OK, guys. This is pretty hilarious.
The Bulwark — yes, that Bulwark — has published a piece by Charlie Sykes — yes, that Charlie Sykes — lamenting “our political exhaustion.”
Morning Shots: Thoughts on Political Exhaustion
I'm guessing I'm not alone.https://t.co/AqkacoCECa
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 4, 2022
With apologies to George Orwell, if you want a picture of the future, imagine all of this imbecility, inanity, and dishonesty stamping on your face—for ever.https://t.co/AqkacoCECa
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 4, 2022
On social media and cable television, the emotional level has been set somewhere between alarm and emotional meltdown for years now. We’ve been saturated, pummeled, and battered by it for the last five years.https://t.co/AqkacoCECa
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 4, 2022
It is frustrating arguing with morons.
It is exhausting arguing with dishonest morons.
But here we are, trapped on an endless playground of idiocracy.https://t.co/AqkacoCECa
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 4, 2022
We find ourselves in daily “debates” with deplorables who have somehow parlayed their cretinism into a new form of political celebrity: MTG, Lauren Bobert, Paul Gosar, Madison Cawthorn.
And it is spreading.https://t.co/AqkacoCECa
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 4, 2022
We are being reminded of the impenetrability of the disinformation.
Why bother to make coherent arguments — marshaling facts, logic, and reason, — when you are trapped in a doom loop of bullshit with trolls?https://t.co/AqkacoCECa— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 4, 2022
Yes, Charlie. Why bother making coherent arguments when we’re trapped in a doom loop of bullsh*t, like the bullsh*t regularly emanating from The Bulwark and the Left (but we repeat ourselves)?
The gall of these people. Seriously.
I feel this. "Our political world now seems more like an Escher drawing than a roadmap that any of us would recognize." From @SykesCharlie https://t.co/QWSOVLKrqo
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) January 4, 2022
Must read from @SykesCharlie.
"The world is too much with us, but the real problem is that it is so dumb, so infused with mind-numbing bad faith…endless assaults on the public mind, with the ever-escalating goal of inciting, inflaming, and grifting."https://t.co/gkFo6ZBAQp
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 4, 2022
"Let’s face it, the central problem of our times may not be incipient fascism, as much as it is our collective political, and cultural exhaustion. (Of course they are not unrelated, but I’ll get to that later.)"
— @SykesCharlie https://t.co/nmvbNytFda
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 4, 2022
This, dear readers, is what we like to call world-class projection.
And that's just in the Bulwark! https://t.co/CYPimawucz
— Luke Thompson (@lukthomp) January 4, 2022
Just world-class.
Yes, grifting is bad. https://t.co/Vcpxzx43ki
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) January 4, 2022
Well, he should know a lot about grifting… https://t.co/zQq4RfRvlf
— Cicero (@mthjwbgs) January 4, 2022
Wild to see people whose entire careers are currently funded by far-left dark money write about the pitfalls of “grifting.” https://t.co/2vMO42SuaR
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) January 4, 2022
Left unsaid is the fact that these things are a major element of the business model for Kristol and Sykes…who are themselves grifters. https://t.co/WLUHgqa2tP
— Joseph Campbell (@jcampbell46549) January 4, 2022
NARRATOR: The Bulwark is a grift. This is hilarious. https://t.co/bz7A5N7SYF
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 4, 2022
As we like to say, they really put the “bull” in “Bulwark.”
