridiculous. Do better, grow some. Stop being the problem. I fear they won’t.
The Trilateral Commission? You’re dating yourself. Does anyone under 50 catch the reference? 😆😆😆
>We’re a nation plagued with millions of Uncle Ricos pining for a time that never existed
The "time" that you weakly attempt to gaslight us into believing "never existed" - did exist.
A "time" when a man could work a non-technical job and a woman could stay home and raise well-adjusted children, and own a car and a home. A time when their children were safe at school, and weren't getting beaten to a pulp by thugs that think it's "cool" to beat the shit out of a certain type of person.
Ummm, would that be a time when kids went to school, the mall, and church without the fear of being caught in a mass shooting? Or when women and their kids were regularly abused by their men but had to “take it” because they had no safe place to go and no way they could earn enough money to pay for food and shelter?
Mass shootings statistically didn't exist when we had a more homogenous and patriarchal society.
Women and children are far less safe today as we march toward the end of Western civilization. The chickens have not come to roost yet, but it is inevitable.
Is it possible that women and children (and men) had fewer mass shootings when fewer people had automatic rifles? Are you sure that we had a more homogeneous society, or was it simply a society that kept the non-homogeneous parts silenced? All the Blacks were either criminals (mostly, because that’s what we saw in the media) except for Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, but that was ok, because they were actors and not real people. There were no people of Mexican descent here when Columbus landed, were there? Certainly the only Asians were in a few “Chinatowns” in San Francisco, Los Angeles and so on. Well, and hat nice family that ran the local Chinese restaurant. Of course we don’t even discuss Native Americans. Of all things he people who don’t count, they count the least in our lovely homogeneous America. I’m all for bringing back the patriarchy, when white men ruled, and women and children were chattel. The good old days.
You focus on outliers and completely ignore the fact that the USA was clearly meant to be a European civilization; this is clearly evidenced by any of the Founders' writings.
Well, perhaps “meant to be” by what is actually a rather small number of northern European men. They certainly thought so. The King of England (among others) had a different opinion. The French (not Lafayette!) also. Some very powerful men in Spain (via Mexico) also had strong opinions on some of this USA business. The Native Americans also had exceptionally strong feelings about this, but we solved that by shooting them and moving them and infecting them and then moving them, then shooting them, infecting them, rinse and repeat as necessary. I certainly hope you aren’t basing your opinion on some “divine destiny” principle; the Revolutionary War was fought to get rid of the idea of Divine Right directing government.
Probably don't want to bring up Spain (or Portugal) here. Their failures are painfully evident in Mexico and Central / South America. I wonder what they did differently? What, historically, is the main difference between the the USA and Canada, and everything south of them?
It requires intentional dishonesty (aka: leftist DNA) to not admit what it is.
The zeitgeist of the age and the founding documents of this nation make it clear that the USA was meant to be a majority White nation, which you well know (ping-flooding with more cherry-picking and outliers notwithstanding). This seems morally wrong to you for some reason, but I don't think that you have a problem with Zimbabwe being majority Black.
What was done to the Native Americans was morally wrong, but 'we' won. I doubt our White migrants enjoyed being flayed alive and roasted for days on end either when they were simply trying to run a farm or sew doilies. That's the nature of war.
Life is not a college history class.
Ouch.
Deftly shivved.